Celebrate The 2nd Amendment On IOS Devices

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The National Rifle Association has released a shooting game for iOS devices. NRA: Practice Range allows you to select and shoot a number of firearms at virtual targets, and provides safety and education tips alongside an overwhelming sense that the NRA is doing this on purpose to get a rise out of people. Up to nine guns can be taken out and fired, using either gyroscopic or analog controls.

 

NRA: Practice Range is the NRA’s new mobile nerve center, delivering one-touch access to the NRA network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resources.

 

 

No App Data For You

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Facebook is no longer providing daily, weekly and monthly traffic measured to within 100,000 users for apps on its platform, instead turning to less granular data and reporting periodic app rankings. The decision comes conspicuously on the heels of a firestorm over Instagram. The Facebook owned photo sharing site was said to have lost millions of users over the holidays, based on data publicized by Inside Network’s AppData.

Now the data stream that services such as AppData rely on is no longer available. In its place, Facebook will list apps by popularity in the AppCenter and provide a loose metric by which to estimate user counts based on where apps sit in the rankings.

AppData’s stream goes kaput

Facebook’s reasoning is that being completely transparent about the ever-fluid number of users for apps has been problematic for developers. Snafus rooted in data reporting have in the past showed user counts as plummeting, even down to zero in some cases. It may have even hindered innovation, according to the social net. Facebook says having their user base constantly reported to the public could be instilling fear in app makers, making them reluctant to introduce changes to their apps for fear of fluctuations in users.

Source: TechCrunch

Raptor News Network

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Raptor News Network is a viral site promoting DmC: Devil May Cry. The Raptor News Network site contains fake news articles written about the current concerns of Limbo City. It is sponsored by Virility, a fake energy drink that seems to be contributing to the declining health of the citizens of Limbo City.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lMWm9NChLzQ

A satire of real world society ills, the Raptor News Network takes aim at media like reality television and cable news outlets. The Raptor News Network itself is an example of such ills and is a symbol of how a news outlets has been used to deliberately influence and mold public opinion in favor of a certain party, idea, or cause, such as in politics and religion.

Raptor News represents one of the main arms of the demons’ subversive control and manipulation of Limbo. Fans are asked a daily polling question and also encouraged to call a 1-800 number and express their opinions. City’s human populace, feeding off of false information through the sent airwaves to brainwash humanity, usually slander Dante as a terrorist and otherwise paint the hero in a negative light.

Many of the topics are political, ranging from a proposed gun ban, discussion of the economy or a health and discussing the adverse affects of organic energy drinks, particularly to men.

The World According To Xbox And PlayStation

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If you’re in North America or you read a lot of game industry news, you’re liable to think Xbox has leapfrogged PlayStation as the favorite among console gamers. Not so worldwide, according to Facebook fans.

Social media analytics firm Socialbakers used a new function being provided by Facebook that maps out fans by region to break down where in the world fans favor either Xbox or PlayStation. It’s worth noting the breakdown is not for current systems Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, rather looking at where each console brand has the largest number of fans. So while Xbox 360 is winning the console race in this generation, it’s safe to say Sony’s stats are being helped by its multiple generations of PlayStation console and handheld hardware, and the 150 million plus units the PlayStation 2 is said to have sold worldwide over its lifetime.

Socialbakers says it’s uncovering other interesting results using Facebook’s new function, for instance that Pepsi’s fans outnumber Coca-Cola’s in the US. The firm told Venture Beat that Facebook’s new tool is going to help unmask brands that have been buying fans, for instance with findings showing large fan distribution in countries such as India and the Indonesia for brands that have no presence there.

Source: Socialbakers

Facebook Timeline Changing, Again

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Changes that Facebook announced to Timeline in late December are starting to show up for some users. Last month, ABC News revealed that Facebook is eliminating elements such as thumbnail images for Friends, Photos and Map from the tab below users’ Timeline image.

At the time, a Facebook rep had told the network, “This is a new design Facebook is testing with a small percentage of people to make navigating Timeline even easier.”

Image source: Mashable

The change is now rolling out slowly, and apparently starting with users in New Zealand. People there are reporting that the thumbnails are indeed gone, replaced with tabs that as a default setting list About, Friends, Photos, and a drag down menu for more options. That “More” tab is where Facebook’s more meaningful change comes in, where there’s now a functionality to manage what appears at top, and with the option to link to Instagram and Spotify right from the tabs.

Source: Mashable

Put Your Friends On The Chopping Block

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Lionsgate’s Texas Chainsaw 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for years people went missing without a trace. Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion and stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.

The website experience combines the history of the franchise and real stories from the front-lines of Texas justice. Fans can click around and see full frame video from the film and share directly to Twitter or their preferred social network.

For iOS devices, fans can download the Horror Movie Maker and start directing their own horror movies starring their friends. Give the term “Director’s Cut” a whole new meaning with exclusive horror movie effects featuring Leatherface.

Start by choosing a signature horror movie scene and then use the on-screen guide to correctly set up the scene. Use the on-screen timer to cue up your friends and then choose a horror movie inspired filter as a finishing touch. Watch the horror unfold then share your masterpiece through Facebook, YouTube, Email and Camera Roll.

The app includes four free, incredibly realistic Horror Movie effects in full HD:

– LEATHERFACE SLASH: Put your friends on the chopping block as Leatherface moves in for a gruesome kill.

– LEATHERFACE WITH A CHAINSAW: Direct a classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre scene featuring Leatherface and his signature kill.

– BECOME LEATHERFACE: Make your audience experience what it feels like inside the bloodthirsty mind of Leatherface.

– DEMONIC POSSESSION: The iconic horror movie scene of a young girl experiencing demonic possession.

Facebook Offers Settlement in Sponsored Story Suit

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If Facebook and its properties such as Instagram are truly toying with the idea that they can easily weave users and their content into advertising, it may not be an easy road. Just weeks after an uproar over Instagram’s change of service terms, which people perceived to mean their photos could be used in ads, Facebook is facing backlash against sponsored stories. This time it’s litigious. A class action suit has been filed in federal court against the company’s use of profiles in sponsored stories. Facebook is trying to settle.

A pending class action and proposed settlement notice for the suit Angel Fraley v. Facebook, Inc. sent to users states, “Facebook unlawfully used the names, profile pictures, likenesses, and identities of Facebook users in the United States to advertise or sell products and services through Sponsored Stories without obtaining those users’ consent.”

The notice states that no judgment has been made, only that Facebook is offering a $20 million settlement that has preliminary court approval. According to the terms, that can translate to up to $10 for users who agree to the terms and file a claim. If claims exceed the amount of the offered settlement, Facebook will instead pay the money to charities defined by the lead plaintiffs in the case. The deadline for users to accept and file a claim or object to the settlement is May 2, 2013. There’s a web site with details of the suit including pending actions and deadlines at www.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com.

Source: Mashable

Tweet Better With SoundTracking

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While Twitter users may not be able to share Instagram photos anymore, SoundTracking lets them integrate visual and audio media directly into their tweets. With SoundTracking, select a song to tweet, and a picture of the band will display as the song plays.

Tweets can be expanded on the web and at the bottom of the tweet it might read ‘view summary’ or ‘view photo’ enabling the user to view media without leaving Twitter.com.

SoundTracking is moving to own this space (sometimes referred to as a photo card) by creating a visual way to share music on Twitter. The Instagram-like interface creates an environment so users feel comfortable sharing music experiences in a way that is appealing to their followers.

 

Doritos Crashes The Super Bowl Again

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It’s nail biting time for NFL fans, and for the sixth year in a row the same goes for a group of amateur TV ad makers vying for Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” prize. The PepsiCo owned chip maker announced the five finalists for the contest. Fans can now vote which of the five should win the $1 million grand prize and air during the Super Bowl on February 3.

There’s an Ayzenberg connection this year, with staffer Nate Daniels on the defending champs’ team. Daniels ran social media for “Sling Baby,” which took home the top prize last year. This year, he’s on the team behind “Fashionista Daddy.”

[a]list daily will feature a video interview with Daniels next week on how he used social community, online videos and even a branded game to raise their visibility and rally enough votes to win last year’s contest.

Meantime, you can vote for your fave for this year at Facebook.com/CrashTheSuperBowl.

Channel Your Inner Arnold

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The Last Stand starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is a classic action story with Arnold as a sheriff of a border town who has to stop bank robbers from getting into Mexico. The film’s Facebook page has an image caption contest, called “What Would Arnold Say”, where you could win several prizes, including an iPad Mini.