It is, however, a fairly unique entry into the world of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) gaming.
"It is hard to imagine de Gaulles and Churchills appealing in the world of Facebook, " he says.
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According to the new definition of that word in the world of Facebook, yes, I suppose it does.
My kids are in high school and live in the world of Facebook, Kanye West and The Hangover.
In the tech world, Facebook finally launched its iPad App, jabbing at Apple by opening its platform to mobile developers.
That dilemma is repeated throughout the tech world, not simply because the likes of IBM and Hewlett Packard have to get used to a world of Facebook and Twitter.
And by the way, Gaffigan used to be big into MySpace, but switched allegiances along with the rest of the world as Facebook became the more dominant social media player.
Given the way that we now make our social graphs and circles of influence visible to the world through Facebook and Twitter, companies no longer have to rely on celebrities alone to spread word of their products.
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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.
Smith said that because Facebook users in the rest of the world are accessing Facebook via smartphones, Facebook has also revamped its product development efforts to focus on mobile.
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Today, at least one out of every fourteen people in the world has a Facebook account.
And for the past seven years or so, the world has decided Facebook is the one.
Most of the smart phones around the world had a Facebook browsing option has an important feature in their software.
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Our Facebook world changes everything, the movie promises its audience of children.
Today thousands of programmers around the world have given Facebook a broad menu of applications featuring everything from fantasy sports to photo sharing.
The tool works amazingly well in the idealized Zuckerbergian world where all Facebook members are real people who complete their profiles honestly and update them frequently.
The world has chosen Facebook, but the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter are offering bespoke services - fast news or business networking - which appeal to smaller communities.
She says problems arise when users ignore family and work obligations because they find the Facebook world a more enjoyable place to spend time than the real world.
"We've partnered with some of the biggest and most influential social networks in the world, including Facebook and Ustream, to bring gamers friends into games like never before, " former Gaikai CEO David Perry told attendees of Sony's PlayStation 4 event last week.
Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journalism experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.
Goldman also barred the firm's partners around the world from investing in Facebook.
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"I am sad and have finally accepted there really are no true heroes in our world, " one Facebook fan wrote.
Eleven months ago, the world had written off Facebook for dead.
Imprisoned in our delusional social media bubbles, our Facebook saturated world has become a self-referential stream of real-time updates about what we just ate for breakfast.
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If I was that exploring teenager, of course, and the whole world had flipped the Facebook switch, I could always just make a fake Facebook account, for sure.
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Despite its ethos of transparency and a mission to make the world more open, Facebook seems to be battening down its hatches as it comes under FTC scrutiny for privacy concerns.
Perhaps the best thing for Carrier IQ is to come out in public, attempt to answer every question in the social media world, engage on Facebook and Twitter with as many people as possible, and be as pro-active and open as possible.
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Datalogix tracks the relationship between ads on Facebook and real-world spending by compiling consumer purchasing information from retail stores and matching it with data about Facebook ad impressions.
The man who created the Facebook empire in order to try to make the world a more open place (according to his Facebook page) is a notoriously private person when it comes to the media.
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But in doing so, companies like Facebook enter the world of very sharp pencils.
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