"Psycho Siri" a new film by 18-year-old aspiring filmmaker Andrew McMurry based in Little Rock, Ark., is viral on YouTube.

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Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company is in the process of redesigning its mobile app for a broader audience, disassembling it and trying to put its features back together in a way that's more useful and interesting....  show all text

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Ben Lerer, co-founder and CEO of Thrillist, will be answering your questions about entrepreneurship on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 12 p.m. ET. Join us!

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Facebook appears to be testing subtle variations of its plugin for websites to let readers share links on the social network. The test versions subtly encourage multiple shares of a link, by leaving open the popup window that results from clicking the button. We’ve also seen the addition of a pulldown menu letting you choose whether to share to your own profile or one of the pages you administer, all without having to go back to Facebook to change how you’re logged in. Readers, have you noticed...  show all text

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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What is success? Success is subjective. It means different things to different people.  I divide photographic success into two distinctive areas. The first area is the opportunity to create beautiful images.  For many photographers, successfully finding and taking advantage of great opportunities to create beautiful images means they win.  Once you decide to make photography your career, the story changes. For photographers who wish to make a living, success still involves finding great opportu...  show all text

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Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Tweetbot — A Twitter Client with Personality for iPad on the App Store. Download Tweetbot — A Twitter Client with Personality for iPad and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Photographs from the Maldives, Afghanistan, India and Texas.

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A new entry into the Facebook gift card sector will arrive in the U.S. this spring, by way of Sweden: Wrapp, which has been up-and-running in its native country since Nov. 15. Wrapp is a mobile application (iPhone and Android) that enables users to send mobile gift cards to their Facebook friends. The app currently permits users to send gift cards only to Facebookers in Sweden, but it is aiming for a spring launch in the U.S. The $5 million addition to its $10.5 million series-A funding received  show all text

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LinkedIn is buying Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that shows social data about contacts as you email them.

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations see to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ha...  show all text

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Good news on the unemployment front will only help Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering, as more people will spend time on the social network on the job. Randall W. Forsyth of Barron’s believes that a major part of the reason for Facebook’s growth to some 845 million members was the fact that its growth period coincided with a period of excessive unemployment in the U.S., and that once the country’s job situation stabilizes, people will be working and not have time to devote to the social  show all text

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Hot off the press release presses: tech blog GigaOm has acquired paidContent (and parent company ContentNext) from The Guardian. Rumors of the acquisition were first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. Wrote GigaOm founder Om Malik in a blog post: “ The ethos of paidContent and our company are in sync. GigaOM’s core belief is that as connectivity becomes ubiquitous, it changes everything from society to business to we the people. paidContent from the very beginning has been built on the idea...  show all text

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Whether due to modesty, timidity, or just a desire not to annoy anyone, most of us suck at self-promotion. But the fact is, promoting yourself and getting your name out there is an essential part of getting the job you want, making new contacts, building your network, and meeting the people who can help you make the most of your talents and abilities. After all, no one's going to do it for you, and no one's going to make sure you get the credit you deserve. The problem: How do you promote yours...  show all text

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Facebook marketers, likes on pages or posts don’t amount to brand loyalty. That’s the conclusion of eMarketer upon studying data eVoc Insights and the Chief Marking Officers Council. A study from eVoc found that 59 percent of Facebook users have liked the page of a brand or company during the past six months, and that 54 percent of those users who liked pages said they were somewhat or much more likely to purchase goods or services from those brands. According to eMarketer, the categories scori...  show all text

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In 1930, Iowa artist Grant Wood painted American Gothic. The models he used for the painting were his sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist, Byron McKeeby. Here they are next to the painting: Wood made the painting after spotting a small house in Eldon, Iowa: Tags: American Gothic   art   Grant Wood

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Ever since the launch of Tweetbot, many of you have been asking us for an iPad version. Unfortunately there’s a lot of work involved because it’s not as simple as just making everything bigger. Our goal for the iPad app was to provide a familiar Tweetbot experience while making use of the iPad’s larger size. Well today we are happy to announce Tweetbot for the iPad! As with the original Tweetbot for iPhone, version 1.0 is about getting you a solid first version. We still have a lot of work ahead  show all text

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This year, the National Retail Federation projects that consumers are prepared to spend over 15.7 billion dollars in gifts this Valentine’s Day season, and with over 845 million monthly active users on Facebook, it’s time for shop owners on the network to take note. With Valentine’s Day just under a week away, here are three ways to romanticize your Facebook shop and drive last minute buyer traffic to your store in time to cash in on sales before the holiday. Encourage Likes, Shares And Suggest...  show all text

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As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues. The new rules, which apply to all of the corporation's correspondents, reporters and producers, were announced on Wednesday a day after it was revealed Sky News had told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster...  show all text

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Fashion label Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with mobile video app Viddy to stage a near-live, behind-the-scenes experience for NYFW.

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Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the...

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Zynga’s newest game continues to grow the fastest on Facebook. Facebook’s Fastest Growing Applications Name Daily Active Users Monthly Active Users Weekly Growth 1. Hidden Chronicles 7,400,000 26,100,000 6,400,000 2. Static HTML: iframe tabs 4,500,000 88,600,000 4,000,000 3. MyCalendar – Birthdays 2,400,000 27,900,000 2,800,000 4. MiCalendario – Cumpleaños 1,100,000 15,200,000 1,900,000 5. BandPage by RootMusic 1,700,000 31,700,000 1,700,000 6. Static HTML… [Second Tab] 570,000 10,800,000 1,7...  show all text

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