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Small businesses make up a great portion of the Facebook ecosystem. While some only advertise once a month, or spend a few dollars a week, it is possible to grow a business through Facebook advertising.
Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy recently spoke with InsideFacebook.com to learn more about Facebook’s goals for helping small businesses thrive…

[Finger image via Shutterstock][Guest blog post by Jay Baer]: Every day, consumers get overwhelmed by a flood of  invitations on the web from hundreds of companies asking them for likes, follows, clicks, shares, comments and attention. These invitations are in addition to all the legacy advertising that constantly bombards us, too…

Stickers, a popular messaging function in Facebook’s mobile applications, are now available in desktop chat. Facebook announced the arrival of stickers on Tuesday, with a message popping up in the chat module that users can now attach a fun sticker to their conversation.
To access these stickers (which are popular in Asian messaging apps such as Line and KakaoTalk), click the smiley face in the text box…

“Your privacy is important to us.”
How many times have you heard this spiel? “Your privacy is important to us. Read our privacy policy.”
If your privacy was really important, would the websites that you visit every day, the ones that you use to share stories with family and connect with long-distance friends, need to continuously revise a contract to tell you so? If social media websites really did respect your privacy, would policies be so littered with jargon that the entire document reads like fine print?
One of the social media privacy (or “data use”) policies to capture the most heated attention is Facebook’s…

According to Facebook, members spend a majority of their time on the site in the News Feed, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the company has started to expand Facebook Exchange (FBX) from the sidebar to this highly trafficked area.
Launched last fall, FBX is a way for businesses to show ads to people on the social network based on their online browsing interests…

Do you have a free LinkedIn account? Are you wondering if you should upgrade to a paid account? LinkedIn is known for providing an amazing connection and networking service, with many of its best and most useful tools available for free. So why should you consider upgrading to a paid account? In this article I […

Facebook has recently started to expand Facebook Exchange (FBX) — its popular retargeting ad platform — from the sidebar into the desktop News Feed, where most of the time is spent on the site.
AdRoll has found these kinds of retargeted ads (where a user visits a website, doesn’t make a conversion, then sees a News Feed ad from that company) are pretty successful in comparison to the FBX sidebar ads…

It seems like Twitter’s in the lab this week.
In addition to testing a tweet translation tool, Twitter is experimenting with a tweet additive that highlights media articles that have embedded a tweet.
Here’s what we mean.
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Facebook stickers, the extra-large emoticons mobile users have been throwing into Facebook chats for a while now, are now also available on the web version of Facebook
Using stickers is simple: start a chat with someone, click on the emoticon icon in the lower right corner of the chat window, choose the sticker you like and click it to send it to that person
You start with a relatively low amount of stickers, but you can get more by clicking the basket icon in the upper right corner of the sticker window…

Facebook is rolling out the ability to send private messages with stickers — cute, pre-made, sometimes animated images — from its website. Facebook launched stickers on mobile in mid-April, but now the web chat smiley button reveals a basket leading to the web sticker store where you can choose from 16 free packs to add to your repertoire…

GitHub has just announced the launch of Releases, a new feature which helps developers distribute the latest versions of their software to end users.
Of course, users have long been able to download specific branches, but now GitHub authors can define releases explicitly.
This means that you’re now able to quickly download the latest software release of any given GitHub project…

New York City will become the first U.S. city to have its own Internet domain, as business, residents and government bodies will be able to create websites on the newly minted .NYC domain, city officials said today.
“With a new top-level domain name, New York won’t just be the greatest city in the world — we’ll also be the greatest city on the internet,” said city council speaker Christine C…

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Justin.tv has raised $8.3 million of an intended $20 million funding round.
Justin.tv is a hot startup that offers live-streamed video services. It was one of the first live streaming platforms and continues to be one of the most popular — viewers watch more than 300 million livestreams per month, and it receives more than 40 million unique users per month…