We LIKE this. A new Facebook online store has been developed encouraging their US users to buy and send gifts with just a click of a button. Remembering birthdays used to be a daunting experience until these guys came along, and now they making something like purchasing wine just as easy.
One would think the security on a top multinational brand’s social media account would be watertight, but over the last two days we have watched with mouth agape while the Twitter feeds of two major brands have been hacked.
Instagram can make any amateur photographer look good, but we’re not sure if a filter is going to cut it in this case. Mor Ostrovski, a 20 year old Isreali solider took this photo through his sniper rifle of a Palestinian boy’s head, who was obviously unaware that a rifle was aimed at the back […]
Pistorius and ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins Things are falling apart, a little bit. Oscar Pistorius’ ex-girlfriends have not been shy to voice their opinions of the Paralympian murder accused. Most vociferous have been Samantha Taylor, and Jenna Edkins. Taylor told the press last year that she was “prepared to reveal what Pistorius made me go through”. […]
Our friends over at BrandsEye put together this excellent analysis of the social media conversation that emerged around the 2013 State Of The Nation Address, or #SONA/#SONA13, as you might have seen it. This, from BrandsEye’s report: From the speech in 2011 with 6,000 online mentions, this year’s address delivered just over 49,000 online conversations. […]
Santiago Perez Grovas (26) and Taylor Dee (22) met and fell in love on Instagram. The pair are Instagram royalty in their own rights, with 70 000 and 18 000 followers respectively. Their love affair started when Grovas reached 50 000 followers on the social media site, and to celebrate posted a competition. To enter […]
Twitter and American Express (Amex) have collaborated to make an online shopping cart, via Twitter. You’ll first need to sync your Amex to twitter. The twitter account has to be public and no prepaid or corporate American Express cards are compatible. You tweet the appropriate product hashtag and the @AmexSync twitter account will tweet a confirmation hashtag […]
The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI will resign on 28 February, an italian news agency has announced. Twitter, in the mean time, has gone into a feeding frenzy.
Thanks to Mark Creeperberg and Facebook, you can now find your friends who are in the same area as you, even if their Facebook app is closed. Which is obviously a red flag for privacy. Facebook already allows you to “check in”, logging the places you’ve visited in a viewable GPS map format. According to […]
The simplest way to lead a productive lifestyle is to form good habits, like having a set time to drink your morning flat white or for uploading your cat photos on to Instagram. For a lot of us, most of our time is spent online so it makes sense to streamline that vibe. Please enjoy […]
Matt K. Lewis is a respected American journalist, who has been cited or quoted by several major outlets, including New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
While most people are familiar with internet memes, explaining to someone else what exactly they are (and how they work) can be tricky.
A huge number of American Facebook users received an email recently that they probably deleted imagining it came from a cash-strapped Nigerian Prince, but the email promising them $10 was real.
It’s the hot new video app from twitter that allows you to share six second videos. Of course porn immediately got shared, followed quickly by advertisers publishing videos. But how the hell do you use it?
This morning we reported on another school shooting that took place in the US.
You’ve probably seen #Zamdela trending on your timeline today. The riots in the Sasolburg township of Zamdela have rocked South Africa, with the most compelling reportage coming from the ground via Twitter. Check out this collection of tweets, for a timeline of the riot. #Sasolburg There've been no protests in #Zamdela this morning. Unconfirmed […]
Most people would never admit to engaging in the odd bit of Facebook stalking, but truth be told, most people love nothing more than a little stalk every now and then. Here’s how you can take precautions to stay in the clear.
In an astounding conflict of interest, a local online marketing company that charges its corporate clients to promote their products and services online, has been revealed to be behind a local website that may sell fake Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and YouTube views. Depending on the method used, buying Twitter followers, Facebook fans or YouTube […]
Facebook recently launched their new search tool, called Graph Search. While it isn’t widely available yet, once it has been implemented, it will search each Facebook user’s profile for their “likes.”
Reddit co-founder and RSS feed co-developer, Aaron Swartz, has died on Friday in his New York flat at age 26. According to his uncle and an attorney, the computer activist and programmer took his own life.
The 2oceansvibe calendar (right of your page) is actually just a MyBirdi calendar. MyBirdi let’s you Tweet your sale/event/special/gig without worrying about people missing that info. Because if you include @mybirdi in the tweet, then it gets saved on the chosen date in the MyBirdi calendar. Read on to see how.
Photo-sharing website Instagram has released a photo compilation of some of their top 10 biggest events of 2012. It was selected from all the images uploaded this year by their more than 100 million users.
Randi Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg. She is also the social network’s former marketing director. But on Christmas Day she got burned by Facebook’s privacy settings just like the rest of us.
2012 has been one crazy year for social media! Facebook went public, Pinterest was named Best New Startup, Facebook bought Instagram, and Psy’s “Gangnam Style” became the most viewed YouTube video in history with more than one billion views so far!
Twitter has launched Twitter Archive, which allows you to download every single one of your tweets, ever. A post on the company blog announced the decision this morning. It’s no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your […]
Twitter has arguably become one of the most influential social media services used by the modern journalist. But the modern journalist is not alone – the average citizen can break the news too, with ease.
Fellow Internet users and 2oceansvibers. We are sure you are not at fault here, being the bastion of modern communication etiquette you are. You may, however, know someone who is at fault; we would love you to forward this on to them.
Did you catch the article we penned about The Hawks’ spokesperson, McIntosh Polela, saying he hoped Jub Jub’s friends had given him Vaseline for prison yesterday? Well, Polela, who was initially unapologetic, has changed his mind about that.
In the first move of its kind, Twitter has officially banned the account of a German neo-Nazi group. The action came after a request from German police, who claimed the account holders were a “criminal organisation”.
BOS Ice Tea has won a gold award at the New York Smarties Awards 2012 with BEV – the Twitter activated vending robot.