Posts Tagged ‘year’

You’re a cultural thief! Ten year feud over Native American ‘fraud’ who performs at heritage festivals (and sells his ancestral chants on MySpace) – Daily Mail

With his majestic headdress and fearsome warpaint, Ed Winddancer appears to be carrying on the proud traditions of his Native American ancestors – but according to a long-standing enemy, he is nothing but a fraud in feathers. Winddancer, 55, traces his …

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1814: British warship shells the town of Falmouth; 2006: Man uses MySpace to buy his Cape Cod home – Cape Cod Today

On this day in 1814, the British warship Nimrod shelled the town of Falmouth for several hours during the War of 1812 for refusing to surrender two cannons and a sloop. The 18-gun Nimrod had arrived in American waters the year before and quickly …

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Big deals done this past year – Silicon Republic

Just a few weeks after the Microsoft-Skype news, online ads giant Specific Media purchased beleaguered social network MySpace for just US$35m. News Corp bought MySpace in 2005 for US$580m and it was understood the company had been hoping to attract a price …

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What Will 2012 Mean for Social Media? – Time

I’m not sure anyone knows what that looks like at this point. Speaking of social networks metamorphosing into something else, the re-emergence of MySpace is something that’ll be worth paying attention to next year. I’ve said already that I …

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The Year in Review: Facebook – PC Magazine

This year saw the official demise of former social giants MySpace and Friendster, and while Google got in the game with Google+, Facebook still reigned supreme, topping 800 million users. That popularity was not without controversy, however. The social …

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