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Facebook is giving advertisers a better look into your online – and offline – behavior

If you thought advertisers already had a lot of data on your thanks to Facebook, the introduction of "partner categories" takes this to a whole new level.
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Photos: Samsung’s NX1000, NX2100, and NX20 are sleek, mirrorless, sharing machines

Check out the new additions to Samsung's NX lineup.
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Facebook’s new emotion-based status updates are a win for sarcasm

Facebook has rolled out a new feature that is just begging for us to mess with the social network.
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Facebook is the new Twitter (at least, it wants to be)

The two heavyweights of social media are indisputably Facebook and Twitter - and the former is starting to look more and more like its real-time competitor.
Instagram's growing pains: The spambots are here

You want likes? We got likes! Getting dirty in Instagram’s seedy spambot underbelly

It was a matter of time: Turns out, Twitter and Facebook aren't the only ones with a spambot problem - Instagram has joined their ranks.
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WTF, Internet? What makes you think we need more Facebook?

WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of Facebook Home, the social network's latest way to monopolize our time.
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So call me, maybe? Facebook Home cares about your present, not your past

Facebook Home sets up shop on your smartphone - every piece and part of it. Will this finally give Facebook the deep social access and engagement it wants?

The difference between second screen and social TV apps is that there isn’t one

Second screen and social TV overlap so mcuh that it's difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins - but is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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WTF, Internet? Facebook thinks it knows me … and it’s so, so wrong

WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of Facebook's horrible, terrible, no good targeted ads.

WTF, Internet?: Thanks for another terrible ‘hot women in tech’ list we did not ask for

Complex's awful "hottest women in tech" managed to collectively incite most (if not all) of the Internet.
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If you don’t want ads targeting you, read this story about Facebook FBX

Facebook's ad-retargeting system Facebook Exchange will be expanding. That means a lot to marketers, but what does it mean for you?
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Facebook uses push notifications to nag us … to use push notifications

Facebook wants to dominate the mobile market, and is alerting us to post more as well as enable push notifications. Fool me once, Facebook...
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Vizify rolls out of beta, ready to protect and serve your Web identify – infographic style

Identify website Vizify is now open to the public, ready to create your personal landing page complete with personalized infographics.
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When it comes to apps, Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away

Facebook used to be a natural launching pad for a new app, but now the harsh reality is that the ecosystem isn't one that welcomes competition.
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#Upside: Why Twitter and SXSW going corporate isn’t a bad thing

Austin has become the stomping grounds for big business, and Twitter hashtags have made our voice its voice.

Is audio the final social frontier? Eevzdrop thinks so

Eevzdrop managed to steal a bit of spotlight at SXSW this year, and is banking on audio sharing being the next social feed we want to see. Er, hear.
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It’s not you, SXSW. It’s me. Me, me, me …

SXSW Interactive Week has come to a close, and the takeaway? We are all a bunch of self-loving, social networking psychos - and that's just fine by us.
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Nasa wants to beat Bieber in the Twitter wars (#weapprove)

Social media might be making the world smaller, but NASA is helping us make it bigger - by connecting us to the rest of the universe.
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Word on the street is Kid Cudi, Sleigh Bells, Diplo to head up Myspace’s secret SXSW concerts

Word on the street is Myspace plans to quietly invade SXSW this year with secret concerts - and we've got inside information on who and when.

Indie band Quiet Company and the terrifying, murky waters of streaming sites and social networks

Austin-based band Quiet Company has had something of an Internet upbringing, as the first and only group Grooveshark has partnered with.
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Why the SXSW curse? Apps launched in fantasyland seldom survive real life

Every year, SXSW hosts an avalanche of hyped-up social apps that bowl over festival goers ... then fizzle in the months ahead. Why can't SXSW launches succeed in the real world? Because the frenzy of SXSW is anything but real life.

One month later, how are video apps faring in the face of Vine?

It's been one month since Twitter introduced the Internet to Vine. Are competitors keeping up?
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Buying things on Facebook is now – literally – three little letters away

Twitter and Instagram in-stream payment app Chirpify has introduced Facebook commerce, bringing instant buying to all three major social platforms.

Experts sound off on the peril and potential of the evolving Web

The best brains devoted to watching and helping the Web grow spoke at Social Media Week, forecasting the development of the Internet and social networks.
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Olympus refreshes the PEN lineup with the E-PL5, E-PM2, and introduces the XZ-2

Olympus joins its camera comrades and introduces some notable refreshes to its point-and-shoot and PEN families.
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Is the Galaxy Camera a true all-in-one device?

The Samsung Galaxy Camera is a hybrid to the Nth degree - but can it really do all things?
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How does the chaos of Craigslist love endure in an eHarmony world?

In an Internet increasingly full of sophisticated platforms for finding romance online, the world's least user intuitive network continues to thrive.
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Say hello to the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and the ThinkPad T430u

Lenovo unveils its first Windows 8 tablets and two new, variably priced ultrabooks.

Hold that hashtag: Twitter did not just launch its own payment feature

Twitter and Amex have partnered to enable an e-commerce feature - and that's just what it is, a feature, not a platform.

The cream of the 500 Startups Demo Day crop

The fifth 500 Startups accelerator batch took to the stage during yesterday's Demo Day.
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The 5 scene stealers from Stanford accelerator StartX’s Demo Day

The Stanford-based StartX accelerator introduced us to a handful of startups during its 2013 Demo Day event.
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BangWithFriends is tacky, tawdry, and gross … but does it work?

BangWithFriends took the Internet by storm last week and has left us all wondering - is this thing for real?

Vine steals some of Instagram’s spotlight at New York Fashion Week

Instagram was once the darling of Fashion Week, but the new GIF-like Vine is falling in with the stylish event.

Stublisher, a platform for collecting and reliving your social life, opens to the public

Stublisher has exited private beta and launched to the public, complete with a new design.