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Two Pricks At The Ashes [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two cricket enthusiasts are following the Ashes a little more closely than the rest of us. They’re using the power of social media and ‘vlogging’ (video + blogging) to promote their series, ‘Two Pricks At The Ashes’, where they travel around the stadiums, chatting to sweary fans, parodying the players and soaking up the vibe. Stellar idea. [VIDEO]
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Another Candid KP Tweet
01 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I love Twitter. You know why? Because some sportsmen and women speak their minds instead of regurgitating cliche’s from the “Sportsmen and Women’s Book of Hackneyed Ways to Respond to Interviews”. KP once referred to the ECB as a bunch of muppets in a tweet. Now he is having a go at the Adelaide groundsmen ahead of Friday’s second Ashes test.
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I Hope This Gets To You: Sending Love Letters Through The Blogosphere
01 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Generally we don’t like putting the words ‘love’ and ‘viral’ in the same sentence, because they’re usually followed with ‘should clear up after a round of penicillin.’ Thankfully, this online love-letter-video-thing isn’t the kind you need protection for; it’s a guy’s attempt at reaching his long-distance girlfriend virally over the internet.
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The Ashes Twitter Confusion
29 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
An American woman has unwittingly become the talk of the town on Twitter. Or should I say, the talk of thousands of Ashes followers. Of course we all know that the Ashes pits Australia against England in a 5-test match series; unfortunately this poor woman doesn’t even know what a wicket is. Tweedicament.
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Bok Impersonators Ruffle A Few Feathers
18 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems that social media impersonators are creating a bit of discomfort within the Springbok camp. While I’m not sure I have found any that are intended to deceive the public (and media), I did find a rather comical example dedicated to one Bakkies Botha. More after the jump.
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The Social Media Sobriety Filter
15 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: drunk Facebooking ruins lives.
Thankfully the good people at Webroot Software have seen the urgent need to curb this scourge of humanity.
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Great Job, Freedom Of Speech: Man Convicted For “Menacing” Tweets
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Paul Chambers, a 27-year-old UK accountant has been charged with and convicted of making “menacing” Teets. He had hoped that the case would be dismissed as the stupid prank that it was – and angled for a knocked down £1,000 fine. Instead, Judge Jacqueline Davies had his appeal dismissed on every count. Sorry, what?
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We Live In The Future: Log On To Facebook With Your Face
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s mobile biometry project have put together a demo application that allows people to use voice and face recognition to log in to Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts, which is going to be hell for people with a forgettable face.
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New “Google-Killer” Search Engine Adds Human Element, Bias
11 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Every time I hear about a new search engine that has come to market, I think the same thing: what’s the point? A new search engine aims to change that, claiming that it brings back far more relevant results by adding a human bias to the search algorithm.
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Five Reasons Why Myspace Is About To Fail (For Real This Time)
05 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has declared that “Myspace is a problem” and has given the beleaguered social networking site months to sort itself out, we take a look at the reasons why the original posterchild of Web 2.0 is dying.
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SA Bloggers Get To Preview New Facebook Movie – The Social Network – Competition
18 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We have managed to secure three Ster-Kinekor cinema’s (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town) on the 25th of October, for 40 bloggers in each region (plus 2 friends each) to see The Social Network before ANYBODY ELSE! It’s first come, first serve – so if you want to watch the movie before the general public, then keep reading!
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The “Damn It, My Mom’s on Facebook” Filter
13 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Luckily this is a scenario that I’ve never had to deal with, as my mom refuses to go on Facebook. Unfortunately, for most of you, this is not the reality. It’s for those of you who have to deal with this problem on a daily basis that I give to you: The Damn It, My Mom’s On Facebook Filter.
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Facebook Founder Supports The Reefer
11 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Facebook founder, Sean Parker, has donated $100,000 in support of California’s Proposition 19. Proposition 19 being the controversial measure than Californians will vote on next month which will decide whether or not to legalise marijuana.
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Justin Bieber Kicked Off Facebook
08 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Justin Bieber, the runt who says he’s the Kurt Cobain of our generation, published his memoirs at age 15 and has discovered the only hairstyle that can actually ruin my day has been kicked off Facebook. Wait, what?
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Chivalry Is Digital
07 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There was a time when a real man was expected to pay for dinner, hold the door open or even go as far as pretending to like Jack Johnson if he wanted to be regarded by the fairer sex as anything more than a grunting caveman. How times have changed.
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How To Get Unfriended And Alienate People
07 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You know when you click on someone’s profile on Facebook to leave a weird little comment on their wall only to find out that you have been unfriended, ya it’s an awesome feeling. But there is generally a reason. A new study gives the 5 reasons you might have been unfriended.
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IF THEY HAD FACEBOOK IN THE OLD DAYS
13 Sep 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
With the movie The Social Network coming out next month, Facebook really is the talk of the town. Or talk of the earth, I should rather say. The excitement relating to Facebook is largely to do with the speed at which its grown in such a short time. It is relatively new in our lives. […]
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‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ TRAILER
10 Sep 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
If you take into account the fact that virtually every person you know is on Facebook, I think it’s a given that this movie is going to be the talk of the WORLD, very soon! ‘The Social Network’ is Hollywood’s take on Facebook, how it started and, in particular, its main founder and chief, Mark […]
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JUSTIN BIEBER NOW ACTIVELY RUINING LIVES IN SLO-MO
18 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The greatest Canadian scourge since Brandon Huntley Celine Dion, Justin Bieber stirs grown men to panic. The vapid, androgynous, lesbo-chic music has taken the pubescent world by storm, and the boy girl with the pudding bowl kop chop seems to wield genuine power. As demonstrated by his latest foray into social networking, where he tweeted […]
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SARAH PALIN IS NOT, AND NEVER WILL BE SHAKESPEARE
21 Jul 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
You know who Sarah Palin is, right? She’s that most painful of creatures – a self-righteous, insular hockey mom with the backing of a powerful political party. And she’s also not very bright. Which is perhaps a great reason to keep herself AWAY from social media tools, like Twitter, for instance. The great TweetMachine has […]
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YOU CAN STAY AT MY PLACE, ARJEN
06 Jul 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
No spice, the Dutch soccer team needs a place to stay. While the Uruguayans were getting an undeserved peaceful night’s sleep in Newlands (despite a small Twitter campaign calling for Capetonians to please “not” blow vuvuzelas and bang drums outside their rooms), the dutchies were bumming around the Cape of Good Hope looking for a […]
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THE TWITTER PARADE
04 Jun 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you’re feeling a little low on self-esteem today, try this out. The IS Twitter Parade is a nifty little website that creates an on-screen parade in your celebration, complete with a cheery musical sound track and small yells of joy. All you have to do is type in your Twitter name (or any keyword […]
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THE POWER OF THE TWEET
03 Jun 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
My buddy Shaun Trennery over at Izimvo sent me a link yesterday about something called the “Air Display,” which is a wonderful app for my new iPad (Digicape smartly gave me a test unit, before they hit our shores – so be sure to pre-book yours!). Shaun obviously caught my barrage of tweets, as I […]
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FACEBOOK FACTS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW
18 May 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Cougars… going for it. [source]
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THE LATEST USEFUL TWITTER TOOL – I CALL IT “TWITURES”
07 May 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Check it out, there’s this new website that is linked to Twitter. It’s called “Twitures” and it let’s you just look at just the pictures of a specific user. See what they did there with the name? Pictures on Twitter = “Twitures.” Good one.. Here is a screenshot if you go to the 2oceansvibe Twiture […]
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HITLER IS PISSED OFF ABOUT “FAIR USE”
23 Apr 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The other morning in the Morning Spice Headlines, we mentioned the following: Hitler “Downfall” Parodies Removed from YouTube – The movie studio responsible for the award-winning, German-Austrian film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) has asked YouTube to take down several videos from the massively popular subtitled “Hitler finds out…” meme, and the site has complied. Oh […]
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MANDY MILLARD UNDERSTANDS SOCIAL MEDIA
09 Apr 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
I can’t remember when I actually commanded my Twitter to follow MandyJ4‘s Twitter, but it certainly wasn’t her profile picture. Because I would’ve remembered this: MandyJ4 – not shy.. At first I thought it was some model who I was following on Twitter (as you do), but then when I checked out her profile I […]
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SHH!! DADDY IS WORKING!!!
25 Jan 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I know my inbox is going to regret opening this Facebook can of worms, but they really are very amusing. We’ve seen the one about the girlfriend who tricks the boyfriend into thinking she was another girl, and we thoroughly enjoyed the one where the brother got his own back on his sister. But today […]
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SETTING GOALS – GETTING THEM RELEASED ON FACEBOOK
19 Jan 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
They say it’s important to write your goals down – then they become more real and more attainable. Whilst this may be good in a business sense, some lists should perhaps never be written down. Take, for example, the case of Chris and Katie, the Asian kids whose sibling rivalry spun out of control. Read […]
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THE FUNNIEST FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT I’VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME
15 Jan 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Nothing needs to be said. You’ll get the vibe as you read it. Just hold onto your seat – it’s toooo special! I just LOVED the comeback! No, I was JOKING!! Pick up the phone.. Brilliant! *cough* …evil, twisted cow. [thanks marcus]
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