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C'mon, people - at least it will probably end up better than Havana Nights. Late last night the news broke that Lionsgate studios had given the green light to a remake...

Twitter Takes Next Step with Advertising

Twitter recently introduced the latest aspect of its advertising plan called Promoted Tweets to F...

BlackBerry Blog Hacked After RIM Cooperates with Authorities

RIM's official BlackBerry blog Inside Blackberry is currently down, after being hacked by a group going by the name TeaMp0isoN. The reason? Well, BlackBerry Messenger, was inter...

The Power of The Internet Brings Us The People of Burning Man

Be it crowd funding or crowdsourcing or anything else of a successful viral nature, the Internet is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to organizing a movement or getting li...

Do These Vile Facebook Comments Deserve Free Speech Protection? [UPDATED]

Last week, we asked you whether or not social media sites should censor offensive conte...

More Friend Filtering from Facebook

Facebook recently rolled out a new home page interface that displays a select list of the user's friends along the vertical length of the right side of the screen. It makes it easy...

“I’m Gonna Be Your Friend” Social Media Campaign Targets East African Poverty

The Save The Children organization is hoping to raise both awareness and funds to help the "devastating food crisis affecting millions of children and their families across East Af...

Facebook Adds Mobile Reporting, Password Reset

Facebook said it will start extending two new safety features to its mobile site and native apps. These are mobile social reporting and mobile password reset. The former, Faceb...

“New Twitter” is Now Just “Twitter”

Last week, Twitter tweeted, "If you're currently using Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you'll be upgr...

Google+ to Be Second Largest Social Network in US Within a Year, Survey Says

YouGov has put out some survey results about...

With iPhone 5 Release (Possibly) A Month Away, Guy Camps Out At Apple Store

One man (kind of) has the distinction of being the first person to get in line for the upcoming iPhone 5. In what he calls a "marketing and PR experiment," Robert Shoesmith...

Skype Updates for Mac OS X Lion

Skype announced the launch of a new version of Skype for Max OS X in version 5.3, which includes support for Mac OS X Lion and HD video calls. "Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X is built...

Google+ iOS Update Not Impressing iPad Users

Google has launched an update to its Google+ app for iOS. No, it doesn't...

Facebook Now Grouping Your News Feed By Topic

If you are on Facebook today, you might see something different on your news feed. Now your friends' posts will sometimes be grouped together based on the subject matter of those...

Bagcheck Acquired by Twitter

Twitter has acquired Bagcheck for an undisclosed sum. Bagcheck engineer and co-founder Sam Pullara is also along for the ride, as he is joining T...

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