Tag: facebook

‘Facebook Home’ Launches Today on Samsung and HTC Devices

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 2:45 pm   /   Local, Technology

In their eternal quest to shoehorn themselves deeper into your lives, Facebook has developed a product for Android called Facebook Home. You may have seen its bizarre tuba filled, transvestite laden commercial on TV. Facebook Home is a different type of app called a launcher. A launcher is essentially a skin to the Android operating […]

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Facebook News Feed Gets Facelift. Photos of Redesign and How to Join the Waitinglist

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 8:46 am   /   Local, Technology

Facebook is getting a redesigned News Feed. Why, you might ask? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says their goal is to “make the world more open and connected.” Their idea is to make the user experience as streamlined as possible, by having the news feed function like a newspaper. Zuckerberg says there are three […]

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Tom O’Keefe Reviews ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ & Talks Sex Offenders on Facebook on the Thom and Jeff Show #179 (5/31)

Posted: June 1, 2012 at 2:58 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

The Thom and Jeff Show Podcast #179 [audio:http://thethomandjeffshow.com/audio/TAJPodcast179.mp3] Podcast 179 in which I review Snow White & The Huntsman and we discuss sex offenders on FB. Now with new studio smell! Snow White & The Huntsman Synopsis: In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the […]

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“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” Starring Jim Carrey Opens June 17! Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 1:17 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: When a house painter inadvertently receives some penguins from a friend in Antarctica, he decides to train them as a circus act. Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Angela Lansbury Directed by: Mark Waters In order to enter the contest, […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Time’s Person of the Year Over Readers’ Favorite, Julian Assange

Posted: December 15, 2010 at 3:14 pm   /   Local, Off the Wall

Despite winning the readers’ poll, Julian Assange lost Time’s Person of the Year to 26=year-old Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.  Also in the running were the Tea Party, the Chilean Miners, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai. As mad as some people are that the reader’s poll wasn’t the final winner, I can’t […]

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Facebook Feeling Nostalgic, Cartoon Characters From the 80s and 90s

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 8:00 pm   /   Local, Off the Wall

If you’ve signed on to Facebook in the last couple of days, you may have noticed that cartoon characters from the 80s and 90s have taken over. But why the sudden change in profile photos? The movement is to support a good cause. People are posting on walls, sending messages and writing notes – telling […]

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Google: Serendipity Engine, Facebook: Personalized Media

Posted: October 3, 2010 at 8:17 am   /   Film, Local, Technology

Google CEO Eric Schmidt shared his vision of autonomous search, where information comes to users at Tuesday’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.  The next day, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg stated that the future of media will be personalized.  Both parties were making the point that computers and software are getting to the point where […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Social Network

Posted: October 1, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Film, Local

David Fincher’s latest is forever going to be known as “the Facebook Movie” but it will also be held up there with his finest works which is a filmography very few directors can touch. The Social Network is a look at the creation, rise, and legal woes of Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook in a […]

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Facebook and Skype alliance

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 9:48 pm   /   Local, Technology

It seems that Facebook Inc. and internet phone provider Skype are on the verge of announcing a partnership on communication services.  This partnership will allow Facebook users to sign into Skype using Facebook connect.  Once in, users will be able to text and both video and voice chat with their Facebook friends from inside Skype.  […]

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK Opens October 1! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 7:08 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

THE SOCIAL NETWORK OPENS OCTOBER 1 NATIONWIDE. Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins […]

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