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When you first land on Red Bull's Facebook page, this is what you see: Naturally, Facebook's "Like" button is at the top of all these arrows. My guess is most people do what I did and click "Like." Note: after you "Like" this page and become a "fan" of Red Bull, you don't see this appeal any longer. …

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I'm appearing on Bob Knorpp's weekly radio show, The BeanCast, tonight along with Bill Green, Åsk Wäppling and George Parker. We will be talking about Facebook, among other things. It's a topic that can not be avoided today. Even The New York Times can't leave it alone. Yesterday in "Week in Review" the paper framed Facebook's week like this: It was a typically vexing week for Facebook. On the one hand, the …

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The Social Network is a new feature film from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher. It's due in theaters in October. The music bed in this trailer is Radiohead's "Creep," which helps bring home some of the drama I expect to see in this film. What drama? I think going from a Harvard student to a billionaire in no time at all, comes with some drama. Don't you? …

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In breaking in-game advertising news, Cascadian Farm, which started selling organic crops grown in the Upper Skagit Valley in Washington State nearly 40 years ago, has teamed with FarmVille, the incredibly popular virtual farming game inside of Facebook. According to The New York Times: FarmVille will, for the first time, offer its pretend farmers a specific food brand. Players will be able to plant an organic …

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