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Tom Krazit: Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 10:07 AM
If Facebook Places catches on with the company's 500 million users, Facebook could be sitting on a gold mine of local business listings that advertisers and users will love and Google will hate.Will visitors to Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters use Facebook Places to find legendary watering hole Antonio's Nut House.As part of Google's quest to pack useful answers into search results pages, it has built out a database of local business listings tied to its Google Maps service that gives someone searching for "pizza san francisco" a wealth of results to browse. |
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Caroline McCarthy: Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:04 AM
Security firm Sophos has highlighted yet another scam that's zipping
around Facebook in the form of a third-party application, this one spreading in
the form of links claiming to be from friends that encourage members to install
a Facebook "dislike button." Sophos wrote about the scamin a
blog post Monday, pointing out that a link to it tends to appear in wall
posts that appear to be from the user's friends ("I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your
dumb posts lol! |
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