Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral – CNN
CNNBlazek’s response to an e-mail and LinkedIn request from Diana Mekota, a 26-year-old planning to move to Cleveland this summer, has made the rounds on Reddit, Buzzfeed and other viral hotspots after Mekota posted it…
Social Media Today: Facebook Algorithms, Reddit Test, Messenger Dropped – KYW Newsradio
Social Media Today: Facebook Algorithms, Reddit Test, Messenger DroppedKYW NewsradioFacebook is changing its news feed algorithm again. Businesses, brands, or fan pages can now tag other brand pages and those posts will appear in both…
New York set to weather dire predictions – News & Observer
New York set to weather dire predictionsNews & ObserverScott Says. New York set to weather dire predictions. By Scott Fowler. [email protected] 1, 2014. 2014-02-01T00:01:35Z. By Scott Fowler The_Charlotte_Observer. Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print…
Bill Gates gave this woman a cow. What will Shaq-a Claus give? – San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury NewsOne woman got a Secret Santa present way better than a Chia pet: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gave her a cow. Gates is one of several celebrity participants in internet community Reddit’s…
Bill Gates Gives Secret Santa Present to Lucky Redditor – Mashable
MashableSecret Santa is generally an awkward tradition that requires buying gifts for someone whom you barely speak to all year in the name of Christmas cheer. It usually results in random coffee table books or…
Microsoft boss donates cow via Secret Santa programme – BBC News
BBC NewsMicrosoft chairman Bill Gates has donated a cow as part of Reddit’s Secret Santa gift exchange programme. He bought the $500 (£305) cow from charity Heifer International on behalf of a Reddit user known…
Warner Bros Tries To Spam Reddit For Getaway Movie, Gets Called Out
Alexandre Desplat Is Godzilla 2014 Composer, Says His Agent At Kraft-Engel Warner Bros, the studio this blogger just blamed for the lack of early marketing for Godzilla 2014, tried to game the social media site…
Social Media Shows How The Media Failed Boston Bombings Coverage
Social Media is waging another war on mainstream media as of 3:07 AM Monday, April 22nd, where one of the Twitter trend terms is “How The Media Failed” and for a moment right below it,…
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Photos, Video Released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUoswCAZ2I The FBI released photos of Boston Marathon Bombing suspects late this afternoon, and the government organization has stressed that these images are the only official ones out there. What’s interesting, but not shocking, is…
YouTube Takes To Reddit To Explain Update, Gets Hammered
YouTube’s latest update is the most hated change in the seven-year history of the video-sharing website. The design change, which focuses on smaller fonts, and a mix of subscribers versus partner videos in the timelines…
Reddit Founder Steve Huffman At Web 2.0 Party, 2007 (Video)
It was 2007 and I was invited to a party for Reddit, thanks to Cathy Brooks, currently of Other Than That Studios, and then working with Loc Lemur on the Le Web series in Paris….
Michael Brutsch Is Violentacrez, The Underage Girl Photo Troll On Reddit
Gawker’s Adrian Chen’s outed a man considered one of the most insidious trolls on the Internet. His name’s Violentacrez, and is really Michael Brutsch. Mr. Michael Brutsch, according to his real profile, lives in Arlington,…
Skyfall: James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 VideoBlog
The marketing for Bond 23, or Skyfall, features a well-equipped social-media-oriented website that just lacks a blog area, and a place to make posts to Reddit, but has about everything else. One of those “everything…
President Obama on Reddit live chatting now
President Barack Obama, as this is being written, is participating in what’s called an “Ask me anything,” chat via Reddit, the Internet link forum that calls itself “The Front Page Of The Internet.” And the…
Facebooks IPO: Shares Open At $42.05, Firm Worth $104 Billion; Twitter Reaction
Friday is Facebooks IPO day, as investors rush to purchase a stake in the Social Media company. As of now, according to CNN, Facebooks shares opened at $42.05, reportedly 11 percent higher than the anticipated…
LutzSec Head A Black Hacker? Call Michael Arrington!
Tech observers will recall how TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington got on CNN and said that he didn’t know any black entrepreneurs and then essentially said that Silicon Valley was mostly White and Asian because it…
