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Hurricane (and later Tropical Storm) Irene has come and gone, leaving at least a few dozen people dead and causing major flooding and power outages for much of the east coast. T...

Facebook Shuts Down “Deals,” Keeps More Relevant Check-In Deals

Facebook has had a couple of "deals" products: "Deals" and "Check-in Deals." Deals are going away, but Check-in Deals are stayi...

Social Media Sewage … And Hope

Editor's note: This post was written by WebProNews blog partner Mark Schaefer, originally for his blog {grow}, and there are references to that blog (as opposed to WebProNews)...

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga Videos Pulled From YouTube [UPDATED]

UPDATE: All of the Bieber Vevo videos, Miley Cyrus' "Party In The USA" and Rhianna's "What's My Name" have been restored. Lady Gaga's official video for "Bad Roma...

Google+ is About Your Identity

Google+, while still young, can be a lot of different things to a lot of...

Man Brings Cooking School to Google+

Attention foodies - there's a new cooking show on...

Facebook Is Turning Your Kids Into Drunken Stoners

Consider this a follow-up piece to my previous "warning" that Facebook is...

Taylor Swift Will Answer Your Questions on YouTube

YouTube has come a long way from its earlier days of being a good place to watch funny cat videos and bootleg video of concerts and old music videos. Sure, you can still watch all...

Hurricane Irene Prompts NYC Evacuations, Twitter Outbursts

As she grows in size, Hurricane Irene gets closer and closer to the United States' eastern seaboard. While Florida looks like it will escape much of Irene's fury, other states may...

Half of All U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, according to Report

Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has put out a new report looking at stats on social networking usage. "For the first time in our surveys, social networ...

Dutch Tourist Guus Van Hove, Director of 013, Dead at Joshua Tree National Park

It appears that the bodies of two people found dead in the California desert belong to Dutch music promoter Guus Van Hove and his girlfriend Helena Nuellet. Van Hove, 44, is bes...

Twitter Helps NYPD Shut Down Gang Meeting

Attention criminals, would-be criminals, rioters, gang members and all who are of interest to local police departments: Social media is public - really really public. And while...

Google+ Now Lets You See Who You’ve Been Tagged With On One Page

Google announced a new feature of Google+ that lets users view all of the...

Google+ Makes Social Media More Like Real Life, Introduces Ignore Option

Google has introduced some more controls for users that allow you to ignore or block people. "Ignore means you'll see less of what a person is sharing (i.e., you're just not in...

Steve Jobs’ Career: The Law of Gravity, LSD and Lightsabers

First of all, you probably haven't seen a retrospective of Steve Jobs' career quite like this. Taiwanese animation company Next Media Animation is internet-renowned for puttin...

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