Facebook snaps up social gifting app Karma
Appolicious
Facebook is very busy. The social networking company just had its initial public offering on Friday, made news earlier this month when it paid $1 billion for social photography app Instagram, and just acquired another notable app: Karma (also available ...
Facebook Buys Karma, a Gift-Giving App New York Times (blog)
Facebook buys Karma app GigaOM
Facebook acquires social gifting company Karma CNET
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Facebook IPO: social network makes stock market debut " live blog
The Guardian
Wocka! Wocka! twitter.com/dmataconis/sta " Doug Mataconis (@dmataconis) May 18, 2012 9.39am: The scene at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park in the run-up to the IPO. The company is valued at $104 billion as shares go on sale to the public.
Live Blog: Facebook's Market Debut New York Times (blog)
Will 'The Social Network' Help the Facebook IPO? Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook debuts, social-networking stocks fall San Francisco Chronicle
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4 Ways Facebook Can Woo SMBs
InformationWeek
But the now-public company's bottom-line health relies heavily on the ad spending of much smaller companies, particularly those that run campaigns on the social network's self-service platform. The problem: Facebook isn't doing a particularly good job ...

What's the next Facebook (or is there one)?
CNN (blog)
By John D. Sutter, CNN When the company's hoodie-wearing CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a new feature called Timeline in September, he proclaimed that Facebook would be the website - or social network or app or whatever - to catalogue life from birth ...
Mobile: Huge Risk and Opportunity for Facebook Billing World
Mobile is the future, just ask Facebook Econsultancy (blog)
Facebook says mobile is a top priority Know Your Cell

Success and Social Value
Forbes
With the fun show of the mother of all social network IPOs finally behind us, Catalina and I are giving our minds a break from social networks and thinking about success and social value. What is success? What is social value? Do they go together?

Faced with scandals, schools consider social media limits
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Administrators allege the 52-year-old educator's Facebook conversations with two students featured lewd dialogue peppered with profanity of a sexual nature. Similar incidents are cropping up across the country as social media tools proliferate.

The Real Facebook Investing Story: How Advisers and Investors Are Using Social ...
DailyFinance
He thinks that Facebook and Twitter should "mainly be a support apparatus rather than the main marketing focus" -- a place where people can learn more about you. He focuses on his blog, rather than on more superficial social network interactions.
Victims of the anti-social network New Zealand Herald
A look at Facebook by the numbers Christian Science Monitor
How Facebook quickly took over the Web CNET
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Crossword roundup: Someone old, someone new
The Guardian (blog)
Thanks for your clues for SELECTIVE AMNESIA, received via Twitter. It would be invidious to privilege users of any particular social network, so there is no winner. Hon menshes, though, assuming I have matched identities correctly, to Boxkite's ...

Get attention online in small but effective ways
USA TODAY
You don't have to conquer the entire world of social media to be successful. Get a following in a small corner of it. You may feel uncomfortable with the thought of calling attention to yourself by blogging or jumping onto Twitter.

ScienceOnline2012 " interview with Mark Henderson
Scientific American (blog)
How does (if it does) blogging figure in your work? How about social networks, eg, Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook? Do you find all this online activity to be a net positive (or even a necessity) in what you do? I have a personal blog around the book ...