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12 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Will Facebook Lite take down Twitter?

Mashable broke the news yesterday that Facebook is creating Facebook Lite. What is Facebook Lite? Well I’m glad you asked. According to their article
It is a completely stripped-down version of the Facebook platform. From what we can tell, it is almost like a Twitter (Twitter) stream: you can see your most recent status updates [...]

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10 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Facebook following Twitter’s lead

Once Facebook followed Twitter down the path of microblogging by integrating status updates into a News Feed for it’s users homepages, the next logical step was searching.
According to Facebook’s Official Blog today:
Facebook “began testing new versions of Search with a small group of people on Facebook. Based on the success of those tests, we’re [...]

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16 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Twitter gearing up for ads?

Today while checking twitter updates, I noticed a new “feature” on my homepage.  As you can see from the screenshot on the left, Twitter has implemented a new text box directly below the user’s statistics. 
I first noticed the text box this afternoon, and it was a link to Twitter’s search site. The second version I saw [...]

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