Mozilla’s Free Popcorn Maker App: Remix Your Videos the Easy Way
We often watch videos without ever fully understanding the context of what we’re watching. Mozilla seems to have a solution for creators wanting to remix videos with content from the web and social media sites. Today, they launched their free Popcorn Maker app during the Mozilla Festival in London. This app makes it simple for [...]
Pistachios Just Might Win You $10,000 in Twitter Contest
Like puzzles? Like money? Like pistachios? You just hit the jackpot, my friend. In an attempt to “crack” (ahh, nut puns) the “mysterious world” of young people, Wonderful Pistachios has once again turned to social media in a desperate bid to become relevant. Of course, they’re giving away $10,000 so I’ll listen. In a new [...]
Anti-Obama Twitterers Threaten To Move To Australia, End Up Getting Schooled
In the last couple of presidential and congressional elections, a few supporters on the losing side have taken to social media networks to say if so-and-so loses the election, they’re moving to another country. If you’re going to make a statement like “If Romney loses, I’m moving to Australia,” especially if you’re a conservative Republican [...]
Twitter Gets Hacked: NMR Helps You Change Your Password, Cajun-Style!
So Twitter got hacked, and now they’re sending out a bunch of emails asking people like NMR writer Matthew Manarino to change their passwords. Also the knobjobs at TechCrunch. I’m guessing a lot of these people had really stupid passwords. Like “password.” Or the thinking man’s lazy password: “password1.” Now while I don’t worry too [...]
Top 12 Angriest Republican Celebrity Tweets Over President Obama’s Re-Election
For every winner there is at least one loser. On Twitter, and in the rest of America, there were many losers last night; most of them were Republicans. It isn’t so bad though: For the next four years, right-wing talk shows will have plenty of piss and vinegar, and anything bad that happens can be [...]
Obama’s Victory Hug Image Breaks the Record for Most-Liked Facebook Photo Ever
On a day when President Obama is celebrating his handily-won upcoming second term in office, Facebook + Journalists has declared him a winner in another area as well: His campaign has broken a Facebook record by having the most-liked photo of all time. The photo, posted hours after his re-election victory, shows Obama embracing his [...]
Twitter to Take on Facebook’s Instagram with Addition of Photo Filter Options
Twitter has finally responded to rival social media network Facebook’s buyout of Instagram, and they seem to be saying “Two can play that game.” In an attempt to blunt the popularity of the smartphone photo-sharing app, Twitter will reportedly be rolling out its own photo filtering option “in the coming months,” according to a report [...]
Drudge Gets Pranked By Hurricane Sandy ‘Looters’: Are Trolls Good For The News?
Initially, I was positively frothing with delight at hearing that an online trolling group, the impressively-named Gay Nigger Association of America, had “pwned” the Drudge Report. The GNAA had published photos and blurbs on Twitter purporting to be of black individuals positively crowing over the amount of swag they’d stolen during Hurricane Sandy. One guy [...]
Lydia Callis, ‘The Hands’ Of Hurricane Sandy, Is A Bonafide Internet Star [VIDEO]
Lydia Callis has been called Michael Bloomberg’s “humanity.” Callis, the sign language interpreter for the mayor of New York City, combines her facial expressions with the deft motions of her fingers to convey all the emotion that Bloomberg appears to lack. And on the heels of Hurricane Sandy, Callis has now become a star. Callis, [...]
Viral ‘Hurricane Sandy Guards’ Picture on Twitter is Patriotic … But a Hoax
So it seems the “hero shot” of three unnamed infantrymen standing vigilant at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier all through the pounding weather of Hurricane Sandy, is yet another in a long line of Twitter hoaxes. The Old Guard infantry unit charged with keeping watch over the tomb confirmed today via Twitter that the photo, [...]
