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Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works: http://t.co/WFW0asW by @kenfisher Facebook has removed the Ars Technica Facebook page for alleged infringement, but gave us no warning, no explanation, and no clear way to resolve the issue. Why is Facebook playing judge, jury, and executioner all in one fell swoop? Link - Trackbacks
Spotify Lands Major Studio Deals, Prepares To Launch Movie Service http://tcrn.ch/iD9Omt by @arrington Spotify continues to negotiate with Facebook over its long promised U.S. launch. But that isn't the only thing the music streaming service has been up to. They've negotiated a number of deals with major movie studios to offer users streaming movies as well as music, a source in the industry tells us. Earlier this week we reported that YouTube plans a similar service (something we first wrote about last year). As with Google/YouTube, we're not sure when Spotify will launch the new service. But our best information suggests this Fall. And these aren't your standard Netflix/Amazon/iTunes type movie deals, either, we've heard. Spotify is aiming to offer users much earlier access to movies. Similar to the release dates that hotel's get for premium in-room movies. They're expensive, but users can often see them just a couple of weeks after they've been in theaters. Link - Trackbacks
6 Tips to Increase Your Facebook EdgeRank and Exposure http://bit.ly/l5Lwi1 Find out what Facebook's Edgerank is, what it means to you and how to get your Facebook updates to appear in Top News feeds. Link - Trackbacks
A group on Facebook has created a page to try to link victims of Thursday's tornadoes with photos, documents and other personal effects blown away in the storm.

Spotify continues to negotiate with Facebook over its long promised U.S. launch. But that isn’t the only thing the music streaming service has been up to. They’ve negotiated a number of deals with major movie studios to offer users streaming movies as well as music, a source in the industry tells us.Earlier this week we reported that YouTube plans a similar service (something we first wrote…

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Barack Obama's Facebook Feed, Health Care Edition: http://bit.ly/bTAE7Q Become a fan of Slate and Barack Obama's Facebook Feed on Facebook. Follow Slate on Twitter. Link - Trackbacks
Facebook plans to add 'place' feature http://dlvr.it/MM5l Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work. Link - Trackbacks
Friday's roundup of technology drippings includes Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt making peace at a Silicon Valley cafe, the barbed wire protecting Hewlett-Packard's executives, and a followup to the report on Facebook's purported connection to syphilis.


Facebook plans to add 'place' feature
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(CNN) -- Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work. The location-based feature, hinted at in a post on Facebook's ...

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Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work.