Facebook’s Whopper of a Sacrifice, Polygamous Secrets, GOOG Slims Down

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– Facebook shuts down Burger King’s “Whopper Sacrifice” app, which offers users free Whoppers after they de-friend 10 people. The data-sharing giant treated the app as a privacy breach.

– Google shafts 100. Dodgeball will be no more; Google Video will cease taking uploads in a few months’ time.

– Paris-based Havas is splitting CEO duties between COO Gabriel Saenz de Buruaga of Madrid, and CSO Anthony Rhind of London.

– How advertising works.

– Got a secret, but can’t be bothered to make a postcard? Contribute to Big Love’s web of secrets. Note that each secret you enter endorses polygamy. Kidding. Maybe.

– Get a load of Obama’s beast.

– Oh nooooes, renting a movie is just too hard for some.

– The Social Path lists emerging careers of 2009.

– MTLB’s gas-related wisdom.

– Eyewear for the poor.

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