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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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This Is How To Take The Perfect Instagram [INFOGRAPHIC]
29 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook that were developed alongside the smartphone have birthed a new creative class – the phone-tographers. Some phone photography enthusiasts are good, composing neat shots of their family, their pets and their holidays. Some of them, however, should never have been handed anything capable of taking photos. If you fall into the latter group of individuals, you’ll be happy to know that we have a little how-to guide in the form of an infographic called ‘Phone-Tography 101’
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This Bra Sends Out A Tweet Every Time You Unhook It [VIDEO]
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This piece of hosiery is equipped with BlueTooth, so every time there’s an unclasping of the clips, the bra communicates wirelessly to your Twitter account, triggering a tweet that reminds women to go for a medical examination. By extension, everyone will know that you have your bra off.
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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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YouTube Is Launching A Music Subscription Service – Read About It Here
24 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This just in. Rumours are abound that YouTube is planning on starting an on-demand music service that works kinda like Spotify – but with music videos. In a bid to keep up with the times, they’re pitching the new service to mobile users specifically. What’s more, they’re going to offer the service in two forms – a free service, and a premium one.
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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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This Is How People Are Using Instagram To Sell Guns
23 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Woah! Instagram just got serious. No more selfies. No more sunsets – we’re talking guns baby. Instagram has made no official rule outlawing the sale of guns on their platform, so guy buyers or sellers can just scroll away on their smartphones, and they might as well be in Steve Hofmeyr’s basement.
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They’ve Found A Whole Bunch Of Weird Poetry Written By Jack Dorsey
15 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The name “Jack Dorsey” ring a bell? Nope? Well, if haven’t happened to come across his name in the media, you should know that this guy is soon to be named the chairman of a publicly-traded Twitter. And what’s more, we happened top find a whole lot of his old poetry, from his days as a rebellious back-alley hacker. The following is not suitable for those scared of bad poetry.
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A Timeline Of The Rift Between Twitter’s Founders
07 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Twitter prepares to go public, founders Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass are pulling together to drive their future share price higher, despite suffering multiple messy divorces over the course of the last seven years.
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An Open Letter To Social Media Managers – In The Voice Of Sinead O’Connor
04 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“I wasn’t going to write this letter, but today i’ve been dodging phone calls from various industry blogs who wished me to remark upon your having said your career was designed to be similar to mine … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of fatherliness and with love.”
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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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Obviously Miley Cyrus Responded To Sinead O’Connor – So Sinead Wrote Another Open Letter
04 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
Miley, being the embryo that she is, replied to Sinead’s slightly unhinged but nevertheless relavent open letter by posting a screenshot of tweets posted by O’Connor over two years ago, in which she pleads for medication in order to avoid a mental breakdown. Miley went to compare O’Connor to Amanda Bynes, who recently suffered a public mental unravelling. So, naturally Sinead wrote another open letter to Miley on her Facebook page.
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Spanish Actor Promises A Naked Pic On Millionth Twitter Followers – Delivers [PIC]
03 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Paco Leon – heard of him? Yeah, me neither. Until now. The Spanish actor promised the twitterverse a nude pic if he reached a million followers and lo and behold, he delivered.
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Enjoy This Locally-Produced Doccie On Johannesburg’s Instagrammers [VIDEO]
02 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
At just over five minutes in length, ‘Take Us To Jozi’ is a short documentary about a handful of Johannesburg Instagramers, and their take on the culture of Instagram in South Africa. The documentary features the likes of @roywrench, @unclescrooch, and @garethpon, who made the documentary.
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Twitter: The Modern Day Gangland
30 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter is the modern day gangland. The social media network is being used by gang members and criminals to boast, recruit new members and promote their gangs all in 140 characters or less.The most recent and shocking use of Twitter by a group of criminals happened last week when the terrorist group, al-Shabaab live tweeted about their take over of Westgate Mall in Kenya.
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Girl Publicly Humiliates Guy Who Broke Up Via SMS
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
Have you ever broken up with someone via SMS? Shame on you. If you have, you can count yourself lucky you didn’t do it 26-year-old Quin Woodward Pu, or this might’ve happened to you.
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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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Adam Levine And Lady Gaga Had A Twitter Spat – See Here
25 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Lady Gaga recently released her ‘Applause’ music video, in which she references a number of famous works of art, including the 1957 film ‘The Seventh Seal’ and Sandro Botticelli’s 1486 painting, ‘The Birth of Venus.’ So, obviously the Maroon 5 lead singer called her an “art teacher”, instead of an artist. Adam Levine tweeted thus: And […]
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Bill Gates And Bill Clinton Pose For This Selfie [PHOTO]
25 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two Bills, one selfie. The legendary ex-US President, Bill Clinton, and equally legendary co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, posed for a legend….wait for it…..dary selfie at the Clinton Global Initiative this week.
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This Is Why Internet Fame Is A Dangerous Thing [VIDEO]
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The path to fame in the age of the internet can be dizzyingly short. Obi Nwosu planned to get there by jumping over a car. Instead he got hit by said car, and got famous anyway.
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Attention All Foodies: These Are The Instagram Accounts You Should Be Following
18 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
If you haven’t had lunch yet, don’t read this. It will make you hungry and envious of the people who get to eat the food featured on all of these deliciously delectable looking Instagram accounts. Check out these divine looking pictures of food, and find out how you can follow these photographers on Instagram!
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A Short History Of Cell Phone Text Messaging [INFOGRAPHIC]
11 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you have fingers and a phone, you have sent a text message. And you’ve probably been caught once or twice using one of these fine abbreviations: BTW, BRB, LOL, BFF or GR8. So have you ever wondered how texting started and how it has evolved over the years? We have, and we have an infographic which will answer burning questions like, “What was the first text message ever sent?”
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Here It Comes: Instagram’s Plan To Sell Advertising
10 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The new Chief Operating Officer of Instagram is Emily White and surprise, surprise, she worked for Google – before moving on to Facebook, before moving on to Facebook’s new acquisition, Instagram. Here’s her plan to sell advertising within the next year.
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Canadian Prime Minister Says He Wishes He Could ‘Twerk’ More Often — Thinks It Means Tweet
09 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed 400 Ontario non-profit group volunteers while speaking about the importance of social media, he revealed the importance of twerking, but he meant to say tweeting. He said: […] A quick twerk is a great way to express what I’m thinking As the surprised crowd went silent, the Prime Minister […]
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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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WATCH: Guy Captures His Breakup On Vine [Video]
04 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s how not to deal with a crazy girlfriend: Film the two of you fighting and post it to Vine.
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