- 8 years ago Sticky: Reddit and /t/socialmedia
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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook say they require warrants to give over private content
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook all say that they require full warrants in order to provide the contents of emails and messages to government entities, The Hill reports.
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10 Awesome Pranks to Play On Your Facebook Friends
We have gathered 10 devious pranks you can play on your Facebook friends, from freaking them out with photos to fooling them with alternate realities.
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Meet Facebook's grossest "married" couple
A teen girl who became famous for eating a tampon in a grossout video has Facebook-married a boy who made a video where he eats feces.
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Woman suing Match.com after date attempted to murder her
Mary Kay Beckman was stabbed 10 times by a man Match.com recommended as a date.
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Will the personalised Web destroy discovery?
It’s been a big month for the evolution of the personalised web, led by Mark Zuckerberg and the unveiling of Graph Search
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What Twitter Really Looks Like
The service, tracked in real time on a world map
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This Engineer Saved Facebook
The guy who told Zuckerberg that Facebook was broken – and then fixed it.
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Google’s No. 1 Asset Is Its Ability To Empathize With Its Users
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
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Facebook Profit Falls; Ad Sales Strengthen
Facebook reported a 40% fourth-quarter revenue jump as it ramped up its mobile business and offered new tools to advertisers, but the firm's shares slipped in after-hours trading.
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MySpace Squandered the Only Thing It Had Left
MySpace. Or is it Myspace. Or is it My______. I’m not sure. Truth is, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that MySpace has made increasingly bad decisions for too many years to every hope that they’ll become relevant again.
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The weirdest Craigslist ads for Super Bowl tickets
A Rolex, a snow-blower, and a round-trip vacation to Jamaica are just three of the things crazed football fans are willing to trade on Craigslist for tickets to Super Bowl XLVII.
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The Funniest Tweets Of The Great Super Bowl Blackout
The lights went out during tonight's Super Bowl. Twitter rose to the occasion.
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to him. Every so often, Parikh will hear her giggle, and that means she just tagged him in some sort of semi-embarrassing photo uploaded to, yes, Facebook.
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The First 25 People On Facebook
Today is Facebook's ninth birthday. Meet the students who celebrated its birth — and find out where they are now.
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Facebook Is Said to Create Mobile Location-Tracking App
Facebook Inc. is developing a smartphone application that will track the location of users, two people with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering efforts to benefit from growing use of social media on mobile computers.
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The Earliest Adopters
Would there be a Facebook without Mark Zuckerberg? Nine years later, his Harvard classmates weigh in.
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How Oreo Culture-Jacked The Super Bowl
After the lights went out at the Superdome in New Orleans, and the game that pitted the Baltimore Ravens against the San Francisco 49ers came to a grinding 34-minute halt, Oreo's team took action and posted a simple ad that was retweeted, or shared, more than 14,500 times on Twitter. How did 360i --the agency responsible for the ad-- do it so quickly?
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This Is What The Internet Did To A Photo Of Obama Shooting A Gun
The White House asked that the picture not be photoshopped. The internet responded with... this.
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61% Of Adults Have Taken A Vacation From Facebook
Sixty-one percent of adults who are on Facebook voluntarily took a break from the social networking site for a period of several weeks or more sometime in the past and 20% of online adults who once used Facebook say they no longer do so, a new study from the Pew Research Center found.
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Don't like television? Then you're not going to like the future of Twitter very much
Twitter is said to be looking at acquiring Bluefin Labs, which would fit the trajectory that the real-time information network has been on for some time. But is cozying up to traditional TV the only future for Twitter?