Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Talk about a “Beautiful Day.” Once the smoke clears from Friday’s (May 18) Facebook IPO , U2 singer Bono could be the richest musician on the planet. According to England’s NME, the already flush, tech-savvy Irish rock icon owns 2.3 percent of the shares of Facebook through his investment group, [...]
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See on Scoop.it – Information Economy AllFacebook would like to congratulate Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who announced on his timeline Saturday evening that he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are now husband and wife. See on allfacebook.com Related Reading: (Reprint) 1951 Yearbook: Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CaliforniaThis copy is [...]
Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – Contentmarketing Every post you “like.” Every friend you add or fan page you join. Every place you check in, and every Web page you recommend. To you, those are ways to enjoy, expand and improve your experience on Facebook. To Facebook, they’re the building blocks of a multibillion-dollar company. In business, [...]
Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards foursquare is getting ready to allow businesses to start making coupons. In a Q&A with the Wall Street Journal’s Spencer Ante, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley says the idea is that merchants will use their Foursquare “dashboard” to figure which kinds of customers they need to incent to come back to [...]
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An Italian court has upheld an order for the seizure of a masterpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, finding that the bronze statue of a victorious athlete was illegally exported from Italy before the museum purchased it for $4 million in 1976. The ruling Thursday by a regional magistrate in Pesaro will [...]
Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards We live in a world facing multiple crises, many set in motion by factors beyond our individual control. As if this were not enough, we often compound these collective and personal crises with self-judgments, insecurities and doubts — the voice I call the obnoxious roommate living in our heads. But [...]
Curated By Cendrine Marrouat
See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News Storify is an easy and fun (yes, really! I promise!) way to pull together content from all over the social web to create a cohesive story. You drag and drop elements collected via sources like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google search or even an embedded URL. [...]
Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Forget the screeching emergency tone that interrupts TV and radio shows during severe weather. The Weather Channel wants to build a weather alert system based on social media, and it’s started laying down that framework with a site redesign that launched Wednesday.The redesign, among other updates, lets users tweet weather [...]
Curated By Cendrine Marrouat
See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News Some people like to use tools like Google Reader to read updates from blogs and other news sources. And others prefer accessing everything directly from their Inbox. I am part of the second group. See on www.creativeramblings.com Related Reading: feedly EasyRSS Social Media ManagementSocial media management [...]
Curated By Tom George
See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards 9 year old Caine Monroy, who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, is about to have the best day of his life. A short film by Nirvan, produced by Interconnected. Download Caine’s Arcade Theme Song by Juli Crockett (all proceeds benefit the Caine’s Arcade [...]
Curated By Tom George
Of the many and conflicting stories about how Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone, how it came to surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation’s established news organizations and amass [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – VC and IT The Huffington Post won its first Pulitzer Prize Monday — becoming the first online-only daily news website to do so. The prize, in the national reporting category, was awarded to veteran reporter David Wood. Via mashable.com Related Reading: Beyond the Battlefield: The War Goes on for the Severely WoundedIn [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – Eclectic Technology We stopped SOPA, but the legislative threats to the open Internet keep on coming. The latest is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Via www.readwriteweb.com Related Reading: Politics: A Treatise on GovernmentThis anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards MACAU — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson said on Wednesday he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain where he is courting the country’s two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex. Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, was speaking [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards In the first ruling of its kind in the United States, Maryland’s General Assembly passed a bill prohibiting employers from demanding employee user names and passwords to Facebook and other social networks, the Baltimore Sun reports. It currently awaits Gov. Martin O’Malley’s signature. “We are proud of Maryland for standing up [...]
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