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50 Things We Don't Do Anymore – Due To Technology

John McKay — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:08 +0000

How times have changed. Perhaps if you're old enough, you recall some of these.

Newstalk Talks to Facebook 'Pot Farm' Game Creators – Part II

John McKay — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:00:55 +0000

Here's part II of our interview with the creators of the fast-growing, and some say controversial, game 'Pot Farm' on Facebook.

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Do YOU Play Pot Farm on Facebook? 100,000 Others Do!

John McKay — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:55:53 +0000

Move over Farmville, say hello to (cough!) Pot Farm!

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Survey Reveals Americans Feel the Need to Take a Break from Facebook

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:00:39 +0000

Valentine's Day may be in the air, but it seems like there isn't a ton of love for Facebook

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Magazine Tweets Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting – Then Deletes It!

John McKay — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:34 +0000

Egg on the face of the New Republic magazine:

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Tommy Tutone's One Hit Wonder '867-5309′ Now REALLY Is for a Good Time!

John McKay — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:37:47 +0000

You remember the 1982 one-hit-wonder from Tommy Tutone, "867-5309." A girl named Jenny is the person to call for a good time. Her name and number was written on a bathroom wall.

The song, which hit th

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Facebook Message CEO Mark Zuckerberg for Just $100

The Brad — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:03:40 +0000

Time and time again the rumors about Facebook charging its users for service come up on my news feed. These have been outed as false each time, but that doesn't mean Facebook isn't looking at other revenue streams to cash in on it' social media platform.

Last year, Facebook began 'Facebook Gifts' where you can buy real world gifts for your online friends and also began allowing businesses and users to pay to promote a post for it to be more visibile to others. Now, they are testing out a new pay to message feature. The first test subjects are the Corporate Facebook team, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Technology 2012 Winners and Losers Include Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and More

John McKay — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:19:15 +0000

As we get ready to ring in the new year, we look back at who won, and lost big-time in 2012. Where did Facebook land? Groupon? Ever heard of LinkedIn? You will.

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Facebook Reaches One Billion Users-WOW!

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:00:07 +0000

You know what's cool? One billion users.

OK, now that that's out of the way, lets discuss the big Facebook news, which is that the social network recently topped one billion users. This amounts to about 15% of the world's population.

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Facebook Stock Drops Below $20 Per Share – Major Investors Bailing?

John McKay — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Facebook has turned out to be not the investment business leaders once thought.

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83 Million Facebook Users Ruled Fake As Stock Falls Below $20 [POLL]

John McKay — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:46:33 +0000

Facebook's shaky stock prices dipped below $20 a share Thursday after the world's largest social network released a report admitting 8.7 percent of its users are fake.

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Are You Suffering From 'Facebook Fatigue?' — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:00:31 +0000

Facebook’s cratering stock price is far from the social network’s only problem these days. They are also dealing with a customer base, which is getting increasingly bored with its service.

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Now Playing on YouTube And Facebook: Kill Rush Limbaugh Song by Detente

John McKay — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:30:25 +0000

The fallout continues over Rush Limbaugh's "comments" about Ms. Fluke.

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Do You Have a Smartphone? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:00:58 +0000

Whether they realize it or not, the majority of Americans now own smartphones.

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Twitter Is Selling Your Tweets and You Don't Get a Dime

Kathy Landin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:00:29 +0000

You may not be able to search for your own Tweets on Twitter after a week, but a marketing research company in the UK can now search all the Tweets Tweeted since January of 2010. This is possible because Twitter just sold Datasift the right to sort through them.

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Blogging? Tweeting? Facebooking? Homeland Security Is Watching You

John McKay — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:00:14 +0000

What you say, especially if you're a journalist, could wind up in the files of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Facebook Friends Dumping You? It's Probably Something You Said [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:00:35 +0000

If you recently lost a slew of Facebook friends, it probably wasn’t a glitch. Go back and look at your timeline because the chances are good it’s your own fault.

That’s what a new study from Nielsen seems to indicate anyway. The group surveyed about 2,000 adults to learn why Facebook users add and remove friends, and the results may surprise you.

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