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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Facebook application to ‘sponsor’ companies

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Facebook’s News Feed home page could have been described as a personalized CNN without the commercials — until last Tuesday, when the popular social network launched SocialAds, which now has ads, too.

SocialAds — the latest brainchild of Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley-based Facebook — allows companies to develop profiles that feature information on their products. Facebook users then have the option of adding companies to a “my products” application feature on their profile, prompting News Feed to display a message about those users’ endorsement to his or...

#1 By Robert F. 6:34a.m. on January 12, 2009

Did you notice that Twitter is now on Facebook, too? It integrates pretty seamlessly. I have to say, that’s not what I expected, given that Twitter would seem to be a competitor with Facebook’s own status update feature. Guess that’s not how they see it.

http://www.facebookster.com

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