Huffington Post Co-Founder Ken Lerer Launching Video News Service - Peter Kafka - Media. Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again. The Huffington Post co-founder, who sold his site to AOL a year ago, is working on another Web news start-up. But Lerer isn’t trying to replicate his old site.
Instead, he’s trying to create a digital video news operation built to attract a generation of Web natives who watch Jon Stewart but not CNN or Fox News. People who have heard Lerer pitch the start-up say he has been vague about the details but broad about his ambitions. There are plenty of other folks trying to figure out how bring TV-style news to the Web, including the TV people themselves. (Image courtesy of Shutterstock/Daboost) Can employers demand Facebook passwords. If you were out pounding beers and tacos with your crew 'til 2 a.m., should a potential employer be able to know about it? Or, better question, if you're gay should a potential employer be able to know about it? It's all part of the same debate going on right now looping together Facebook, the feds, and possibly, your future employment.
An increasing number of employers are reportedly starting to ask job applicants to hand over their Facebook passwords so they can get a more accurate and filter-free idea of what the potential new hire is all about, USA Today reports. But a pair of senators alarmed at the reported practice have asked the Justice Department to investigate its legality. Requesting an applicant's password is going a pretty hefty step further than the more common practice of employers simply checking out your profile, critics say. That is, of course, if it's even legal to do so. And they're bringing some friends to the fight as well: Facebook. Bianca Bosker: Debunking the Big Gang Theory: Why Facebook and Others Suffer From Being Big. Of the top 39 stories that appeared in my Facebook feed on a recent afternoon, 11 were from brands, nine were from people I wasn't interested in hearing from, and 13 from people I couldn't for the life of me remember. In short, it was a mess -- a cacophony of noise from people whom I barely know, whose actions and opinions have little bearing on my life, and whom I have a minor interest in keeping up with.
I don't much care for their music recommendations and I'm not dying for their restaurant tips. It wasn't always this way. When it first launched, a then much smaller Facebook provided an online extension for offline relationships. The social network offered a way of keeping tabs on the classmate down the hall and the neighbor next door, people whom we cared about and whose activities online would influence our behavior offline. Then I became friends with teammates' siblings and friends of friends I hadn't met, but felt obliged to follow. Attracting users is the easy part. Inbox-Sanity Tool Boomerang Hits 1 Million Downloads. More than one million people have downloaded Boomerang for Gmail, an inbox extension that helps schedule outgoing email messages and allows users to re-receive important incoming messages at a convenient time.
Its creator, Baydin, tells Mashable that the company became profitable for the first time last month, just before passing the 1-million-downloads mark. The free inbox tool installs a button in Gmail from which users can schedule outgoing emails for optimal times or keep tabs on emails they receive. Instead of starring important emails, users can "Boomerang" them — scheduling the emails to return as new messages at either a specific time or if nobody responds. The Gmail extension launched in 2010 shortly after an Outlook version of the same tool, but it took off faster.
As email creeps further into our work days and holidays alike, Boomerang isn't the only inbox management tool that has taken off. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, gavran333. The Voyagers: A Short Film About Eternity and How Carl Sagan Fell in Love. Anything about nothing :: Comics - Joys of Autumn. About / Contact / Extra / Store / + FAVS Joys of Autumn 14 Feb 2010 07:30 pm << First < Previous Next > Latest >> Author's Comments: Reply kangel, 14 Feb 2010 07:01 pm I love stepping on crunchy leaves, it's one of the best things ever.
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Reply saruwarui, 03 Mar 2010 12:56 pm I've stepped in a slug in bare feet and it is probably the nastiest feeling in the world. Reply xx3OH3xx, 13 Mar 2010 01:05 am lol It could turn into a song since it sounds kecth-uppy Reply Maiumaora, 29 Mar 2010 08:53 pm the only thing worse than stepping on a slug with no shoes is stepping in dog poo with no shoes O__o Reply blebo, 15 Jul 2010 11:46 am Good. Invisible Children | Kony2012. Two LRA commanders have been removed from the battlefield, Maj. Gen. Ceasar Acellam and Lt. Colonel Vincent Binansio “Binani” Okumu. 44 radio operators from CAR and DR Congo were trained on using the Early Warning Radio Network to protect themselves and their communities in December 2012 LRA killings of civilians dropped 67% from 2011 to 2012 690k 690,000 defection fliers have been printed and distributed across DR Congo and CAR 5 LRA (2 men and 3 women) surrendered in CAR on November 28, 2012 with a defection flier designed and printed by Invisible Children in-hand IC constructed 3 FM radio towers to broadcast "come home" messages over 37,000 sq/km of LRA traveled territory (Mbokie, Obo, Dungu). 89% of LRA escapees credit "come home" messaging as the reason they decided to attempt escape 37 rural communities in central Africa are linked into Invisible Children's Early Warning Radio Network which uses HF long-range radios to give advance warning of security threats RFJ Bill The U.S. 100m 3.7m 3.1m.
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