Some lessons can be very very costly. For Dana Snay and her father Patrick a lesson in social media cost the elder Patrick $80,000. The story starts in Miami Florida where Patrick Snay was the headmaster at Gulliver Preparatory School for several years. However that long tenure at Gulliver Prep ended in 2010. Yahoo reports [...]
Connect is a new multi-platform app that was released with great fan faire at Jason Calacanis' Launch Festival in San Francisco last week. The app, available in a web based format as well as a mobile app, allows people to find out the location of any of their friends based off their social check ins [...]
If you didn't think the internet was everywhere, this may change your mind. Birds Eye, the leading manufacturer of frozen potatoes in Australia, and a major player in frozen foods internationally has taken your love of the internet and social media to new heights. Sure dinosaur, monster and character shaped french fries are nothing new. [...]
Facebook thought they did something epic and nice as a 10th birthday present to their users. No it wasn't screwing you over by stealing your name. I'm talking about the look back videos. Chances are by now you've either seen 100 look back videos or you've posted yours to at least 100 of your close [...]
While everyone in the world seems to be reflecting on the last 10 years of life with Facebook, including Mark Zuckerberg, one company isn't very happy with the social networking giant, and rightfully so. Fifty Three is the developer of the highly popular app called Paper. No not the new news sharing app released by [...]
We've seen some crazy things happen on Twitter. Take the career ending tweets from Justine Sacco for instance. What ended up being a horribly insensitive tweet from a "PR professional", ended up having the interwebs in a stir for an entire weekend and the perpetrator losing a very high profile job, in PR. With social [...]
Parents across the country shed a tear earlier this week when Blake Wilson posted the vine below. Wilson is the Georgia dad who has taken to Vine offering six second parental anctedotes wearing a Batman mask and turning on a gravelly Batman voice. Wilson offers a break from the prebuscent viners who have all but [...]
Yesterday we reported that the very popular social app, Get Glue, that let's you check into TV was getting a name change. After being acquired by iTV back in November, the app is being re-invented as "tvtag". After our weekend story we had the opportunity to jump on the phone with iTV CEO Brad Pelo [...]
Arguably one of the best pop music performers of all time, people have been wondering what Prince has been doing over the past 15 years or so. The answer, suing people. Prince is very protective of his music catalog. To some, he seems almost over protective, it is after all, 2014. To Prince, no form [...]
My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R. If you're old enough to finish the next line you probably come from the "stuck on Band Aid" generation and you're familiar with the giant hot dog on wheels, the Oscar Mayer weiner mobile. I remember standing in awe in the parking lot of Memorial Stadium waiting [...]
