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Apr 21

The most recent one was Ethan Beard. The others are Sheryl Sandberg, Justin Rosenstein, Gideon and Benjamin Yu Ling. The Director of the Department Social Media is the latest illustrious ex employee  of Google now sitting behind a Facebook desk.
 
Five super managers, an unknown number of employees and a single action: bid farewell to the Mountain View Company and a embark on brand new start at the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

The situation  appears awkward  and consistent and some are talking   about Google  suffering from a ” Facebook problem“. Ironically, a few years ago Google itself had been the protagonist of a similar ordeal, but on the opposite side,

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Apr 07

Social networks represent the largest catchment areas that every company would like to have at its disposal to achieve the highest profits possible. In this post we will review some of the history and monetization tools starting with the two most powerful social networks, MySpace and Facebook.
The monetization of social networking is a topic of current interest, considering the high number of social platforms that has developed over the last two years and especially in view of exponential growth of users.
The question that social networks most likely had to answer before venturing into the difficult task of achieving a profit, had to have been: “how can the average user be involved

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Mar 28

Yahoo, MySpace and Google have launched OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit private organization that promotes the development of open and extensible specifications for social networking APIs.
OpenSocial Foundation is a clear example of how the “flatting” process of the world is developing in a very fast way and involving the social networking. Thanks to new technologies and to internet the world has been transformed from round into flat, encouraging the cooperation among people who live even in the most remote places of the planet and allowing them to interact and to work at the same projects.
The concept of community that shares the same tools and that is capable of implementing and standardizing

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