Can Facebook Promote World Peace?
So congratulations to Facebook. Peace on Facebook is a great start. But world peace it ain't (yet). Let's think ambitiously for a minute -- how could Facebook do more to promote world peace?
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A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
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I know Facebook is just a social venue - but it's also our obsession. And if Facebook is our main source of representation, shouldn't it be taken seriously?
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There's more to Filipinos than a man who can throw punches in a ring, of course, but Manny Pacquaio's success, in ways big and small, has unified and validated a sizable minority group from a country that, with 92 million people, is the 12th most populous in the world, just one spot under Mexico.
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A Million XBox Live Users Could Be Banned From the Service : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 12, 2009
Microsoft may ban as many as one million XBox Live users for modifying their consoles or playing illegal games. The company believes that between 6...
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After reading Moneyball, I saw parallels between what the A's were doing in baseball and what we had done in the casinos -- this was my big chance to work in sports.
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"We Got Your Back" -- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
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You can see authors smiling on our websites, taking questions on our publisher's web page, chatting on Facebook. And now the author video.
When an Entrepreneur Becomes a CEO
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