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Zynga Gets Slammed Over Haiti Donations – Deserved or Exaggerated?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 4 March 2010
If a company is not entirely transparent in it’s charitable dealings, it could cost it’s reputation, especially when inaccurate rumors start to spread. via Mathew Ingram at GigaOm: If you want to see a Twitter mob in its larval stage, just do a search on Zynga or Farmville and Haiti and you will see one emerging over [...]
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State of California takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
  State takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends February 26, 2010 |  3:55 pm The Internet can be a wild place, with all the damage one can do from an office cubicle on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like. So the state of California on Friday unveiled a “Social Media Standard” to ensure that its employees [...]
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Real-time case study in generating comments. Is timing everything?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
Hidden Los Angeles posted a simple “what are you doing” query to its fan page in the 5 o’clock hour on a Friday and started an avalanche of commenting from like-minded people who were likely wondering the same thing. “Hidden Los Angeles wants to hear all about he awesome local LA stuff you’re doing this weekend! [...]
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