The split shows how financial firms and regulators are struggling to change their ways in the Facebook era.
As the Facebook era pushes the limits of scale into the billions of consumers, other factors seem to be less important.
Although drug companies like to complain that they are in an innovation drought, there have been plenty of big, world-changing drugs introduced in the Facebook era.
Prior to starting Hearsay, Shih wrote a best-selling book, The Facebook Era, that helped businesses think about how to use social media for sales and marketing.
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In 2009 her book The Facebook Era, largely considered the manual for social-media marketing, was met with praise from industry big-wigs like Sheryl Sandberg.
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In the era of Facebook, Google and ad networks, a million people is a rounding error.
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Decades before Facebook, Twitter or anything else of the Internet era, a loyal community blossomed around the band.
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And when Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he launched a new era in the way we communicate with one another.
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The true blind date is a bit of an endangered species in an era when virtually everyone has a Facebook page or some other highly Google-able online presence.
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This all makes Groupon arguably the worst of the three big Internet IPO busts of this era, which also includes Zynga and, of course, Facebook, which has seen more market value wiped out but remains a much stronger company.
We need summits, and summits need declarations, but what the women of the developing countries need is access to Facebook, Twitter, and all of the other tools that both Clinton and Kirkpatrick believe have fostered a new era defined by participation.
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In the new era of helicopter parenting, more and more parents and kids are meeting up, and clashing, on Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites.
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