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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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Twitter: Autofollow ’sends the wrong message’

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 31 March 2009
Just got a mass e-mail from Biz Stone explaining why Twitter accounts with autofollow enabled (this was originally an option in user settings) will no longer be grandfathered in. And in fact, there will be no more autofollow accounts. I’ve always been mixed on this, however, I now feel that it is in the service’s [...]
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Facebook’s Walled Garden a Gulag?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 16 February 2009
On February 4 Facebook revised their Terms of Service, removing a clause stating that user content would no longer be under license to Facebook. Well, now the terms indicate that anything you ever upload or share to your facebook profile — regardless of whether your account is active — is Facebook’s property to do whatever they [...]
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