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Unbaby.Me App – Banish Those Facebook Baby Photos From Your News Feed For Good
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sick and tired of baby photos taking up your news feed on Facebook? There’s a solution for that: Unbaby.me will replace baby photos with whatever you’d prefer to see, like bacon for example.
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Facebook Shares Plunge As Lockup Expires (Sub-19 Already)
16 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
There is a thing called a lockup, which is a period of time during which a company’s employees (in this case Facebook employees) cannot sell their share after the company goes public. The lockup period for Facebook employees ended today. Guess what?
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Are SA’s Digital Agencies Buying Fake Twitter Followers For Themselves And Their Clients?
16 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 80 Comments
Having recently been involved in a stats-related online industry debate, 2oceansvibe has taken an interest in a current topic of discussion, to do with creative agencies, opinion leaders and their Twitter accounts. More to the point – the fact that they have allegedly been paying for fake Twitter followers to bolster their (and their clients’) online social media footprints.
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Facebook: Large, Unwanted Adverts Coming To Your Newsfeed Soon
15 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Share price is a fallin’, advertisers are a ballin’. So what’s next for Facebook? Forcing large, unwanted adverts in your face, that’s what.
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New Technology Scans Your Face And Checks You In On Facebook
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It would seem Facebook is getting scarier and scarier every day. A new technology is being tested that will place a camera outside a building, which will use your Facebook pictures to recognise you and then check you in and offer you a special deal. Cool, or creepy?
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Friday Morning Spice
03 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook shares hit $19. Kofi Annan steps down. DA claims ANC plot. British medalist drunk tweets. Scramble for Independent News. Princess Charlene moved to tears.
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SA Legal History – High Court Allows Man To Be Served Through Facebook
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
South African legal history was made in the Durban High Court yesterday when Judge Esther Steyn agreed to allow the service of a legal notice on a man being sued to be posted on his Facebook page.
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Facebook’s Stock Crash: The Biggest Losers
30 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Generally speaking, some of the more prominent Facebook investors have lost a collective $19,2 billion since Facebook’s public listing. Zuckerberg has fared the worst though: he’s lost $7,5 billion.
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Over 50 Million Facebook Profiles Are Fake – BBC Investigates Pitfalls Of ‘Likes’
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The BBC has conducted an investigation into marketers’ obsession with ‘Likes’ and how this is impacted by fake user accounts and advertising on Facebook. An interesting read for all marketers.
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Facebook Scans Your Personal Chats For Criminal Activity
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
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Coming Soon: Facebook Bank
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
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Little Monsters Unite, Lady Gaga’s Social Network Is Live!
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right folks, just when you thought you the social networking market was saturated, Lady Gaga goes launches her own one, forcing you plunge once more into the pool of superficial social integration. However LittleMonsters.com, which is a little bit Facebook and little bit Pinterest with a dash of Reddit, claims to be more than just another glorified sharing app. Click for the full breakdown.
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A Quarter Of Your Friends Are Deliberately Posting Ugly Photos Of You On Facebook
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is nothing worse than being tagged in a Facebook photo that you don’t want to be tagged in. You know, that time at the bar, after tequila number 7, hanging off your mate Jeff? Turns out it wasn’t just a mass upload.
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Facebook To Start Letting You Edit Your Idiotic Comments
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You know that thing where you post a comment on Facebook and immediately regret your decision? Well, Facebook sure does. Which is why they’re rolling out a comment-editing functionality over the next few days. Rest easy, people whose grammar falls apart whenever they get excited.
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FAIL: New Adidas Sneakers Have “Slave Shackles” Attached To Them [PICS]
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In an attempt to create hype around an upcoming range of sneakers, Adidas posted a picture of their new “JS Roundhouse Mids” trainers on their Facebook page. But, as they soon learned, they were the only ones who thought accessorising a pair of shoes with slave shackles was a good idea.
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Facebook Wants Your Phone Number, “For Your Own Safety”
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
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Roxette Rips Into O.R. Tambo Airport On Facebook Page
11 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle from Roxette have called Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport “possibly number one on the list of the world’s worst airports.” This after their flight was delayed for about 90 minutes over the weekend. Read their full Facebook post inside.
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2OV Exclusive Interview: Zuckerberg Leaves No Tip – Restaurant Owner Speaks Out
30 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
He may be worth $20 billion, but when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took his new wife, Priscilla Chan to lunch during their honeymoon in Rome he spent 32 Euros – and elected not to leave a tip. The cash-flush couple’s bill came to 32 euros after a lunch of deep-fried artichokes, fried pumpkin flowers, and […]
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The Facebook Smartphone Is Codenamed “Buffy”
29 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More details are emerging about Buffy, apparently the codename for Facebook’s HTC smartphone which may run with Android, all the Facebook trimmings and an Opera browser. Or will it? We try sort the facts from the fiction as excitement mounts over the phone that might topple Apple.
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Bono Officially Becomes Richest Musician In The World Today
18 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook is set to float on the stock exchange today and all its early investors must be smiling. One of them, U2’s frontman Bono, has shares worth over $1,5 billion alone. This puts him well above Paul McCartney – currently the world’s richest musician. Who knew devoting your career to charity, world peace, and good causes could be so profitable?
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Facebook To Start Rolling Out Paid Features
14 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook lately been experimenting with a small group of users by offering them the opportunity to promote their own status messages by paying for them. If the “Highlight” feature is more widely adopted, people will soon be able to pay to make sure their cutesy status updates are at the top of everyone’s news feed.
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Microsoft To Revamp Bing To Include Facebook Interface Software
11 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft announced today that they are preparing to roll out a revamped version of their net-based search engine Bing, after spending nearly US$6 billion on the service over its three year existence. They’re attempting to increase Bing’s market share of search engine revenues globally. But how is Facebook involved? Before you all go Google what a “Bing” is, read on…
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Facebook Filed Its IPO Yesterday
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mark Zuckerberg officially filed its IPO with Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday afternoon, announcing its intention to sell 337 million shares at between $28 and $35 a pop – in the biggest Internet stock offering since Google went public in 2004. They’ll be going roadshow for the next two weeks to let big investors see what they’re buying.
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This Is How Much You’re Worth To Facebook In Money Value
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is set to go public soon, and while this might be good news to Mark Zuckerberg, it kind of puts things in perspective for the rest of us. Techcrunch did a simple calculation to determine how much the average Facebook user (yes, you too!) is worth in terms of money. Be prepared to feel rather insignificant after the jump.
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Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Launch
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
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Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are two ways of taking out your competition: offer a similar, yet superior and/or cheaper product than your opponent. Or simply buy the entire rival business and start offering its service as your own. The latter happened yesterday when Mark Zuckerberg announcd that Facebook is about to buy Instagram for $1 billion.
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The Stubble Billboard In Town – Pure Genius
05 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
You might have caught this billboard in Cape Town CBD. It’s been created by our buddies over at Bletchley Park, for their client – Bronx Shoes. From the road it might just look like a guy with stubble. And what’s more, that stubble is in 3D. It actually comes out of the billboard. But wait, […]
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Social Media Payment System Tested In Belgium
03 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new once-click payment system focused on social media is currently being tested in Belgium. Paycento enables internet users to pay to read a single article or download a piece of music without having to fill out forms or enter their credit card details on the website. More details inside.
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Malema’s White Boy Supports Anti-Malema Facebook Group
02 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 12 Comments
Things have moved pretty quickly for Jonathan Ovadia, I’m sure. Following the announcement by Malema this weekend that he (Ovadia) had become Malema’s protégé, the media have been all over him – as his interests, education and background were investigated and reported. News24 confirmed via Ovadia’s Facebook page, that he went to King David High […]
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