Facebook has caught up with Google for traffic. Is this a sign of the impending tech singularity? Notice that Google hasn’t dropped, but that Facebook just arrived at the same level? I truly believe this to be empirical evidence of the shift in how mankind is consuming media in a new and totally different way. No wonder traditional media channels are suffering such huge losses…

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Jesse Hirsh on CBC News Today discussing the facebook phenomenon with host Nancy Wilson. Facebook places the surveillance society in the hands of the average user.

Facebook has agreed to make some major changes to its privacy practices in the wake of an investigation by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking website, Facebook.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage again at Web 2.0, talking about Facebook Connect, the newest developments in social networking, monetizing social networking and the future of Facebook.

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington asks YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg what their respective companies may look like five years from now.

More adults are logging onto Facebook, a social networking Web site that in the past was typically reserved for a much younger generation.

http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news

Its okay to let sites like Twitter and FaceBook point to trends in breaking news, but it still takes good, old-fashioned journalistic fact-checking with trusted sources to write it right.