Archive for March, 2011
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
It has instigated possibly the greatest social revolution of a generation: political uprisings have been changed by it, movies have been made about it, anthropologists now study it.
And yet Rosemarie Costi, 18, wants nothing to do with it.
''I have a little confession to make,'' the school captain of Monte Sant' ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
A NSW teen says she has called in the police after her Facebook birthday party invite went viral with more than 175,000 people threatening to show up.
The 15-year-old's home and mobile phones have been bombarded with calls and text messages from strangers because she had put her mobile number on ...
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
No sooner had English IT worker Emma Button kvetched on Twitter that she had accidentally put ground rice in the sugar pot, she received a reply from a British Interflora branch.
''Sorry to hear you're feeling ill - would some surprise flowers make up for the sugar incident,'' it read.
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
It might be a minor tweak but when Facebook does anything these days it is worth noting. Its sheer size and growing influence on the marketing and the media sector means that when it sneezes the rest of us catch cold.
Take the very recent changes to the Like button that ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Facebook started simply as a way to help its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, meet girls at university. This week a Russian investment bank valued the popular social networking site at more than Barclays Bank, the Tesco supermarket chain or the Anglo American mining company.
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Two British schoolboys have been jailed for up to five years for running a $26 million Facebook-style website for criminals dubbed "Crimebook".
Nick Webber, 19, and Ryan Thomas, 18, were found guilty of starting up and operating the online forum GhostMarket.net, where up to 8000 members exchanged details about thousands of ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
Courtney Love's settlement of a case sparked by online attacks on a fashion designer show that while Twitter posts may be short, they can also be costly.
The singer has agreed to pay Dawn Simorangkir $US430,000 ($424,565), plus interest, to settle a lawsuit the designer filed in March 2009 over comments ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Retailers face a new threat to their bricks and mortar business: Facebook. And more companies are turning to the social networking site as a driver of e-commerce.
The network effect of broadcasting to your friends what you are buying could deliver yet another blow to mainstream retailers, who have been caught ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
An angry red dot flashes at the top of your computer screen. As your mouse creeps over it, a message appears: ''Twitter use has exceeded the department average of 58.6 minutes per day - please self-regulate.''
A quick click and a display appears mapping your internet use, including a graph devoted ...
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