Tag: Facebook

Weeds Season 7 Premieres Tonight, Gets Farmville-Like Facebook Game
Tonight debuts the first episode in the 7th season of the popular Showtime series Weeds. What have the Botwins been up to since we last left them? Apparently quite a bit, but wer...
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British Security Firm Offers To Thwart Burglars With Scheduled Social Media Updates
We've all heard the line that Facebook is the best thing to happen to burglars since the crowbar. Since people (a) are oversharers by nature and (b) rarely think about anything be...
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Control is the Answer to the Filter Bubble
The "Filter Bubble" has been a hot topic of discussion this week. This is based on the concept recently discussed in a TED Talk by Eli Pariser, which is essentially about the infor...
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Facebook Adds Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to Board of Directors
Today, Facebook announced the addition of Netflix Chairman and CEO Reed Hastings to its Board of Directors. The announcement is quite interesting, considering rumors of Faceboo...
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Facebook Fans Worth 20 Yearly Site Visits, $136 A Piece?
What is a Facebook fan worth? It's a question that many have attempted to answer. These answers are often greatly debated. Can you place a set value on a Facebook fan? The lates...
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Winklevoss Twins Give Up, Will Not File With Supreme Court
Well, folks, our national nightmare may be over. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, aka The Winkelvii, have decided to take the money and run. "After careful consideration," they sa...
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Utah Man Posts Police Standoff Play-by-Play on Facebook
Don't let a pesky standoff with the police keep you from social media - Jason Valdez didn't. The 36-year-old man from Salt Lake City, UT...
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Roger Ebert Finds Support In The Twitterverse
By now I'm sure you've heard about Jackass star Ryan Dunn's untimely death early yesterday morning. The car crash that took his life also took the life of his friend and...
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Should Google and Facebook Be Filtering Our Content For Us?
Is the personalization of the Internet a step backwards? Is the wealth of information that is accessible to us being reduced because the products we use are filtering it all so hea...
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Did Kenny Britt Fail At Social Media?
There have been far too many incidents of athletes failing at various social media outlets, so much so, in fact, it's almost impossible to keep up with. Names like...
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Vancouver Healing Begins With Apologies That Go Viral
The post-Stanley Cup Finals riots in Vancouver, among other things, has made for some really good web content, giving the audience a closer look at the chaos that went on. Now, th...
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Roger Ebert’s Facebook Page Removed Following Ryan Dunn Death Remarks
UPDATE: It appears that Ebert's Facebook page is back up and running. Even though the page was o...
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Potential Employers May Have Access to 7 Years of Your Status Updates
The Federal Trade Commission has decided to stop investigating the practices of Social Intelligence, which offers employers a service that does social media-related background chec...
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Facebook To Make Music More Social Than Ever
The rumors about Facebook partnering with music services have been swirling for a while now. Last month, the New...
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