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Zynga did not create the sketchy offers, which are outsourced, but neither did it have a handle on them. "We have always policed offers for content," says Pincus. "But there's thousands of offers and hundreds of new ones every week." Facebook and MySpace tightened their guidelines after getting complaints. Then a tech blogger confronted the CEO of a company that creates offers. She answered his accusations unwisely ("S___, double s___ and bulls___"), and it blew up online. Also on the Internet: footage of Pincus speaking at a University of California, Berkeley, event about how he funded his start...
...worst in some critics, drawing sexist insults (an opponent once called her a Spice Girl, she writes) and snooty dismissals (which only boost her outsider image). She has a knack for sound bites, as when she inflamed the health care debate with two words, death panels, on Facebook...
Still, a public figure could get used to the freelance life. Through her book (and Facebook), Palin gets to control her story. The interviews don't involve pop quizzes. And at a reported $5 million for Going Rogue, the paydays are lush. November 2012 is three years off, an eternity in the evolution of a reality-TV star. For now, there's no business like rogue business...
...happens, the news was full of them. To start with, the watercooler gossip of the week: the couple who crashed a White House dinner party, posing for photos with political bigwigs like Obama and Biden and posting them to their Facebook. Turns out these were no high-society fundraisers but—surprise!—just a flashily dressed, celebrity-obsessed couple from Virginia, who also happened to be auditioning for “The Real Housewives of D.C.” The subsequent Secret Service foot-shuffling occasioned much media meditation on the shortfalls of government security. More...
However, in an effort to create excitement or, we suspect, boost their following online, the UC has chosen to keep their giveaway schedule under wraps until Reading Period actually begins. Students will have to check Facebook, Twitter, or the UC Juicy blog between Dec. 4-11 to find out how to get their hands on free food and drinks...