Director Spike Lee issued an apology last night to a Florida couple who fled their home after he retweeted a message that erroneously listed their address as belonging to George Zimmerman. “I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address,” Lee tweeted. “It Was A Mistake. Please Leave The McClain’s In Peace. Justice [...]
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A Polish vodka company is in hot water after sending out an ad via social media that features a rape joke as its primary message. The company’s nearly 1 million fans on Facebook and Twitter were not amused. On Friday, Belvedere Vodka tweeted and posted to Facebook an ad showing a smiling man grabbing a [...]
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Facebook has jumped into the debate over whether employers should be allowed to ask potential employees for their login credentials to the world’s most popular social network. Many rattled interviewees have come forward recently to report that employers have asked for their Facebook passwords during job interviews, sparking debates over privacy and just how much [...]
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Rick Santorum, one of the four remaining GOP presidential hopefuls, has a new internet problem to worry about. It seems he’s been hit with a Klout bomb. Klout measurement tool designed to gauge a social media user’s influence when it comes to various topics. Users with lots of Klout can give more Klout, or “+K”, [...]
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The Marine sergeant who began a Facebook group criticizing President Barack Obama and stated that he wouldn’t follow any “unlawful orders” from the president is now facing possible dismissal from the Marine Corps. The Marines yesterday informed Sgt. Gary Stein – a Marine out of Camp Pendleton who started the Facebook page “Armed Forces Tea [...]
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There’s something to be said for persistence. Mike Stone needed a date to his high school prom, but all the girls he asked were already going with someone else. What’s a guy to do? (UPDATE: School officials have blocked the porn star from attending the prom) Well, if you’re 18-year-old Mike, you take to Twitter [...]
It’s good to see that angry ex-employees aren’t just coming from Goldman Sachs. A former Google employee who left the company to go work for Microsoft has blasted his former employer in a new blog post. James Whittaker slammed Google yesterday for stifling employee creativity and focusing too much on the bottom line. “My last [...]
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Yahoo sued Facebook today over alleged infringement upon 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the internet, according to a copy of the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks the first major legal battle among tech giants in social media and a major escalation of patent [...]
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Over 66 percent of all adult internet users are connected to one or more social media platforms. Use of these platforms and tools has been increasing steadily over the last 10 years, for both personal and business reasons. Take a look at some of the statistics behind some of the world’s most popular social networks. [...]
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Pinterest has grown like gangbusters this year, and sorry guys…it’s not for you. With women dominating the populous at almost 70 percent of registered users, the content is mostly made up of clothes, food, and motivational typography. For now, Pinterest is growing extremely quickly without much help from the male demographic. That’s nothing new, though…women [...]
A Camp Pendleton Marine is raising eyebrows after stating on Facebook that he won’t obey “unlawful orders” from President Barack Obama. (UPDATE: Stein is now facing dismissal from the Marines) Sgt. Gary Stein, 26, a vocal critic of President Obama, first made headlines back in 2010 when he launched his “Armed Forces Tea Party” Facebook [...]
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Facebook is increasingly being used in both legal and criminal investigations. Individuals and law enforcement officials are realizing they can reach a mass audience with lots of personal information in a public space. So what crimes are committed on Facebook and how is the world’s most popular social network being used to solve them as [...]
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