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Instagram Accounts Make This Man Look Psychic [VIDEO]
19 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In this week’s installment of “Well, What Did You Expect?” we profile a man named Jack Vale, who people are calling a ‘psychic’ .
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The New Justin Bieber-Backed App Has Launched – Get It Here If You Care
14 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well that’s it – the final nail in the coffin. Thanks to Justin Bieber’s new ‘selfie app’, the selfie has become a fully fledged art form. Let us join each other in putting brown paper bags over our heads, and wait for it to be over.
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This Is Where Teenagers Are Going To Get Away From Their Parents On Facebook [PIC]
13 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They surveyed teens in 30 countries. After extensive research, they were able to show that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. And for sites like Facebook, a drop of 20% means millions, billions even. So, where are they going instead?
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Pro Afrikaans Action Group Loses Google Advertising
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Afrikaans e-news website, the Pro Afrikaans Action Group (Praag), has been put under severe pressure, after Google has pulled the plug on all of its advertising. The site had been generating thousands of rands, but without it’s advertsing revenue it maybe forced to shut down.
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This Is What The New Facebook Like Button Looks Like
08 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This isn’t what we wanted, is it? Instead of making a dislike button, or a middle-finger button, Facebook have decided to fix something that wasn’t broken. They seem to like doing that.
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This Is The Social Network Justin Bieber Just Invested $1.1 Million In
07 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Justin Bieber may sing well enough to capture the hearts and minds of millions of teens, but we wouldn’t trust him to make sound business deals. He’s reportedly led an R11 million round of funding for RockLive – a San Francisco tech company that plans to launch a new social network this week.
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Facebook Will Be Tracking Your Cursor Movements On The Screen
31 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It seems like the more we worry about being monitored – the more we’re being monitored, especially on social media. If you want to use it – expect them to know everything. Facebook in particular is going the extra mile to monitor our precise activities on their platform. Sources say that they may be considering gathering data from even our most minute mouse-movements.
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The Girafe Profile Pic Trend On Facebook – Let’s Have That Chat [VIDEO]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Okay – these various trivial forms of procrastination are hard to keep up with. First it’s the bitstrips, then its awkward profile pic week and now – out of the blue – everyone seems to be changing their profile photos to pictures of giraffes. This may not have reached everyone just yet, but rest assured this is out there, and people are going nuts for it.
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Please Enjoy This ‘Social Media Professional’ Halloween Costume [PIC]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To all of the social media managers out there, were sorry about this. We know your job is important and, without it, your companies “daily impressions to viral reach” ratio would be completely off. But you’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes, right? Please enjoy this hilarious picture of a new idea for a Halloween costume – it’s pretty scary.
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Google, Facebook And Microsoft Say Goodbye To Cookies
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“This website uses cookies – please press continue if you would like to proceed”. With any luck, this banner will soon be forgotten by the human race. Some of the biggest sites in the game are finding ways around using cookies – the little bitty pieces of code that marketers deploy to people’s browsers to track their online movements.
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Street Prostitutes’ Clients From Umhlanga To Be Named And Shamed On Facebook
29 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Yoh – residents of the suburb of Glenwood in Durban are getting angry. They’re so fed up with the prostitutes that stand on their streets, they’re going the extra yard to identify their clients, name them on Facebook, thereby disrupting business as usual. The concerned residents wrote to the local community paper to announce that they would set up “surveillance cameras and a registration service on Facebook for free”.
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Unbelievable: Journo Challenges Hackers To Hack Him, With Shocking Results
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In lieu of the Edward Snowden inspired paranoia about online privacy, Adam Penenberg, a journalist for Pando Daily, challenged a hacker to try to get as much information about him as possible, simply by using a PC. The man he challenged, Nick Percoco, considers himself a “white hat hacker” and has been breaking into companies (at their request) for some years now. The journalist in question had no idea what he was in for.
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Instagram Ads Will Look Like This In Your Feed [PICS]
25 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Slowly, surely and inevitably, our social media spaces are becoming commercialised. We all knew it was coming – it’s just a matter of coming to terms with it, getting used to the new layout and trying to make the best of it. This time, it’s Instagram’s turn to start earning some cold hard cash.
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Does Social Media Translate Into Cash For South African Companies? [INFOGRAPHIC]
24 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cerebra, a brand-focused South African strategic communication agency, recently did a massive survey of how the best African companies utilise social media. Ever since the advent of sites like Facebook and Twitter, everyone wanted to know how these sites could work in business, and whether more followers really does mean more money.
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Facebook Freaked Out Because This Guy’s App Lets You Control How Much Time You Spend On The Social Network
23 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook’s suits are losing their minds over a small app developer in the States who developed a service with a unique selling point of limiting a user’s time on the social network. Break Your Facebook is a self-help tool of sorts, which aides in weaning otherwise-busy GenY-yuppies from social media addiction, freeing up time for work or, you know, real life.
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Here Is The R1,2 Billion Town Facebook Is Building For Its Staff [GALLERY]
04 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Facebook is partnering with San Francisco development firm St. Anton Partners to build a 394-unit housing complex, most of which will be filled with Facebook employees. The development – called Anton Menlo – will sprawl over 10 acres of land in Menlo Park, California. The 630,000 square-foot Facebook town will be walking and biking distance to […]
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Former London Deputy Mayor Posts Naked Pics To Facebook [PHOTOS]
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Pictures of an old man with his wang out have appeared on 65-year-old Richard Barnes’ Facebook account. Openly gay Mr. Barnes was deputy mayor to Boris Johnson between 2008 and 2012. He insists his Facebook account was hacked and he didn’t upload the pictures, but there is speculation that the pictures could have been uploaded automatically using an iPhone Facebook app.
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PRECEDENT: Local Women To Pay 40 Grand For Facebook Defamation
05 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Pretoria High Court has ruled that a woman must pay R40,000 to her husband’s ex-wife for posting insults on Facebook. Her husband was also included in the law suit because he was tagged in the post and didn’t do anything to stop the insults.
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Facebook Page Spamming Is A R2 Billion Business
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Italian researchers, who made us aware of the fake Twitter follower business a few months ago, have revealed that Facebook Page spamming has become a R2 billion business. Yes, R2 billion. The researchers spent two days scouring underground spam forums, yes they exist. They found 30,000 Facebook Pages on the forum, and checked for words like “click here,” “wow,” “free,” and “join,” followed by links.
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Probably Not Wise: Assad’s Son Dares America To Attack In Facebook Post
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things are tense between Syria and America right now. That may be the under statement of the century, but what isn’t making it any better is the dare the Syrian president’s 11-year-old son posted on Facebook, daring America to attack.
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Did Facebook Use Your Image In An Ad? They’re Paying Out R200 Million – Join The Queue
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is paying out $20 million (R208,899,974) in damages to users who had their personal details used in ads on the site. Even though the details of 150 million Facebook users were used in sponsored stories, only the 614,000 who responded to an email earlier this year will be getting compensation. In a settlement reached […]
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Facebook’s Oldest User Just Got Given A New Car From A Mystery Donor
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The oldest user on Facebook is 105-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier. Look at her – 105 and happy, and on Facebook, and still driving! She’s not only Facebook’s oldest user but California’s oldest driver too. She learned to drive when she was 19 in a Ford Model T. Now here’s something that will restore your faith in […]
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The State Of Social Media In 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]
27 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’re well passed the heady days of excitement, when we marvelled at the power of this “social media” thing. Yes, that was 2012. It’s 2013, and we’re all about the cold, hard data now.
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Zuckerberg Launches Internet.Org To Get The Whole World Online [VIDEO]
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A few months ago Google said they will be working towards providing internet connectivity to parts of the world that don’t have it via WiFi-broadcasting balloons. The project bears the appropriate moniker, ‘Project Loon’. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that together with Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Samsung and Qualcomm, they will be founding Internet.org. This project […]
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Instagram Fans, Brace Yourself – It’s About To Go The Way Of Facebook
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
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First Look Inside Facebook’s New York City Office Space [PICS]
14 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Social media giant, Facebook announced their plans earlier this year to move their offices to the Big Apple. Their headquarters relocation will be refreshing change for staff from their current location in Bank Of America Tower, especially as Frank Gehry will be designing the space.
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Bad Idea: Man Kills Wife – Puts Photo On Facebook [PICS]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Derek Medina shot and killed his wife Jennifer Alfonso, apparently because Alfonso had told her husband she was leaving him. The crazy part? Medina posted a Facebook statement confessing to the murder, as well as posting a picture of his dead wife.
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Radvertising: MINI Develops Car That Plays Videos On Its Body [VIDEOS]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Introducing ‘MINI Art Beat’ as part of MINI’s ‘Not Normal’ campaign. With over 40,000 LED lights attached to the body of the car, the Countryman has become the car that plays videos.
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70% Of The World’s Biggest CEOs Are Not On Social Media
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Aa new study by Domo and CEO.com determining Fortune 500 CEO’s presence on social media platforms; LinkeIn, Google+, Twitter and Facebook has released these results.
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No Phubbing: Australian Group Campaigns To Stop People Checking Phones During Conversation
06 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There is nothing worse than feeling like the third wheel, especially when your friend’s mobile gets more attention than you. A new term has been coined for the antisocial behaviour, “phubbing” . Phubbing is the act of “subbing others in a social setting by checking your phone”.
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