Win $1 Million!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who wouldn’t want to win $1 million just for sharing a photo on Facebook? That’s what over 500,000 people thought! Nolan Daniels posted a photo on Facebook of him holding a Powerball ticket with the winning numbers. He captioned the photo as,

“Looks like I won’t be going to work EVER! Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars!”

You can imagine how many Facebook users jumped at the thought of winning that money. Though this may seem like a great deal, the photo displayed photo-shopped the winning numbers on the ticket. This scam is sure to bring some angry Facebookers who believed the contest to be legitimate.

When you see photos such as this on Facebook, do you ‘share’ them in hopes of winning? Do you think they are legit? Or do you disregard the photo?? I know personally I have seen several of my Facebook friends share this photo. How do you react? Give us your thoughts!

Link to fake $1 million

Black Friday

 Black Friday- consumerism at its finest. Families leave the Thanksgiving table in search of the cheapest and latest gadget that they just simply have to have at 5am in the morning. While this is a crazy day of camping out, fighting the crowds, and spending money, there are good deals to be had. Many stores utilized social media to get coupons and store information into the customer's hands. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. were used on this day with great results. See the following link to view the specifics: Link.

 

Did you go Black Friday shopping? Did you use social media to help your shopping? What were your best buys?

Twitter Trolls...

This year there have been many companies, sports teams or public figures that have been criticized either for the Tweets they post or insolent Tweets posted about them.

Recently, the Los Angeles Lakers fired Coach Mike Brown (who was only there for five games) blaming him for their poor start to the season. Fans began voicing their opinions about Brown. 

Not only have there been threats made against Coach Brown, but also against his teenage son. Threats on Twitter have become a fad of our time. More and more athletes and public figures have been threatened on Twitter. Recently Sportscaster Erin Andrews was a victim of this with this Tweet posted,

“@ErinAndrews You make eye contact with me and I will chop you apart. You are just a bad thing”

With this trend becoming more and more common on Twitter, do you think more censoring will come into play? Or will they just continue to allow people to make threats??

Here is a link to read more about the issue twitter trolls

Gangnam Style!

“Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh!”  Do you find that line familiar?? More than likely you have heard the song that has taken the world by storm, Gangnam Style!

As of November 24^th, 2012, the YouTube video of Gangnam Style has become the most popular video with over 804 million hits (It has surpassed the previous leading video, Baby, by Justin Bieber) It is now the most popular video on YouTube EVER! Statistics predict that by December 16^th of this year the video will reach the BILLION views mark. I imagine the creators of YouTube never imagined their site would attract that many views for only ONE video!

YouTube has continued to increase viewers of their site and generates so many videos everyday. With how effective YouTube is at gaining a large audience, do you think businesses would try to maximize this source of social media to bring recognition to their organization?

YouTubes #1 video

Facebook's New Dictatorship

Facebook is under new management. Not really. They are just under a new kind of pressure. Now being public for over half a year and having over a billion users, Facebook has decided they are "too big for Democracy".

This may suffice for their large population of Chinese users, but many other global users are outraged. Facebook used to maintain the policy of "votes" for change. If a certain strategy or change received 30% of Facebook's users to vote, the change was vetoed. Facebook is under global pressure from a publicly owned perspective.

Revolutions have been mentioned as radical as "Facebook freedom". One talks about tell his grandchildren about the great fight for his Facebook freedom. While Facebook is a social community, others view it as an advertising algorithm. With so many changes going on with Facebook, nobody knows how the information will be used and who will be able to receive private information.

With the general community using the network, many do not know enough or care enough to "vote". Others are very concerned about Facebook's future and especially with regards to "how far is too far?"

Some believe Mark Zuckerberg is willing to do anything to keep his company afloat. Selling personal information is only a marginal cost.

Do you trust Facebook? How do you use Facebook with potential trust issues circulating? If Facebook completely removes themselves from public opinion, will you continue to use your personal profile?


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www.[YourNameHere].donuts

Remember hearing about the battle over the "Microsoft" domain name back in the 90s which ended in a computer geek's multi-million dollar payout? Whether or not this is fact or fiction, perhaps nobody knows.

Now, the battle is over domain names. In 2013, companies are expecting to expand the domain names from common ones like .com, .net, .me, .org, and .gov, to more precise domain names like the following: .dentist, .lawyer, .ad, .buy, .coffee, and .donuts.

Companies like Google and Amazon have raise the bids on many names they would like to buy. Rightfully so, they have revolutionized the search and buying industries forever. A conglomeration of donut shops have now come together to request the domain name of their choice, and of their niche.

.Donuts has raised a whole new style of thought. Giving companies more options for their domain names, this domain name will help focus the industry as well as give them a strong asset to build their online presence. Thought they won't be selling digital donuts, they are looking to spend a pretty amount to purchase their domain name.

They have spend more than $56 million on over 300 domain name suffixes. In attempts to hold out like one did on Microsoft, these domain names come with a high payout. This is a business strategy for donut shops and multi-billion dollar retail sites alike. The donut cornerstore and Amazon all have a common interest in this dilemma. It will be determined by a government non-profit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

Do you think focusing the domain names will be good for business? 

Many venture capitalists are becoming involved in this as mere investment strategies. How could Icann help protect small businesses from having to pay millions of dollars to recapture their deserved domain name?

Grab a .donut and a .coffee and think about how you could benefit from this emerging change.

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Papa Annoying

 Papa Johns has been taken to court recently by individuals who are sick and tire of receiving illegal text messages from the country's favorite fast food pizza chain. Apparently, Papa John's has been accused of sending over 500,000 unwanted messages to customers who had recently frequented their stores. Some individuals attested to receiving chains of 15 messages even in the middle of the night. Plaintiffs are asking for up to $1,500 per message from Papa Johns.

 

See the full story by clicking this Link.

An independent company actually sent the messages on behalf of Papa Johns. Do you think that Papa Johns is liable for these messages? Or is the third party company who actually sent the messages liable??