الأحد، 27 يناير 2013

LeBron Tackles Fan After Epic Half-Court Shot Worth $75K

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

LeBron Tackles Fan After Epic Half-Court Shot Worth $75K
Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:28 PMAnita Li
One Miami Heat fan had two strokes of luck Friday, when he sank a half-court shot for $75,000. But Michael Drysch's good fortune, which took place during a timeout at a home game against the Detroit Pistons, didn't stop there. After winning the prize with a one-handed hook shot, Heat forward and NBA champ LeBron James excitedly tackled Drysch to the ground.

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Rise of Infographics: Marketing in the Social-Media Age
Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:46 PMAnita Li
Infographics break down data visually, helping viewers make sense of complex information. Their popularity has increased with the rise of social media, fuelling the need for instant results by providing content in bite-size, digestible chunks. So, what's the science behind an infographic's success? Allow an infographic to explain.

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Dear Dog, Leave a Message at the Tree
Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:59 PMAmanda Wills
"Hi, this is Dog. I'm not home right now, but go ahead and take a pee, and I'll call you back as soon as possible."

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Mixed Reviews of 'jOBS' Hit Twitter After Sundance Premiere
Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:28 PMBrian Anthony Hernandez
The film about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Here are the good, the bad and the funny reviews from viewers of "jOBS."

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Why Do Instagram and Facebook Want to See Your Photo ID?
Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:54 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Over the last week, several Instagram users began reporting that the photo-sharing app was locking them out of their accounts, and asking them to confirm their identity by showing photo ID. These incidents, which CNET first covered Tuesday, were reportedly a result of Instagram's new terms of service, which came into effect on Jan. 19. At first, users were worried that their accounts were hacked.

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Lance Armstrong 'Sings' Radiohead's 'Creep'
Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:55 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
If you ever wondered how Radiohead's "Creep" would sound if Lance Armstrong sang it, you're in luck. After Armstrong's confession to Oprah that he did, indeed, use performance-enhancing drugs, videos making fun of the former cycling champion have begun surfacing on the Internet. In a parody made from snippets of the now-infamous Oprah interview, Armstrong "sings" Radiohead's classic song.

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Billboard's Website Redesign Makes Music Charts Playable
Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:06 PMBrian Anthony Hernandez
Billboard this week gave a facelift to its magazine and launched an iPad app. To cap things off, the global music brand unveiled a revamped Billboard.com.

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Warning: Graphic Porn Invades Vine
Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:18 PMSamantha Murphy
It didn't take long for Twitter's new mobile service Vine to get its first collection of porn uploads.

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7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss
Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:20 PMEmily Price
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Twitter released a new application for sharing video content on the web, and another company released one for sharing your opinion on literally everything in the world.

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What's the Best Way to Issue a Correction Online?
Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:06 PMTechNewsDaily
You can put corrections in brackets and red italics, but they still won't stick in people's minds if they don't want to believe the truth. That's one of the conclusions of a new study about the effectiveness of corrections to information online.

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Watch The Best Pep Talk Ever — Given by a Kid
Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:20 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Forget about Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday, this might very well be the best inspirational pep talk ever. And the one who gives this speech is none other than a young, very classy, kid. SEE ALSO: Top 24 Most Inspiring Photos of 2012 We don't know his name — he goes by Kid President — and in this video he delivers a touching and inspirational speech that sometimes borders on the poetic.

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Top 10 Tech This Week
Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:42 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
It was another exciting week in tech, with a wide range of exciting news. There was really something for all tastes: 3D printing, futuristic planes, medical breakthroughs and a new social video app. The launch of Vine, a social video app developed by Twitter, took the social-media world by storm. Vine allows users to easily create six-seconds movie loops with a smartphone, and so far, it's been a hit.

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40 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:23 PMElisha Hartwig
Another busy week is wrapping up, and this weekend is the perfect time for catching up with all the news in social media and tech that you might have missed. With big announcements from Myspace and Facebook, and some unearthing of lies from Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o we've got you covered from industry updates to entertainment news.

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Pinterest Introduces 'News' Feature to Improve Content Discovery
Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:49 PMStephanie Buck
In place of Pinterest's activity feed, the company has installed a new tool called "News." The feed displays boards where your recent pins have been repinned, creating a feed of potentially relevant content that users can peruse from their own profiles or those of others. According to a blog post introducing News, Pinterest explains the tool is meant to foster content discovery.

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NASA's Beloved Curiosity Rover Hasn't Even Driven a Whole Mile Yet
Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:26 PMThe Atlantic
NASA's Curiosity Rover arrived on Mars last August to much fanfare, but its trails on the planet so far are pretty meager — not even a mile. Extra-planetary rovers travel slowly. In fact, all of the man-made rovers combined, both Lunar and Martian, have only explored a grand total of 113 miles — less than what you would cover in two hours on a highway without traffic.

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World's First Driving Dog Goes Viral
Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:31 PMCharlie White
We told you about the world's first driving dogs back in December when they were in training, and now a video of one of them driving around a track has reached viral status on YouTube. Teaching dogs to drive is a project of the Auckland, New Zealand SPCA, where the organization teamed up with carmaker Mini Cooper in a social media awareness campaign.

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Vinepeek Opens a Window on the World, Six Seconds at a Time
Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:07 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
A newly launched website gives you a chance to glimpse into what's going in the world, six seconds at a time. Vinepeek aggregates Vine videos in real time, showcasing an endless stream of six-second snippets of everyday lives. Vinepeek takes inspiration from This Is Now, a real-time aggregator of Instagram pictures, and does the same thing with videos created with Twitter's newly released social video app, Vine.

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Prepare For an Online Job Interview in 24 Hours
Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:19 AMAlan Carniol
How do you prepare for a virtual job interview when you have limited time -- say, only 24 hours? Check out this timetable as a guide.

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Vine Is Teaching Everyone This Terrible Habit
Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:09 AMAnnie Colbert
"No more vertical videos." - Joan Crawford's message for the digital generation. Twitter's new snap-and-share video service, Vine, has forced users to break the first rule of iFilm making: never shoot vertical videos. SEE ALSO: Vine Mania! 10 Creative Vines on Twitter Of course, Vine's videos appear as a square, so you could argue it doesn't really matter.

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