In the immediate wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, it didn’t take long for the vermin to come crawling out of the woodwork, to point fingers at invisible enemies. The New York Post and Fox News were immediately inflating body counts, their reporters blaming and harassing Saudi students and their friends. Pundits elsewhere were blaming […]
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook Home If You Have Privacy Concerns
Facebook is launching its new Home on Android today. Unfortunately, the app is only available to a select few devices. If you have anything but a flagship device from HTC or Samsung, or if your phone is more than a year old, you can’t try Home yet. What you can do is update your Facebook […]
Facebook Home: The App That Thinks It’s An Android Skin
Yesterday’s leak of the HTC First gave the impression that it was going to be the much ballyhooed Facebook Phone at last. Instead, HTC and Facebook gave us something far more interesting. The HTC First is indeed a phone with strong connections to Facebook. However, the solution that powers it, Facebook Home, is more than […]
Facebook Says First With HTC — Details Leaked
The Facebook phone is the rumor that will not die. The closest that rumor came to becoming real was the disappointing HTC Status. Facebook hasn’t given up though, and tomorrow the company will unveil “our new home on Android.” For those unable to make it or unwilling to wait, you can get a sneak peak at 9to5Google. […]
Hour’s Worth of New York Minutes Fit In One Internet Minute
Have you visited Facebook in the last minute? So have 276,000 other people. How about watched a YouTube video? You joined an audience of 1.3 million. Tweeted about how much you have to get done today in so little time? So have 100,000 other people using Twitter. These numbers and more come form Intel, who […]
Vinepeek, The Internet’s Stream Of Consciousness
From the random teen uploading six seconds of video to show what he’s LOLling about to Joss Whedon capturing a staccato video of his Much Ado About Nothing cast heading to SXSW, Vine has surprisingly and quickly captured people’s attention. The app, which allows you to instantly share six-second videos to Twitter and Facebook, only […]
Facebook to Incorporate #Hashtags, End Times To Follow
Almost everyone has gotten used to seeing that little hashtag (#) in posts. Used on Twitter to denote a topic, the hashtag manages to show up elsewhere too. Maybe your friends cross post or maybe they’ve simply gotten used to using it. Facebook is betting on the latter. The Wall Street Journal alleges that the […]
Review: Half The Sky Game Opens New Donation Possibilities Through Facebook
There’s a new game in town. The Half The Sky Movement, which works to create opportunities for women around the world, has rolled out a new Facebook game with a charitable purpose. Half The Sky Movement: The Game allows players to follow an Indian woman named Radhika on her journey through her village and then around […]
The Onion Gets In Real Trouble With Fake Tweet About Nine Year Old Movie Star
I like the word cunt. Along with fuck, cunt is one of my favorite words. In my native South London, I use it as punctuation. A noun, a verb, and an adjective. Savoring the hard C, the drawn out U, ending in the satisfying NT. A word that is like the sex it describes, just […]
Today Is Safer Internet Day; How Safe Are You?
In 1999, the European Commission came up with the Safer Internet Programme with the goal of promoting safe and responsible use of the internet by children and young adults. In 2004, Safer Internet Day was developed as a special day each year to promote safer use of the internet and online technologies. That day has […]