Are You’re a Cyberbully? Try MTV’s ‘Morality Meter’ |
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Teens wondering whether their online behavior has crossed the line into sexting or cyberbullying will be able to get an answer from a new MTV “morality meter” app. Over the Line? lets young people share stories about what they’re up to online and invites users to rate those stories to “define the line between innocent and inappropriate,” ABC reports.
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| Launched today, the app ties into MTV’s ongoing campaign to end online abuse, a network exec says. A study released by MTV last year found that half of all young people have been the victims of cyberbullying or other online abuse, and that 30% have sent or received nude photos of other young people online or via cell phone.Read more at www.newser.com |
This one pretty much speaks for itself, so I’m gonna let it.
Enjoy! “Wow. Just wow.” That’s the tagline of this slideshow. When we set out to collect these, we had no idea how bad they’d be. Killer dolphins, math fails, title contradictions, they’re all here. If you know of one we missed, shoot us an email! Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com |
Social media is great! There are effective uses for humanitarian causes, maintaining friend connections, and yes, even that evil thing called advertising/marketing…but it all isn’t going to mean anything if there is no money to back these platforms that are so heavily engaged in the social media realm.
Maybe SM 2.0 will be social media with self-sustaining monetization. Social media chiefs converge in Davos, finding big profits still elusive despite heavy use |
| DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The leaders of Facebook and other social media sites have long seen some grim writing on their wall. While spectacular popularity has turned them into household names, they haven’t found a way to transform all those friends, fans and followers into profits. |
| The common theme: developing social networks so they get beyond socializing to drive humanitarian causes — Haiti earthquake relief, for example — or help businesses better communicate with their customers to increase sales.Read more at www.latimes.com |
Key word in headline – “Talks”
I can’t wait until headlines read, “Obama [or Congress] DOES/FIXES ______________”(fill in blank).
But I won’t hold my breath. |
Obama Talks of Restoring Security for Middle Class
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WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed on Monday to “reverse the overall erosion in middle class security” as he stepped up his efforts to reconnect with Americans suffering from a weak economy and high unemployment. |
Social media swings tight Mass. Senate race |
In the social media arena, Brown’s victory was even more decisive. Brown received 10.6 times more Facebook fan-page interactions and views of uploaded videos on YouTube than Coakley, according to a study performed by the Emerging Media Research Council and published by the Wall Street Journal. Read more at fcw.com |
I have not yet seen this movie, so I can not provide my own assessment, but after reading this, I’ll probably just wait for it on NetFlix.
And after all the hype this movie got, it’s nice to see someone jumping OFF the bandwagon. | Since then, clearly, Cameron has become a Lucas acolyte and wannabe, cobbling together pilfered elements, very much in the manner of his master, to produce “original” works of fantastic cinema. But the thing is, Lucas (and his team) put a considerable amount of more imagination — and, for a while, heart — into the process; mixing flat-out Flash Gordon copycatting with New Age goo proved revolutionary indeed, and continues to astound the youngsters. |
| With the release of Avatar, I am forced to discount any creative prowess Cameron may have possessed — and, in fact, to reconsider his career mostly in the terms of a bombastic pop-cultural thief, nothing at all like the crafty synthesizer Lucas once was. Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com |
AT&T Flaw Provided Access to Other People’s Facebook Accounts [REPORT] |
 A Georgia family found they were logged into other people’s Facebook accounts on their phones last weekend due to a flaw in AT&T’s data routing. The error, seemingly caused by AT&T sending the wrong data to customers, hasn’t been widely reported before.
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According to an Associated Press report, Fran Sawyer and her two daughters visited Facebook on their AT&T phones and found themselves logged into accounts they didn’t recognise. The three sent an email from one of the unknown accounts to their own Facebook accounts to prove there was an issue. Read more at mashable.com |
I can’t even really add anything to this. It’s sort of depressingly funny…definitely read the entire article for the full experience. Pepsi Forced to Reboot Pepsi Refresh on First Day |
The Pepsi Refresh Project (you know, that campaign that essentially replaced Pepsi’s Super Bowl ads) kicked off yesterday — or tried to — and it seems there’s been a bit of a technical glitch.
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But those eager to apply for the grants ran into plenty of problems in the wee hours yesterday morning. Beginning just after midnight consumers began posting to Facebook about problems accessing the forms. When the forms did pop up, an abundance of errors appeared. A number of would-be submitters said their applications were auto populating with other people’s information and program ideas, for example.
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| Yesterday afternoon it closed submissions to deal with the issues, though the rest of refresheverything.com is still live. This morning, an update said the submission portion or the problem is believed to be resolved, but tests are still being run to ensure the site will work properly.
Read more at adage.com |
If you kept up with any of the “Best of ‘09″ or “Trends for 2010″ lists none of this is breaking news, but the explanations are an interesting read. Social media comes of age, profitability |
Here’s a look at five keywords that defined the tech industry in 2009.
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Twitter
Love it or hate it, the real-time phenomenon known simply as Twitter is here to stay, particularly after the microblogging site has demonstrated such significant global reach and influence.
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Facebook
Another social-networking site also made waves last year. In fact, some may argue that it made more of an impact than Twitter did. That site is Facebook.
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Smartphones
It was a year of apples and droids, too. In other words, smartphones.
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Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New “Social Norm” |
 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claims that if Facebook was starting out now, sharing with everybody would be the starting point, rather than with a small group of friends. Is this more about reflecting social norms or changing them to help Facebook compete with Twitter?
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The statement, made during a livestream of the Crunchies awards, hits on a hot button issue for Facebook: it recently notified users of privacy changes via a pop-up notification. While the message claimed that Facebook was displaying the message to give users more privacy controls, blindly clicking “next” was a way to make much of your data public. And in fact, some data like the Friends List has become more public without any settings changes by users. Read more at mashable.com |
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