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Top 10 of the World's Theme Parks Battle for Social Dominance

Theme parks operators have a great synergy with social media.... keep coming up with cool stuff for people to play with and they will return billions of dollars in global word-of-mouth advertising. According to the Travel and Leisure, the Magic Kingdom is still the world's No. 1 most popular theme park, with more than 17 million annual visitors. The others rounding...

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It's Official - CoffeePledge Steam Reaches 300K Cups

CoffeePledge broke the 300K cups milestone officially at 5:23pm EST today, with its more than 40,000 user accounts. The world's first social media movement to leverage the coffee industry to fight cancer, is merely in its first 90 days of birth, and has already begun to build steam with social...

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Starbucks is a Growing Brand Favorite on the CoffeePledge Network

As the total cups pledged continue to add up... so do the user requests to add favorite coffee brands to the cause. As of today, 44,000+ users nationwide have pledged to purchase more than 322,000 cups during CoffeeWeek 2011, to support the fight against cancer. Users have selected Starbucks as...

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The World's 1st Coffee Social Network Launches

CoffeePledge officially launched its social network today for its 40,000+ users. The world's first social media movement to leverage the coffee industry to fight cancer, is still in its first 120 days of birth, and is beginning to heat up the pot of tens of thousands of coffee-lovers world-wide.CoffeePledge's social...

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Top 10 Tweets While Facebook Was Down

Facebook crashed on Thursday, September 23, 2010. With its 500 million + users up in arms, die-hard Twitter users and rookies alike took advantage of the situation. The humor varied from witty to snarky, from observant to lame. Many claimed they "didn't care" or made snide remarks about the people...

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Google reportedly courts Hollywood for (more) YouTube movie rentals

Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube. You may have already seen YouTube's somewhat limited movie rental store, which opened in January with a handful of titles...

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Tag, You're Here! Opting Out of Facebook Places Tagging Feature.

Facebook Places was rolled out last week as the new way to check-in and share your location with everyone on your Facebook Friends list. Did you know that one of the features of Facebook Places is that your friends can tag you at a location? What does that mean for...

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Facebook Places: Don't Place Your Privacy at Risk

While Facebook has busy making a big deal about design changes to Business Pages, they have very quietly rolled out a new geolocation feature that effects all 500 million personal profiles. Called Facebook Places, this new feature allows Facebook users to check-in and share their exact location with other Facebook...

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Former MySpace Chief Van Natta Joins Zynga

Former Facebook and MySpace executive Owen Van Natta has joined online gaming giant Zynga, which produces FarmVille and Mafia Wars.Van Natta will serve as executive vice president of business operations, reporting to founder and chief executive Mark Pincus. Zynga declined to provide additional details.The company has been in the news...

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How to Spot Facebook Scams Like 'Dislike' Button on Facebook

Like many scams on Facebook, the "Dislike" button succeeded because people are gullible. Here's how to not become one of those people. Looking at Sophos' report on the Facebook "Dislike" button, which has reportedly spread virally through the social network, I noticed a pattern consistent with several other scams. Recognize...

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HOW TO: Stop Facebook Photo Tagging Spammers from Bugging You

Have you Been Tagged in Some Random Photo on Facebook? Does it keep happening? You receive a message on Facebook that you've been tagged in a photo, but when you go to look at the photo you discover that it wasn't you at all, but some sort of product,...

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More Evidence that iPhone going to Verizon in January 2011 [REPORT]

Another great report from Steve Cheney at TechCrunch confirms that Verizon will be getting the CDMA iPhone in January 2011. Steve flat out confirms his sources close to the supply chain, have provided evidence to support the statement. Steve's sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured him that...

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Eva Mendes Sex Tape [OFFICIAL]

After many days of speculation and excitement from fans, pervs, and well... let's just say me too... the Eva Mendes Sex Tape was officially released to the public and goes viral. Let's just say it shocked the internet world with the nastiest, most flexible, stickiest tape we could have ever...

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Apple's Free App Promotion Falls Flat

A key flaw with Apple's "Try Before You Buy" feature makes it a worthless app promotion. Also in today's App Industry Roundup, we examine more iPod rumors, apps for Lollapalooza and a review of $500 earphones. App promo needs work If an iTunes app is free, that means there is...

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SeizeTheDay iPhone app good for organizing your hectic life

If your hectic life has you forgetting things that were at the top of your "list," it may be time to think about getting some help. Luckily, SeizeTheDay has been designed to be your polite, if not over-simplistic taskmaster, keeping you on top of your to-dos so you don't miss...

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