The recent beta release of Facebook Timeline for personal profiles has the Internet buzzing with wonder at the thought of new branding possibilities. Zeny Huang of JWT New York writes in Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands. "The “Cover,” an 849 by 312 pixel image spanning the top of your profile, can be changed at any time [...]

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Amazon’s stock climbed 2.3% this morning after the company made the announcement it has signed a deal to stream Fox movies and TV shows like "24″ and "Arrested Development" as a service for Amazon Prime members.


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Google has released an update to the Google+ Android app that addresses one of my main complaints with the app, the fact that there was no way to filter the stream to a specific circle. You can now configure the Google+ Android app to display circle-specific views of your stream in addition to the all circles view.


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Because of the way that Facebook is designed, it automatically surfaces the most interesting content coming into your individual stream. What it doesn't do is go out and look at all of the content on Facebook and show you whats cool or interesting. This is the way that Facebook wants it to work with Edgerank , but if you want to explore popular Facebook shares on your own, check out Fmeme.The site takes an approach similar to Digg, but instead of Diggs it tracks Facebook likes and scrapes [...]

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UK television broadcaster Channel 4 is to stream programming live on Facebook for the first time when it broadcasts the T4 On The Beach festival live this weekend, BroadcastNow reports.As part of the show, Channel 4 will place four dedicated cameras around the site allowing Facebook users to watch live music acts from the side of the stage, view interviews with artists and view events backstage and in the green room.Viewers will need to access the T4 Facebook page, which currently stands at more [...]

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You have your Google+ invite and have been enjoying the new features that Google has been making available to you. Adding another social network to your existing Facebook and Twitter accounts, it can be difficult to prioritize your updates amongst your networks.Some users have manually entered their updates manually across networks, others have employed their own ways to share. However, a new Chrome extension “Google+Facebook” takes the hassle out of updating both your Google+ and Fa [...]

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