StraightUpSocial News Links for 2/11/2009

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Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook ‘copycat’ settlement

Eric Eldon at VentureBeat discusses Facebook’s recently reported $65 million payoff to Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who have been hounding Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for their share of the social network’s success.

Introducing Google’s new Social Web Blog

Mendel Chuang introduces Google’s new Social Web Blog, which was launched, “for anyone interested or involved in helping to make the web more social.”

Oodle Shows Decent Growth, Adds $5.6 Million More To Its War Chest

Robin Wauters at TechCrunch shares news of Oodle, a classified ad aggregator, that Facebook has selected to run the social networks classifieds application.

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