Facebook COO: No PayPal killer, ad network–yet

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg speaks with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit about features we can expect from the social-networking site.
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SAN FRANCISCO–Two of the biggest rumors about big, upcoming Facebook products–an ad network and a payment transaction platform–won’t be making a big splash anytime soon, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a [...]

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Coming to Google Labs: Social search results

SAN FRANCISCO–Google Vice President Marissa Mayer made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday: “Social Search,” a new Google Labs experiment that will bring in search results from a member’s social-network contact circle.
It’ll be launching as an opt-in project in the next few weeks. Then, you’ll need to have [...]

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Clubbyclub: A place for real friends

If you have a MySpace or Facebook account, you know how hard it is to ignore friend requests. And in no time, you end up with a long list of buddies that contains mostly people you’ve never met or even talked to before. The definition for “friend” has never been more blurred.
In reaction to this [...]

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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More

The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.  Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works.  Actually leveraging those [...]

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