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Man shot dead after posting on Facebook: ‘im about to get shot’

(Photo: Facebook)

It appears that one of the last things Eric L. Ramsey did before he was shot and killed by police Thursday was to let his friends and family know on Facebook that he was about to die.

“Well folkes im about to get shot. Peace” Ramsey posted on the social network at 3:15 a.m. Jan. 17 using his mobile phone. 

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What this description doesn’t tell you is that, before this recent parolee got shot, he kidnapped and allegedly raped a woman, and when that woman successfully escaped to a nearby home, he tried setting the home on fire. Just a word of warning regarding this story. This FB message may be novel, but nothing else about this story is.

"The essential value of these information technologies – their ability to seamlessly interface with each other as only bits, rather than atoms, can – is being purposely eroded." — MIT Technology Review contributor John Pavlus • Discussing the current trend of social media networks breaking their apps’ ability to share to gain competitive advantages, particularly in the case of Twitter and Instagram. Pavlus, understandably, mocks them: “The vision is almost comically retrograde: Twitter, Google, Apple, and Facebook each seem to think that they can provide every conceivable digital functionality to the user all on their own at each other’s expense, much like GM’s ‘kitchen of tomorrow’ at the 1964 World’s Fair promised to meet every need of a 20th-century housewife with one brand.” (via shortformblog)

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georgetakei:

My nephew asked why I don’t have a Tumblr account, given my love of goofy pics. So here it is! To celebrate, I’ve paired with Tumblr and Humans of New York to help with their Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser. http://www.indiegogo.com/HONYTumblr

Considering his Facebook popularity, this is a major get for Tumblr. Glad to see he’s started off with a bang.

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newsweek:

The shooter in Aurora, Colorado has been identified as one James Holmes—but not this James Holmes.

It’s worth appreciating someone who can respond so well to a mob of mis-informed people. That deserves respect.

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The Facebook iPhone app is modifying users’ address books without notification or permission

You might want to uninstall the Facebook app: There are reports that Facebook’s iPhone app is infiltrating the address book that comes preinstalled on the iPhone, erasing contacts’ email addresses, and replacing them with their Facebook address (you know, the [name]@facebook.com email address that everyone’s given and nobody uses). This is bad enough, but to make matters worse, the @facebook.com addresses—which are supposed to redirect to users’ Facebook inboxes—apparently aren’t working all that great. The end result is that emails sent by many well-intentioned iPhone users are disappearing into the abyss, irretrievable by their intended recipients. Presumably, affected users are also losing the real email addresses of their friends. This is, to put it lightly, completely inexcusable, and it doesn’t take too much thinking to conjure up many disastrous scenarios that could result from it . source

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"You sir make a horrible title.. It should be AWESOME SPECTACULAR PLUGIN RAGES THROUGH FACEBOOK!" — Dru Mundorff, the creator of LilyJade, a shady Facebook app • Defending his idea in the comments of Russell Brandom’s BuzzFeed article talking about how shady it is. The cross-platform browser plugin, which tricks users into installing it, replaces all the ads on other sites with his. Classy. He’s made a quarter-million bucks off the thing in just two weeks, has already drawn a comment from Wikipedia, a cease-and-desist from Facebook, is for sale on hacker forums, and and as Brandom points out, what he’s doing is gray-area but legal, since users are installing it themselves. Great. Be careful what you click, guys. This is a new generation of malware. And it works on nearly everything. (via shortformblog)

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"I felt that had Mr. Zuckerberg worn a jacket instead of a hoodie (showing [investors] that he respected them enough to “dress up”), he would have made a statement to them that he cares about their needs, and will act in their best interest. He chose not to make that statement, and the current share price demonstrates that investors have chosen not to support Facebook shares." — Wedbush securities analyst Michael Pachter • Blaming Facebook’s IPO flop on Mark Zuckerberg’s choice of jacket. Well, okay, he didn’t really blame it all on Zuck’s clothes: “The flop is 100% a function of a supply/demand imbalance,” Pachter wrote. “The company and its underwriters misjudged demand, and simply issued too many shares. There is no question that had this deal been 1/3 the size, the market would have absorbed it and the deal price would have held.” source (via • follow)

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What’s taking so long? According to Bloomberg TV, NASDAQ is having problems handling such a large IPO, causing delays in launching the stock. Zuck’s a programmer — perhaps they should put him on the case. EDIT: CNBC is reporting that the delay is causing NASDAQ’s stock to fall.

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George Zimmerman’s legal team begins full-scale social media campaign

Attorney Mark O’Mara says the campaign was launched in an effort to discredit fake websites and profiles. Zimmerman, whose first website netted him over $200,000 in donations, now has a virtual presence on Twitter and Facebook, as well as a much more polished site. All three are being maintained by O’Mara who, in his first post online, said he understands “it is unusual for a legal defense to maintain a social media presence on behalf of a defendant, but we also acknowledge that this is a very unusual case.” source

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Richard Blumenthal is on the case, guys.

This is big, folks. A government figure is doing something to help people.

(Source: manicchill)

deepdarkweb:

What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)

“If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.”

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