Tommy Jordan, the father who taught his disgruntled teenage daughter a very public lesson after she complained about her chores on Facebook has spoken out for the first time since his video went viral. Tommy Jordan, an IT worker from Albemarle, North Carolina, filmed himself shooting his 15-year-old daughter Hannah’s laptop and published it on her Facebook page after she moaned about her pa…
…ho actually went to cast a vote. The results showed to a high statistical significance that those who received the “social” message were more than 2% more likely to report having voted and 0.4% more likely to actually vote than those shown the “informational” message. And users were 0.22% more likely to vote for each “close” friend – as measured by the deg…
…he Virgin tycoon’s son, Sam. Harry attended a second private party the day after he was photographed naked in a two-storey suite on the 63rd floor of the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Resort hotel. Around 12 hours after the now infamous “strip billiards” game he held court at a vodka-fuelled poolside party with a dozen “randomly recruited” girls. “Girls were invited to come over and meet Harry,” accor…
Aug 26 2012 | Posted in
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…. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel also announced his plans early too but his return was beyond anything he could have hoped for. He wrote Mark Zuckerberg a cheque for $500,000 in 2004 but has offloaded 16.8 million shares for the tidy profit of $633 million. Among the others to cash out was Mark Pincus, the chief executive of online gaming company Zynga. Eight years ago he gave Facebook a cheque fo…
Facebook has now surpassed one billion people using it every month, the company has said. The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday. The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion “likes”, 219 billion photos and 17 billion location check-ins. The site, which was launched in 2004, is now look…
…rtnerships on Thursday in San Francisco, at the annual “f8” conference attended by about 2,000 entrepreneurs, developers and journalists. The event was also being broadcast to, at one point, more than 100,000 online viewers. The changes seek to transform how and how much people share things online, just as Facebook has been doing since its scrappy start as a college-only network. What is Facebook…
Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its users visit even when they have logged out. In its latest privacy blunder, Facebook was forced to confirm that it has been constantly tracking its 750 million members, even when they are using other sites. Facebook also says the huge privacy breach was simply a mistake – the software automatically downloaded to users’ c…
…epted – even though almost all of them had the boss already added as a friend. Nelson Novaes Neto then sent friend requests to 436 direct friends of the boss – he was accepted by a further 14 people within an hour. After just seven hours, his cloned account’s friend request was accepted by the person he originally wanted to have access to, SecGirl. The target was also conned into…
…your mobile browser, Facebook will provide a list of others who have visited the same page recently in the same area. A quick click will then add you as friends. How to change your email address back: 1. Go into the “About” section of your profile 2. Where the email address is displayed, click “Edit” 3. Click on the circle along from the @facebook.com address 4. Change setting to “hidden from time…
…allowed people on Facebook to tag images of their friends quickly and easily, without allowing users to identify anyone on the social network unless they were already friends with them. Face.com is an 11-employee startup located in the heart of Tel Aviv’s startup community on Rothschild Boulevard, locally known as the Silicon Boulevard. The firm could not be reached for comment, but in a sta…
The rumor that Facebook would begin charging its users with a subscription fee is not true, Facebook has assured. On Sunday, an online rumor that Facebook was going to begin charging as much as $10 per month starting Monday prompted widespread digital panic. The pseudo Facebook announcement was written in all capital letters and spread around the social network by gullible users. The announcement…
The internet is abuzz after pictures of Mark Zuckerberg emerged as we have never seen him before – topless and hanging out with a load of other topless guys. TMZ posted the picture today which shows Mark Zuckerberg caressing his hairy – and quite buff – chest while obviously having a very good time cavorting with the other men. The jury is out on what exactly is going on in the…
Tommy Jordan, an angry father from Albemarle, North Carolina, has taught his disgruntled teenage daughter a very public lesson in respecting one’s elders by shooting her laptop on camera and then publishing the video on her Facebook page. Tommy Jordan made the video after his 15-year-old daughter Hannah had apparently written a Facebook post complaining about all of the chores she has to do at ho…
Facebook’s Timeline, which exposes people’s entire history on the site, will become mandatory for all users. Timeline has been voluntary up until now. From now, users will simply be notified that they are being “updated” via an announcement at the top of their home page, which users click on to activate Timeline. As with voluntary switches to Timeline, those who are “updated” will have just…
The NASDAQ exchange saw Facebook shares jumping more than 10% within minutes of making their stock market debut. Facebook shares rose to $42, having been initially priced at $38 each, before falling back to trade flat. Mark Zuckerberg, 28, who started Facebook while at university, remotely opened trading on the Nasdaq earlier. He appeared via a video link from a celebration at the firm’s he…
…s, known as chat heads, rather than opening up apps and navigating through menus. Facebook Home will be available via Google’s Play Store as a download. The software will be available from April 12 on six phones – three from HTC and three from Samsung. Only four of these handsets are available now. The others are set to launch alongside Facebook Home. No information was given about whe…
…the day on Friday just 23 cents, or 0.6%, higher than its initial price, at $38.23, valuing the company at $104.2 billion – even though it only made $3.7 billion last year. The shares opened up 11% at a respectable price of $42.05 in the morning, and jumped as high as $45 at one point, only to fizzle out after initial technical difficulties delayed the start of the trading by about two hour…
May 20 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » A Facebook update will make users to become unwitting corporate ambassadors under plans by the company to allow the site’s main news feed to carry sponsorship messages carrying their mugshots. Beginning in the New Year, so-called “sponsored stories” appear in the main news feed that Facebook users’ friends see. At present, if you click to “like” a product, it does not always appear in…
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Julia Cross’ attempt to use Twitter and Facebook to find the mysterious stranger with whom she enjoyed a brief but perfect flirtation beneath the Mediterranean stars ended in disappointment. Julia Cross, 33, finally found her Prince Charming Martin, but he came forward to say: “Sorry, but I’ve got a girlfriend!” It seems that PR consultant Julia Cross from UK might just have had a lucky escape, a…
Facebook launches its own app store to promote mobile programs that operate using the social network. Facebook said the App Center will become the “new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something” and other titles. Developers will have the ability to charge a fee for apps sold in the store in the near future, Facebook said. The announcement came as Facebook admitted growth i…
…ons on a river that generates twice as much electricity as the Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona, Facebook said. In case of a blackout, construction designs call for each building to have 14 backup diesel generators with a total output of 40 MW. Facebook’s Lulea data center, which will consist of three 300,000-square foot (28,000-square meter) server buildings, is scheduled for comple…
John Kelly, a small business owner and youth baseball coach from Chicago could be ruined after his friends and family exposed his racist Facebook rant against Whiney Houston. John Kelly used the “n” word to describe Whitney Houston on his own Facebook account. The offensive term was spotted by a family friend and re-posted on Westside Baseball of Oak Lawn Facebook page. John Kelly has been suspen…
Kris Jenner, the Kardashian matriarch proves she is the driving force behind Kourtney, Kim and Khloe’s love of the limelight, as she sings from behind the wheel of her convertible while cruising through Los Angeles in 1985. For her 30th birthday in 1985, Kris Jenner decided that she needed to show all of her friends just how much she loved them, and made a music video, aptly titled: I Love…
…s closely connected to a brand’s engagement with users and can often be quantified by the number of Likes a page earns. In a crushing blow to the company before its highly anticipated IPO on May 18, General Motors pulled its $10 million advertising campaign on Facebook. The auto-maker said they were reassessing how their marketing dollars were being spent and decided to make necessary adjust…
