The debate that ensued when PhoneDog filed a lawsuit against it’s former employee Noah Kravitz is a very important one. This case debates about who owns a social media account, the company that the person represents or that person himself. The latest update on this case is that the court has refused to throw the case out of the windows and so the case continues. Given below are the respective arguments of both sides.
South Korean authorities have detained a person over the charge of ‘benefiting the enemy.’ What exactly did Park Jeonggeun, who has been detained, do? He simply retweeted a tweet which read, “Long Live Kim Jong-II.’ According to Park, this was purely in jest of the North Korean leader and was a bit of sarcasm rather than praise. However, South Korean authorities have refused to accept that explanation, for now.
Facebook has finally filed for IPO after a lot of anticipation and has raised $2.4 billion in funding. It is hoping that it will be able to garner $5 billion through public offering. Analysts are expecting that when Facebook is finally approved to go public, it’s valuation can be as much as $100 billion! This puts everyone who has even a fraction of a percent of shares as a millionaire. So who are the top shareholders in Facebook? Let’s see.
Wanting to “leave a mark on the world”, Cathy Matthews from Sacramento managed to set one of the most futile World Records: the most comments on a single Facebook post. The passionate Frontierville player, Matthews decided one day that the crop harvesting and tree chopping in the game are not challenging enough and set up a new target.
Everyone has been eagerly waiting for Facebook to go public. For long Facebook has withheld the temptation, just trying to build itself up and reach a very sustainable level by expanding it’s revenue streams. And now, finally, it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given the nod and the company has gone public. The company is looking forward to raising a whooping $5 billion fro the IPO filing. This will result in turning hundreds of Facebook employees into millionaires.
Most Facebook games are fun and stop at just that. However, A Better World is a game by ToonUps which was launched in December. ToonUps had planned that if Facebook gamers were able to accomplish 1 million good deeds on the game, the company will donate $10,000 to CURE.org, one of the largest providers of reconstructive surgery to disabled children. ToonUps had declared the deadline as January 31st but the enthusiastic gamers helped achieved the target more than a week before the deadline.
Ever since Google Search plus Your World launched, a lot of voices were raised against it. More importantly those coming from the Twitter quarters. Summarizing all the posts and the debates, the bottom line is that Google Search plus Your World is bad for everybody. That includes you, organizations, publishers and everyone you could ever think of.
Even the president of the U.S. has to be hip and keep up with the trends right? Well following this spirit, Google just posted information regarding an exclusive post-State of the Union interview with Obama in Google+ Hangout. The interview will take place on the 30th of January and will be streamed live on YouTube.
Social media has come about to play a huge role in national as well as international affairs. From Arab Spring to protest over Megaupload, social media has proved to be a highly effective tool. In view of this, FBI is now eyeing the social media to gather future intelligence as well as respond to emergencies. According to FBI, social media is quicker than 911 in prompting over emergencies. This has forced the intelligence agency to take the social networking sites into view.
Facebook finally launched it’s Timeline for everyone a few weeks ago. Many liked it, some hailed it as an artistic outlook while other lambasted it as too open to allow adequate privacy. But well, whether you like it or not, in a few weeks the Timeline will be activated on all the 800 million user profiles. You will get a seven-day preview period during which you can tweak the profile as per your privacy requirements and then, after seven days, the Timeline will be automatically published.
Porsche has always been the one to celebrate it’s occasions with style. The new occasion for Porsche is that it’s Facebook page has reached two million fans, which is a mighty large number. To thank so many faithful followers and to commemorate this occasion, Porsche has decided to release a special edition of it’s car, Cayman S. This special edition will feature the face of each of these two million fans on the car. If you are a part of the page, you may want to try to find your face on the bumper.
Facebook has been talking to Vevo in an attempt to bring Vevo to it’s own social network. Vevo is a music-video service, currently hosted by YouTube. It has the second largest unique users online, second only to YouTube. Currently, Vevo still has one year left in the contract it has with YouTube. But reports indicate that Facebook is now trying to bring Vevo to Facebook as soon as it’s contract expires. The idea would be to create a Facebook, with Vevo, where people spend even more time.
The online social network giant Facebook reveals more than 60 new apps. The users of Facebook can share on their profile, known as the Timeline. With this apps, users can easily share such things as photos, travel or fashion.
“The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can’t let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet’s development,” wrote Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in a post on his favorite social network. “Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet,” further settled the facts Zuckerberg leaving no room for interpretations.
The protests against Stop Online Piracy Act have moved from Internet to the streets across the US. A few days ago, many sites joined the “Internet blackout” movement and went dark, including trend setters like Wikipedia, Google, and Craigslist. The experiment in political activism proved its force as the message was spread with faster speed.
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