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“Face-roulette anyone”…or are you just tired of Facebook?

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While it won’t randomly connect you to a friend,at first glance it looks like Facebook is taking a leaf out of Chatroulette’s book by launching In-Browser Video Chat next week…or is it?

Reports from TechCrunch suggest it will be in partnership with Skype after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company [...]

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With 37,506 Mazes it is still the World’s Biggest Pacman

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Did a little bit of research on this one and it seems I’m a little slow on breaking the news about The World’s Biggest Pac-Man.

How it came about was a promotion to demonstrate HTML 5 and Internet Explorer 9.

But since its launch in April 2011, by Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI (Home of Pac-Man & the [...]

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Watch out Karl Stefanovic, the iPhone is coming !!!

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In a previous post I wrote about how Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, and how concern was being raised about the current campaign by much of the international press to spread panic over emissions of radiological material from nuclear power stations in Japan. The end of that article suggested, from a [...]

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The “P” in Social Networks

Sometimes you just have to break it down to something we all understand…

 

Source: gizmodo

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Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, isn’t it?

Take a look at the images below.

They are of the same helicopter gathering water to assist in the nuclear emergency in the North of Japan.

The first headline was written by the Huffington Post. The second (the smaller picture) was by the BBC. [Source: U-110 via Reddit]

Over at [...]

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Wanted :: Social Media Intern with veins pumping #TigerBlood

Looking for something to do all night that allows you to you recover the next day just so you can do it again…

Charlie Sheen is now seeking a social media intern to manage one of the most legendary media meltdowns of all time so we can continue to watch it live.

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CBA becomes Anti-Social ???

It would seem the bank has forgotten that the very nature of Social Media – conversations you have are with family and friends and not random third parties – means that if you were to see anything on your Facebook account that was negative about CBA, then it would more than likely come from family and friends. [...]

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Telstra wants to turn mobile internet users into a TRIBE

Last week (9 June 2010) I was lucky enough to listen to Telstra CFO John Stanhope addressed the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference here in Melbourne.

One of the points he reinforced was about the boom in social networks via mobile.

Of the five million 3G mobile customers he advised that over [...]

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A “privacy” picture is worth a thousand words

When it comes to the privacy issues with Facebook nothing displays the reasons for concern better than the Infographics at The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook… [...]

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“Social media networks become an important stop for investment information”…Duh!!

When are you guys going to learn? Another financial research firm and consultant, Spectrem, has just recently released a new survey that suggests that not only do 69% of LinkedIn users consult their LinkedIn networks on investment issues but more than one-third of investors say they are interested in receiving information from their advisors or corresponding with them via social networks [...]

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