Tag Archives: Facebook

Microsoft tried to buy Facebook (a years ago)

14th
Dec. × ’10
By Venu Thomas
The rumor came from the publication of “The Facebook effect” by David Kirkpatrick. In it, the author reveals the attempts made by Steve Ballmer to buy Facebook in 2007. Clearly attempts were unsuccessful. But since there was only a rumor, this week at the conference “How to be acquired” in France, was asked to Fritz [...]
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Psychologist: Facebook makes you smarter, Twitter makes you stupid

9th
Sep. × ’09
By Venu Thomas
A scientist said at once that Twitter, the microblogging service social networking is bad for our brain. Dr. Tracy Alloway, University of Stirling, and an expert in working memory, considers that the maintenance and use of information retained is the “real basis for learning” on IQ. Alloway, says: “Twitter can cause harm, because it produces [...]
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Digg and Facebook come together

8th
May. × ’09
By Venu Thomas
Since August of last year these two big social networks have announced a kind of collaboration. Looks like they took some work to agree that it is integrating its services, that is because until today announced a collaboration to Facebook Connect. This system will allow users not registered with Digg connect their data with Facebook, [...]
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