(Credit: Google Street View Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) As so many struggle with the ins and outs of advertising cars on Facebook, one piece of sublime inspiration from Sweden might show there are other media with more promise. An employee of Fiat near Stockholm, Sweden noticed that Google’s fine Street View drivers were making a sweep of the area. As the Daily Mail reports it , he drove a Fiat 500 and parked it in front of Volkswagen’s HQ in Sodertalje, around 30 miles south of Stockholm. He thought it might make for a fun picture when the Street View car came around. He was right

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The General Motors page on Facebook. (Credit: Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings/CNET) Yesterday, word broke that General Motors ended $10 million in Facebook ad spending after determining the ads didn’t work for it. The timing of the original WSJ story on the subject was spectacular, coming as it did just three days before Facebook’s IPO. Now folks sympathetic to Facebook are firing back at the automaker, saying GM ran a lousy Facebook campaign and ignored the social network’s advice. Which is not terribly surprising when you think about it, since the GM story has ignited a wider debate about the utility of corporate ad spending on Facebook at about the worst moment possible so far as the company and its backers are concerned

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants a federal law banning talking or texting on a cell phone while driving. Yesterday at an event in San Antonio, Texas, he called for tough federal legislation that would deal with what he called a “national epidemic” of distracted driving, according to a Reuters report . LaHood told a group of doctors, government officials, and other advocates for bans on cell phone use while driving that police should have “the opportunity to write tickets when people are foolishly thinking they can drive safely or use a cell phone and text and drive,” Reuters reported. LaHood has been supportive of state laws that ban cell phone use while driving, but he has never before called for a federal law prohibiting it.

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