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Facebook unhinged its mighty jaws and continued the laborious process of ingesting the entire Internet yesterday with the blog announcement of Comment Box, a social plugin that publishes user comments made on third party websites to your Facebook profile, and vice versa.
Nice kids finish last — except perhaps in the FAIL Blog's second annual Top Ten Lists for the Biggest FAILS, which just named Justin Bieber the Prince of FAIL for 2010.
Hey, you! Want more social media "buzz" in your life?
A year and a half ago, in a post titled "Ok Internet, Let’s Let the Bacon Meme Go," Feminist blog Jezebel pointed to the as “what just might be the final stop on the 'OMG BACON' Express." Alas, less than a month later fellow Gawker Media tech blog Gizmodo, in a post about a , stated the reality: "We've all underestimated the power of the recent bacon movement."
Following mounting public protests, a self-published book advocating adult-child sex is no longer available for sale on Amazon.
The 47,000 U.S. military personnel stationed on bases in Japan aren't always popular with the locals. "Noise, disruption and base-related crime," are three common complaints, and now there’s one more: Babies.
Listen. I need you to sit down. No, seriously, you'll want to be sitting when I tell you this. You know that mysterious decomposition we've been trying to cover up with the Febreze? Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff over at Wired figured out what it is, and ... well ... it's the World Wide Web.
Her name might lead you to believe that 10-year-old Azura Beebeejaun is just another golden ticket winner on Willy Wonka's ill-fated chocolate factory tour. In fact, Beebeejaun isn't fictional at all. She's a very real, very alive little girl who caused a kerfuffle when she appeared ... um ... somewhat dead in a Google Street View image.
JetBlue made a brave and down-right classy return to social media, just days after a certain flight attendant's newsworthy resignation in a story that may be far from reaching its nadir.
Two days after the "Dry Erase Board Hoax" hit the Web, people still want to believe — believe that a young woman quit her office assistant job via dry erase board, giving notice while revealing her boss's sexism and the 19.7 hours he wasted each week playing FarmVille.
Facebook didn't invent irresponsible hospital employees who take photos in emergency rooms and post them on the Internet. Most any middle school student can point you to disturbing medical or crime paparazzi images floating around in cyberspace. But like any well-made tool, Facebook sure makes things easier.
It's not that the people of the United Kingdom no longer "Like" Facebook. "" would be a more accurate feeling to describe those in the U.K. who don't have Facebook profiles. According to the latest numbers from website monitor Hitwise, the insanely popular Facebook may be reaching its saturation point in that country.
The most interesting aspect of YouAndMeArePure.com virgin dating site — besides its grammatically interesting name — is probably the gift shop.
Hey! Remember this morning when the Internet was awesome? Then it went straight to hell? Then it was awesome again … but for how long?
It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say Facebook is sucking up your life. But it could very well be sucking up the time you spend on the Internet. According to its 2010 "What Americans Do Online" report released yesterday, Nielsen found that Americans spend 22.7 percent of Internet time on social networks. That's up 43 percent from last year.
You know that guy who just posted the personal details of 100 million Facebook profiles in an online downloadable file? He ain't Matthew Broderick in "War Games," Keanu Reeves as "Neo" or "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
It hadn't hit Twitter's top 10 trend list at the time of this post, but it's only a matter of time before "#wookieleaks," the hashtag du jour, overtakes "Immigration Law," "Inception," and yes, even "StarCraft" as the topic all the cool kids are tweeting about.
Ivy Bean, the Internet-famous centenarian heralded as world's oldest Twitter user, passed away last night at her retirement home in Branford England. She was 104.
It was like a discount electronics attack from outer space. Earlier today, NASA's Twitter feed for astronauts currently in space (@NASA_Astronauts) briefly broke with the standard space jibber jabber, jammed on the cap locks, and subjected followers to an onslaught of messages about "BRAND NEW PLASMA FLAT SCREEN TV!!! WHOLESALE LIST!"
Ford announced AppLink — a downloadable software voice recognition accessory that connects drivers to their precious smart phones — back in April. It won't be available until next year, and then only in the relaunched U.S. Fiesta (My high school BF's dad had an orange one!) and the UK Focus.
Monday on Twitter probably felt like business as usual for many. Throughout the day, users were unable to sign up, sign in or update their profile. Unlike the frequent outages experienced during the World Cup, this glitch wasn't caused by the site being over capacity, according to Twitter engineer Jean-Paul Cozzatti.
Pugs and Batman have enjoyed a long, if unheralded, connection on the Internet.
Hey. So you know when Godzilla and Ghidorah get in a fight, it's best just to get the hell out of the way? I'm not saying who's who here, but puckish Internet presence 4chan and relentless media gossip blog Gawker are reportedly at odds. And today at least, 4chan appears to be winning.
"I'm on a horse." Arguably, it's the most recognized and repeated catchphrase since Beavis (of "Beavis and Butthead" fame) pulled his shirt on his head and demanded "TP" for his … well, you know.
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