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Chevrolet Holding Play to Win With Interactive App During Super Bowl

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:37:03 +0000

Chevrolet has announced that during Super Bowl XLVI, they will be running a “Play to Win” game on their interactive Chevy App. The app itself ties in with a special Chevrolet Twitter account and allows participants to interact live with other SBXLVI fans as well as participate in trivia and game-based polls to try to win one of 20 cars being given away as prizes.

The Chevy Game Time App is available free in the Android and iTunes markets as of yesterday (Jan. 22).

Other prizes will include tires and accessories from ...

Rupert Murdoch, Google, Obama and Twitter on a Saturday Night

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:29:56 +0000

Saturday night, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who’s new to Twitter and may not fully understand how permanent tweets can be and how broadly they can be distributed (which may, ultimately, be part of his problem – more on that in a minute) posted a barrage of accusations in 140 or less against President Obama and Google.

The gist of those tweets? Murdoch is a huge supporter of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and accused the president of selling out to Silicon Valley money. He then accused Google of being the ...

Alec Baldwin Leaves Twitter over Argument with Flight Attendant

dave — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:50:32 +0000

If you know anything at all about Twitter, you will know that many celebrities from Hollywood and beyond have opened up accounts so they can tweet to their followers.

Will Pandora Fall With Startup Senzari?

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:30:51 +0000

Pandora has two major drawbacks: a small music catalog and it’s only available in the U.S. A catalog of 900,000 songs to choose from is nothing to balk at, but in today’s connected world of on-demand content, it’s a tiny drop in the bucket. Add to that the inter-connected world we live in now and you see limitations to Pandora that make it.. well, less desirable.

Other music services like Spotify have been gaining ground quickly, but there is a large market segment that it doesn’t appeal to: music listeners who ...

Facebook Buys Gowalla?

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:33:08 +0000

CNN Money is reporting that, according to sources, Facebook has purchased location sharing service Gowalla. The deal is officially unconfirmed, but seems likely given the sources.

Further information says that Gowalla will uproot from its Texas offices and move into Facebook’s space in Palo Alto, California. Gowalla will become integrated with Facebook’s “Timeline” feature, which is gradually rolling out to FB users now.

Gowalla recently re-built iself as a “travel guide” after failing to attract enough users to really compete with Foursquare, current Mayor of Location-Based Apps. It’s unknown whether ...

The .XXX TLD Gets First Major Lawsuit

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:14:46 +0000

Major porn companies have banded together to sue ICANN over the new adult top level domain (TLD) .XXX. The suit is an anti-monopoly claim against the non-profit that oversees most of the well-known TLDs (com, net, org, etc).

The major companies behind the suit are Luxemburg-based Manwin and Digital Playground, which together own many of the Web’s most well-known porn hubs. They contend that ICANN is price gouging on the .XXX domain and want an injunction to stop the TLD and require its re-opening with competition and “reasonable price constraints.”

The lawsuit ...

Twitter is the Social Network of Choice When You Want to Moan About Facebook

dave — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:48:56 +0000

This week has not been a good one for Facebook. However, it has been a different story for Twitter. If you have been keeping up with the news headlines you will probably already know that Facebook has been the victim of a rather nasty spam attack involving graphic porn images. Many users have been disgusted by them – and they have gone straight to Twitter to talk about it.

So is this a new trend in the online social media world? Do people leave Facebook and discuss various trends and occurrences on its rival social networking site Twitter instead?

It would seem ...

More Bad News for Facebook as Pornographic Content Swarms Over User Profiles

dave — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:47:31 +0000

There hardly seems to be a single day of late when there has not been a negative news story about Facebook. However, it appears that the social networking site has been hit by a particularly bad spam attack in recent hours, as a flood of pornographic images have been seen appearing on the profiles of numerous users.

Those in charge at Facebook think that the users who have been affected by the images may have inadvertently clicked on links that have enabled the hackers to release a virus into their Facebook accounts. This in turn has led to the virus being ...

Facebook Tightens Security With New Features

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:18:28 +0000

Facebook has heard the complaints and appears to be moving towards appeasing those users who are worried about the privacy and security concerns of the world’s most popular social networking site. Two recent updates were rolled out to assuage some of these concerns.

App Passwords – probably the most comprehensive of the two, this one is the quiet change that everyone is underestimating. First, it allows you to set unique passwords for one or all of your Facebook apps, keeping them separate from your Facebook account.

This does a couple of things ...

Netflix Launching in UK, Ireland

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:49 +0000

Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, is launching service in the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012. The service will, as in the United States and Canada, offer unlimited streaming TV shows and movies, but will not be offering its DVD by mail service in the new territory.

When the service launches, instant viewing will immediately become available to subscribers in the UK region and devices to capture Netflix streams, such as set-top boxes and the like, will be available to consumers starting this Holiday season.

Netflix is currently ...