In the span of 24 hours this week, the two most important (for now) publicly traded social networking companies in the world, Facebook ( FB) and LinkedIn ( LNKD), each made fairly minor strategic moves that did a magnificent job of highlighting the major differences not only in their corporate identities but why investors have thus far embraced one and abjectly shunned the other.

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Collette is mesmerizing in her shy, watchful role, and in its anti-ideological way the movie is a true feminist comment on how difficult it remains for young women to cobble their identities together in the corporate world.

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According to this way of thinking, Mayer has assumed that the personal lives and identities of her work-at-home employees are uniformly at odds with her corporate goals.

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