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These Are The Best Brazil Vs Germany Memes
09 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The interweb community has already delivered a bunch of memes after Brazil’s shocking 7-1 loss to Germany in last night’s World Cup semi-final. Here are some of the best.
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Robin Thicke’s Social Media Experiment Bombed Spectacularly
03 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke social media campaign backfired, leaving him open the some ridiculing from the Twitterverse.
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Forget The Rich Kids Of Instagram – Check Out The Rich Kids Of Snapchat!
02 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Prepare to cringe at the ridiculous level of materialism flaunted by a teen who has launched a new SnapChat account to show off his wealth.
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End Of The World? Chaos As Facebook Crashes Globally
19 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook suffers a global outage that sends the social media stratosphere into hysterics, as people from South Africa, France, Belgium and Germany join in to deliver some Facebook hate.
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You’ve Heard About The ‘Leg Gun’ Selfie Craze, Right? Check It Out
18 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How do you fight a war? With leg-gun selfies, of course! Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has started a new trend to help raise awareness for crimes of terror in his home country.
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You’ll Wish You Had This As Your Wedding Backdrop [Gallery]
11 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An Oregon couple’s wedding gets interrupted by a freak-fire, but that didn’t stop them, and they ended up capturing some of the best wedding photos ever.
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Do You Work In Social Media? Here’s Your Ultimate Cheat Sheet [Infographic]
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Struggling to handle the different social media demands? Here is the ultimate cheat-sheet to become a guru at Facebook, Twitter and all the other big players in the social sphere.
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It’s Official: WeChat Is The Fastest Growing Instant Message App In The World [INFOGRAPHIC]
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WeChat has seen significant growth in the past 12 months, going up against the likes of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, putting the Chinese-based instant messenger on the map.
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Here Is The Afrikaans Version Of Twitter, Called Toeter
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s first Afrikaans social network launches, and it’s a weird mash-up of Facebook’s news features and Twitter’s posting options.
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Tumblr Page Documents Violence On Women, Following Elliot Rodger Massacre
29 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Women raise their voices following the misogynistic manifesto by Elliot Rodger.
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How To Cheat Instagram And Nearly Get Away With It – A South African Expose
28 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 59 Comments
Instagram, home of sunset shots, hashtags and puddlegrams, has a dark underbelly creating waves through the local Instagram community. The centre of all the fuss is a man, a bot, his many accounts and all the tens of thousands of followers his bot has fetched.
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Is Twitter Gaming The New Thing?
22 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cartoon creator may have just changed the way you look at Twitter…
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Gardens Centre In Cape Town – Let’s Have That Chat
19 May 2014 by Seth Rotherham / 15 Comments
Twice now I’ve gone to Gardens Centre with a very specific list of things I need – a trip I would previously have gone to the V&A Waterfront for. Now I realise, what’s the point?
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Local Company Uses Waterkloof Killers To Promote Clothing Range – Internet Freaks Out [PIC]
29 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
A local clothing and apparel company called Dranged (do you think they know they spelled that wrong?) leveraged the awesome power of social media last week to promote their brand. Except that they used a convicted hate crime murderer, and they seemed pretty chuffed about it.
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Guess What You – As A Single User – Are Worth To Facebook
25 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Congrats! You’re worth roughly R22 to Facebook! This chart, created by Statista, breaks down the evolution of the average revenue per Facebook user over the past year.
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Tech Report: This Is How You Twar Before The Election [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
General elections are coming up, and people are going to be picking fights with you on social media, left, right, centre, and fundamentalist. This is how you wage a Twar, and win it.
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This Website Knows Everything About You [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Before we begin, you should know that this whole thing is a marketing campaign for a video game. But that doesn’t mean that the data isn’t real, or that this isn’t scary as hell. The video above is a guy exploring a new website that mines the web for data that you didn’t know was publicly available. It will make you skrik.
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Russia’s Facebook CEO Fired, As Putin Takes Over
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte is now in the hands of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov. Usmanov is a metals tycoon who expanded into tech via his company Mail.ru, and Sechin is the leader of the hardline silovik faction that backs Putin, is CEO of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, and is believed to be one of the Russian president’s closest advisors.
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Facebook Launches Feature To Track Your Nearby Friends
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We said this was coming. Facebook is introducing a feature called “Nearby Friends”, which we guarantee will be used more for the sake of avoiding people you know but don’t like, than actually finding people you want to see.
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You Will Just Love Joe Biden’s First Selfie
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can you remember your first selfie? Was it of you and mates sharing a good time or was it you pulling the dreaded duckface? It might just be a pic of two smiling old people, but we highly doubt your first selfie was as epic as Joe Biden’s.
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Facebook’s Biggest Problem Is Dealing With People Losing Friends
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook started in the college domain, where connecting to and sharing with everyone you met was ideal for any college student who wanted to stay in touch or know what was going on. But this model, which is basically still in use (though modified) is out of sync with the way people make and more importantly retain friends.
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US Airways Tweeted An Extremely Graphic Image Of A Woman [N5FW]
15 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Yesterday, a US Airways customer took to Twitter to engage the airline on some aspect of their experience that they weren’t too chuffed about. This is how the conversation started. And then US Airways tweeted a frigging picture of a woman using a model plane as a sex toy. Yep. We’re saying this for the […]
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Facebook Is Getting Into The Banking Game – This Is Why
15 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been reported that Facebook is close to receiving authorisation to become an “electronic money institution” in Europe. You may be asking why the social media giant is getting into the banking game? Well, for more money of course.
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About Time: You Can Now Watch Instagram Like A TV Channel
15 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can’t get enough of Instagram videos of cats doing funny things, or dogs being adorable and goofy? Instagram video junkies can now fritter their live’s away watching 15-second videos on this app that turns Instagram into a TV.
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This One Tweet Sums Up How Gerrie Nel Has Torn Pistorius’ Defence To Pieces [PIC]
14 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If you’re watching the Oscar Pistorius trial, you’re witnessing the defendant getting himself into knots on the stand. This one tweet captures exactly how badly the morning has gone for Ozzy P.
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New Twitter Design Is Basically A Copy Of Facebook
09 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter recently launched a redesign of its user profile, which will roll out to all users over the next few weeks. But the new profile design is basically a carbon copy of Facebook. Can’t Twitter just stay Twitter.
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You Can Make Free Voice Calls Through Facebook App – This Is How
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
When Facebook splurged a couple of billion on acquiring WhatsApp, many wondered if the social media company’s own messenger platform would fade away in its wake, but the free voice call option is here to state the opposite.
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James Franco’s Message Exchange With Underage Girl Goes Viral [SCREENSHOTS]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you ever wanted the template for how James Franco hooks up with random women, today is the day that you get that template. It goes like this: James meets fan. Fan posts selfie and tags James. James direct messages fan. James asks fan if she’s 18. James asks fan if he should rent a […]
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Social Media Tips For Jobseekers [INFOGRAPHIC]
31 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media allows people to be more connected than ever, but be aware it’s a double-edge sword. Prospective employers might not find your cat photos so adorable. It’s becoming more common for companies to Google candidates, to protect their public image and judge your character.
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Terrifying: Facebook Is Launching A Drone Squadron [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
AND frikkin lasers. No really. I’ve never really trusted Mark Zuckerberg. He’s very pink, and he has inky black eyes that would be unnervingly shiny if they weren’t windows into an infinite chasm of evil. So I’m not surprised that he’s planning to use his multi-billion dollar company to launch a squadron of solar-powered drones, even if he says that he’ll use them to provide internet access to underdeveloped countries.
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