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Miracle: A Non-Depressing Facebook Page About South Africa
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s easy to get down on South Africa. With crippling strikes, the mess our police force made arresting Krejcir and the Nkandla saga, there’s more than enough news every morning to send even the most positive person into a depression. And goodness knows, Facebook loves nothing more than a good bitch about The Republic. That’s where the epic […]
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95,000 Sign Petition To Change Script And Save TV Cartoon Character
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
‘Family Guy’ fans are up in arms after a recent episode saw one of their star characters, Brian, run over and killed-off the show by a car.
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The 10 Most Distracting Smartphone Apps When Driving [INFOGRAPHIC]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
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The New Justin Bieber-Backed App Has Launched – Get It Here If You Care
14 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well that’s it – the final nail in the coffin. Thanks to Justin Bieber’s new ‘selfie app’, the selfie has become a fully fledged art form. Let us join each other in putting brown paper bags over our heads, and wait for it to be over.
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This Is Where Teenagers Are Going To Get Away From Their Parents On Facebook [PIC]
13 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They surveyed teens in 30 countries. After extensive research, they were able to show that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. And for sites like Facebook, a drop of 20% means millions, billions even. So, where are they going instead?
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Pro Afrikaans Action Group Loses Google Advertising
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Afrikaans e-news website, the Pro Afrikaans Action Group (Praag), has been put under severe pressure, after Google has pulled the plug on all of its advertising. The site had been generating thousands of rands, but without it’s advertsing revenue it maybe forced to shut down.
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This Is What The New Facebook Like Button Looks Like
08 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This isn’t what we wanted, is it? Instead of making a dislike button, or a middle-finger button, Facebook have decided to fix something that wasn’t broken. They seem to like doing that.
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Facebook Will Be Tracking Your Cursor Movements On The Screen
31 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It seems like the more we worry about being monitored – the more we’re being monitored, especially on social media. If you want to use it – expect them to know everything. Facebook in particular is going the extra mile to monitor our precise activities on their platform. Sources say that they may be considering gathering data from even our most minute mouse-movements.
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The Girafe Profile Pic Trend On Facebook – Let’s Have That Chat [VIDEO]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Okay – these various trivial forms of procrastination are hard to keep up with. First it’s the bitstrips, then its awkward profile pic week and now – out of the blue – everyone seems to be changing their profile photos to pictures of giraffes. This may not have reached everyone just yet, but rest assured this is out there, and people are going nuts for it.
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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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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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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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Thursday Morning Spice
17 Oct 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
US lives to see another day. Diepsloot suspect on the run. 13-year-olds can post publicly on Facebook now. Vanity Fair is gunning for Gwyneth Paltrow. Gummy Bears guy is dead. Another Brit sex slave story.
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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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Thursday Morning Spice
26 Sep 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Alibaba’s ‘biggest IPO since Facebook,’ America’s Cup greatest comeback in history. This guy gets VERY rich when Twitter lists. Mom beats pedophile to death with baseball bat. Peru pair guilty plea rejected.
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The Rise And Rise Of Naspers’ Shares And Their Chinese ‘Facebook’ Investment
18 Sep 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
With Naspers’ shares increasing nearly 90% in the last year, their ever-present investment in Chinese company Ten Cent makes Multichoice look like chicken feed.
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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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Facebook Page Spamming Is A R2 Billion Business
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Italian researchers, who made us aware of the fake Twitter follower business a few months ago, have revealed that Facebook Page spamming has become a R2 billion business. Yes, R2 billion. The researchers spent two days scouring underground spam forums, yes they exist. They found 30,000 Facebook Pages on the forum, and checked for words like “click here,” “wow,” “free,” and “join,” followed by links.
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Probably Not Wise: Assad’s Son Dares America To Attack In Facebook Post
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things are tense between Syria and America right now. That may be the under statement of the century, but what isn’t making it any better is the dare the Syrian president’s 11-year-old son posted on Facebook, daring America to attack.
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Did Facebook Use Your Image In An Ad? They’re Paying Out R200 Million – Join The Queue
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is paying out $20 million (R208,899,974) in damages to users who had their personal details used in ads on the site. Even though the details of 150 million Facebook users were used in sponsored stories, only the 614,000 who responded to an email earlier this year will be getting compensation. In a settlement reached […]
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Facebook’s Oldest User Just Got Given A New Car From A Mystery Donor
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The oldest user on Facebook is 105-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier. Look at her – 105 and happy, and on Facebook, and still driving! She’s not only Facebook’s oldest user but California’s oldest driver too. She learned to drive when she was 19 in a Ford Model T. Now here’s something that will restore your faith in […]
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Instagram Fans, Brace Yourself – It’s About To Go The Way Of Facebook
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
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First Look Inside Facebook’s New York City Office Space [PICS]
14 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Social media giant, Facebook announced their plans earlier this year to move their offices to the Big Apple. Their headquarters relocation will be refreshing change for staff from their current location in Bank Of America Tower, especially as Frank Gehry will be designing the space.
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Bad Idea: Man Kills Wife – Puts Photo On Facebook [PICS]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Derek Medina shot and killed his wife Jennifer Alfonso, apparently because Alfonso had told her husband she was leaving him. The crazy part? Medina posted a Facebook statement confessing to the murder, as well as posting a picture of his dead wife.
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Monday Morning Spice
12 Aug 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
SAATCHI threatens suicide. Obama says Putin is a ‘bored kid.’ Nelson Mandela is sitting up. Dina Pule linked to assassination plot. Sandberg sells $91 million Facebook stock. Madoff love-triangle. Schoeman takes double gold.
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70% Of The World’s Biggest CEOs Are Not On Social Media
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Aa new study by Domo and CEO.com determining Fortune 500 CEO’s presence on social media platforms; LinkeIn, Google+, Twitter and Facebook has released these results.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
07 Aug 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Popular feeds to get preference on Facebook. Shrien Dewani attempts to take case to Supreme Court. Mugabe to deepen ‘black wealth transfer.’ They killed that snake that killed those boys. Mark Wahlberg calls Bieber a ‘bastard.’
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New App Encrypts And Hides Pictures Uploaded To Facebook
06 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the Secret.li app you can take the photo, apply a filter and generate an unrecognizable picture when uploaded on Facebook. Only those who you have chosen are able to view the normal image.
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