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Techmate: Facebook CEO responds to privacy concerns [video]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks to Jon Fortt about how he has tried to simplify the social network's privacy settings and mollify critics.

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Welcome to your new "social" work life.

There is a race going on right now among software companies to become the Facebook for the workplace. Jockeying for position are behemoths like IBM (IBM), giants in-waiting like Saleforce.com (CRM), and a slew of smaller companies including Greenplum, Jive, LinkedIn, and Socialcast among others.

With its recently announced acquisition of CubeTree, you can now add SuccessFactors (SFSF) to the list of contenders, and one likely to move to the front MORE

f8 conference: Scribd's bet on the Facebook effect

The YouTube of publishing shows off its Social Plugins

Scribd CEO Trip Adler is betting on the Facebook effect. His document-sharing startup is one of its launch partners for the company's new Social Plugins, a group of features that will help web publishers take advantage of Facebook's social graph to bring more users to their sites and keep them around longer.

Often dubbed the YouTube of publishing, Scribd lets users self-publish text MORE

Facebook vs. Google: Game On

Facebook's new features are positioning it to organize the Web. Can it best Google?

Can Facebook out-Google Google? The competition is mounting between the Web's two largest destinations as Facebook unleashes a string of new features. Set to debut at Facebook's April 21 developers conference, they may lay the groundwork for reorganizing the Internet according to the relationships between people instead of pages—with massive implications for both search and advertising.

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The death of business cards?

Doing the Bump at SXSW: A new app is trying to send all those little pieces of paper to the recycling bin.

By Caroline Waxler, contributor

One of the first pieces of advice given to anyone who goes to the South by Southwest interactive conference in Austin is bring enough business cards. And don't be surprised when you run out.

Not this year.

At the 2010 conference, exchanging physical cards (remember those little rectangular MORE

Getting punk'd in Russia

A high-tech delegation discovers that sunny Silicon Valley optimism is not the easiest concept to explain to Russians.

By Julia Ioffe, contributor

Ashton Kutcher was not prepared for this. When he arrived with a U.S. State Department technology delegation last week, he expected the screaming teenage girls, the journalists fighting for interviews, heck, he even expected the cold. But sitting with a group of Russian technology executives on Sunday night, the MORE

Techmate: Google Buzz is not buzz-worthy

In the latest episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael discuss why Google Buzz (GOOG) is generating buzz for all the wrong reasons.

The kids are alright

How millennials are altering the IT landscape, mostly for the better.

By Gary Curtis, chief technology strategist, Accenture

For a new generation of employees, information technology is no longer a question ("is this okay with you, boss?") but rather an answer ("that's what it took to get the job done").

As the baby boomers begin to retire over the next decade, millennials – those ages 14 to 27 – will become increasingly prominent MORE

Facebook turns 6!

The social networking site is all grown up.

Facebook celebrates its sixth birthday today. Just one year ago, Fortune put founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the magazine's cover in a story entitled "How Facebook is taking over our lives." The site had 150 million users. Today, that number has more than doubled to 350 million users.

There's no question Facebook has emerged as one of the most significant Internet companies of MORE

Cisco's goal: a real-time YouTube for business

Tony Bates isn't just an online video fanatic when he's on the clock. The Cisco (CSCO) executive also served on the board of YouTube in his spare time, before Google (GOOG) bought it in 2006. When I sat down with Bates in his office recently, the veteran of Cisco's service provider and enterprise units talked about how he ended up advising YouTube and why he believes video is the next MORE