Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly interviewed Glenn Beck about what he is going to do when he steps down from his daily program. Beck is working on a new web TV venture and his online deals website Markdown.com. Throughout the interview, O’Reilly mocked Beck about his physique, a clothing line that he should start, and his Internet ventures. O’Reilly is pretty funny in this clip, check it out above. [HuffPo]
Conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck believes that Google employees Jared Cohen and Wael Ghonim were “instrumental in the revolution of Egypt.” Beck recently went on Bill O’Reilly’s show to talk about a conspiracy between Google and the government to lead the revolution in Egypt. “I just don’t want my search engines fomenting revolution,” said Beck. Beck said that leftists are accusing him of boycotting Google. “I have business contracts with Google,” said Beck. “Google is one of the most competent businesses out there” and he said that he doesn’t think you should boycott them. Check out the video above to see the interview. Do you agree or disagree with Beck? Let us know in the comments.
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has tried to explain the presence of God recently by saying “Tide goes in, tide goes out.” He added: “You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” The law that proves why the tide goes in and out is gravity. O’Reilly was mocked by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for these comments and now the Internet has gotten in on the action by making it a meme. Check out the original video clip below:
University of Akron student Mitchell Frost is being sentenced to 30 months in prison because he hacked and took down Bill O’Reilly’s website. He also shut down the Ann Coulter official website and the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign website. Frost is also expected to pay $40,000 to Bill O’Reilly. After prison, Frost was sentenced to 3 years of supervised release and must also pay the university $10,000. [Washington Post]
Happy Friday everybody. Today is February 5, 2010 and below is the Pulse2 News Roundup. We are going to talk about Facebook, Apple, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sony, Jersey Shore, Google Earth, FriendFinder, TechCrunch, Patrick Stewart, Jon Stewart, and Bill O’Reilly today.
Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan
Facebook is working on overhauling their message system in order to replace it with a web mailing system. The code name for the project is Project Titan [TechCrunch]. Facebook has also turned 6 years old this week and has reached the 400 million user milestone. [Mashable]
Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser
Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location based advertisements for their applications. “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store,” Apple said [MacNN]. You can now browse the App Store on the web [PCWorld].
Snoop Vader
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was caught in the middle of an imperial march walking around SoHo New York. It looks like Snoop has crossed over to the dark side since he is walking right next to Darth Vader. [HuffPo]
Sony Profits
Sony announced yesterday that they have returned to profit during the last three months of 2009. As a result, the company raised their outlook. [New York Times]
Snooki Crasher
A new meme has hit the Internet thanks to Jersey Shore character Nicole “Snooki” Pilozzi. The meme is called Snooki Crasher and it features images of Snooki in places where she doesn’t belong. Below are a couple of examples. [URLesque]
World War II on Google Earth
Images of World War II destruction have been uploaded to Google Earth. The cities where the images were uploaded include Berlin, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden. [Telegraph]
FriendFinder Cancels IPO
The FriendFinder Network filed for an IPO about a month ago. The FriendFinder Network is a brand that oversees porn websites and social networks. The company was supposed to start trading this week, but they have cancelled due to “market conditions.” [AllThingsD]
TC Intern Fired
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington apologized to his readers on behalf of an intern that accepted a MacBook as compensation for writing a blog post. The intern was fired and every blog post he wrote was deleted. “I apologize to each one of you. I promise that we will always maintain complete transparency with you on how we operate, even when it isn’t such an easy thing to do,” stated Arrington in his apology. [TechCrunch]
Patrick Stewart on Twitter
Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard, calls his mobile phone “my beautiful iPhone.” But he doesn’t quite understand Twitter and is has a fear of getting addicted to gaming. “To reduce life to–how many? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.” [HuffPo]. And if you’re a fan of Patrick Stewart, check out a project that my friend Mo Kakwan made at Yahoo! Hack Day a few years ago.
Bill O’Reilly vs. Jon Stewart
Comedy Central news host Jon Stewart was a guest on FOX host Bill O’Reilly’s TV show earlier this week. The debate between Stewart and O’Reilly attracted 4,091,000 viewers. And about 1,041,000 of those viewers were aged between 25 and 54. [BusinessInsider]
In 1988 when Bill O’Reilly was about 39 years old, Inside Edition did a special on the Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Enjoy the video, you’ll get a kick out of the hair styles and the call center where they give level tips. Bill O’Reilly still looks like the same disgruntled guy he looks like today. WE’LL DO IT LIVE!
The video also features Howard Phillips who was “Fun Club President” at the time. I wrote about Phillips last month when he joined Chair Entertainment. Phillips is wearing his signature bow tie in the video which was the inspiration behind the Howard & Nester comic.
Twitter has had a crazy day! Over 33 Twitter accounts have been hacked. Many of those belonging to prominent celebrities including Rick Sanchez of CNN, Britney Spears, President elect Barack Obama, and FOX News. This is a separate incident from the phishing scheme that happened over the weekend.
Whoever hacked the accounts has a pretty interesting sense of humor, but is bad at spelling. From the FOX News Twitter account, a message stated “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay.” I’m sure he meant Bill O’Reilly, host of FOX’s The O’Reilly Factor. Britney Spears’ Twitter account had a more explicit message: “HI Yall! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you all on the size of my *bleep.* Its about 4 feet wide with razor sharp teeth.” Rick Sanchez’s Twitter stated “i am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today.” Rick often times refers to his Twitter account on CNN program. On Huffpost’s Twitter account there are a bunch of links to digitalgangster.com.
Twitter’s internal admin was affected too. According to Biz Stone, founder of Twitter, the hacker got into some of the tools that the support team uses in order to reset passwords. When Twitter’s admins realized this, they took the support tools offline so the hacker couldn’t get any further.
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