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With more than 600,000 hacking attempts on Facebook every day, one might be forgiven for asking why we're so willing to share the intimate details of our everyday lives.

Seven (somewhat snarky) new rules for public speaking in the social media era. It was painful to watch. Jon Bond, the former ad giant turned social media honcho, was actually getting heckled at the Pivot Conference

Yahoo is trying to put the focus back on the e-mail, content, advertising and other Web-based services it offers following the company’s unceremonious dumping of former CEO Carol Bartz in September and a growing din of speculation that the company may soon be bought . At a press event Wednesday hosted at its Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, Yahoo touted several recently announced services, most of them relying on a higher degree of personalization to keep visitors within the company’s network of about 100 Web sites. Whether Yahoo’s approach to intensify personalization will stand out amidst similar efforts by other large providers of Web content and services Google , Facebook and Apple, to name just a few remains to be seen

Each candidate has his or her own strategy; some work, others fail. Here's what you can learn from the social media accounts of the 2012 presidential candidates.

It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app

It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app

It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app.

With Halloween around the corner, parents are fretting over what all that candy will do to their little goblins. Well, it might just make them sweeter

84% of Realtors are currently using social media. Century 21 is leveraging Facebook to turn those conversations into sales

Stop rushing it with customers over social media; play the long-game, and earn life-long customers and fans, says the founder of WineLibrary.com.

It is no secret the online deal space has exploded over the past few years. Companies like Groupon, LivingSocial, and Bloomspot have seen incredible growth and for good reason: The online small business revolution is upon us. Offering discounts on goods and services is nothing new, but having location data and intent is a holy grail

Forget poking on Facebook or IMing people, shaking a hand or putting an arm on someone else's shoulder is where social interaction really begins. In Japan, this need for touch has extended to a focus on pets, including cafes for petting cats

Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple Posts Quarterly Revenue of $28.27 Billion . Riding record Mac and iPad sales, Apple reported $6.62 billion of net quarterly profit, up from $4.31 billion the same quarter last year.

When it comes to consumer insights, the rise of the social web has been both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because companies now have an unlimited amount of data about their customers at their fingertips; a curse because they have to figure out a way to sift through all of that data to figure out what’s meaningful and what isn’t.