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An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

Toys R Us Introduces Its Biggest Big Book of Toys Ever Jam Packed With Affordable Fun, Including $5,500 in Savings. The Definitive Kids’ Guide to Holiday Gifts Features 80 Pages of Bikes, Dolls and Games, Plus Hundreds of Incredible Deals and Special Offers; Facebook Preview Available Friday

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In March 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, a 9-percent gain versus February.
March 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in March with 63.7 percent [...]

Twitter.com continues to grow in popularity and importance in both the consumer and corporate worlds. No longer just a platform for friends to stay connected in real time, it has evolved into an important component of brand marketing. Unique visitors to Twitter increased 1,382 percent year-over-year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to [...]

‘Time Spent’ on These Sites Growing Three Times Faster than Overall Internet Rate, Now Accounting for Almost 10 Percent of all Internet Time

Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global* online population, “Member Communities,” which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular online category – ahead of [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” U2, Britney Spears, Lance Armstrong, Dwyane Wade, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, The New York Times, CNN and More are on Facebook .  Over 175 Million Users Can Connect to the Famous on Facebook.
Recognizing that political leaders, celebrities, professional athletes, [...]

Ericsson today announced the launch of an innovative social networking portfolio for mobile network operators, the Pixl8r initiative and the Social Media Portal. The technologies together offer simplified sharing of user-generated content between friends across diverse networks.
The Pixl8r initiative is an open-standard solution that allows photo sharing sites to interact in real time. With [...]

The Islands Of The Bahamas Giving Away Five Free Destination Weddings With The Bahamas Bridal Bailout Contest
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Islands Of The Bahamas are giving the gift of love to couples dreaming of getting married but have to put plans on hold due to the current economic recession. Since [...]

Burger King, through their insanely creative advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, launches a FB app that encourages users to remove friends. Sacrifice ten of em and you got a free Whopper. 233,906 friends were removed by 82,771 people in less than a week. This is the future of advertising. Or it could have [...]

Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we
’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new [...]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ready Campaign, in partnership with The Advertising Council, is introducing a series of new social media tools today to further engage Americans in taking steps to prepare for emergencies. The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage [...]

It has been over a year since we published our feature “The 25 Best Financial Blogs.” A great deal has changed. Some of the blogs on the list are gone or no longer have regular posts. Others have grown and become better.
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