Ironically, the only way to get to the bottom of this mystery is if everyone tries posting Google+ links in their Facebook profile.
Looks like Gawker and maybe Business Insider took Facebook’s PR story bait?
Zuckerberg, who is not a geek like her brother…
Google+ drew its first 10 million users in just 16 days. Twitter and Facebook took more than two years to reach that milestone. Before we get carried away, we should take a deep breath and remember that Twitter has 200 million users, 10 times what Google+ has. For that matter, Facebook has 750 million users. It would take years for Google+ to grow that large. But this is how disruption happens. Things start out small, sometimes as almost a joke. But they keep getting better, and more people start using them, and pretty soon they’ve conquered the world. Agree or disagree?
Also, Facebook is the new Yahoo.
This is the problem with the Facebook “like” button.
GO AWAY WINKLEVII.
PR agency Burson-Marsteller, caught up in a scandal for running a covert anti-Google smear campaign on behalf of Facebook, says it will not fire the two PR guys who ran the operation. Instead, Burson says it will give them extra training.
More PR brilliance.
One thing I’ve learned in 25 years of doing PR is, When you’re explaining, you’re losing.
For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy. Burson even offered to help an influential blogger write a Google-bashing op-ed, which it promised it could place in outlets like The Washington Post, Politico, and The Huffington Post.
The plot backfired when the blogger turned down Burson’s offer and posted the emails that Burson had sent him. It got worse when USA Today broke a story accusing Burson of spreading a “whisper campaign” about Google “on behalf of an unnamed client.”
Awesome scoop from Dan Lyons.
Reblogged from Soup
Answer: Birthers. Birth Certificates. Hoax Births.
Question: What are words & phrases people use for self-promotion & page views?
Reblogged from "The Wolfe"
There’s a bit of schizophrenia in trying to think that you’re operating a neutral platform. People at Facebook definitely have pro-freedom views. And there’s also a desire to not get shut off.
a former Facebook official to The Daily Beast in explaining the company’s role in assisting revolutionary Egypt page admins.
Members can now select “in a civil union” or “in a domestic partnership” to describe their relationships. (It’s only available, however, to Facebook users in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Canada, and France.)
(Source: Yahoo!)
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