Funny The Onion Nailed It With Social Media Rock Star

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Social Media Rock Star Makes $28,000 Per Year   MARIETTA, GA—Widely regarded as one of the online world’s brightest personalities, sources confirmed Friday that famed 28-year-old social media rock star Ryan Wasserman, better known as @RWthinks by his legions of passionate fans, makes roughly $28,000 per year. Wasserman, who for the last three years has [...]

ReadWrite – Google Places Now Provides Zagat Reviews To App Developers

Personally I’m a big fan of readwrite, and this piece caught my attention. The recently re-branded site from Read Write Web to simply readwrite is  always on the cutting edge of what is going on, both publicly and behind the scenes. This is why I curate quite often from them. This piece makes sense. I [...]

Re daughter, Obama worries about Facebook, not dating

  Facebook has been spending more time touting its privacy controls recently. But here’s the news: they’re not good enough for the president. In an interview with MTV on Friday (hey, we have to get those kids to vote somehow), the president explained that for his daughter Malia, Facebook was not a safe place to [...]

Ranking The Bond Opening Theme Songs

  It’s James Bond week this week with the film franchise celebrating its 50th anniversary on Friday. One of the most signature elements of the 007 movies though has to be the various opening theme songs which have varied in quality quite considerably over the decades. Some of the numbers are household names which numerous [...]

:: Facebook’s value slides by $10 billion; outlook unclear ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy (Reuters) – Investors wiped $10 billion off the value of Facebook Inc on Friday, taking the recently listed shares to a new low, after the social network offered no forecast and analysts said mobile investments… See on www.reuters.com

Phew! Now THAT was a Celtic festival!

I suspect that some days after the Montelago Celtic Festival started packing up leaving the Colfiorito plain, the dust is still settling. Stardust, that is, for the music and the spirit certainly reached that far. It must be quite a feeling to walk out on the plain when it’s empty and quiet, a place that [...]

Chicago creating home for startups, Emanuel tells Techweek crowd

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media Chicago should be known as much for its startups as its large corporate headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told a crowd of entrepreneurs on Friday. See on www.chicagotribune.com

:: How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Judging by many of the headlines on Friday, you might think that Facebook’s IPO was a miserable failure. See on techcrunch.com

The Boom in Enterprise I.P.O.’s

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards While the impending giant public offering of Facebook gets most of the attention, enterprise technology companies keep attracting the money. On Friday, Proofpoint, a maker of corporate security software, began trading at $16.85 a share, 30 percent above its initial public offering price of $13. The stock was expected to [...]

Senate Postpones Vote on Web Piracy Bill – New York Times

Via Scoop.it – Internet News Death and Taxes Senate Postpones Vote on Web Piracy Bill New York Times WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, on Friday called off a scheduled vote on the online anti piracy bill that had rallied the World Wide Web and rocked Capitol… Via www.nytimes.com

After A Trillion-View Year, What’s Next For YouTube?

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards YouTube reflected on its banner year today, announcing that it served over 1 trillion playbacks in 2011. “That’s about 140 views for every person on the earth,” YouTube’s Rewind blog post says. YouTube saw record traffic and mobile growth this year. It gets 3 billion views per day, and video uploads [...]