Image: Flickr With the updates Facebook revealed today, it’s clear that the company’s aim is to have you share more. Today on the SAIcast, Nicholas Carlson, SAI writer Ellis Hamburger and Media Editor Glynnis McNichol discuss, and sometimes argue about, whether this is something to be met with scrutiny or admiration. Download this episode...

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For me, the biggest news from Facebook’s f8 event today isn’t social music, the partnerships or even the new Timeline feature – it’s the livestream. This was no live feed of a CEO-fronted press conference as many tech companies have done before, this was a show with TV-level production values. Before the event even...

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Facebook’s Timeline, a re-imagined profile page that captures the history of a user, was the most visually stunning announcement today at the f8 conference. But the new initiative is more than just a design flourish. It’s a bigger push by Facebook to mine the opportunity in the past, giving people a lasting resource and...

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Just as Google pays content creators a percentage of the advertising revenue on YouTube, the recent changes on Facebook encourage us to share more data and the introduction of the ‘Subscribe’ button means we can share our content and make it public like a blog. What the Subscribe button means is that we are...

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In a new infographic released by Simply Measured, a tool that aggregates social media data with “beautiful reports in Excel”, 7,484 Tweets with “F8″ were shot into the web in the five minute period after Timeline was first announced. “Timeline” and “Zuckerberg” appear to be the main keywords of interest, which makes sense when...

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StumbleUpon is sure to have some pretty disappointed users come the end of next month thanks to its decision to shut down some features of the service. The company says it’s shutting down groups, photo and HTML blogging, and the ability to select themes, all of which are going away as of Oct. 24....

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