Archive for December, 2010
Monday, December 13th, 2010
MySpace introduced what it's referring to as "MySpace Hijacks" today. This is where curation of featured content on the site is taken over by celebrities, as if they had "hijacked" the site to bombard you with stuff they like.
"On the heels of the newly redesigned Myspace, Hijacks is one ...
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
A former New York City emergency medical technician has pleaded guilty to misconduct charges, admitting he posted a mobile phone photograph of a corpse taken at a crime scene on Facebook.
Mark Musarella also pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct last week.
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is among 17 US billionaires taking the pledge to donate the majority of their wealth to charity, organisers of the effort said.
The project launched this year by the two richest Americans, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, said a total of 57 individuals or families had now ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
The handsome Ivy League twins who accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for Facebook have reignited their legal stoush with the billionaire.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss - dubbed 'The Winklevii' in the recent film The Social Network - claim their $66 million settlement with Zuckerberg is not enough because he ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
From the angry to the desperate, Australians took to Twitter to vent following the nation's humiliating Ashes defeat in Adelaide today.
Many want a clean-out of poorly performing players (including captain Ricky Ponting), while others long for the return of legends including Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne.
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
“We’ve been clear that MySpace is a problem.”
“The current losses are not acceptable or sustainable.”
They must show improvement in “in quarters, not in years.”
News Corp. president Chase Carey spoke to investors earlier this week and everyone is talking about it. He made it clear that the 70 million drop in ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
International drug syndicates are using social networking site Facebook to recruit young Malaysian women as "drug mules", the deputy foreign minister said Thursday.
The government has previously sounded the alarm over the number of Malaysian women becoming caught up in drug trafficking, many of them drawn into the trade by smooth-talking ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Lars Rasmussen, the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps has spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched allegiances to Facebook.
"It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company," ...
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