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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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Jacob Zuma Needs A Holiday Too
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Public holiday weeks, like last week, are problematic. It’s a commonly accepted truth that human beings experience a normal five day working week (or four-and-a-half-day working week, if you’re sensible) to be far more excruciating after a week which incorporates a public holiday. And Jacob Zuma is no exception. He needs a break, and he needs it now.
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Nonhle Tendencies: Social Media Doesn’t Work That Way
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
So Nonhle Thema – from Vuzu reality show Nonhle Goes to Hollywood, and the former face of the Dark and Lovely brand – seems to be having a bit of a freak-out on Twitter. She’s eager to tell everybody that she is “young and RICH……….LOL…..DEAL WITH IT PLEASE…” Over and over again.
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Watch The Hate Speech, Interns
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Here’s a quick Facebook 101 tutorial. It’s not smart to include hate speech in your conversation with other FB users. Especially if you are, say, a budding journalist. Mail & Guardian intern Ngoako Matsha, who apparently has some pretty strong anti-Semitic views, learned that the hard way this week.
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Democracy For Realsies: Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its Constitution
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot damn but I love the future. Iceland is drawing up a new constitution, in the wake of the country’s commercial banks collapsing. Which is news, but not news-news; the interesting part is how the former vikings are going about the process – they’re crowdsourcing the draft online, with links to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.
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“Gay Girl In Damascus” Blogger Is A Married Dude From Georgia
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There was a fair amount of coverage about the apparent arrest of “Amina Arraf”, the pseudonym of openly gay Syrian blogger behind ‘Gay Girl In Damascus,’ which did a lot for getting word out about human rights issues in Syria. Except it turns out that Amina was invented by 40-year-old Tom McMaster, from Georgia.
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Untag, Quickly: Facebook Enables Tagging Through Face Recognition
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Reject tag. That’s the best solution to most Facebook picture problems involving you looking dodgy, drunk or disorderly in someone else’s weekend photo album, right? Not anymore. In more FB news today, the social network has decided it’s rad and totally okay to have face-recognition software automatically detect users in images, even career-damaging ones.
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ANC Calls For Delay On Info Bill Draft, No Spice
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For once, news that seems to be too good to be true, actually is true. The ANC has done a little back-peddle today and called for an extension to the June 24 deadline to complete the drafting of the Protection of Information Bill. Jimmy Manyi must be beside himself at the moment.
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Smartphone Cigarette Sharing: Marlboro ‘Bump A Smoke’ App
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The concept for a Marlboro cigarrette-swapping smartphone app has been making the rounds – the idea being that social smokers would be able to trade digital cigarettes for real ones using bump technology, and ‘hardcore smokers’ would be able to redeem the digital smokes for real ones once they’d accumulated enough.
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Desperate Pedo Gets Arrested For Checking Facebook At An Apple Store
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Facebook is highly addictive and a much better way to spend your time than say, actually living your life. So what would happen if your access was snatched away from you in an instant? Well one pervert had this happen to him, so he decided to act, by wandering into an Apple Store to check his account.
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UK Council Libel Case Forces Twitter To Reveal UK Users
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter has been ordered to hand over confidential details of five British users in what may become a landmark case for the social networking website. It is believed to be the first time the social networking site has been forced to provide details about users in the UK.
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Google Has A Shiny New Mobile Payment Service
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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Zimbabwean To Go On Trial Over Tsvangirai Facebook Wall Post
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zimbabwe’s privately owned NewsDay newspaper has said that a magistrate in Bulawayo has set a trial date for Vikas Mavhudzi, who faces a charge of posting offensive messages on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Facebook wall, for June 10. Mavhudzi became the first person to be arrested in Zimbabwe for a Facebook post. Screenshot after the jump.
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Another Reason Why Will Ferrell Is Awesome
23 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Follow Will Ferrell on Twitter @willferrell
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Major Security Flaw Found In Android Phones
19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has been hit with a string of security flaws lately and the internet giant has now been exposed yet again with a “significant security hole” being found in its smartphone operating system, Google Android. As usual with these things, it can allow attackers to gain access to users’ personal information without their permission.
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Apple Approves Sugar-Daddy App
17 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Wow. Alright. Apple gave the the green light to a mobile app that promises to connect rich old dudes with young women. Sugar daddies with gold diggers. Seriously. They call themselves SugarSugar, “the world’s most effective and discreet place for finding Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby relationships.”
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Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.
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UK Journalists’ Tweets To Be Regulated
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports over the weekend have claimed that UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are possibly going to become regulated. In essence they’ll be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later in the year. No doubt fingers will strike keypads aggressively in weeks to come, the fearless bunch that the UK press are.
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Facebook Sued – Parent Doesn’t Like ‘Likes’
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In other Facebook news today, the social media platform is in hot water again for its marketing tactics. A father in the US is suing Facebook for not getting permission from parents or guardians before letting other users know when children ‘like’ brands. I’m not sure my dad would know what a ‘like’ was if it hit him with a stick.
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Facebook Launches New “Send” Button
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This new feature will be available to all Facebook users and it’s been designed to make sharing easier, and a little more private. Its social networking architecture will work best with Facebook’s Groups function that was introduced last October, but don’t expect it to make streamlined advertising any harder either.
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“Did Zuma’s Daughter Marry A Skinny White Guy?”
25 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I wonder how many people asked that question on Sunday, when presented with that morning’s Sunday Times front page? I certainly did. But once my eyes had zoomed-in on the photo caption, I was reassured that the man was not Jay-Z’s new son-in-law, but rather the jeweler who sponsored her diamonds for the day. Good […]
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The Chinese ‘Jasmine-Revolution:’ Turning Politburo Paranoia Against Itself
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A number of bloggers have been making reference to a ‘Jasmine Revolution,’ wherein Chinese citizens show discontent for local corruption by walking around crowded public areas on Sunday afternoons. This never happened, but Sunday walks did. Authorities are convinced that the protest is still happening.
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Facebook Thinks Photos Of Dudes Kissing Is Bad, Apparently
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Richard Metzger, television host and author, recently received an email from Facebook letting him know that a photo of his had been taken down for violating “Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” which prohibits “nudity, or any kind of graphic or sexually suggestive content.” The photo in question was of two men kissing.
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The Winklevoss Twins’ Suit Against Facebook Is No More
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve seen “The Social Network”, then you’ll be aware of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (a.k.a. “the Winklevii”), who, in 2004 sued Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea. Well their great battle against Zuckerberg may finally be over.
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Facebook Launches “Journalists On Facebook”
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a much anticipated move, the social media giant has finally unveiled its next step in advancing the power of journalism through social networking. It’s described as a central resource tool for journalists and the public to share, interact and find sources on the site. Try and stop us now Julius, Jimmy, Floyd and the other haters out there.
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A Very Cool Video From Greenpeace To Facebook [VIDEO]
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earth Day 2011 is on the way, and environmental group Greenpeace has released a video telling us that a) coal is the number one contributor to climate change in the world, and b) Facebook needs a lot of coal to keep all 600 million of us tagging and poking.
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Can’t Get A Girlfriend? New Company Develops Virtual Girlfriend For Social Networking
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The new platform, which is still currently in its design phases, will allow users to create the perfect girlfriend who will allegedly write on your Facebook wall, possibly tweet sweet nothings at you and keep your virtual happiness in mind using other social media platforms.
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Facebook Wants To Read What You Type And Then Serve You A Delicious Ad
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We all love Facebook. Some of us love Facbook so much that we’ve given up our meth addictions just to spend more time on Facebook. But every now and then Zuckerberg does something that just doesn’t sit right, like serving up adds as you type.
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Important News: Zuckerberg Sets Relationship Status To “In A Relationship”!
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News just in, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and seller of your personal information, is no longer single. The world may now breathe a collective sigh of relief. None of us could bare his loneliness for even one a moment longer.
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China Tightens Electronic Security By A Whole Bunch Of Notches
23 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you say the word ‘protest’ too frequently in a cell-phone conversation in Beijing, your call gets cut off. No spice. We have pretty strict phone etiquette policies here at 2ov, granted, but generally we allow calls, once placed, to proceed without Big Brother intervention.
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