الجمعة، 10 فبراير 2012

Love-Seekers Beware: Online Dating Fraud Rose 150% Last Year

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Love-Seekers Beware: Online Dating Fraud Rose 150% Last Year
3:32:22 AM
Lonely hearts seeking love this Valentine's Day, be wary. Online dating fraud rose by 150% percent in 2011 as scammers and hucksters turned up the false charm and predatory trolling. That's according to data shared with Mashable by fraud...



Tesla Motors Unveils Model X Electric Minivan/SUV [PICS]
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:52 PM
Tesla Motors has introduced the Model X, its third electric car, and like its brandmates, this one is an all-electric vehicle. Built on the same chassis as the four-door Model S, the Model X is a hybrid -- a cross between an SUV and minivan --...



Want People to Return Your Emails? Avoid These Words [INFOGRAPHIC]
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:54 PM
Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you're using. Loading your message with words such as "confirm," "join," "press," or "invite" is not a good idea if you want a response, says data from Baydin, the makers of...



Dad Shoots Daughter's Laptop Over Facebook Post [VIDEO]
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:29 PM
The disgruntled teenage daughter of a tech-savvy, gun-toting father just got a very public lesson in respecting one's elders. "That right there is your laptop," the father, named Tommy Jordan, says in a YouTube video while pointing a video camera...



Online Dating: 7 Fun New Sites for Finding Your Match
Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:36 PM
The latest wave of online dating sites forgoes mysterious equations in favor of straightforward, sometimes unexpected, matching techniques. Whereas Match.com, eHarmony and OkCupid promise to calculate your ideal mate based on your actions and...



Twitter: Now You Can Tweet By Satellite
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:36 PM
Twitter has announced a new partnership with major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, the original text-based Twitter service. According to a statement released Thursday, the company has partnered with Iridium...



Hipsters From 2062 Slam Social Media [VIDEO]
Thursday, February 09, 2012 7:04 PM
Think about how you'll describe social media to friends and family in 50 years. Now, watch this "Future Hipsters" video in which badass elderly folks show us how silly all things social media really could sound. "You could get away with anything...



How Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Lays the Smackdown on Social Media
Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:04 PM
"Can you smelllllll....What the The Rock! Is cooking?!?" That became a ubiquitous catchphrase when Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was a Worldwide Wrestling Federation megastar around the turn of the millennium. Unlike most wrestling-ring bruisers,...



Type This Into Google for a Valentine's Day Surprise
Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:25 PM
Romantic math geeks, your moment has arrived. In the spirit of Valentine's Day, go ahead and type (or paste) this into Google search: sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 Twitter user...



LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members
Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:27 PM
LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November. The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results. The...



Popularity of an Article Can Be Predicted Before It's Tweeted [VIDEO]
Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:25 PM
HP Labs says it's possible to know if your tweet will be a dud before you type the 140 characters. Researchers have developed a formula that predicts the number of times a news "article will be tweeted with surprising accuracy." The researchers...



10 Essential Features of Every Good Business Website
Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:11 PM
The Customer Experience Series is supported by Webtrends, providing the unified, customer intelligence to deliver real time relevance in every marketing campaign, every digital channel. Learn how. So your business has a website -- or you're in...



Yahoo's New Visualization Beautifully Shows What's Happening on the Web
Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:00 PM
Yahoo has launched a new webpage that visualizes what's happening on the web in near real time -- and it's totally beautiful. The Content Optimization Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E.) HTML5 site hopes to show users the "behind the scenes" process...



5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics
Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:13 PM
Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You'll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools, but what if you can't afford them? That's why many social media marketers and power users are in constant...



Instagram Co-Founder's Girlfriend Launches Lovestagram for Valentine's Day
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:52 PM
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is about to receive one of the Internet's most thoughtful Valentine's Day ecards from his girlfriend Kaitlyn Trigger. Trigger, who has been dating Krieger since before he launched the hugely popular iOS app, is...



 
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