Are you an online shopper or a crowd-braving mall shopper? There are advantages and disadvantages to both, but nobody says you have to pick a side. You can always do both! Read more »
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Despite a rise in reality television, it’s fake celebrities and corporations that thrive on Twitter. In many cases, the hilarious, witty and sometimes raunchy tweets of fabricated personalities garner in tens and hundreds of thousands of amused Twitter followers.
Reality aside, if you want to know what dressing room Bill Clinton prefers to hide in, or what Burt Reynods is doing in that truck stop restroom with a package of bacon, check out these hilarious fake Twitter accounts. Read more »
Occupy Wall Street lives in the streets, but it was born on the Internet. The NYC camp has its own wi-fi and it’s a popular topic of conversation on Twitter, Facebook and other online channels.
Learn about the ways OWS is occupying the Internet. Read more »
Anonymous, a loosely organized group of Internet hackers, have been initiating civil disobedience while maintaining anonymity since forming on the image board 4chan in 2003. Beginning in 2008 the group started taking on more collaborative, international hacktivism by initiating protests and other actions with the overarching goal of promoting Internet freedom and freedom of speech. In 2011, following several high profile attacks, the group was added to NATO’s list of enemies. Read more »
Changes are scary. Changes on Facebook (for some) are even scarier. It seems like anytime Facebook makes a change people react as if they’ve just watched a really bad, 3D remake of The Exorcist and are going to sue the theaters for allowing such a film to exist. People just get angry or vent about it, when in reality, the changes are for the better. Believe it or not but this new Timeline is an amazing opportunity for you to customize and control your profile. Read more »
You’ve been in school for a few weeks now, how does it feel? Do you feel you are missing something? That one thing that you know could help you be the smartest kid in class? Well we’re here to help. Here are the top 10 school gadgets you need to make you an A+ student this year. Read more »
Once upon a time we had a magical box that lit up in technicolor, and came alive when plugged it into our wall. It was the invention that changed how the world and people would view each other, their countries and themselves for years to come. This mystical item was called a, TV. Read more »
At the end of 2010, the cable industry saw a record-breaking 711,000 subscribers give up cable television. Just in the last quarter, from April-June, eight of the nine largest subscription-TV providers in the U.S. lost another 195,700 subscribers. As the economy plummets (again) and unemployment rises (again), cheaper entertainment options are in high demand. Read more »
Your Online Social Life is up for Grabs: Google+ vs Facebook Parodies
Let the battle for your online social life begin. Google+ has been rapidly invading the lives of tech and business professionals over the past couple of days, and is said to soon take over everyone else. Seriously, everyday there is a new article about how “awesome” Google+ is or about how Google’s profits are exploding thanks to Google+ and yadda yadda. Read more »
There has been a lot of talk about the dangers of geo-tagging lately. The explosion of the Smartphone market has caused the atomic bomb of location-based services, which use geo-tagging as a key feature in their applications. If you use Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, or Twitpic on your mobile, (Hosted Exchange for mobile is safe from this, by the way!) unless your geo-locator is turned off, the applications will automatically add geo-tags to the places you check-in to and the pictures you upload, specifying your exact location. That’s information you wouldn’t want in the hands of criminals. Read more »
