In a Seinfeldian example of weird baby names, a couple in Israel has taken inspiration from Facebook and named their baby daughter “Like.”
Lior and Vardit Adler fancied the idea of giving their child a unique name, Haaretz reports. Like had a nice ring to it, they decided, while also representing the age of social networking. “If once …
Okay, maybe I’m just too old for this stuff. What’s this kids, “planking”? Back in my day, we liked to play it safe and try to come out with some limbs intact, at least.
A man died early Sunday morning at 4:30 a.m. after he tried to “plank” outside a balcony seven stories up in Brisbane, Australia. Sadly, he fell to his …
We’ve all been the victim of fake Facebook status updates from our friends. It’s not a bad thing — sometimes we forget to uncheck the “Keep me logged on” box when we’re in a rush. It’s OK. We’re human.
But Facebook’s latest round of opt-in login controls might cut down on the number of updates too unfit to publish here that you’ll …
Ah, the morning. It comes at you like a speeding bullet, but to your dismay, it’s nonetheless arrived. So what do you do with those few precious moments before hopping out of bed to start the day?
If you have a smartphone, there’s a pretty decent chance that you’re already fiddling with some app. In fact, 35% of Android and iPhone …
As the story goes, a blogger named Chris Soghoian recently got an e-mail from a big-name PR company with a somewhat odd proposition.
The e-mail begins as follows:
“Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
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It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg — if you’re not the Mark Zuckerberg, that is.
A bankruptcy attorney in Indianapolis named Mark S. Zuckerberg, has learned this the hard way. Over the last seven years, he’s been (understandably) overshadowed by the founder of Facebook. His name no longer comes up in Google searches. And most
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In the British workplace, time is money, and updating the Internet on your life 140 characters at a time is a luxury businesses apparently can’t afford. New research carried out by HCL Technologies and PR company Lewis Communications has discovered that 48% of British companies have banned employees from using Twitter and Facebook at …
Not that I’m really shocked by any of this, but Symantec says Facebook apps are giving third parties access to your profile. That Farmville request doesn’t look so benign and innocent now, does it?
Who are these third parties, exactly? Advertisers? No way. Apparently, they’ve had access to your profile, photos, chat, and have …
It’s the social network bombshell no one in a zillion years saw coming: millions of Facebook users are underage. I know. Gasp.
That’s according to Consumer Reports‘ annual “State of the Net” survey, in which the watchdog routinely checks with over 2,000 U.S. households about Internet usage and related online behavior. Last year the …
Looks like the fight for Skype is over. Just last week, reports surfaced that both Google and Facebook were looking at joint deals with the VOIP company, but now Microsoft has apparently finalized a buyout – for $8.5 billion, according to AllThingsD.
Follow-up: Microsoft Makes Skype Purchase Official: What You Should Know
If the …
The future of online news is social… and surprisingly casual. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released results of a study into audience behavior for the top 25 news sites in the U.S., and those results underline existing wisdom and offer a new idea of who is reading their news online, and how often, …
Must be nice! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has the financial wherewithal to get a home mortgage, as evidenced by his recent purchase of a $7 million spread in Palo Alto, California. Zuck had apparently been renting a house up until now, which is adorable.
Let’s take a look at his new digs, shall we?
Here’s the front of the …
