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| Usher and Samsung: A Blueprint for Viral Success | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Twenty-two million. That's how many times people have watched "Looking 4 Myself," a collaboration between Usher and Samsung that shows the power of motion in a new smart TV campaign. "We used a mix of paid and earned views and timed the release of the video to capitalize on the buzz around the season finale of The Voice," said Ross Maupin, the creative director of Huge, the company that created the viral video.
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| 'Midsummer' on Google+ Is Shakespeare as You've Never Seen It | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:52 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| With a little help from Google, the Bard could be the next Internet sensation — or at least the next social media sensation. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has put together its 40th rendition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, only this time the company is calling it Midsummer Night’s Dreaming and it's playing almost exclusively on a social network near you.
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| Instagram Users Have Already Posted 5 Million Videos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Instagram video appears to be a hit. Users uploaded more than 5 million videos during the first 24 hours of availability. In the first eight hours alone, the app saw one year’s worth of video uploaded, 40 hours per minute when the Miami Heat won the NBA championship Thursday evening, according to Instagram.
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| Facebook Exposed 6 Million Users' Contact Info | | Friday, June 21, 2013 5:49 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook accidentally shared 6 million users' email addresses or telephone numbers due to a software bug, the company announced Friday. The breach was caused by an unfortunate combination of Facebook's "People You May Know" and "Download Your Information" features.
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| Show Us Your Most Indulgent Photos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 4:32 PM | Annie Park |
| Let's admit it. We all have our go-to guilty pleasures, whether it's raiding the tabloid rack at the supermarket or sleeping in til 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For photographers, that guilty pleasure might be applying that one Instagram filter you can't resist, or snapping a shot of the sunset — even though you know it's totally cliché. We may not be too proud of our actions, but hey, we're entitled to indulge once in a while.
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