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Deadmau5 Calls Madonna A “Fucking Idiot” For Talking About Drugs
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Toronto’s Deadmau5 has been blasting Madonna on his Facebook page for asking folks at the Miami Ultra Music Festival if they’ve seen “molly,” which is young-person speak for MDMA. Deadmau5 moved from slating Madonna’s embarrassing use of drug slang to a spiel about equating electro with drug use – with a couple of tasteful expletives thrown in.
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U.S. Lawmakers Consider Facebook Post Mortem Law
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What happens to your social networking presence after you die? Who does the online you belong to? These are pressing issues being deliberated by at least two U.S. states this week as more and more pressure is being applied to social networking platforms like Facebook to allow the relatives of users that have passed away to directly access their late loved ones’ profiles.
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Is Political Science Guru, Steven Friedman, Labelling AB De Villiers A Racist?
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
We were quite stunned by this little diatribe that appeared on the Facebook page of respected local political scientist, Prof. Steven Friedman, yesterday, where he calls into question the integrity of Proteas captain, AB De Villiers.
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Facebook’s IPO Launch Set For Today
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is expected to file for an IPO later today – Wednesday morning stateside – raising $5 billion. This is a fair deal less than the $10 billion previously rumored. Folks figure Zuckerberg wants to start with a conservative base at first. Because he can’t be sure this “Face-book” thing is going to take off.
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Angry Birds Is Coming To Facebook
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Angry Birds is quite possibly the most successful phone game in recent history. It’s available for just about every kind of smart phone, tablet, and even browsers such as Google Chrome. Soon you’ll be able to fling wingless birds right from your favourite social network – Angry Birds is coming to Facebook.
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Google Changes Privacy Settings Across Board – Users Can’t Opt Out
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.
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Anonymous Deny Reports Of Plans To Attack Facebook
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
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How Much Facebook Is Worth And Other Interesting Facts [INFOGRAPHIC]
13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This year Facebook will go public and start to sell shares on the stock exchange. Thanks to all of us, the social network is now worth $100 billion – more than giants such as Google, Disney, Amazon, and McDonald’s. But who is going to pocket all this money? Check out this infographic, detailing which Facebook friends will be getting pieces of the pie, as well as some other interesting facts:
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Social Networking Makes Up 20% Of Everything That Happens Online
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An annual report from comScore on what happens online has shown that 1 in every 5 minutes of time online this year was spent on social networking sites – as compared to the 6% of internet time that went to social networking in 2007. By all accounts that sort of growth is expected to continue, and speed up, in 2012.
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Malicious Pornographic Attack On @Home’s Facebook Page [Updated]
14 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
UPDATE: @home have apologised. Follow link below to see. Someone appears to have unleashed an online attack on SA home retail store @home’s Facebook page. The attacker posted a pornographic picture of a woman performing fellatio. According to reports, the woman is one of the @home buyers. Follow the link for more (Warning – although […]
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Facebook Takes On Site Showing Nudie Pics Of Its Users
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
IsAnyoneUp.com is a website that posts pictures of user-submitted cellphone nudie pics, along with screenshots of their Facebook profiles. The only problem is, the Facebook profile part is often done without consent. Zuckerberg isn’t exactly happy about it.
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Google Introduces Facial Recognition Feature
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world’s largest search engine is busy rolling out technology that can track your face. Facebook has been doing this for a while, so this sounds like Google playing catch-up, but there is a neat difference: unlike on Facebook, Google+ users get to opt-in to the facial recognition feature, instead of being automatically dragged into it.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Facebook Photos Leaked [PICS]
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
How do you like them apples? Thanks to a technical glitch, never before seen photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have leaked online. His longtime girlfriend, his dog, and Barack Obama also feature in them. A Facebook user reportedly exploited a security loophole and accessed them.
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Facebook Memology 2011: The Things People Talked About The Most This Year
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook yesterday released a big ol’ lump of data about the most shared content of 2011, both globally and for specific countries. Osama Bin Laden’s death was far and away the most popular status update topic, followed distantly by the Super Bowl results and and the Casey Anthony trial for second and third most popular, respectively.
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Photos From Inside Facebook’s Headquarters [Gallery]
06 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Time Magazine has published photographs from inside Facebook’s Headquarters – taken shortly after Mark Zuckerburg was made Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. The photographs reveal a bizarre work place which resembles something closer to The Office, than the fantasy land you might have thought. Sure, they’ve got free snacks and a coke machine, but […]
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US Court Orders Hundreds Of Sites “De-indexed” From Google
01 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a worrying move for people who like their internet uncensored, a federal judge in Nevada has ruled that Chanel has the right seize 700 domain names that have been peddling fake Chanel products – and that search engines and social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and Google, are to “de-index” the domains.
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Facebook Enlarges Social Areas Of Brain
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Neuroscientists have discovered that using Facebook has a measurable impact on the size of particular areas of the brain. The results of a recent study show that the more Facebook friends you have, the bigger and denser become the three parts of your brain which are associated with the power to socialise. It’s unclear whether by ‘socialise’ they mean really, in real life. But maybe.
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Belgium Music Label Tracks Trending Bands On Social Media To Find Hits
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another case of “Why didn’t I think of that?”, a Belgian record label that goes by the name of SonicAngel, identifies future stars by tracking trends on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Not only that, they also allow fans to invest in the artists’ success, with a six monthly return on their initial investment. Brilliant.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
23 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
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Facebook Employee Accidentally Reveals Upcoming ‘Listen With Friends’ Feature
22 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, it’s nice to know Apple isn’t the only company that knows how to create buzz by accidentally leaking information. Ji Lee, Facebook’s creative director, tweeted about Facebook Music, which is set to launch tomorrow. The post was quickly deleted, but not before the Internet had time to get all excited about it.
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Winklevoss Twins Are Still Driving Zuckerburg Nuts
14 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The dispute between Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg has still not been put out to pasture. The disgruntled Winklefaces are currently starring in a terribly clever TV ad during which they take a dig at Zuckerburg for stealing their social network idea. In other news, the ad is for pistachio nuts.
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Facebook To Introduce Music Service
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite topping the user charts with over 750 million users, social networking monolith, Facebook, is rolling out a range of new services to keep its users happily posting, perving and otherwise wasting valuable hours of productivity.
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Unite Behind The Boks
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As The Rugby World Cup draws near, an important part of the psychological preparation of any team is knowing that their nation is behind them. And what could be an easier way of showing your love and support in this age of pressurised, desk-bound work than with the combined tools of the the interwebs, and […]
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Google+ Could Pass Ten Million Users In the Next 24 Hours
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, not to be confused with the co-founder of Microsoft, has said on his Google+ page that the new social network may surpass ten million users within the next 24 hours. Zounds!
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Hostage-Taker Updates Facebook Status During Standoff With SWAT [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Some people, like Jason Valdez, are just natural multi-taskers. This loco ‘ese held a woman hostage for 16 hours in a stand-off with SWAT teams. During this time he also updated his Facebook status, posted pics of him and his hostage, and added at least a dozen new friends – some even tipping him off about police activities outside. Valdez responded: “Thank you homie. Good looking out.”
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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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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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France Uses A 1992 Law To Ban ‘Follow Us On Twitter’
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know this isn’t the worst thing to happen to French civil liberties by a long shot, but still; the interpretation of a law prohibiting ‘commercial advertising’ – which, in effect, will mean that newsreaders may no longer mention Facebook or Twitter, unless the story is about Facebook or Twitter – makes total social media sense. Total.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
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