FEMA seeks millions from NJ Sandy victims

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TOMS RIVER – When Catherine Tango opened the letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in late October, she began to panic.

Homeless after the storm flooded the Ortley Beach condominium she was renting, Tango, 61, relied on FEMA for assistance to pay her rent and living expenses at an apartment she rented in Howell. But the letter she received in late October demanded repayment of $15,500 — and threatened to garnish her monthly Social Security disability check if she doesn’t pay it back.

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The essential apps for your new smartphone

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Many of you might have bought a new smartphone on the occasion of Black Friday or Cyber Monday. If you haven’t purchased any new smartphones yet, you should grab one out of the week-long Cyber Monday deals across the online stores and retail stores near you. OK, what’s next? Obviously, the next step would be loading your new smartphone with all essential applications to get the most out of your device

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Giving Tuesday: nonprofits' answer to Black Friday, Cyber Monday

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During the evening of Giving Tuesday this week, leaders of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s 2015 fundraising campaign will staff a phone bank and urge supporters to pledge gifts that could be matched from a $10,000 pool donated by campaign chair David Sufrin, a retired business executive from Squirrel Hill.

The nonprofit isn’t limiting its appeal to dollars, however.

It hopes people will embrace the volunteer spirit of the third annual Giving Tuesday earlier in the day by showing up to sort food and stock shelves at the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry; serve lunch to seniors at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill; or help organize clothing at Thriftique, the National Council of Jewish Women’s consignment store in Swissvale

Source: www.post-gazette.com

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Silicon Valley spreads the wealth to social good startups

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T he idea of doing good while making a healthy profit is rapidly gaining ground, particularly among wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs but also among foundations and pension funds. Social impact investing — for-profit investing for social good —­ has crossed into the mainstream and is driving investment decisions

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Set a web spy on your partner for just £200

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A woman who was unaware her new husband had a history of violence against previous partners has set up a website offering £200 background checks to try to stop others suffering a similar fate.

The website, called ‘Are They Safe’, is thought to be the first of its kind, with its founders offering to undertake comprehensive searches of public records to verify someone’s identity, marital history, finances, and uncover any criminal convictions.

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Heartland Brewery receives backlash for ‘racist’ slogan

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Heartland Brewery is drawing some bad buzz over a slogan that for many invokes slavery.

The boneheaded beerhouse’s Bavarian Black Lager promises customers will become “a slave to the flavor” — sparking a brouhaha among customers who believe the seasonal suds’ saying smacks of racism.

“It’s just wrong,” said one white patron as he stared up at the sign at the brewery chain’s Union Square location.

“It’s actually crazy,” added a 42-year-old man who would only identify himself as Ryan.

“There’s a better way to express what they’re trying to express without eliciting that mindset.”

The beer slogan’s racist interpretation wasn’t lost on Ryan’s father-in-law.

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Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media - The Boston Globe

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WASHINGTON — About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say:

‘‘Fold up your PFA [protection-from-abuse order] and put it in your pocket.

“Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?’’

Anthony Elonis didn’t deliver the message in person, by phone, or in a note. He posted it on his Facebook page, for all to see, in a prose style reminiscent of the violent, misogynistic lyrics of rap artists he admires.

In its first examination of the limits of free speech on social media, the Supreme Court on Monday will consider whether, as a jury concluded, the postings by Elonis constituted a ‘‘true threat’’ to his wife and others.

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Data collection through social media fraught with inbuilt biases

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Though it is believed that a social network could represent a fair sample size for collecting data sets but the researchers claim that no social network accurately represents any specific community.

But the fact is that scientists have been using data collected from social media and publishing papers based on their findings. This means that what the scientists thought was an accurate estimation which could be published was actually a specific kind of bias based on incomplete information.

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Ex-Googler bashes company for getting social networking wrong with Google+

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Ever since it launched, Google+ has struggled to lure users, and then keep them engaged. It’s been three years since its release, but most people — including several Googlers — don’t know the point of its existence. This list includes ex-Googler Chris Messina, who worked in the development of Google+ until last year.

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Eagle Radio - News - Social Network Terms Should Be Easier To Read

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The UK parliament has told social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to make their terms and conditions easier to read.

A report by the Commons Science and Technology Committee said: “The terms and conditions currently favoured by many organisations are lengthy and filled with jargon.

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Facebook Preparing a Social Network For Business in 2015 - TechBeat

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Facebook has over 1.3 billion people on the social network, but the amount of time spent on Facebook is less than ideal — at only 40 minutes per day — it drags behind other social services. One of the reasons for the low average user time may be the fact Facebook is blocked at work. Most companies block Facebook from being accessed, to stop time wasted on the social networking platform.

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Yahoo Mail outage: Engineers still trying to repair cable

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Yahoo Mail users have been hit by service problems for over a week as engineers battle to repair an undersea cable.

The cable was accidentally cut during routine maintenance work leaving UK and US users unable to access their accounts and others facing slow page loading times. The worst affected regions appear to be eastern US and western Europe.

Sky and BT customers were also affected, as both use Yahoo to provide email services to their users.

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Use Uber? Snapchat? Google Maps? Now Twitter knows

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Starting Wednesday, the company will begin collecting data on which other apps its users have on their iOS and Android smartphones. The data, Twitter says, will help it deliver better “tailored content” to its users. That’s sure to include ads, but maybe also better recommendations about whom to follow when users sign up,

Source: www.itworld.com

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StockCity: Personal finance for gamers?

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Financial planning often involves lots of spreadsheets, pie charts and eyes glazing over.

Fidelity Investments aims to change that equation with an experiment in 3-D technology designed to make money management seem more like a mesmerizing video game than mundane number crunching. Welcome to “StockCity,” a virtual-reality landscape dotted with skyscrapers representing the stocks in a person’s investment portfolio. A Web version was released at www.fidelitylabs.com, but StockCity ultimately is meant to be viewed on the Oculus Rift, a virtual-reality headset that still hasn’t been released on the mass market.

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Build your skills: Professor Zahir Irani | Business-Cloud.com

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Social media doesn’t always appear to sit comfortably with the kind of responsibility that comes with a senior role in the civil service. But to sideline or even dismiss social media as inappropriate to the working of government would be a mistake. The ability to make professional and thoughtful use of social media is an increasingly essential skill for everyone in the service – for personal development and career advancement, as well as the task of communicating the outputs of the day job.

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Aus social marketing firm closes $3.1m fund raising round - AdNews

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Tiger Pistol, the Australian social marketing platform provider, has closed a $3.1m investment round led by Melbourne IT which it says will drive further growth both here and in the US.

Tiger Pistol was founded in 2012 by Steve Hibberd and Troy Townsend and has 30 employees in offices in Melbourne and Los Angeles. It provides a social media marketing platform for SMEs, allowing them to leverage big data and social networking sites.

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Facebook for Work: Can it rival LinkedIn & Yammer?

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Facebook is working on a business-focused version of its social networking service that looks set to take on rivals.

Dubbed Facebook for Work, it’s expected to give the likes of Yammer and Salesforce’s Chatter a run for their money. Internal testing has been carried out for the last 12-months and as of yet there is no official launch date.

The service is said be in development at Facebook’s London offices by a team led by Lars Rasmussen, who previous credits include co-founding Google Maps.

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Social networks told to be honest and stop bamboozling their users

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The UK parliament is calling on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to simplify their terms and conditions. The Science and Technology Committee has expressed concern that privacy policies and other documents are strewn with legal terms that most people do not read or understand. This means that most social network users are simply not aware that they have agreed for their personal inf

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WARNING BLACK FRIDAY – SOCIAL MEDIA RUMORS OF MASS LOOTING PLANNED

I have been reading some post on different social networking sites about some plans for looting on early Friday morning. Be careful in your shopping, be on the look out for any signs of trouble. Be safe.

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» Flashback: U.S. Army Training to Fight Black Americans Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

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The video appears on the official YouTube channel for Guardian Centers, an 830 acre “disaster preparedness and tactical training validation center” located in Georgia which is routinely used by FEMA and other government agencies to practice emergency response procedures.After the 2 minute mark in the clip, the scene cuts to a black woman who is struggling to escape from the clutches of a uniformed soldier. The area is surrounded by concertina wire and guarded by other troops.

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Those phone-obsessed teenagers aren't as lonely as you think

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So I guess I understand why older folk fret that youngsters these days are losing out on authentic social connections because of social media.

But it looks like the kids are going to be all right, researchers say. High school students in 2012 reported lower levels of loneliness than their counterparts in 1991, according to a study published Monday in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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LinkedIn contacts: stop ex-employees from soliciting your clients

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How much does a business value its customers – are they long term investments that need protecting or are they seen as transient assets that are only as useful for so long as they want to buy from you?

The answer is that most companies spend a lot of time and money in establishing a loyal client base to whom they can sell their wares. So why then would they be happy to lose clients when an employee decides to leave and move to a competitor?

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Is Social Media Going to Kill Legacy Media Organisations?

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Social media is giving such a slaughter its best shot, although with much help from the legacy media honchos. However, with a population of approximately 1.27 billion and internet penetration of approximately 243 million (a mere 19.9%), the statistics in India beg the real question – Can social media kill legacy media organisations like print media and television?

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Canadian Privacy Law Could Protect Unwitting Canadians on Social Media - Techvibes.com

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Canadian law may save social media users who neglect to read sites’ terms of use policies, specifically when they unwittingly

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Ferguson Social Media Response Called "Unprecedented"

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You’ve seen the images of protest and heard the cries for justice, but researchers at Clemson’s Social Media Listening Center say some of the strongest responses to this week’s decision in Ferguson, Missouri, are those that we’ve read online.

“One of the most emotionally charged topics we’ve studied here,” said director, Joe Mazer.

He called them unprecedented. With more than 11 million Ferguson mentions since Monday on Twitter alone, he said they’ve drawn sharply down racial and political lines. At times, they’ve used vulgar language to express outrage or make threats

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Twitter misrepresents the real world, computer scientists warn - Telegraph

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ocial networking sites like Twitter and Facebook should not be used to gauge human behaviour or trends because they are too biased, scientists have warned.

Increasingly, social researchers and media organisations use sites to glean information about public views and interests.

But computer scientists at McGill University in Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh warn that the data omits the opinion of large portions of the population who are either under-represented, or who choose not to engage in social media.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tumblr Now Fastest-Growing Social Network; Facebook Huge, but Lagging

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Facebook is a bit like the whale of the social networking world. It’s huge, but it’s lumbering along at a much slower growth rate than competing services. Or, at least, somewhat-competing services—we wouldn’t go so far as to say that Pinterest is directly in Facebook’s crosshairs, or vice versa.

Source: www.pcmag.com

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Soci Raises $1.5M to Expand Social Media Management System | Xconomy

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As marketers become more sophisticated about the use of social media, Afif Khoury says it’s clear that increasing the size of your fan base can be a misleading statistic. It’s not enough to just sign up fans online.

Instead, the goal for social media marketing has shifted to building an audience that is engaged, and supportive of your business, cause, or community. “The key to social media is content,” Khoury says. “You can’t just inundate [fans] with coupons and deals.

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Can internet companies monitor terrorists?

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Big American tech firms, and in particular Facebook, are under pressure to become more active in the battle against terrorism. But what are their current arrangements?

Facebook is saying little apart from the fact that “we do not allow terrorist content on the site and take steps to prevent people from using our service for these purposes”.

But privately the social networking giant believes it does more than most in keeping extremist material off the site and collaborating – where the law allows – with law enforcement agencies.

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Come clean on ads, vloggers told

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Video bloggers – or “vloggers” – need to make it clear when they are paid to promote products, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has warned.

The new guidance to vloggers was issued following an investigation carried out by BBC Newsround.

Several UK vloggers were paid to praise Oreo biscuits, but none of the videos was clearly labelled as an advert.

Mondelez, the biscuit company behind the adverts, said it was disappointed but would not show the videos again.

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Is Internet Addiction a Real Thing? - The New Yorker

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Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in his career, he, like most others studying addiction at the time, focussed on substance-abuse problems—cocaine and heroin addicts, alcoholics, and the like. Soon, however, he noticed patients with other problems that were more difficult to classify. There were, for example, the sufferers of trichotillomania, the inescapable urge to pull your hair until it falls out.

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Teens Have Fewer Friends, But They're Less Lonely Than Ever Before

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Much has been written in recent years about how personal electronics and social networking services seem to be isolating us more and more from each other. American adults are lonelier than they used to be, and there’s research to suggest that social media use is correlated with feelings of disconnection and dissatisfaction.

Yet among teens — arguably the most tech-saturated demographic — feelings of loneliness actually appear to be decreasing, according to research publicized this week at the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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Yik Yak Incidents Highlight New Social-Media Risks

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Combating social-media bullying is a significant part of Adam Choat ’s job as a police officer based at an Iowa school district. But an incident this month involving the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak brought new challenges.

Familiar with the way youngsters at other schools had used Yik Yak to bully or issue threats, Mr. Choat—with Yik Yak’s help—set up a “geo-fence” around Southeast Polk High School to block the app on campus.

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Social Networking vs. Social Advertising

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The vast digital realm allows brands and consumers to form personal connections with each other literally at the click of a button. When we as marketers evaluate platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn, we often think of product advertising. Let us not forget that the native title of these platforms: “social networks.” Not “social ad space” or “social sales megaphones.”

Overall responsiveness to social media ads remains low, with only a small share of consumers reporting that they’ve made a purchase directly as a result of seeing an ad. However, it is increasingly clear that social media plays a key role in the way that many consumers interact with brands, find out about products, and research products they’re considering purchasing.

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The complete guide to Instagramming your Thanksgiving dinner

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The fourth Thursday of November, when the US celebrates Thanksgiving, is Instagram’s busiest day of the year. More than 10 million photos mentioning Thanksgiving were uploaded to the social network that day in 2012, and Thanksgiving 2013 was the most active day on Instagram to date

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EarthLink Launches Hosted Contact Center

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EarthLink has launched its new Hosted Contact Center solution supporting multichannel engagement with features that include chat, email, voice and social media interactions. The service includes a single user interface that integrates with existing CRM systems. EarthLink’s Hosted Contact Center is also integrated with the company’s Hosted Voice platform which provides service level guarantees for 99.999% uptime and 4.0 voice quality Mean Opinion Score (MOS.)

Source: www.networkworld.com

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Samantha Cristoforetti is the first astronaut to have a social networking in her honor.

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On Monday, Samantha Cristoforetti became the first Italian woman to reach space — and the first astronaut to have a social networking app made in her honor.

The jovially-named Friends in Space, created by Italian information design firm Accurat in collaboration with Cristoforetti herself, allows Earth-bound users to bid her “hello” during her 6-month stint on the International Space Station (ISS)

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Ferguson tweets, hashtags spike as anger rises

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First #ferguson, then #fergusondecision and #blacklivesmatter, and lately, #justiceforMikeBrown.

As protests across the U.S. over the grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown shooting death extended into their second day, Twitter again showed how big a role the network can play in a breaking news story that lends itself to frequent visual updates from citizen journalists and one that’s engendered intense discussion over police treatment of African-Americans.

Source: www.usatoday.com

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Businesses have to allow Facebook at work if Facebook at Work is to succeed

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acebook’s announcement that it’s building Facebook at Work is a further sign that social media is maturing but will bring the gap between its 2.5 billion users and near absence of senior executives into starker relief.

For this kind of enterprise-wide social network to work, these are the people to convince and convert.

It can be difficult to persuade decision-makers of the value of social media, including productivity gains, when many still believe it’s a fad or that there is no quantifiable return on investment.

Source: www.smartcompany.com.au

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UAE jails man after social media reports on father in prison

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ABU DHABI – An Emirati court Tuesday sentenced a local man to three years in jail after he posted social media reports on the imprisonment of his father, convicted along with dozens of other Islamists.

A state security court convicted the defendant for “creating a page on a social network under his own name to spread false information and ideas, and to mock and damage the reputation and status of state institutions,” said the official news agency WAM.

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Social media fuels growing push to boycott Black Friday following grand jury decision - St. Louis Business Journal

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Nationwide calls to boycott Black Friday and for consumers to “protest with you money” are growing following the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Several Facebook pages have emerged calling for shoppers to push for change by boycotting Black Friday shopping.

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CBS to Display Live Social Media Posts during Broadcast of Macy’s Day Parade | Broadcasting & Cable

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This Thanksgiving, CBS is bringing real-time Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts to TV sets across the U.S. Throughout the country, anyone tuning in to its annual coverage of the Macy’s Day Parade can have their thoughts or pictures seen on national television by millions of viewers. The only requirement: tag each post with #tdaycbs.

Last year marked the first time CBS used Vidpresso in its coverage of the Macy’s Day Parade. CBS showed Instagram photos of dozens of people watching the parade from home out to millions of others watching. Because of its success and warm reception, the national television network is bringing this feature back for the second consecutive year.

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Sceney Network Re-Launches its “What’s the Move” Social Networking App | Virtual-Strategy Magazine

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The Sceney app, which organizes cities by their social-Scenes & then tells users what “The Move” is within that Scene, had previously been available to the public as a minimum viable product (MVP) in order to test the concept. The Creator of Sceney Network is Corey Schottenstein who said his goal was to let the users build the product for the concept he originated. Schottenstein says, “A lot of times

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Plague – The Network: social media that spreads like a virus

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Anytime the word the Plague is mentioned, images of zombies roaming the earth come to mind. It can even conjure up nightmares of something morbid like death. Lucky for us, the Plague is a newly developed social media app by Deep Sea Marketing that does not spread infectious diseases.

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QuizUp To Become Social Media Platform - The Reykjavik Grapevine

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Startup software developer Plain Vanilla, which last year found major success with the smartphone game QuizUp, has announced its plans to turn the game into a social media platform.

The original QuizUp has been described as “a mobile trivia app similar to the game Trivial Pursuit”.

“We no longer look at QuizUp as a game for smartphones but as a social network that can affect people’s lives all over the world, and create more value for the company,” said Plain Vanilla’s founder and CEO, Þorsteinn B. Friðriksson, interviewed by Vísir.

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What Ferguson Says About the Fear of Social Media

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The most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for something, for anything, to talk about. Following closely behind were the nonstop rumors on social media.”

So said the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, in his statement Monday night, explaining that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. His argument that social media had somehow hampered efforts to find out the truth about Michael Brown’s death rang false to many,

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5 Ways to Leverage Your Social-Media Following to Close Sales

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Like all savvy business owners, you’ve invested significant resources into building up a social network you are proud of. You’ve got a wide fan base, enough “likes” and “followers” to make you feel validated, and have begun to generate engagement among your consumers. You’re on every major platform and a few of the newer, more experimental ones. You’ve seen and done it all – now you simply have to sit back and relax, right?

Source: www.entrepreneur.com

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While Facebook Lags, Tumblr & Pinterest Are The Fastest Growing Social Networks

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With a user base of one-third of the Internet-connected world, Facebook’s place as the largest social media platform remains unquestionable, but new research shows that the 10-year-old network is settling into slower growth mode.

In the last six months, Facebook grew more slowly than all the other major social networks, measured by either increases in members or active users, according to a report by Global Web Index.

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Twitter Inc. Plans To Acquire Shots, A Selfie-Only Social Network App

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Twitter Inc. is in talks to acquire Shots, a selfie-only social network, according to a report Tuesday from MSNBC. The app for iPhone and Android is backed by pop star Justin Bieber.

Shots has more than 3 million users, most of whom are women under the age of 24, which is reportedly why Twitter is interested in the app, the report said. Bieber is an investor in the start-up, and often uses it to tweet photos to his more than 53 million Twitter followers.

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RallyPoint is fast-growing social network for veterans, military

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Yinon Weiss left the Army Special Forces in 2009 and found himself facing the difficult transition out of the military and into the private sector.

Unlike many professionals who go from high school, to college, to careers — building professional networks along the way — many service members find themselves adrift in a world of which they know very little.

“From a personal and spiritual point of view, it was very difficult,” Weiss said. “I came from the Army Special Forces that is a very mission-driven organization with a lot of camaraderie and esprit de corps.

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Twitter launches new feature to allow users to redeem offers in store

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Twitter is expanding its reach into real-life commerce with a new tool called ‘Offers’ allowing retailer to tweet money off coupons which can then be redeemed in store.

Advertisers can post promotions and discounts in users’ Twitter feeds, whether or not the users follow those merchants on the short-messaging service.

Users then enter their card information, and when they use it in store, the offer is applied.

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'Life in Your Social Network' a New Web Series

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“Life in Your Social Network”, a new web series featuring appearances by Gilbert Gottfried and Tom Sizemore, debuted its first episode this week. The groundbreaking series asks the question, “what if your life was like your social network?”

The LIYSN series follows a group of characters as they navigate a world where elements of their social networks have become reality.

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Social Network Sqor Wants to Help Athletes Crowdfund Themselves

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Sqor, a social network focused exclusively on sports, isn’t following the typical social media roadmap.

Just over a year after launch, the service still doesn’t have private messages or detailed user profiles. Instead, Sqor is jumping into crowdfunding, and if all goes to plan, it thinks one of the NFL’s most legendary quarterbacks — who’s made millions in endorsements alone over his career — can help athletes in less popular sports like racquetball or UFC use their social followers to fund their professional careers.

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Ferguson decision triggers nationwide protests

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Protesters from New York City to Oakland marched and chanted their discontent with the decision by a Missouri grand jury not to indict a white police officer in the August fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen.

But the demonstrations lacked the ugly violence that marred the outrage in Ferguson, Mo., where Michael Brown, 18, was killed by officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9.

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Protests spread far beyond Ferguson - CNN.com

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Are protests taking place near you? Please share photos, videos and thoughts with CNN iReport if you can do so safely.CNN — Screams of outrage. Crowds marching down streets, blocking intersections and interstates. Fists raised in silence.As the Ferguson grand jury’s decision was announced Monday night, protesters around the country — who had begun to gather hours earlier — responded in solidarity.In New York, a roving crowd wound its way through the city, surging to more than 1,000 in Times Square before heading toward the Upper West Side, CNN’s Miguel Marquez tweeted.

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Social Networking Site for Chefs

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NEW DELHI: Fancy a mouthwatering meal from a chef who has served celebrities? Or want to rustle up a gourmet dinner? It now seems possible to do all that by just logging on to a new social networking site designed exclusively for chefs.

ChefHost, an online peer-to-peer marketplace and community connects chefs and hosts for private dining and exclusive catering services.

“Like a LinkedIn or Facebook site, ChefHost is an online community that connects chefs and hosts,” says Abhinandan Balasubramanian, Founder and CEO of the startup.

The platform has 250 chefs, including celebrity chefs plus over 50 culinary consultants, and partners signed up.

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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Attract Holiday Shoppers

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How can social media help businesses drive traffic to their ecommerce or bricks-and-mortar sites this holiday season? CIO.com posed that question to dozens of marketers and social media experts. Following are their top seven strategies for how to use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube to engage customers and get them – and their friends – to check out (and hopefully buy) your holiday offerings.

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Twitter's C.F.O. Suffers a Social Media Faux Pas

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Twitter has long been criticized for being difficult for new users to understand. On occasion, it seems, the social network’s own executives have a hard time as well.

On Monday, Anthony Noto, the company’s chief financial officer, appeared to accidentally disclose some confidential corporate strategy plans on Twitter itself. Per Kevin Roose, a senior editor at the cable channel Fusion (and a former DealBook colleague):

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Celebs take to social media to weigh in on Ferguson decision

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While protesters took to the streets from Ferguson, Mo., to Times Square in the hours after a St. Louis grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, celebs held their own protest on social media.

From LeBron James to Nick Cannon, celebrities from all corners of the Internet weighed in Monday on the latest turn of events from Ferguson

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St. Louis Prosecutor Scolds Social Media, ’24-Hour News Cycle’ in Announcement

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Before announcing that Officer Darren Wilson would not be charged for shooting Michael Brown, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch took some time in his statement to scold the 24-hour media cycle and social media rumors about the case over the past few months.

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How Ferguson Protesters Use Social Media to Organize

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As they await the grand jury’s decision on whether to indict police offer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, protesters in Ferguson, Mo. and across the country are using social media to organize their demonstrations. They are using Twitter TWTR +0.40%, Facebook FB +0.35% and Tumblr to spread the word about planned protest locations, sending text messages with announcements and collecting donations and supplies.

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Kelly Ripa Defends Reading Her Daughter's Social Media Feeds

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Kelly Ripa notes “there was no social media, no distractions like they have now” when she was growing up, but she knows how to keep an eye on her teenage daughter’s online activities.

The 44-year-old “Live with Kelly & Michael” host and mother of three said if her 13-year-old daughter, Lola, wants privacy, she’s going to have to document her life in an old-school kind of way, not on Twitter or Instagram.

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City's First Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Gets Preliminary Approval - Downtown - DNAinfo.com Chicago

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The city’s first medical marijuana cultivation center is one step closer to operating.

The Zoning Board of Appeals took the first step toward approving a Chicago cultivation center for medical marijuana Friday, passing a proposal from a city trucking and strip-club magnate

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As Advertising Goes Digital

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Asian Paints, the paint company based in India, released a mobile application called Tag-A-Friend-Holi in 2010. This app allowed users to play holi with other users (in India and abroad) and gave them a chance to win an iPod Nano. They also promoted their products via the application (to select colours). Recent movies like Dhoom 3, Krrish 3, Kathi and Kochadaiiyaan launched a mobile gaming app as part of their promotion campaign. The makers of Kochadaiiyaan also tied up with Indian mobile company, Karbonn Mobiles, to launch handsets that were pre-loaded with movie themes, wallpapers and ringtones. General Electronics (GE), the US-based electrical company, has a trending and interactive blog — www.gereports.com, which has fascinating stories about electronics and technology. They have graphics, Graphics Interchange Format pics (GIFs) and videos to explain concepts.

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Facebook introduces ‘Say Thanks’ video which sends gesture of gratitude to loved ones

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After Facebook’s Look Back’ videos which features the our timeline, Facebook has come up with another video through which we can thank our loved ones. The video title ‘Say Thanks’ video is recent trend on the social networking site. This video lets you make personalized videos by inserting pictures of the person we want to thank. The ‘Thank You’ video comprises of images and posts in a slide show format. This video highlights the important factor of friendship wherein users can share the video with their loved ones.

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WSJ – eToro set to raise $15 million from China’s Ping An and Russia’s Sberbank

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The Wall Street Journal has reported that CySEC-regulated retail forex broker eToro is close to finalizing a $15 million investment from Chinese insurance giant Ping An and Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. The financing is strategic, with both Ping An and Sberbank to help eToro expand in their respective home markets, China and Russia, following the investment.

LeapRate confirmed with sources close to the situation that the investment is being made at a company valuation above $100 million for eToro,

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Worldwide protests, social media outrage grow for Darfur rape claims | Radio Dabanga

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The mass rape that Sudanese soldiers allegedly committed in a village in North Darfur more than three weeks ago continues to incite people worldwide to rally for the victims and denounce the crime on social media.

Calls for an independent inquiry into the allegations remain, after a doubtful UN-AU verification mission on 9 November, and the special prosecutor of Darfur’s investigations in the village. Medical specialists, however, stressed the difficulties of forensically proving a rape after more than two weeks.

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