May
26
2009
Facebook, other websites ‘keeping deleted photos’
Link: news.bbc.co.uk
Apr
29
2009
More than 60% of Twitter users abandon the service after the first month. Here’s how to ensure this phenomenon grows beyond its current fad status. When it comes to the Internet, there are trends and there are fads. During the net’s infancy, enough companies created websites to make the move to the Information Superhighway (remember [...]
Tags: Ashton Kutcher, CNN, Facebook, Microsoft, Neilson, Oprah Winfrey, retention, Rick Sanchez, Twitter
Apr
24
2009
What happens when the music industry’s dirty little secret is used on the news? Hilarity, that’s what. The Auto-Tune is the music industry’s audio version of Photoshop. It’s allegedly been used to fix the off-key singing of Britney Spears, Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and was used to create the yodel-esque effect in Cher’s 1998 hit [...]
Tags: Andy Hildebrand, Antares Audio Technologies, Auto-Tune, Ben Gibbard, Britney Spears, Cher, Death Cab for Cutie, disco, Facebook, Faith Hill, funktown, Grammy Awards, Michael Gregory, plug-in, rack-mounted, Reba McEntire, signal processing, strawberry shortcake
Feb
27
2009
Today’s kids would call him a couch surfer. My Dad’s generation would have called him a wander. And my grandfather would have called him a hobo. You can call him Josh Sullivan. The 27 year old has ditched his day job to document the 52 weeks he’ll staying with 52 different people in 52 different [...]
Tags: 52 Friends, 52 Weeks, Facebook, hot chicks, Josh Sullivan, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube
Feb
19
2009
After unleashing a firestorm of anger from the blogging community about Facebook’s quiet attempt to change its Terms of Service that retroactively makes them the owner of all the photos, videos and other personal content you upload to the social networking site, the company has done an about face. From blog.facebook.com: Going forward, we’ve decided [...]
Tags: Facebook, social networking, SysOp, System Operator, Terms of Service, TOS
Feb
17
2009
UPDATE! See: Facebook’s About Face, and why Digital Democracy Stinks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is saying, “trust me” after the insanely popular social networking site quietly changed its terms of service. Everything the site’s 175,000,000 users upload, from personal photos to videos and everything in between, is now property of Facebook. They can do whatever [...]
Tags: contract, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Perez Hilton, Terms of Service, TOS
Jan
25
2009
She reportedly dumped him via Facebook FARK.COM reaction here!
Tags: Chelsey Davy, Facebook, Prince Harry