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Why Social Media And Politics Are A Dangerous Mix - TNW Shareables Today in the UK, the Conservative Party launched a Twitter-based campaign against Prime Minister Gordon Brown using the hashtag #Cashgordon. Unfortunately, not only was the idea lifted straight from an American campaign site but it was easy to abuse. Within just two hours, the site was taken down. Meg Pickard compiled the excellent graph below demonstrating the rise and fall of a (very) short-lived campaign. Politicians – treat social media with care or you’ll end up with a rather embarrassing disaster on your hands. Julian Assange: the whistleblower Everything about this is odd. Julian Assange, the founder, director, frontman, guiding spirit of global whistleblowing service WikiLeaks looks a bit odd for a start. Tall, cadaverous, dressed in ripped jeans, brown jacket, black tie, battered trainers.
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Google Offers Staff Engineer $3.5 Million To Turn Down Facebook Offer In September I wrote about Google’s “extraordinary” efforts to stop employees, particularly engineers, from resigning to join pre-IPO startups like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook. In one case we confirmed an engineer making around $150,000 turned down a 15% raise plus $500,000 in restricted stock and left for Facebook anyway. That’s all chump change now. We’ve confirmed today that a staff engineer at Google being heavily romanced by Facebook was offered a jaw dropping $3.5 million in restricted stock by Google (this means Google is handing over stock worth $3.5 million based on its value today, and that stock will vest over time). He quite wisely accepted Google’s counter offer. Facebook lost this one.
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