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The consumer economy is dead, long live the creator economy [MEF]

Our world is about the technology and the use of technology — the invention and reinvention of technology. The industry most disrupted by technology…

Twitter’s IPO and what it reveals about the sublime and ridiculous nature of our capital markets

Twitter’s IPO brings to mind Julius Caesar’s alleged description of his campaign in Britain: ‘veni, vidi, vici’, or ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’….

Twitter to go public at $26 a share, raising $1.82bn

Looks like Twitter’s investor roadshow has gone well. When the social network goes public, it’ll do so at US$26 a share. With the company…

Ouch. Forrester’s new research says that Facebook ads are ‘failing marketers’

If you were Facebook — a business which derives 88% of its income from advertising — the last thing you’d want to hear is…

‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented,’ says Assange

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit…

Facebook could add video calls with possible Skype acquisition

Boasting a slogan that it “helps you connect and share with the people in your life”, social networking giant has lacked VoIP capability to…

Renren’s Wall Street debut off to a soaring start

China’s biggest social network, Renren, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The company’s shares soared raising $743.4 million through…

Internet freedom: South Africa doing poorly

As the internet grows and users become more aware of its uses and better ways to use it, so does the concept of its…

Apple responds: ‘We are not tracking your location’

There has been plenty of buzz about the iPhone and its operating system, iOS 4, and how it has been secretly tracking the locations…

Is Facebook still for small businesses?

Once upon a time Facebook was the most effective, inexpensive marketing platform for small businesses. Due to its viral newsfeeds, share buttons and tagging…

One year after the ‘Like’ button, Facebook launches ‘Send’ button

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their…

Zuckerberg, Huffington and Bieber — The online influencers

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Larry Page and Wikileaks’ infamous editor Julian Assange are among the online personalties to grace this year’s Time magazine’s list…

Zuckerberg wears a tie as Obama visits Facebook

US President Barack Obama paid a campaign-style visit to Facebook headquarters on Wednesday where he urged young voters who backed his historic 2008 election…

Obama visits Facebook headquarters

President Barack Obama will head to Facebook’s headquarters on Wednesday to tout his budget cuts to followers of the social media powerhouse, which he…

Facebook forced to ‘Like’ picture of ‘gay kiss’

A picture of two men kissing has caused a ruckus on Facebook after it was originally banned and then quickly re-instated. The picture first…

‘The more you disclose, the more you are rewarded,’ says Boing Boing co-editor

Privacy and social media are two of the central concerns for Cory Doctorow, the 40-year old Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who…

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