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How to See When Someone Unfriends You on Facebook
31 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ah Facebook, the digital realm where artificial friendships are born and destroyed quicker than tequila’s ability to turn a good night to regret. Everyone’s been there, you’re scrolling through your newsfeed when suddenly you realise that you’re no longer receiving Susan’s pictures of her adorable new puppy, or William’s hilarious updates. You don’t even have to make the effort of checking, you’ve been unfriended. With Mashable’s clever new script you’ll be spared the pain of similar discoveries and find out the moment someone decides to cut the cord.
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Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
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You’ll Be Able To Buy Facebook Shares Soon
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Facebook, the world’s largest social-networking service, could file for its initial public offering as early as Wednesday this week. It’s a move that has been on the cards for some time, but the rumour pot is now starting to boil more consistently.
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Awesome Fundraising Is Awesome
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not even 24 hours ago, a user of the popular user-generated news link website, reddit, asked if readers wouldn’t mind helping out with a donation for an orphanage in Kenya. Humans went over and above what was required, by a long way. This is awesome.
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Facebook Timeline Will Be Compulsory Shortly
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook’s new Timeline feature, that up until now has been an optional switch for its more than 800 million users, will very shortly become compulsory for everyone using the social networking platform. Facebook began the forced switch in some regions yesterday, and will continue to do so in the next few weeks.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down Major Websites
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
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Desmond Tutu Says Johan Kotzé Is No “Monster”
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has today written a letter published in The Star newspaper asking that we no longer refer to Johan Kotzé, the Limpopo rape and murder accused, as “the monster from Modimolle”. He says Kotzé is still one of God’s children “with the capacity to become a saint.”
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Wikipedia Still Accessible, Just Hit ‘Esc’ Key
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wikipedia joined a number of other websites by going offline for 24 hours in an attempt to protest against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. Users see a black screen and a political statement: “Imagine a world without free knowledge,” but if you really need to access the website, just hit the ‘Esc’ key when you land on your desired Wikipedia page.
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Investigation Launched After Lewd Khanyi Mbau Pics Appear On Twitter [NSFW]
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
On Sunday a second set of nude pictures of Khanyi Mbau appeared on Twitter. The Film and Publication Board said yesterday that the police would be asked to help with investigations. They also warned that people who post such pictures on social networks might be held criminally liable. OFFICE WARNING: Nudity may appear after you click.
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Mbeki Questions Twitter’s Social Usefulness, Twitter Flips Out A Little
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Following his opening address for the International Knowledge Conference at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, former president, Thabo Mbeki voiced some concerns about Twitter as “a great conveyor of reliable knowledge,” pointing to Gaddafi’s overthrow as a consequence of “false knowledge,” rather than the social media. Mbeki immediately started trending on Twitter.
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How Much Facebook Is Worth And Other Interesting Facts [INFOGRAPHIC]
13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This year Facebook will go public and start to sell shares on the stock exchange. Thanks to all of us, the social network is now worth $100 billion – more than giants such as Google, Disney, Amazon, and McDonald’s. But who is going to pocket all this money? Check out this infographic, detailing which Facebook friends will be getting pieces of the pie, as well as some other interesting facts:
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New Social Etiquette 101: The Phone Stack
09 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tired of peoples’ phones hogging the dinner table ambience? Here’s a nifty little social exercise fresh out of America that puts a high price on handling your handset at the dinner table. It’s called the phone stack, and here’s how it works.
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Facebook Timeline Used For Israeli Anti-Drug Campaign
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Whether you love it or hate it, Facebook’s new Timeline feature is here to say. Rather than jump on the bandwagon condemning the new feature, an Israeli ad agency used it to send a powerful anti-drug message.
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2011, As Recorded By Twitter
03 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2011 may be remembered as the year that news and social media tied the knot. Check out a great visual recap of the 2011, as seen on Twitter, after the jump.
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Graeme Smith Is Definitely Not Resigning As Proteas Skipper
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite rumours of his resignation as SA’s test cricket captain, which spread like wildfire yesterday in social media channels following the Proteas’ resounding defeat to Sri Lanka, Graeme Smith is not resigning. While a comment on Twitter alluded to him possibly stepping down as skipper, he has confirmed that this “is not the case at all”.
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DJ Starts Mandela Hospital Rumour After Watching E-TV Year In Review Special
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media feeds, especially Twitter feeds, started buzzing with a rumour that Nelson Mandela had been admitted to hospital a few hours ago. It appears a DJ just happened to watch a programme airing on E-TV about the year that’s passed, and saw old visuals that prompted him to think Madiba had in fact been hospitalised.
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Social Networking Makes Up 20% Of Everything That Happens Online
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An annual report from comScore on what happens online has shown that 1 in every 5 minutes of time online this year was spent on social networking sites – as compared to the 6% of internet time that went to social networking in 2007. By all accounts that sort of growth is expected to continue, and speed up, in 2012.
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The “Occucopter”: Occupy Wall Street’s 99% Get Their Own Drone
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, you read that correctly, the “occucopter” is a drone that is being used by protestors to monitor the police. As the 99 per cent continue their protests around the world, they’ve acquired their own surveillance drone. Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the “occucopter”.
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More Woolies “Copying” Emerges
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It hasn’t been Woolworths’ finest month in retail relations. At the beginning of the month, the retailer abruptly announced it would be relieving Jupiter Drawing Room of its advertising business. Then, allegations of product counterfeiting and imitating began to emerge yesterday. Now, another small business owner has come forward and identified Woolworths as selling a knock-off of his product.
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Facebook Takes On Site Showing Nudie Pics Of Its Users
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
IsAnyoneUp.com is a website that posts pictures of user-submitted cellphone nudie pics, along with screenshots of their Facebook profiles. The only problem is, the Facebook profile part is often done without consent. Zuckerberg isn’t exactly happy about it.
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Old Spice MANta Clause [VIDEO]
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Old Spice is at it again. This time, Isaiah Mustafa is MANta Claus, and he’s on a mission to give the world’s seven billion residents gifts before the festive season ends. His mantra is, “One Man, Seven Billion Gifts.”
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Facebook Photos Leaked [PICS]
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
How do you like them apples? Thanks to a technical glitch, never before seen photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have leaked online. His longtime girlfriend, his dog, and Barack Obama also feature in them. A Facebook user reportedly exploited a security loophole and accessed them.
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Facebook Memology 2011: The Things People Talked About The Most This Year
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook yesterday released a big ol’ lump of data about the most shared content of 2011, both globally and for specific countries. Osama Bin Laden’s death was far and away the most popular status update topic, followed distantly by the Super Bowl results and and the Casey Anthony trial for second and third most popular, respectively.
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DA launches Petition Against Info Bill
06 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Democratic Alliance today launched an aggressive campaign to protest the current form of the draft Protection of Information Bill. The political party is calling on all South Africans to join forces and show their support against the legislation, while also planning more protests.
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The Amazing Beer Ice Bucket That Blocks Photos
06 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Office Christmas party time is in full swing again, and those trigger-happy camera folk will be out in full force snapping and sharing photos with total disregard for the consequences. That’s what Norte beer’s Photoblocker is for: when a sensor built into this beer chiller detects a flash, it emits its own flash in order to overexpose any photograph.
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Photos From Inside Facebook’s Headquarters [Gallery]
06 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Time Magazine has published photographs from inside Facebook’s Headquarters – taken shortly after Mark Zuckerburg was made Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. The photographs reveal a bizarre work place which resembles something closer to The Office, than the fantasy land you might have thought. Sure, they’ve got free snacks and a coke machine, but […]
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Twitter Names Its Top 10 Stories Of The Year
05 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter has revealed the 10 biggest stories to break on the micro-blogging site over the last year. These are moments in 2011 that happened first on Twitter, or “could only happen on Twitter”, according to the founders of the Twitter Stories project.
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YouTube Launches Revamped Homepage Today
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube is launching what they’re calling their biggest redesign in history today – and, granted, every time a website changes they tend to say that, but the differences here are pretty striking, with sweeping changes to the homepage and channel pages, strongly emphasising social media integration.
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Far Right Christian Blog Prays For George Michael’s Death
01 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a glowing display of Christian charity and respect for others, a religious blog in America, Christians For A Moral America, has issued a statement to its followers via Twitter, calling on them to pray for pop singer, George Michael’s death.
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Western Union Brings Back The Singing Telegram
01 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Back in the day, people used to send each other messages using something they called the telegram. For the singing telegram, a real person actually used to call you up or come to your home and sing to you. Money transfer giant, Western Union, is bringing the singing telegram back and plans to get users involved: karaoke-style.
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