Facebook and PayPal announce a deal: is it to boost international business?

Well, it’s probably less important than the Facebook news and opinions I wrote about earlier today, but it’s news!

Facebook and PayPal will soon work together to offer an online payment solution for both virtual goods and ads on the king of social networks (and since January the prince of traffic).

The deal is meant to offer an extra service to both Facebook users and marketers.

For marketers, it means they will be able to pay for their ‘social advertising’ with eBay’s popular payment system.

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(A whole bunch of) thoughts on the LinkedIn article in the WSJ

As I promised yesterday, I will try to talk more often about LinkedIn on my blog. So here you go. I decided to start with some (well, many) thoughts on the article the Wall Street Journal published on December 30. Brace yourself, it’s a long post.

I noticed that some marketing news sites, including iMedia Connection and MediaPost covered it as well. However, here is my view if you are interested.

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