Tag: Reddit
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 to her Imgur account. And the …Job bank head Kelly Blazek apologizes after her rejection emails go viralThe Plain Dealer […]
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 feeds. The change could expand the reach of brands on Facebook by getting their content into the … …read more […]
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 … and more …read more Source: New York Weather News From Google
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 Secret Santa event. There’s also Shaq, Arnold Schwarzenegger, …Secret Santa turns out to be Bill GatesThe AustralianBill Gates gives secret […]
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 Starbucks gift cards — unless Bill Gates is your secret …Bill Gates Sends Secret Santa Gift to Reddit UserABC NewsThis […]
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 as NY1227 with whom he had been paired.Bill Gates plays Secret Santa to Reddit userCNETMy Secret Santa was Bill GatesFox […]
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 Reddit on Wednesday, and was called out for the action. According to Reddit staff, someone connected with the WB movie […]
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, and in the eighth spot was “Boston Bombing Coverage.” The trend was caused by the webblog Mashable’s headline “How the […]
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 that there are two, and not one, suspects. That indicates they were working as a team, that there was planning, […]
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 of viewers, and other small changes like putting the video title at the bottom of the video and not the […]
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. But this was in San Francisco, and a party held at Galaxy bar during the then-hot annual Web 2.0 Summit, […]
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, TX, has an extensive programming background, and currently works for First Cash Financial Services as an application developer. There, he […]
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 else” things is a video-blog series. Here’s a short one about how the Aston Martin DB5 will be presented in […]
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 result is a heavily overloaded Reddit. This is so because the note “reddit is under heavy load right now, sorry. […]
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 $38 IPO share price. And as Facebook is on track to raise $16 billion, this blogger says to Mark Zuckerberg, […]
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 just turned out that way, and it’s a meritocracy? The TV blast that caused my video? Well, with the revelation […]