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.XXX Approved As Porn Domain Code
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At last, a way to find pornography on the internet. You guys are reading the words ‘porn’ and ‘xxx’ and getting really excited, but believe me when I tell you that this is almost 99% technology news. Pornography is sort of besides the point here, so to speak. But click through, anyway.
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EU Trying To Enforce Enhanced Privacy From Facebook
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Union is attempting to establish the “right to be forgotten online,” as a legislative response to embarrassing old data – risque photographs, stupid statuses – that refuse to disappear. The proposed bit of legislation would enforce higher privacy settings and offer greater user control.
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Just How Tight Are Zuma And Gadaffi?
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Links between these two high rollers have been gossiped about and reported on before. It’s no big secret that shortly after his 2006 arrest on rape charges, JZ made a shimmy over to Tripoli for five days where he met with Colonel Gaddafi. Now JZ and the Colonel have had a little phone conversation.
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Facebook Causes 20% Of American Divorces
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I mean not totally – it’s the evidence found on Facebook as grounds for the dissolution of marriage which causes 20% of all divorce cases in the US, but still. Big number. Increasingly, social networking sites form the primary source of evidence in custody battles and divorce proceedings, so heads up.
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Facebook Introduces Suicide Support System
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Due to the growing occurrence of ‘Facebook suicides’ a help system has been put in place, which allows users concerned about potentially suicidal friends to report the activity to Facebook, which will trigger a hotline response reaching out to the depressed party.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Sell Your Private Info…Again
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Facebook programmers are busily working away on new features that give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers. Now isn’t that charming?
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Paris Has Her Cake Stolen And Then The Homeless Ate It
24 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week a very drunk gate-crasher at Paris Hitlon’s 30th birthday party managed to steal her $2 000 birthday cake.
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The Facebook Breakup Notifier: It Stalks Crushes For You!
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, when was the last time a Facebook App was actually useful? I mean, Facebook is inherently a timesink, and this app isn’t so much useful as it is creepy, but semantics. The Breakup Notifier does what is says on the tin – it lets you know the second your crush isn’t in a relationship anymore.
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Egyptian Names Baby “Facebook”
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right, an Egyptian man has, as a show of appreciation to Facebook in helping to organise the January 25th protests in Cairo, named his baby Facebook.
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Map Middle-East Protests With Google Maps and Twitter
21 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s sort of hard to be on the internet right now without hearing about protests from whichever North African/Middle Eastern country is falling under the ‘freedom’ bandwagon, but this Google Maps/Twitter mashup contextualizes the online protest movement nicely – and in real time.
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Accidental Drunk Tweet Turns Into Red Cross Blood Drive
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ha. Last night, someone in control of the Red Cross Twitter feed accidentally posted “Ryan found two more 4 bottle packs of Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch beer…when we drink we do it right #gettngslizzerd. ” Then the internet found out & made a meme of it, resulting in a flood of Red Cross blood donations.
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MTV President Toffler: The Return Of Beavis and Butt-Head
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This morning’s headlines: The Berlusconi case keeps getting creepier and Hustler announce they’re developing Harry Potter porn, entitled “This Ain’t Harry Potter”. Wow, the return of Beavis and Butt-Head sounds remarkably savoury. Yup, they’re back and they’ll still be watching Whitesnake tribute music videos. Oh, and Jersey Shore.
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So Hey, Twitter Hasn’t Re-Invented Journalism After All
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sort of. HP recently released a study looking under the hood of Twitter’s ‘Trending Topics’ function – revealing (gasp) that most of the time, popular topics get broadcast by major media twitter accounts, then amplified by their followers, rather than some wanky cloud-based news system.
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Caught On Camera: The Moment A Car Bomb Explodes [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nothing much needs to be said in addition to the title of this post. Before I first saw this video on the Telegraph’s trusty website, I too had seen the link. I did my best to ignore it, but the urge to push my right index finger down proved too strong. What does that say about me? [VIDEO]
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When Unpolished Politicians Use Facebook
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here is a tip for becoming a successful politician: When you write newspaper columns criticising your own political party, they will be upset and invite you to a disciplinary. Logging onto Facebook and calling them “dickheads” will only make the situation worse.
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SA’s “Leading” Internet Research Company Wakes Up To Twitter
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
World Wide Worx, the research company with their fingers on the pulse of SA’s cell phone data usage habits has ascertained, with careful research and tireless data sifting that, yes, Twitter is the next big thing. They estimate that at least 1 million South Africans are “using the service”.
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FaceDaddy Claims It Hard
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, you read that correctly. The founder of Facebook’s founder is letting everyone who’ll listen know that he is Mark Zuckerberg’s dad. I didn’t believe it at first either, as I’m sure money or status isn’t a big issue in the Zuckerberg household. Anyway, it’s more the manner in which the claiming happened that is important here guys. This is rather awesome.
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Speak2Tweet Lets Egyptians Contact Twitter With Phone Calls
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Speak2Tweet was launched over the weekend, a joint venture by Twitter and Google that allows anybody to post to Twitter using just a phone connection, in the hopes of getting more word out about the situation in Egypt as it unfolds. Google bought the company that engineered the technology last week because hey, it’s Google.
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Thank Facebook For Your Social Skills
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You might have been in the ‘cool group’ at school and you might even think you are ‘cool’ right now. Are you? Doesn’t matter, either way, it’s only fair if you give some credit to your social guidance counsellor – Facebook – for helping your coolness vibe resonate onto others. A study says so.
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The Sadness Network
28 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I knew I wasn’t alone in my misery. Well that’s not true, I thought I was alone in my misery. But according to a new paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, so do many other people.
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Twitter A ‘Form Of Modern Madness,’ Because Of Course It Is.
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, good! Somebody with a PHD decided to speak out against ‘the twitters,’ on the ground that social networking websites are making us “less human” by isolating people from reality. Presumably also responsible are trading card games, Playstation, and books.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Profile Hacked
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A dyslexic individual hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile and posted his philanthropic thoughts on how the site should distribute wealth. Facebook quickly deleted the page and has not commented on the matter. Give up all their money for social good? Not going to happen.
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Finally Hide Your Ex On Facebook
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook has been hailed as one of the great tools in Human History. It’s brining people closer, creating lasting relationships and strengthening the ties between us. But it’s also created an ettiquette of its very own. In the past if you were cruelly and horribly broken up with the person in question could, with time, be hidden in the recesses of your damaged psyche. But no more!
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Ricky Gervais Hurt Hugh Hefner – You Can Tell
18 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Insults hurt. Especially when they come from comedians. Hef is taking Ricky’s jibes like a man and acts like it doesn’t hurt. But it does. It cuts him deep. Naturally, the 84 year-old turned to 4 year-old Twitter and talked it out with girls much younger than him. When someone is hurt on a very deep level they sometimes act like they lost a loved one. Grief has five basic stages.
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Half-Naked Facebookers Arrested On Gautrain
11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Your buddy calls you up and asks if you want to join him and 32 others to stand around in your underwear on the three fifteen to Blackheath. Says he read about it on Facebook. You tell him to go screw himself, right? Wrong. You ask him what colour boxers he’ll be wearing because you take Facebook very, very seriously.
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Josh Groban Sings Kanye West’s Tweets [VIDEO]
05 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When you hear the name Josh Groban, the violin line from “You Raise Me Up” starts wilting away in your head, hey? That’s because that was the only song that guy frigging sang for about two years. But hey, all power too him – the man is fabulously succesful nowadays. And with all that record […]
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Russell Brand Tweets Hideous Visage Of Katy Perry
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Katy Perry is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful women. Russell Brand has shattered that perception. There really is something to be said for the argument that social media should not breach the boundaries of a man and wife’s marriage bed. Click the link to see what I’m talking about.
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Step Up Your Twitter Etiquette, Dawg [VIDEO]
31 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Better put this one on your New Year’s resolution list: Don’t follow Ricky Romance, make sure he’s not following you and if you see them recommend you follow him – delete your twitter account. Watch him hand out twitter tips and a death threat to Chris Brown after some particularly nasty exchanges in 140 characters or less.
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Swanny Wants ‘BBC Sports Personality Of The Year’ Title [VIDEO]
15 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve ever been on a sports tour you’ll know there’s always one person who lifts the spirits of the squad. Graeme Swann is ‘that guy’ in English cricket and he’s called on fans to vote for him as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. We have the hilarious video diary where Swanny shows us life on an Ashes tour. Awesome vibe.
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World Map According To Social Networks: Mind The Gap
13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.
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