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So yeah, MySpace is getting another reboot. It pains us to say this, but … we might actually use this. Because it’s actually really freaking MOTHER OF GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY PULLED THIS OFF good. (BTW, play a game of “Where’s Justin” when watching this — Justin Timberlake is one of the investors in the site.)

Whoa. It looks like a combination of Pinterest, Spotify, and cool. No lie, I’m definitely going to check it out when it’s done. Now that’s re-branding.

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sunfoundation:

Twitter Launches Political Index: The Twitter Pulse Of The Election

Right now, if you want to know how the country feels about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, you have to rely on pundits’ intuitions or traditional opinion polls, conducted as they always have been — by phone, over the course of hours or days. There’s no direct way to check the pulse of millions of actual people, simultaneously and directly, second by second.

Twitter is launching a tool today that it says will fill that gap, and sort through the 400 million tweets a day from 140 million active users. Twitter and real-time search engine Topsy are launching the “Twitter Political Index,” a daily assessment of how Twitter feels about Obama and Romney, in an election cycle that’s being played out moment-to-moment on the social service.

Obama’s peak points: May 10: Announcing his support of same-sex marriage; June 28: Supreme Court health care decision.

Romney’s peak points: June 6: The day after Scott Walker survived his recall; June 10: Romney releases ad attacking Obama’s “private sector is doing fine” comment; July 4: It’s the Fourth of July, duh!

Source: BuzzFeed

Nigerians Condemn Senate President David Mark’s Call To Censor Social Media

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saharareporters:


David Mark, Nigerian Senate President

By Karen Attiah

Nigeria, with a population of nearly 160 million, is one of Africa’s giants when it comes to the use of social media. Nearly 4.6 million Nigerians are on Facebook. Twitter is the 6th most popular website in Nigeria. So it comes as no surprise that Nigerians were angered when the President of the Nigerian Senate David Mark suggested that social media in the country should be censored.

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“Mark also added that Nigerian reporters should emulate foreign media ‘who never report negative things about their countries.’” Sounds like this guy needs to read more foreign media.

Source: saharareporters.com

Here's a statement from Facebook on the e-mail address change, which they claim was planned.

producermatthew:

“As we announced back in April, we’ve been updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site. In addition to everyone receiving an address, we’re also rolling out a new setting that gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines. Ever since the launch of timeline, people have had the ability to control what posts they want to show or hide on their own timelines, and today we’re extending that to other information they post, starting with the Facebook address.”

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A Facebook spokesperson, in an email sent to me today regarding several press reports on Facebook’s decision to switch the default email account on a person’s Facebook timeline with a Facebook-provided email address, as outlined by LifeHacker.

I.e. Facebook will still spam the shit out of you (if you have notifications turned on), but if your friend wants to send you an email by getting your address off your profile, they’re shit out of luck unless you change it back. Looks like the change happened whether or not you have timeline. 

(via shortformblog)

Source: matthewkeys