Tag Archives: Facebook

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Valentina Monetta’s entry for tiny San Marino is an almost novelty song. Originally titled Facebook Uh-Oh, Monetta was informed of the Eurovision rule: “No commercial messages of any kind shall be allowed. A breach of this rule may result in disqualification.” On the final day of eligibility, the track was was reworked and retitled The Social Network Song.

Billionaire PayPal founder and GOProud backer Peter Thiel has been revealed to be the chief money man funding the Ron Paul Super PAC. Ron Paul revels in the fact that he is the presidential candidate of America’s small donors, receiving more contributions under $200 than any other Republican seeking the White House in 2012. But, like every other GOP presidential …

KLM Airlines has launched a program by which you select your seat mates based on their Facebook or Linkedin profiles. And then you can turn to them mid-flight and announce, “Unfriend! Blocked!”

A new Facebook photo campaign. Check it out.

The campaign site for newly-outed and disgraced Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu includes the above icon for your Facebook page.

When graffiti artist David Choe spray-painted a mural on the walls of a brand-new company called Facebook, he accepted stock options in lieu of cash. That may have been a $500 million decision.

And it will be a whopper. The online social network Facebook was to file for a $5 billion public stock offering with U.S. securities regulators Wednesday, several news outlets reported. The filing — half the $10 billion most analysts earlier estimated — is a starting point Facebook has said could ultimately value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion. …

Thanks to a new Facebook app, you can send messages to your online friends from beyond the grave. Which isn’t creepy at all! The app, called If I Die, lets users record a video farewell or text message, then save it — hopefully for a very long time — before the moment comes that you shuffle off this vale of …

The school board of Union Township, New Jersey is moving to dismiss Viki Knox, the teacher who posted a nasty anti-gay diatribe on her Facebook page. After Knox was suspended, Christians activists deluged the school board with complaints. The Union Township school board has filed tenure charges against Viki Knox, the high school English teacher whose anti-gay remarks on Facebook …

This is an actual thing, apparently.

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Failed Libertarian candidate Jules Manson yesterday posted this remark on Ron Paul’s Facebook campaign page: “Assassinate the fucken nigger and his monkey children.” Last year Manson ran unsuccessfully for the city council of Carson, California. Manson is not the first Ron Paul supporter tied to racism. Paul famously took a picture with, Don Black, a former KKK grand Wizard and …

Two lesbian moms brought their kids to the city council meeting in Troy, Michigan so that homophobic Mayor Janice Daniels could see an actual gay family in person.

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Century 21 has canned Troy, Michigan’s Mayor Janice Daniels for her anti-gay Facebook post about “queers” getting married. And another NOM martyr is born. Stand by.

Last week Mayor Janice Daniels of Troy, Michigan made national news when a six-month old anti-gay Facebook post surfaced. Now Daniels is facing the music at home. She is getting a short, not too happy, education in the facts of political life — specifically that the kind of sweeping stereotypes that fringe groups applaud don’t play well with the wider …

The original “six degrees” researchers used a sample of only 296 people. But that was before social media came on the scene. The new research used a slightly bigger cohort: 721 million Facebook users, more than one-tenth of the world’s population. The findings were posted on Facebook’s Web site Monday night. The experiment took one month. The researchers used a …

According to Web Monkey, a new Google algorithm will connect your name to comments made on blog posts, web articles, and Facebook pages. The new indexing plan isn’t just about Facebook comments, but applies to nearly any content that’s previously been accessible only through an HTTP POST request. Google’s goal is to include anything “hiding” behind a form — comment …

Yet another teacher is in trouble for posting viciously anti-gay comments to Facebook. The school board is investigating, but Family Research Council head Tony Perkins says this is just another witchhunt by intolerant radical homofascists. First Amendment! More dead gay kids! Praise! Glory!