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Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She’s also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date.
Fat chance, right? Social media prom invites from fans have become a fairly standard trapping of modern celebrity, but — understandably — they rarely lead to an actual date.
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This time, however, the story has a cute ending. On…
Ok, admittedly, the headline is a slight misrepresentation. However, in the best online dating tradition, not only did it hopefully catch your attention but it has more than a grain of truth, too.
YouLike, a startup backed by the founders of Turkish eBay clone GittiGidiyor (which in 2011 was acquired by the online auction giant for $217 million), describes itself as an interest-based social network and dating site that takes into account a user’s dislikes, as much as what they do like,…
YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, and Lance Armstrong was winning his seventh Tours De France, and Arrested Development was still on the air.
A lot has changed since then, but YouTube’s growth remains strong as ever. YouTube announced that its community now uploads more than 100 hours of video to the…
Facebook has brought out a brilliant new addition to status updates that was desperately needed. Prepare for your news feed to be flooded with emoticons and more than likely irrelevant adjectives.
Without being too cynical, I’d like to bring to the forefront that MySpace had this feature back in the day, and if I remember correctly, there were a lot more emotions too choose from. In fairness, I think there are too many choices as there is. Please someone explain the definition of feeling…
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. “It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.”
In the year since the Facebook IPO, some things haven’t changed: Zuckerberg still sports his trademark hoodies, employees still rate their company and their founder highly, and Facebook still talks about its grand…
Over a year ago, I wrote about P&G’s plans to lay off over 1,600 of their workforce because they’d wasted so much money on advertisements, and needed to move to more efficient expenditures like Facebook and Google.
This week, I come to find they haven’t learned a damn thing. Read more
These days, even lamps in your house can be programmed via Arduino.
A Canadian design company called Fabule has developed Clyde, an LED desk lamp that can be programmed with personality modules in its “brain.” It’s compatible with Arduino, an open-source electronics program.
For example, when Clyde is in “afraid of the dark” mode, he can light up depending on how dark a room is. In “touchy feely” mode, Clyde cycles through different light colors when you touch his jellyfish-like legs. Inside…
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr
Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which prides itself on its Yahoo sources in particular. A later report in AdWeek, via its own sources, cited $1 billion as the figure currently under discussion. Coincidentally, that is said to be the valuation Tumblr…
Google announced on Wednesday at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco updates to its Google+ social networking platform, including a new image-focused design that resembles Pinterest and Facebook’s existing layout.
The company made some improvements to Google+ as a part of an effort to make it smarter and more intuitive, with the help of bigger pictures and related hashtags.
The update includes a multi-column layout. Depending on the screen size and orientation — and what kind of…
Surround sound systems were all the rage a decade or so ago, but they’ve been overshadowed by simpler speakers like soundbars and iPod docks. So it’s nice to see Bang & Olufsen inject some flash into the category with the BeoLab 14.
The BeoLab 14 doesn’t look like your typical surround system. Instead of rectangular dark boxes, the speakers are round silver rings. The can be wall-mounted or placed on stands, and there are even optional ceiling mounts if you want to go that route.
Regardless…
