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April 28, 2014
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How Facebook built a world-beating ad business
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New York AG continues probe of Airbnb
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is amping up pressure for Airbnb to hand over records of its hosts, saying that many users of the sharing-economy service are breaking the law. "We're not saying this model should be eliminated completely. But we are saying you can't run illegal hotels," Schneiderman said. New York Post (4/24), Bloomberg (4/24), Mashable (4/26)
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Pinterest users pick furnishings for CB2's bare apartment
Crate & Barrel's home décor brand CB2 has launched a Pinterest contest where users fill a blank New York apartment with goods. Designers will let users pick between different beds, couches and more, with ads showing up on Apartment Therapy and other sites. It represents the first advertising campaign aimed at "driving awareness of the overall CB2 brand," said CB2 Marketing Director Alicia Waters. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/27)
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Instagram explores video ads in another slow-paced test
Instagram is experimenting with sponsored videos from brands including Levi's, Ben and Jerry's, and Burberry, as competition for video business heats up among social media. The Facebook unit, however, is approaching the field carefully. "We work together from the beginning of a campaign -- from the concept phase to production to final edit before a campaign goes live," said Jim Squires, Instagram's director of marketing. Adweek (4/27)
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Twitter tries tweaking sign-ups to boost retention
Twitter is experimenting with new sign-up protocols that mine users' Gmail accounts in order to figure out who they should follow. That could help make the service more accessible and useful to new users, writes Mat Honan. "With one or two exceptions, everyone else in the list of 20 people it spat back was highly relevant to my life," writes Honan. Wired.com (4/28)
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Details emerge about Facebook's mobile ad network
Facebook is expected to announce the launch of its mobile-advertising network, called the Facebook Audience Network, at its f8 conference next week. FAN will rely on the personal information Facebook has on its users to better target ads based on interests. Application developers will be able to integrate FAN code, and advertisers will be able to order custom ad units that fit their apps, according to this report. TechCrunch (4/25)
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How sloths beat their own bathroom habits
Thanks to their incredibly slow metabolism, sloth bears typically carry up to a third of their body weight in undigested food and liquid waste. Such internal pressures would choke most animals who spend so much time upside down, but scientists have discovered that sloths evolved internal supports to carry the weight of their distended bellies more efficiently. "Nothing that sloths do is normal," says researcher Rory Wilson. BBC (4/26)
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Make no mistake about it, Facebook is fast emerging as a global media juggernaut."
-- John Cassidy, writing on The New Yorker's Rational Irrationality blog
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 Andy Sernovitz, Editor at Large
Andy Sernovitz is the New York Times best-selling author of "Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking" and the blog "Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!" He runs WordofMouth.org, where marketers and entrepreneurs learn to be great at word of mouth marketing, and SocialMedia.org, the community for social media leaders at the world's greatest brands.
 
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