SF News Facebook Will Deliver Your Hate Mail Directly To Mark Zuckerberg's Inbox For A Mere $100 Well, that's one way to pay the rent on your Mission District pied a terre: First Facebook started charging users $1 to deliver spam and creepy cyberstalking messages to people they aren't actually
Arts & Entertainment 1973 Social Media Terminal Is A Thing Of Wonder Way before Instagram, before Yelp, before Prodigy, and even before your local BBS (Waveline 4 life!), there was the Community Memory Terminal. Gorgeous, isn't it? You can almost picture Dave Eggers and his
SF News Instagram Hit With First Class Action Lawsuit In the wake of Instagram's TOS policy change — which prompted loads of arguably unnecessary and affected handwringing — the photo filter/sharing social media company has been hit with its first civil lawsuit. San
SF News 'Wired' Writer Explains Why He Quit Instagram When we last caught up with Wired scribe Mat Honan, he was going through Douglas Sirk-ian dramatic hell after getting hacked. Now he's quitting Instagram. Why? Well, in a response to the company's
SF News BREAKING: Instagram Withdraws Policy Change Less than 24 hours after announcing a controversial policy change, Instagram has now withdrawn the policy change. Which is to say, they will not put users' photos in ads. Instagram hastily released the
SF News Oops: Twitter Accidentally Reset Too Many Passwords After mistakenly resetting the passwords of a large number of accounts, Twitter sent out emails to scores of users today. Now, Twitter wasn't hacked. Like most Internet companies, the San Francisco-based social media
SF News Even Twitter Thinks Your Follower Count Is A Load Of Crap Speaking to a crowd at BuzzFeed's kitten photo factory in New York earlier this week, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams suggested that the almighty follower counter might not be the best way to measure
SF News Facebook HQ's Yoga Teacher Fired For Banning Facebook In Class Last month, a local yoga instructor with a perfectly reasonable no-phones-in-class policy suddenly found herself getting the boot from a weekly gig at Facebook's cushy Menlo Park HQ thanks to complaints from one
SF News 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Stolen, Posted Online Oh dear. For those of you who use LinkedIn (side note: please explain your LinkedIn love in the comments), they've just sent word that some of your passwords have been compromised. It seems
SF News Media Descends On Facebook's Less-Than-Stellar Second Day Trading After closing 23 cents above its record-breaking IPO price of $38 on Friday, Facebook's stock dipped 11 to 13 percent to $33.87, at least as of early this morning. Patience will most
SF News New Social Site Sets Up Facebook Threesomes For Group Action On Tuesday, a promising new social media thingamajig will go live in San Francisco, one that set you and several of your followers or friends up on a date. It's called Grouper and
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
SF News Yelp Stock More Than Doubles After IPO Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning as Yelp's sparkling IPO debuted. Shares of the stock climbed as astounding 61 percent to
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Tim Lincecum Now On Twitter! @clint_dempsey @ussoccer just want to say congrats to you and the team on a great job and making the US proud, so pumped for you guys— Tim Lincecum (@timlincecum) March 1, 2012
SF News Teens' Photos Stolen From Facebook, Placed On Porn Site Over in Massachusetts, authorities are warning girls that someone is stealing their "fully-clothed" photos from Facebook and placing them on an x-rated site. The incident happened to 17 girls at Bay Path Regional
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
SF News Facebook IPO Could Come Next Week; Investors To See Ridiculous Windfall Over the next few days, Facebook could file an IPO. Raising as much as $10 billion at a valuation anywhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, it stands to be "one of the
SF News Mission Rape Suspect's Facebook Posts Uptown Almanac brings to light several Facebook posts penned by alleged Mission rape suspect, Fred Dozier, 32. The most chilling part about Dozier's Facebook posts aren't his "Crime City" requests or his "2
SF News Facebook Has New Vanity Street Name: 1 Hacker Way In Silicon Valley, vanity street names by tech mammoths are as common as racial disparity, wasteland boredom, and Chevys. Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and Sun Microsystem used
Arts & Entertainment Jonathan Nolan Is Awesomely Paranoid About Facebook Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic
SF News Google Plus Slowly Takes Off Tired of blocking followers who post relentless political campaign-related gibberish or blatant Gilt-esque advertising? We don't know about you, but we sure are. (Side note: if you're a campaign director who's hired a
SF News Facebook Video Chat Feature Unveiled Powered by Skype, Facebook announced a new video chat feature today. Which will be of interest to those of you who chat on Facebook, or to those of you who don't already use
SF News Gavin Newsom Makes an Important Twitter Announcement Gavin Newsom, an authority when it comes to social media and politics, made an important announcement via that most concise social medium this morning. And the news may come as a surprise: .bbpBox{
SF News Gavin Newsom Banging Out a Book on Social Media in Politics Word is out that Lieutenant Governor, former Mayor and adept twitter abbreviator Gavin Newsom just signed a deal with Penguin Books to pen a book about "the intersection of social media and government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Warns Users of 'Hipster' Establishments The indetitagible Allan Hough at Mission Mission brings us news that Yelp now offers a 'hipster' (e.g., people who call themselves 'nerds') denotation in the ambience field. As the image here shows,
