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310 Motoring

310 Motoring sponsored the "Game's Big Game", a 2007 NCAA tournament pool, hosted on Facebook, where individuals competed to win a trip for two to the 2007 NCAA championship game.

Accel Partners

Since 1983, Accel invested in over 300 companies, including Facebook, Groupon, GetJar, Cloudera, AdMob, Dropbox, Trivone, 99designs, Glam Media, Spotify, Etsy, Angry Birds (Rovio), Braintree, Lookout, SunRun, TRUSTe, Kayak, Supercell, Macromedia, Medio, metroPCS, Code 42 Software, Flipkart and Walmart.com.

Alive Till I'm Dead

Green spoke about how the collaboration came about between him and Lily Allen, stating that the pair got speaking through Facebook.

Alliance of Youth Movements

Speakers at the inaugural 2008 summit included actress Whoopi Goldberg, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the Obama Campaign’s New Media Team, and then-current Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the United States James K. Glassman.

Annabel Jarman

She received a minimal level of internet notoriety in 2008 after Michael Phelps mentioned her name on his Facebook page wall.

Appletini

In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink.

Ariane Friedrich

Controversy arose in 2012 when she named an alleged stalker on Facebook, potentially violating German privacy laws.

Basking in reflected glory

Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites have increased BIRGing with popular brands, as it allows everyone to post their affinity for or their associations with popular companies, media, businesses, etc.

Black and White America

Kravitz announced on his official Facebook page that "Come On Get It", used in a NBA commercial in late 2010, would be the album's first single.

Brandjacking

Colleges and Universities - In 2008, college guidebook company College Prowler created hundreds of Facebook groups purporting to consist of actual incoming first-year students of various universities in order to surreptitiously gather their personal data and promote the business.

Brian Dawkins

After Dawkins signed with the Broncos in 2009, Dan Leone, an Eagles employee who was a gate chief at Lincoln Financial Field was fired by the Eagles after Leone posted messages on his Facebook page expressing his disappointment in the team.

Christoffer Svae

The pants brought Team Norway unprecedented popularity as shown by the surge in sales at Loudmouth Golf as well as the number of followers at the Facebook's Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants fan page exceeding over 600,000 by the end of the 2009-10 curling season.

Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

The network exists virtually using the Facebook and Twitter platforms as well as a privately owned web site to communicate and assist its supporters.

Content curation

The technology of curation can also allow for the creation of online newspapers or magazines (see paper.li or scoop.it) or pages like Storify, which lets the user create stories or timelines using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Crowd computing

Major sites like Facebook and Twitter rely on the crowd to power the translation that spreads their service around the globe.

Elmer the elm tree

You can learn more about Elmer at his website and Facebook pages.

Environmental mega conferences

Rio+20 (to be held in 2012) has websites to which major groups and stakeholders can contribute and use to get involved in the preparatory process as well as links with Facebook and Twitter.

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

Herman Li

On 9 May 2010, Li announced via Facebook that he had received a custom-made Ibanez 7-string guitar.

Intervention Canada

On February 9, 2012 Slice had announced on their Facebook that the show is cancelled.

Jennifer Stoddart

In 2008 she drew international headlines when she announced an investigation into the privacy policies of Facebook, which resulted in the social media site instituting privacy protections for its users.

KZNS-FM

This protest was met with overwhelmingly positive response from listeners, and the station received thousands of supportive phone calls, song requests, e-mails, and Facebook messages.

Learned society

Members of these online academic communities, grouped by areas of interests, use for their communication shared and dedicated listservs (for example JISCMail), social networking services (like Facebook, Linkedin) and academic oriented social networks (like Mendeley, Academia.edu).

Letters to Kurt

Letters to Kurt was announced for release in December 2011 on Erlandson's Facebook profile.

Lisa Foiles

In 2013, Foiles recently guest starred in the fifth podcast of the Re-Open Nickelodeon Studios Facebook Page and YouTube channel with three administrators from the channel.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

The Loveland Chamber actively uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to start conversations and inform investors about events, business trends, legislative affairs and community news.

Malankara Church Peace Movement

These Peace Movements were initiated by Shinil Paul Mathews Thuruthummel, Eldhose Mathew Padickakudiyil,Johnson Jacob Koodathinalil, who are members of Youth Wings ofJacobite Syrian Christian Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

MHITS

The current promotion "Next Coffee Free," began in early April 2009 and coincided with a Facebook advertising campaign in an effort to gain further brand awareness.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

Murder of April Jones

On 8 October 2012, a 19-year-old male from Chorley in Lancashire was sentenced to 12 weeks' imprisonment in a Young Offender Institution for posting comments about Jones and Madeleine McCann on his Facebook page, after pleading guilty to sending a grossly offensive message, an offence under section 127 (1)a of the Communications Act 2003.

My Rainbow Race

The performance was inspired by Facebook reactions after Breivik claimed in his trial testimony that the song was an example of Marxist propaganda and that it was being used to "brainwash" Norwegian children.

My Windows Phone

Contacts - Automatic synchronization of all contacts in the People hub to their Microsoft account, including contacts added from other connected services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo.

Olga Korbut

She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.

Redroad FM

After the first broadcast a phone was put in the Redroad studio so listeners can text in after that an email account was set up so listeners can email in, finally a Facebook group was set up so listeners can get in touch via Facebook.

Rutherford County, North Carolina

In 2010, Rutherford County was selected as the location for a new $450 million data center for Facebook.

Srugim

The Jewish Week wrote that the show "is attracting a growing audience here in the States," and it is being discussed in many forums, including Facebook.

Take Back The Tech!

For example, the use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of spyware to monitor a person's computer and Internet use, and the use of global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a domestic violence abuser.

Ted Lawson

In 2011, he started a large-scale sculpture collaboration with artist Fernando Mastrangelo, commissioned by Napster and Facebook founder, Sean Parker under the name, MLHQ Studio.

Teeshirtsdirect.com

teeshirtsdirect.com makes significant use of social networking sites in their advertising, with facebook, Twitter and myspace playing extensive roles in this strategy.

Terrence Boyd

He eventually connected with other relatives on Facebook and used his paternal aunt as a go-between to get his papers signed.

The Dykeenies

The band announced on 18 July 2011 via their Myspace and Facebook accounts that their new album 'Canyon of Echoes' will be released on 3 October 2011.

The Fallen Drakes

According to The Fallen Drakes' Facebook & Twitter, the band are presently writing and recording their debut album with Ger McDonnell back in the producers chair alongside new addition; Philip Magee (The Script).

Their Hearts Caught Fire

A group was set up on Facebook, and Trig.com also featured a page for the Hearts project.

Tin Pei Ling

On 1 June 2011, Tin announced on her Facebook account that she had resigned from her Senior Associate position in Ernst & Young, where she had worked for four years.

Titan the Robot

In 2011, Cyberstein have confirmed on Facebook page that Titan will be used in an episode of the The Gadget Show 11th series.

Uritorco

In 2012, the mountain was closed on December 21st, as a mass suicide had been proposed on Facebook to take place there due to the 2012 phenomenon.

Willie Isa

Despite popularity on Facebook, no fans rioted when Isa scored his first (and second) Widnes try against Hull FC in a 42-16 win.


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