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Facebook Ad Platform

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That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That, of course, can spread virally.

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What OpenSocial Means

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OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. Be Helpful.

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What is private? What is public?

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It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 2 admin 06.11.08 Be Helpful.

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