- 8 years ago Sticky: Reddit and /t/socialmedia
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What Type of Social Networking Personality Are You?
If you're on popular social networking sites, you can probably group friends into categories based on their online behavior. But where do you fit in?
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Social Movements Don't Need Social Media
Groups like Occupy Wall Street embraced the open-source logic of the Internet as an organizing principle. It explains a lot about why movements fail.
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Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again
While it is too soon to say that Flickr is going to be bigger than Facebook or Instagram, there's a lot going on that indicates it's primed for a return.
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Facebook error that hijacks thousands of websites isn't just an 'inconvenience'
The social network's tendrils reach further and deeper than companies and users may feel comfortable with.
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Mark Zuckerberg Met With The Snapchat Founders Just Before He Ripped Them Off
Imitation is the highest form of flattery?
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11 Customer Service Stories That Will Restore Your Faith In Big Business
A guy jokingly tweeted Mortons Steakhouse to deliver a porterhouse when he landed at the airport. They delivered.
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At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life
How do companies prepare for the worst? By exposing workers to lifelike crises.
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Should This Doctor Have Slammed Her Patient on Facebook?
A St. Louis, Mo. doctor caused a social media stir after posting details about a patient on her Facebook account.
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20 Hilarious Tweets About the Pope's Resignation
As soon as the news of Pope Benedict's resignation broke, amateur and pro comedians alike flocked to Twitter to launch their best (Rat)zingers.
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Twitter Now Charges $200,000 For Promoted Trends
Twitter continues to up the price for one of its promising money-makers: promoted trends. The social network now charges companies $200,000 a day to buy a Promoted Trend.
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$4M Richer, StyleSeat Launches “To You,” Lets You Book Stylists To Your Home
StyleSeat, a scheduling platform for hair stylists and other beauty professionals, is launching its "To You" feature in San Francisco today. To You is the product I told StyleSeat founder, and close friend, Melody McCloskey that I wanted her to build for me; A way to book same-day or..
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BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys tweets from iPhone, pins blame on hackers
BlackBerry announced pop music star Alicia Keys as its new Global Creative Director to great fanfare during its launch of BlackBerry 10 late last month, but if a tweet posted by Keys today is any indication, she may not be being that faithful to the new platform.
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Kobe Bryant Tells ‘Em: Delete ‘Your Gay’ From Vocabulary
Kobe really did take something positive from that time he was caught yelling "f*gg*t" at an NBA referee. Bryant tweeted it's not cool to use "your gay."
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Fighting dirty: Microsoft’s mean ‘Scroogled’ ads are a sign of what's to come
Microsoft just came out with the second phase of its "Scroogled" campaign, a series of fearmongering attack ads aimed at Google that are very similar to the political attack ads that flood the...
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I hired a fake Facebook girlfriend
Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is smart, pretty and has hopes and dreams of getting to grad school. And for $5 she will be your girlfriend.
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Test drive 2: DC to Boston in a Tesla Model S
A reviewer in the New York Times said recently that he failed to make it, setting off a war of words with Tesla founder Elon Musk, who said the Times review was a "fake."
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Facebook wins legal battle to force Europeans to use real names online
A German court today ruled in Facebook's favor after a data privacy watchdog tried to force the social network to drop its fake-name fight.
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Microsoft is forcing Messenger users over to Skype starting April 8th
Microsoft is planning to force existing Windows Live Messengers users to upgrade to Skype from April 8th. In an effort to phase out its Messenger service, Windows Live Messenger clients will be restricted from signing into the service gradually starting in early April.
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Creepy Side of Search Emerges on Facebook
Facebook Graph Search is getting its own privacy filters after it was shown that the social discovery service could be used to run creepy searches for children.
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EA and Zynga reach settlement in lawsuit surrounding The Ville
Inside Social Games has learned that Zynga and Electronic Arts have reached a settlement and are moving to dismiss the lawsuit that was filed last summer surrounding The Ville. The decision is now in the court's hands. At the moment,…