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  • Helen Flanagan attacked on Twitter over nose job

    Helen Flanagan, who had reportedly undergone a nose job in May, has been bombarded with fresh abuse on Twitter regarding the cosmetic surgery. Friends of the former 'Corrie' star have claimed that she only went under the knife after school bullies taunted her relentlessly about her nose, the Daily Star reported. Despite the claim, the 22-year-old actress, who has a turbulent relationship with ...

  • Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan reveal first pic of daughter Everly

    Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum debuted their newborn daughter, Everly, on their Facebook accounts on Sunday night. The former 'Step Up' co-stars welcomed their baby girl on May 31. 'The Vow' actor shared an image, which shows him holding his daughter with his wife by his side, and wrote "First Father's Day with my girls" along with it, People magazine reported. His wife ...

  • Family congratulates new parents Kim K and Kanye West

    Kim Kardashian's family congratulated her and boyfriend Kanye West on Twitter after the reality star gave birth to their first child on Saturday morning. Kardashian matriarch, Kris Jenner wished a happy Fathers Day to West on the micro-blogging site, the People Magazine reported. Kim's sister, Khloe, wrote that she couldn't describe the miracle that has become a part of their family. She ...

  • Warnies sexy shirtless pic slammed on Twitter

    Shane Warne, who tweeted a semi-naked image of his, was quickly told by the Twitter users - and his daughter - that he should rather keep his bedroom eyes to himself. His 11-year-old daughter Summer wrote on the micro-blogging site that the legendary cricketer should remove his image, the Daily Telegraph reported. @TheBrasher wrote to Warne that it was Twitter and not the local tart's number. ...

  • Social media leading cause of FoMO - fear of missing out

    Researchers have showed that a co-dependency on social media is a major cause of the condition foMO - fear of missing out. Research from the University of Essex in Britain found that if basic social needs like autonomy, competence and relatedness are not met then a person is likelier to have increased levels of FoMO, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The problem defined as a fear of one's ...

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Spartan

Spartan

In Spartan, David Mamet takes his signature elliptical approach to the well-worn Tom Clancy-ish spy genre, deflating it of its emphasis on straightforward plot-point-to-plot-point narrative structure and refilling it with a politically charged undercurrent thats all too timely. As with so ... ...

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  • Offensive Facebook pages removed

    Two Facebook pages containing demeaning comments about women have been taken down as the Australian Defence Force continues to investigate whether any of its members were ...

  • Dunne breaks silence by taking to Twitter

    Prime Minister John Key forced Mr Dunne to resign. Photo / Mark Mitchell United Future leader Peter Dunne has broken nearly two weeks of silence and is back on Twitter, but steering away from the scandal that ended his ministerial career. Mr Dunne said on Twitter that a magnificent rainbow over Wellington at present could be a good omen of thing to come. Mr Dunne resigned 11 days ...

  • North Queensland soldiers social media investigation

    THE Australian Defence Force is investigating claims soldiers in north Queensland posted derogatory comments about women on social media. It comes amid a separate, unrelated investigation into a scandal involving soldiers who allegedly filmed themselves having sex with fellow military personnel and civilians before sending the images to their colleagues.The latest scandal involves a ...

  • Facebook users rise to 64m in Indonesia

    Facebook has revealed it has 64 million users in Indonesia who actively access their accounts on a monthly basis and says this number puts the country in the social networking site's top five largest markets. It also plans to monetise this huge market by inviting small and medium-sized businesses to advertise on the popular site. "Those are our internal figures on monthly ...

  • Scammers pretending to be ministers on facebook

    ATHENS, AL (WAFF) - According to the Better Business Bureau, con artists are pretending to be popular church ministers to gain your trust and persuade you to give them money. The BBB said they're creating fake profiles on facebook, complete with pictures and inspirational posts. The scammers will ask you to show your support by "friending" the minister. The BBB said ...

  • Mad Men Latest Episode Has Fans Flocking To Twitter

    Mad Men is almost at the end of its penultimate season. There’s only one episode left and fans are wondering what will happen. In the past season, fans have been subjected to a number of major events that have left little to the imagination. We now know (spoilers ahead) that Bob Benson is gay (and might be a spy), Megan Draper is not dead, and that she won’t be dying anytime soon. ...

  • Lolo Jones posts bobsled paycheck on Twitter explains her complaint

    said back in March that she was so "desperate" for a win that she had decided to join the 2014 Olympic bobsled team. But bobsledding, as it turns out, is nowhere near as lucrative as track. On Monday, the 30-year-old runner-cum-bobsledder posted Tweeted a Vine video for her bobsledding paycheck, which came out to $741.84 for seven months of training. "Seven months with bobsled ...

  • What the Kids Are Doing A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines

    hitting 13 million users earlier this month , especially among the kids, a technical term meaning "anyone younger than me." So what are people doing on ...

  • Twitter coverage Whitey Bulger trial

    James "Whitey" Bulger, center, during a pretrial conference before U.S. District Judge Denise Casper, left rear, in a federal courtroom in Boston. He is flanked by his attorneys Henry Brennan, left, and J.W. Carney Jr. ...

  • PRISM Apple Facebook Microsoft ... Who released which data

    If you're feeling dizzy in the wake of the PRISM affair, you're not alone. Here's a summary of the companies involved and what they did with your ...

  • St. Paul budget forums in July mayor taking ideas on Twitter

    St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is looking for some hard answers to city budget questions on Twitter. Coleman will host four resident meetings this summer as work gets rolling on the 2014 budget, and he'll be joined by city council members and department officials. Residents can share their ideas online ...

  • Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online with social media scoldings

    In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver talking about his facebook page in Kent, Ohio. Oliver uses the reach of his department’s increasingly followed Facebook page to interact with residents and take to task criminals and other ne’er-do-wells, his preferred term is ';mopes';, for the stupid, the silly and the outright unlawful in ...

  • Justin Biebers cat Tuts has his own Twitter account

    surrendered to German authorities after failing to provide the proper paperwork while traveling with her -- and has moved on to adopt a cat named Tuts. Tuts, who is uncannily similar to the famous internet ...

  • Teens Find The Right Tools For Their Social-Media Jobs

    can still link to it .) Then Facebook happened. And Twitter. And beyond those two dominant social-media platforms, there are a host of other, newer options for staying in touch and letting the digital universe get a look at your life. And for certain kinds of sharing, some of those other options make more sense to tech-savvy teens than the Big Two do. On ...

  • Google Analytics Admin Panel Gets a Redesign

    announced a redesign of the administration panel. Not only does the new design have a more consistent look and feel, but it should also go a long way to helping users visualize the settings for an account, property, and profile much easier. The main administrative settings are now organized into three columns for each of the three main groups of settings: accounts, properties, and profiles. ...

  • Facebook Launches Improvements To Page Post Link Ads

    Facebook just announced a few more updates to its efforts to ';simplify'; its ad products. The company recently revealed that it plans to cut down its existing ad units by more than half. More on ...

  • Facebook Asks Just How Friendly You Are with Your Friends in Attempt to Improve News Feed

    Facebook is taking a new, proactive approach to tweaking their news feed algorithm, in an attempt to ';show you more interesting updates.'; We noticed a new poll appearing on the right-hand side of the Facebook homepage – dispersed inside the ads. It asks users how well they know certain friends and provides these five options: One of my best friends; I know them well; We ...

  • Nearly 250 apply for Boston bomb charity money

    Ken Feinberg, administrator for ''The One Fund, Boston'' talks to a Boston Marathon bombing survivor before a town hall style meeting about the fund in Boston, Massachusetts May 7, ...

  • U.S. News Twitter Chat Vitamins and Supplements

    Next Monday, U.S. News will host a Twitter chat on vitamins and supplements. We'll discuss a range of topics – from who needs them, to the benefits and risks, to a specific look at some of the most popular and common choices. Here's what you need to ...

  • Instagram Video May Be On Tap During Upcoming Facebook Press Event

    Instagram video announcement. While other possibilities have been discussed, the strongest possibility lies with the social network adding a competitive product that will go head-to-head with ...

  • Eyepartner Launches TikiLIVE v4.0 with Twitter Bootstrap Responsive Design

    MARATHON, Fla., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eyepartner has launched the latest version of its broadcasting platform, TikiLIVE v4.0, built on Twitter Bootstrap technology. TikiLIVE is Eyepartner's flagship HD broadcasting platform that provides its users with a comprehensive set of tools for producing and managing live HD streaming content. The new version has been re-engineered from the ...

  • Ohio police department rips criminals in Facebook posts

    This Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver, in Kent, Ohio. Oliver uses the reach of his departments increasingly followed Facebook page to interact with residents and take to task criminals and other neer-do-wells, his preferred term is mopes, for the stupid, the silly and the outright unlawful in messages that mix humor and blunt ...

  • Feminist Taylor Swift Parody Account Sweeps Twitter

    The microblogging site hosts over 500 million registered users, including many other humorous parody accounts. However, the Taylor Swift feminist account, known as the handle @feministtswift, is getting the most attention by far of any other user on the site this week.Brown University student Clara Beyer created the parody account based on the personality of the country music darling.Known for ...

  • Natural gas spiked with cinnamon scent for pipe work in New York

    The New York Office of Emergency Management said it spiked the scenting agent added to natural gas with cinnamon to prevent 911 calls during work. The office said Sunday it was masking the smell of mercaptan, an odor added to natural gas to allow residents to detect leaks, with cinnamon along a pipeline in Harlem to prevent an influx of 911 calls during work Sunday morning. "There's ...

  • Does Facebook Like George Soross Anti-Gun Policies

    The advent of 'social media' has been heralded as a new, unbiased forum where ideology, politics and opinions are able to compete on a level playing field. From talk radio to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace, these forums are generally assumed to reflect the true voice of their subscribers - untainted by the liberal bias of the mainstream ...

  • Its a little Kim Family takes to Twitter to break news of Kardashian birth

    The couple was keeping silent on Sunday in the wake of multiple reports that Kardashian gave birth over the weekend -- about a month premature. But Kardashian's sister Khloe appears to have let a rather cryptic cat out of the bag on Twitter. "I can not even begin 2describe the miracle that is now apart of our family. Mommy/baby are healthy &resting. We appreciate all of the ...

  • Mysterious Facebook event sparks online buzz

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service.The leading social network invited the media to its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park where "a small team has been working on a big idea," but remained hush about what will be ...

  • Taylor Swifts feminist doppelganger takes off on Twitter

    This June 12, 2013 photo released by Starpix shows singer Taylor Swift at The Fragrance Foundation Awards at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. Swift was honored as Fragrance Celebrity of the Year at the Fragrance Awards. She has three signature fragrances, including the recently released Taylor by Taylor Swift. In 2011, her Wonderstruck was the top-selling celebrity fragrance. ...

  • Google Webmaster Tools Warnings to Include Example URLs

    Good news for webmasters who have been struggling to identify links and pages that have been trigger warnings in Google Webmaster Tools. Google will now include example URLs in their emails warning webmasters about manual spam actions. There are many cases where webmasters know they have manual web spam action taken against their site, but they can't figure out what is triggering the spam ...

  • Snowden Facebook Google can resist NSA

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday said companies like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. had an "ethical obligation" not to cooperate with the National Security Agency data-gathering program, arguing that the tech giants had enough clout to resist the ...

  • Instagram Video Now a Possibility Facebook Announcement June 20th

    Facebook is intentionally keeping the details surrounding its June 20 press conference under wraps, but according to one source, the social media giant may have plans to introduce a video option to ...

  • Amanda Bynes Twitter Feud Starts With Modern Family Stars Boyfriend

    "It's sad @AmandaBynes was a child actress who kids looked up to. Now she's just a lost soul in a plastic face. #gethelp," Prokop said during the exchange.Bynes responded by tweeting, "your girlfriend has an ugly face like you."This was the most recent outburst by Bynes on the social media site in a list that seems to be growing every day. But it is not just with ...

  • Google Is Trying To Give The Entire World Internet Access With High-Flying Balloons

    Project Loon will use these solar-powered giant devices hovering 12 miles above the ground to beam down Internet to places where they can't lay ...

  • Guys Who Isnt Excited For A Facebook RSS Reader

    Be honest--you barely give a crap about Facebook anymore. But here's why you should shelve your usual ambivalence about Facebook product launches and hope for the best on June 20: RSS could be the killer app that makes Facebook a power ...

  • Social Media in the Public Sector

    social media strategy, the company put together a team of 22 staff members and went from monitoring Twitter from 9-to-5 on weekdays to tweeting 15 hours a day, seven days a week. After 17 days of non-stop tweeting, PSE&G had gained about 47,000 Twitter followers, and management was reconsidering how it ...

  • Twitter photos Rain postpones mens Lobstick golf tournament in Waskesiu

    After approximately 125 millimetres of rainfall, the men's Lobstick golf tournament was postponed for the first time since 1935. The championship flight will now take place July ...

  • The right tool for the job

    After working on a recent website we had inherited, I began to ponder on using the right tool for the job, and whether a technique or technology has been used because it’s correct, or because it’s clever. Pixel Sheets A case in point is pixel sheets. Having been used by Amazon amongst others for quite a while, they are a fantastic way to save on HTTP requests and speed up the ...

  • Hell is Other People Anti-social media to keep you alone

    (Credit: Video screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Like most social media, Foursquare is designed to connect people, but what if you feel like being alone? Web ...

  • Apple Microsoft Facebook release new details on national security requests

    Apple on Sunday released new details on U.S. government data requests. The tech giant joins Facebook, Google and Microsoft in asking for permission to release more information on national security requests, in an attempt to provide more transparency following allegations that the National Security Agency (NSA) had direct access to its ...

  • Whos following Weiner on Twitter

    Although he’d love to move past it, Anthony Weiner will forever be linked to Twitter, thanks to how his use of the social media site led to his downfall from Congress in 2011.Weiner’s Twitter account is again being watched closely, albeit for different reasons, since he announced his run for New York ...

  • 5 Social Media Deals That Make Waze and Tumblr Seem Like Steals

    IDG News Service - Google buys Waze. Yahoo buys Tumblr. Facebook buys Instagram. Three recent social-media deals highlight a strange phenomenon: the $1 billion app that makes no money. It seems ridiculous at face value--how can cat GIFs and photo filters be worth that much?--but I took a look at tech's recent history to put these deals into context. Some of these gems might surprise ...

  • Facebook to Unveil New Product Thursday

    Facebook has invited journalists to a Thursday event, promising the launch of a "new product" without providing specifics. The invitation, sent out at the end of last week, said the event would take place at the social networking giant's headquarters in Menlo Park, California."A small team has been working on a big idea. "Join us for coffee and learn about a new ...

  • Police Chief Takes Criminals To Task On Facebook

    Criminals caught in one pocket of northeast Ohio are likely headed for public embarrassment at the hands of a small-town police chief and his many Facebook fans. Chief David Oliver has embraced his Brimfield Township department's Facebook page to communicate with residents, rant about various topics and criticize criminals, whom he calls "mopes." His mix of humor and blunt opinion ...

  • Anti-social media app helps you avoid Foursquare friends

    While Hell Is Other People is described as "partially a satire" by its creator, the Web app might be a blessing to those who just want to feel alone in a crowd.The app looks at your Foursquare friends' recent check-ins, calculates "optimal locations for avoiding them," and slaps everything onto a nice Google Maps interface. Follow its guidance while strolling through a ...

  • Entries for the 2013 Social Media Leadership Awards

    Sony Pictures Television Garners Five Daytime Emmy Awards Including Outstanding Talk Show/ Informational for The Dr. Oz Show and Outstanding Drama Series for Days of our Lives ; The Dr. Oz Show Garners Third Consecutive Win for Outstanding Talk ...

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