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Target to Sell Facebook Credit Gift Cards

Facebook Credits gift cards will be sold in increments of $15, $25 and $50. The $15 Facebook Credits gift card has been created exclusively for Target. This a big move for the social network’s virtual currency; which is expected to make up one-third of Facebook’s revenue in the next year.
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Facebook Sues Teachbook Over Name

Social networking giant Facebook is suing Teachbook, an online community for teachers, claiming that the site "willfully and deliberately" infringes its brand.
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That guy who claims he owns Facebook has a cashed check

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The western New York man suing over claims he owns 84 percent of Facebook Inc. has a copy of a $3,000 cashier’s check that may support his contract claim against the company and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.
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Mom arrested after posting photo of baby and bong

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Nineteen-year-old Rachel Stieringer was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. A Texas resident called Florida's abuse hot line after seeing the picture online of the baby posing with his face in the bong.
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75% of people Use Same Password for Social Networking and Email

According to a week-long study conducted by Internet security company BitDefender, over 250,000 user names, email addresses, and passwords used for social networking sites can easily be found online. The study also revealed that 75 percent of social networking username and password samples collected online were identical to those used for email accounts.
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Juxio - annotate and share photos with short sentences

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Juxio is a service that allows you to create “Juxes,” which are Mondrian-like combinations of event-related text, title and image that you can combine like pieces of a puzzle to well, do all sorts of things, but namely create slideshows you can share with your friends through Facebook and Twitter.
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Evesham police post drunken-driving arrests on Facebook page

People caught driving while intoxicated in Evesham get their name and mugshot posted on Facebook, according to a report on courierpostonline.com.
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Yunno - easy social widgets for brands to interact with customers

Yunno’s self-service platform gives customers access to a variety of engagement tools, such as contests, surveys, trivia, and polls. New engagements can be created in minutes and can be integrated into both existing websites and Facebook fan pages, all with no programming or design experience needed.
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Sqoot - coordinate real world activities with your friends

Sqoot is a way to share and discover the activities you want to do. Sqoot turns your online conversations into offline interactions by answering one question: “Who’s in?” In one step, you post your plan and you’re done. Sqoot crawls your social graph, find interested friends, and encourages them to join in—helping create the momentum to actually go offline and participate! Plans stay in your queue so you don’t forget about them and as plans are completed you are rewarded. As users cluster around similar activities, Sqoot allows businesses to offer them hyper-targeted, realtime offers.
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Adapt.ly - cross-social network ad platform

Adapt.ly: Adaptly, which was reviewed here, provides a platform where advertisers can create, deploy, monitor, and adapt ads seamlessly across multiple social ad networks. Once these ads are deployed, users can access realtime and actionable insights about each ad which can be immediately used to optimize the advertising dollars being spent. In the first two weeks of launch Adaptly has already served millions of impressions and tracked thousands of clicks from its paying customers.
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Should teachers 'friend' their students on facebook?

Peter Kupfer has made it difficult for his physics students to claim they didn't know about a homework assignment. Not only does Kupfer outline the assignment during class at Lake Zurich High School, he also Tweets a daily reminder to his followers on Twitter. On Facebook, he posts a status update and occasionally provides extra details on his fan page.
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Facebook ‘Suspects’ Zuckerberg Contract Was ‘Forged’

Facebook says it “strongly suspects” forgery is involved in a contract showing its founder Mark Zuckerberg signed away more than half the rights to Facebook for $1,000 in 2003. The lawsuit, filed by Zuckerberg’s former work-for-hire employer Paul Ceglia, attempting to take over the company seven years later is “absurd,” the company said Thursday.
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