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Germany’s Stunning World Cup Win Over Brazil Is The Most-Tweeted Sports Game Ever

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington For a long time yesterday, I couldn’t see any tweet in my regular feed that wasn’t in some way linked to the Germany/Brazil semifinal World Cup match – and apparently, I wasn’t alone. The devastating 7-1 victory by Brazil was the most activity around a single sports game on Twitter ever (via THR), surpassing the Super Bowl from earlier this year. Brazil’s routing garnered 35.6 million tweets during the game…

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Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine  accidentally Pulls Popular Shows Off The Service It’s not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate checkins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity — constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from close friends. Ambient proximity lets you know if a friend is near enough to meet up with, yet without the creepiness of seeing their every…

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Facebook Joins Google In The Hunt For The Future

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine We now live in an era when Mark Zuckerberg speed-dials Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buys whole virtual worlds. Facebook’s mission has changed. While once it was solely “to make the world more open and connected”, it’s expanded to also “give people the power to share.” And nothing is too crazy if it brings Facebook one step closer to that goal. If you…

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The Creator Of Doom Is Now A Facebook Employee

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matt Burns This isn’t bizzaro world. We will soon live in a world where the maker of Doom, Quake and most of my childhood memories works for Mark Zuckerberg. John Carmack will soon be a Facebook employee. Facebook just announced its plan to buy Oculus VR for around $2 billion in cash and stock. The company will operate independently within Facebook with a focus on gaming. Facebook communications confirmed to TechCrunch that everyone…

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The era of Facebook is an anomaly

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger Researcher danah boyd talks about teens, identity, and the future of digital communication danah boyd’s SXSW keynote is sold out. When it’s over, a dozen fans rush the stage. These fans aren’t young groupies hoping to get a closer glimpse at their favorite rock star, but full-grown adults hoping to hear one more word from boyd. She’s one of the world’s sharpest authorities on how teens interact with…

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Facebook and Instagram step in with age limits on firearms ads, new rules for sellers

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY For most, Facebook’s “Look Back” videos were a whimsical retrospective covering a decade of social networking. For Moms Demand Action, an advocacy group that supports gun control laws, the nostalgic campaign was a opportunity to be heard. The group published a parody Look Back video highlighting pages and posts that use the social network to set up gun sales between private parties, some of which violated Facebook’s community standards. Now, Zuckerberg and Co.…

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Facebook Videos Now Auto-Play On Mobile, Expect Video Ads Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine FB could look a lot more like TV soon. While Vine and Instagram Video are booming, you don’t see many people natively uploading videos to Facebook. But now Facebook is bringing auto-play for native videos to all users aftertesting the feature in September. And it’s just the beginning of a huge push to put Facebook in motion. Previously, any video uploaded to Facebook directly or shared to the News Feed from…

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Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Facebook didn’t stop when it hit 1 billion users. And it won’t stop even if it connects everyone with web access. ”To make the world more open and connected” really means the world — every human regardless of location or income. That’s why CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “retooling the company to take on a lot of harder problems” — specifically spreading the Internet itself. Last month, Zuckerberg launched Internet.org with a 10-page whitepaper…

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Facebook lets news organizations broadcast your trending topic discussions

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Anyone else think that Twitter’s love affair with TV has gotten those down in Menlo Park a little scared? Facebook has announced that broadcasters like CNN, NBC and Sky can now gain direct access to your public wall posts concerning trending topics and embed them in their shows. That means that your insightful or controversial opinions on Shark Week might be sharing screen time with Al Roker without your explicit say-so. News organizations will also be able to generate…

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Facebook Announces Shared Photo Albums To Boost Group Engagement

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As reported on TechCrunch. by BILLY GALLAGHER Facebook is rolling out shared photo albums, as first reported by Mashable. Users can share access to an album with up to 50 contributors, who can each add up to 200 photos. For those of you who aren’t math whizzes, that means shared albums can be as large as 10,000 photos. Previously, albums were limited to 1,000 total photos and users could only add pictures to their own albums. This…

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