Facebook may soon understand not only what we do on the social network, but what we mean. In short, what we tell Facebook is no longer enough. The social network now wants to read between the lines. It’s a critical difference that could have Facebook’s members — and advertisers — using the site in entirely new ways.
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Peter Mehit is co-founder and Managing Partner of Custom Business Planning and Solutions, a business consulting firm that provides problem solving, planning and process help. He has worked from private equity to the Fortune 100 at all stages.
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Weekly Economic Update | LADEC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- China’s GDP Growth in 2013 Matches 2012 Figure of 7.7%
- California’s Home Sales and Median Prices
- U.S. Retail Sales in December
- Events of Interest
- January 26-28, 2014: Verde Exchange 2014: The Maturing Business of Sustainability
- February 6, 2014: Otis Report on the Creative Economy
- February 19, 2014: 2014-2015 LAEDC Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook
Can You Guess Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths? – iVillage
We’re all a teensy bit mad, but how many true psychopaths do we have among us? Apparently, more than you think.
The 20 Most Popular Passwords Stolen From Adobe
Everything You Know About Black Friday Is Wrong : The New Yorker
On those Fridays after Thanksgiving, the late Joseph P. Barrett, a longtime reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin, recalled, even members of the police band were called upon to direct traffic. The cops nicknamed the day of gridlock Black Friday, and soon others started to do the same.
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
New York Fed Chief Levels Explosive Charge Against Big Banks | Huffington Post
“There is evidence of deep-seated cultural and ethical failures at many large financial institutions,” he continued. “Whether this is due to size and complexity, bad incentives, or some other issues is difficult to judge, but it is another critical problem that needs to be addressed.”
via New York Fed Chief Levels Explosive Charge Against Big Banks.
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- U.S. Retail Sales in September
- August S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
- Events of Interest
- November 13, 2013: Real Estate Voices: The Past, Present and Future of the Real Estate Industry
- November 14, 2013: LAEDC 18th Annual Eddy Awards
World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks | Information Is Beautiful
Check out an infographic that puts all of the data breaches of the last few years in visual terms
Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Heres What It Takes | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
“Every time you upload a photograph to Facebook or put one on Twitter for that matter you are now ratting out anybody in that frame to any police agency in the world that’s looking for them,” digital privacy advocate Eben Moglen told BetaBeat last year during a rant against one of its reporters. “Some police agencies in the world are evil. That’s a pretty serious thing you’ve just done.”
Dispatches From The Front 