| The Least Watched Viral Videos of 2012 | | December around the old newsroom means enough end of year coverage to fill Santa's magical sack. Lists of the 10 best/most popular/coolest [fill in blank with pretty much anything] offer an easily digestible recap of the past 365 days.
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| Instagram on iPhone Gets a Fresh Filter, Facebook Login, Apology | | Kevin Systrom has had quite the busy week. Fresh from nixing his revamped terms of service that caused such a stir on Tuesday -- and doing a 180-degree turn on those terms of service Thursday -- the Instagram co-founder has launched a significant update to his iPhone app. The update adds a brand-new photo filter, "Mayfair", which brings the app's total number of filters up to 20.
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| How Social Media and Snoop Dogg Helped a Fledgling NBA Team | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:45 PM | Sam Laird |
| Pro sports have come to sleepy, seaside Santa Cruz, Calif. The Golden State Warriors NBA team opened up a minor league operation there this season, and the team is off to a solid start before playing its first home game on Sunday.
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| Who Will Watch 'Gangnam Style' For the Billionth Time? | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:30 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Sometime in the next day, maybe in the next few hours, humanity will hit a major milestone that has nothing to do with the Mayan apocalypse (we hope). For the first time in history, we will be able to state categorically that a single piece of visual entertainment has been watched more than a billion times.
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| Facebook Rolls Out Privacy Shortcuts in Plain English | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:48 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember those privacy controls Facebook announced last week, alongside the rather less friendly news that you would no longer have the option to hide when Facebook users are searching you? Well, those changes are finally here. As of 10pm ET, you should start seeing a small symbol with a lock in the top right hand corner of your screen.
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| 'Back to the Future' LEGO Set Is Really Happening | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:59 PM | Geekosystem |
| LEGO's just released the summer review results from their CUUSOO website, which is a system where modelers can submit their creations in the hopes that they'll eventually become actual sets. Once a submission manages 10,000 votes from the community, LEGO reviews them and makes a call on whether they move forward with the project. That's how that sweet Minecraft LEGO set came to fruition.
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| Find Your Vital Gmail With a Google Search | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:26 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Google is inviting you to be part of a field trial to test some new features which sync its products to an even more intuitive degree. Do a regular Google Search and it will pull information from your Gmail and Google Drive, allowing you to find what information you're looking for faster. This sync-up lets you do a Google search for things like your dinner reservations and items you ordered online.
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| Instagram Updates Its Terms of Service Based on User Feedback | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:54 PM | Christina Warren |
| Instagram has formally updated its Terms of Service, making changes based on user feedback. The photo sharing site -- which Facebook purchased in April -- introduced its plans for new terms of service on Monday. Users reacted negatively to the new terms, threatening to boycott the service and delete accounts if the terms weren't amended.
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| How Music Ruled Twitter in 2012 | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:42 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| To Jimi Hendrix, music was a religion. To Twitter users, music is a conversation starter and so much more. Here's how music ruled Twitter in 2012.
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| Facebook Set to Change Your Timeline Again | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:54 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Ready for some more design tweaks to your Timeline? If not, watch out. Facebook is experimenting with some significant changes that are already showing up for a small number of users -- and may roll out to the masses very soon. According to ABC News, where a producer's Timeline first revealed the changes Thursday, the new version is a return to tabs.
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| Does Your Cellphone Make You Safer? | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:31 PM | Kate Freeman |
| If you're walking home alone at night, or perhaps in a less-populated part of town, does your cellphone make you feel safer? A new study from University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Jonathan Klick, along with colleagues at Penn and George Mason University, speculates that a one-third drop in crime rates in the 1990s might be due to cellphones providing a deterrent for criminals.
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| Socioeconomic Status Predicts Number of Facebook Friends | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:00 PM | Zoe Fox |
| How many friends do you have on Facebook? New research from the University of Virginia and London Business School says that your socioeconomic status correlates with the size of your social network on Facebook. Wealthier individuals, they found, tend to have larger and shallower networks of friends. After living in in multiple places throughout their lives, these individuals tend to have different groups of friends.
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| ALPACAlypse! The End of the World Is Shear | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:05 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Hide yo kids, hide yo llamas -- the Alpacalypse arrives at midnight. Yes, you have heard of the Dec. 21, 2012 apocalypse, but that was just the Mayans' sneaky plan to distract from the real destruction set to doom Earth. Expect alpacas to rain down with the space rocks and pillage your supply of canned SpaghettiO's. SEE ALSO: 21 Hilarious Tweets for the End of the World Prepare for (really soft, sweater-ready) fur to fly, humans.
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| 21 Hilarious Tweets for the End of the World | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:18 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Mayans got you down? Bummed about the fiery ball of death headed your way in the next 24 hours? There's not much we can do about your impending doom, but enjoy this hilarity from some of Twitter's finest comic minds while you wait. After tomorrow, it's just cockroaches and Regis. — Matt Koff (@mattkoff) December 20, 2012 I don’t know about the Mayans but my world ended when McDonald’s got rid of the Arch Deluxe.
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| Facebook Will Let People You Don't Know Message Your Inbox For $1 | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:04 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| If you start noticing a few more messages in your Facebook inbox in the coming weeks from people you don't know, here's why. Facebook announced Thursday that it is testing a new option to charge users a one-time fee of $1 to send a message to another user's inbox on the network who they aren't friends with.
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| Miss Venezuela Gives Best Worst Pageant Answer | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:47 AM | Annie Colbert |
| Pageant queens require two things: beauty and brains (an ability to look good in sparkles doesn't hurt either). Competing Miss [fill in country names] show off their beauty in dazzling gowns and swimwear, then let their brains shine in the all-important Q&A round. Miss Venezuela, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, had already demonstrated her beauty at Wednesday night's Miss Universe pageant.
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| Report: Facebook Starts Rolling Out New Privacy Settings -- in New Zealand | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:21 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Users in New Zealand are starting to see new settings for their Facebook accounts that make it easier to set privacy controls, according to a report. The Next Web reports that those users are seeing a "new privacy shortcut menu" that has been added to the main bar on the site. A "privacy settings and tools" page also outlines an overview of privacy options and lets users prevent their Timelines from being indexed by search engines.
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| Get Your DIY Kick Over the Holidays With Snapguide | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:58 AM | Dani Fankhauser |
| It might be too late for making DIY Christmas gifts, but how-to app Snapguide debuts on iPad today, perhaps still in time to help with a Christmas recipe or New Year's party decorations. The iOS app is also available on iPhone and its user-submitted guides can be viewed on the desktop as well. The visual nature of the app plays well on a bigger screen, along with the more visual social networks.
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