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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl   —  Look!  Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl.  Actually, it's a new product for App Store developers - short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs.  The domain made a grand public appearance at the end …
Feb 3, 2013, 9:50 PMIn context
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Facebook disables URL login shortcut after Google search exposes potential security flaw   —  A security hole has been discovered that allows anyone to see the email addresses corresponding to certain Facebook accounts.  Worse yet, some appear to be accessible without even entering a password.
Nov 2, 2012, 6:20 AMIn context
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
After 30M Visitors And Trillions Of Clicks Scanned, Facebook Expands Anti-Virus Marketplace To Mobile   —  Facebook is seeing more mobile usage and wants to ensure those users aren't spreading scams and malware so today it begins offering free mobile anti-virus software, starting with Android.
Oct 16, 2012, 12:50 PMIn context
Amar Toor / The Verge:
Facebook expands Anti-Virus Marketplace, URL blacklist system with seven new partners   —  Facebook expanded its Anti-Virus Marketplace today with the addition of eight new partners — Avast, AVG, Avira, Kaspersky, Panda, Total Defense, and Webroot.  Today's expansion allows users …
Oct 16, 2012, 12:30 PMIn context
Greg Finn / Marketing Land:
Pre-Approved Vanity URLs Now Rolling Out On Google+   —  Earlier this month Google announced the quasi-launch of custom URLs, and today some users have noted that they are available for both profiles and brands.  Unlike Facebook who had open enrollment for vanity URLs, Google is slowly rolling …
Aug 23, 2012, 12:50 PMIn context
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Facebook's Grip On The Web: 22 Percent Of Pages Link There, 8 Percent Use Open Graph [STUDY]   —  More than one-fifth of the web links to Facebook in some way, and almost eight percent use Facebook's Open Graph tags — two numbers that offer a glimpse of Facebook's deep grip on the web.
Jul 11, 2012, 9:15 AMIn context
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook's New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You [Updated]   —  Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby.  Initially called “Friendshake” and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of …
Jun 24, 2012, 12:35 PMIn context
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions   —  It has been fairly obvious for a few years that the search-driven, URL-centric web would converge with the web of social objects.  It is something that is driving Google's paranoia.  It is also something Facebook dreams about.
Jun 18, 2012, 9:05 PMIn context
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook partners with McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft, others to offer free antivirus software, expanded URL blacklist   —  Upwards of 90 percent of “hacked” Facebook accounts don't get hacked on Facebook, the company once told us.  Yet, since Facebook has become one of the most important destinations …
Apr 25, 2012, 12:15 PMIn context
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook throws up roadblock for Google-hosted blogs   —  Summary: Facebook has started prompting users who post any link from Google Blogger with a CAPTCHA test.  This seems to affect all blogspot.com links as well as Google-hosted blogs with a custom URL.  —  Facebook has started throwing …
Mar 12, 2012, 7:50 AMIn context

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“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).