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![Is Sidney Crosby the Most Hated Athlete in Philadelphia? It’s been an interesting week on the Philly sports front. The Flyers are one game away from sweeping their cross-state rivals from Pittsburgh in what we’ll call an “interesting” series, the Sixers are barely clinging to a playoff spot (as The20’s @GonzoCSN writes), the Phillies are playing too late for many to watch and the Eagles are busy preparing for their just-released 2012 schedule.
But back to Crosby. There’s no debating his incredible talent as one of the best hockey players in the world. But in the past week, he’s gotten under the skin of many Flyers, fans and the NHL by being just a bit of a pain. As so eloquently described by former Flyers defenseman Chris Therien on the Flyers radio broadcast, Crosby was in the middle of — or started — nearly every skirmish that occurred in Game 3.
Today, the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News compares Crosby to the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz (to which Crosby responded Wednesday, “I’ve been called worse”).Even the Flyers are handing out shirts to all fans tonight poking fun at Sidney.
So it got us to wondering…has Crosby passed those other guys we as Philadelphia sports fans love to hate? In basketball, that would be Kobe Bryant, in baseball, David Wright, and in football, Tony Romo and Eli Manning. Is Crosby now public enemy No. 1? (If our informal Facebook poll today is any indication, the answer is yes.)
Weigh in below.
-LD
[@GonzoCSN, CSNPhilly.com, Crossing Broad, Philadelphia Daily News]
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Is Sidney Crosby the Most Hated Athlete in Philadelphia? It’s been an interesting week on the Philly sports front. The Flyers are one game away from sweeping their cross-state rivals from Pittsburgh in what we’ll call an “interesting” series, the Sixers are barely clinging to a playoff spot (as The20’s @GonzoCSN writes), the Phillies are playing too late for many to watch and the Eagles are busy preparing for their just-released 2012 schedule.
But back to Crosby. There’s no debating his incredible talent as one of the best hockey players in the world. But in the past week, he’s gotten under the skin of many Flyers, fans and the NHL by being just a bit of a pain. As so eloquently described by former Flyers defenseman Chris Therien on the Flyers radio broadcast, Crosby was in the middle of — or started — nearly every skirmish that occurred in Game 3.
Today, the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News compares Crosby to the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz (to which Crosby responded Wednesday, “I’ve been called worse”).Even the Flyers are handing out shirts to all fans tonight poking fun at Sidney.
So it got us to wondering…has Crosby passed those other guys we as Philadelphia sports fans love to hate? In basketball, that would be Kobe Bryant, in baseball, David Wright, and in football, Tony Romo and Eli Manning. Is Crosby now public enemy No. 1? (If our informal Facebook poll today is any indication, the answer is yes.)
Weigh in below.
-LD
[@GonzoCSN, CSNPhilly.com, Crossing Broad, Philadelphia Daily News]
Photo: Getty Images
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![Facebook Buys Instagram for $1B, Twitter Freaks Out. In case you missed it earlier Monday, Facebook has agreed to terms to buy popular photo filtering and sharing site Instagram for $1 billion. Yes, a billion. To read the full story, click here.
Not familiar with Instagram? As the aforementioned story states, “Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers. Some of the filters make the photos look as if they’ve been taken in the 1970s or on Polaroid cameras.”
But it is more than that. Instagram has 30 million users (including NBC10). This deal took place roughly 551 days after Instagram’s launch, meaning that they made $1B in value in less than 2 years. The company also employs only 13 people! And with a valuation of $1 billion, that means each Instagram user is worth approximately $33 a piece.
The web justifiably freaked after the announcement (this is a big deal in the social media and technology space), and as people often do to share instantaneous reactions to big events, they turned to Twitter to tell others about it. It was no different for members of The20.
@christopherwink: Wait, is that $33 per user? $1 billion for Instagram’s 30 million users?
@mikeyil: u mad? re: FB & Instagram instagr.am/p/JNQiW2mbzN/
@mikeyil: So what you’re saying is that @Instagram just acquired nearly a billion “photographers?”
If you’re an Instagram user, how does this acquisition make you feel? Oh, and perhaps overshadowed on Monday, we’ve launched the #PhillyGram project with Instagram here at NBC10 (so if you’re on the service, be sure to tag your photos)!
-LD
[Facebook, NBC10, @christopherwink, @mikeyil]
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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1B, Twitter Freaks Out. In case you missed it earlier Monday, Facebook has agreed to terms to buy popular photo filtering and sharing site Instagram for $1 billion. Yes, a billion. To read the full story, click here.
Not familiar with Instagram? As the aforementioned story states, “Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers. Some of the filters make the photos look as if they’ve been taken in the 1970s or on Polaroid cameras.”
But it is more than that. Instagram has 30 million users (including NBC10). This deal took place roughly 551 days after Instagram’s launch, meaning that they made $1B in value in less than 2 years. The company also employs only 13 people! And with a valuation of $1 billion, that means each Instagram user is worth approximately $33 a piece.
The web justifiably freaked after the announcement (this is a big deal in the social media and technology space), and as people often do to share instantaneous reactions to big events, they turned to Twitter to tell others about it. It was no different for members of The20.
@christopherwink: Wait, is that $33 per user? $1 billion for Instagram’s 30 million users?
@mikeyil: u mad? re: FB & Instagram instagr.am/p/JNQiW2mbzN/
@mikeyil: So what you’re saying is that @Instagram just acquired nearly a billion “photographers?”
If you’re an Instagram user, how does this acquisition make you feel? Oh, and perhaps overshadowed on Monday, we’ve launched the #PhillyGram project with Instagram here at NBC10 (so if you’re on the service, be sure to tag your photos)!
-LD
[Facebook, NBC10, @christopherwink, @mikeyil]
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![Hate It or Love It? Springsteen In Philly. The Boss is back in Philadelphia, at least for two nights. The singer-songwriter-performer is playing the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia both tonight and tomorrow, and both shows are sold out (unless you turn to Stubhub, where tickets start at $115). Everyone most certainly knows someone going to the shows, and if you don’t, there are plenty of folks around town talking about it.
Interestingly, Springsteen’s return to Philadelphia was met with two separate “Bruce Springsteen sucks” arguments, one from The20’s @VictorFiorillo at Philadelphia Magazine called “Why I Hate Bruce Springsteen,” and the other from John Sharkey at Philadelphia Weekly, titled “A Dissenting View on the Mythicization of Bruce Springsteen.”
In Fiorillo’s piece, he lists ten reasons, along with videos, describing why he hates Springsteen. Among them, Bruce’s earring, Max Weinberg, the fans and more.
“My friends, knowing I’m a music lover, keep asking me if I’m going. No. I’m not. I’d rather watch the entire first season of Cupcake Wars while being trapped on an elevator with a diarrhetic mule. (No offense to diarrhetic mules.) Yes, I am one of those (apparently few) Bruce Springsteen haters.”
Sharkey’s cover story is very clearly a dig at Springsteen’s working class mystique. In it, he compares Springsteen to Tim Tebow and says:
“Springsteen isn’t terrible enough to demonize, but he isn’t great enough to canonize, either. He’s the Tim Tebow of music: not very good, but different enough from the rest to stand out. He’s a piece of toilet paper clinging to the bottom of American culture’s shoe. And because he’s remained stuck there so long, we’ve attached undeserved meaning to him. He’s a rock musician, not The Boss.”
These opinions both appear to be unpopular, as there are plenty of Springsteen lovers in our area. So hate it or love: Bruce Springsteen?
-LD
[@VictorFiorillo, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly]
Photo: Getty Images](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m5hwvvZu1qfnxkko1_500.jpg)
Hate It or Love It? Springsteen In Philly. The Boss is back in Philadelphia, at least for two nights. The singer-songwriter-performer is playing the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia both tonight and tomorrow, and both shows are sold out (unless you turn to Stubhub, where tickets start at $115). Everyone most certainly knows someone going to the shows, and if you don’t, there are plenty of folks around town talking about it.
Interestingly, Springsteen’s return to Philadelphia was met with two separate “Bruce Springsteen sucks” arguments, one from The20’s @VictorFiorillo at Philadelphia Magazine called “Why I Hate Bruce Springsteen,” and the other from John Sharkey at Philadelphia Weekly, titled “A Dissenting View on the Mythicization of Bruce Springsteen.”
In Fiorillo’s piece, he lists ten reasons, along with videos, describing why he hates Springsteen. Among them, Bruce’s earring, Max Weinberg, the fans and more.
“My friends, knowing I’m a music lover, keep asking me if I’m going. No. I’m not. I’d rather watch the entire first season of Cupcake Wars while being trapped on an elevator with a diarrhetic mule. (No offense to diarrhetic mules.) Yes, I am one of those (apparently few) Bruce Springsteen haters.”
Sharkey’s cover story is very clearly a dig at Springsteen’s working class mystique. In it, he compares Springsteen to Tim Tebow and says:
“Springsteen isn’t terrible enough to demonize, but he isn’t great enough to canonize, either. He’s the Tim Tebow of music: not very good, but different enough from the rest to stand out. He’s a piece of toilet paper clinging to the bottom of American culture’s shoe. And because he’s remained stuck there so long, we’ve attached undeserved meaning to him. He’s a rock musician, not The Boss.”
These opinions both appear to be unpopular, as there are plenty of Springsteen lovers in our area. So hate it or love: Bruce Springsteen?
-LD
[@VictorFiorillo, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly]
Photo: Getty Images
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![Philadelphia Among Best Places to Relocate or Expand Businesses. For business owners looking to grow or relocate their companies, there are few cities better than Philadelphia. In fact, only six cities with metropolitan populations over 1 million top “The City of Brotherly Love,” (as noted last week by the Philadelphia Business Journal). Site Selection Magazine, a go-to magazine for business owners looking to move their locations, pulled the numbers and took into account new businesses that invested $1 million or more, hired at least 50 people, or built at least 20-thousand square feet.
The top ten cities, in order, were:
Houston
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Dallas/Fort Worth
New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia/Camden/Wilmington
Washington, D.C.
Atlanta
Tampa
Also of note, in terms of cities with metro populations between 200,000 and 1 million, the Allentown/Bethlehem area (No. 5) and Harrisburg area (No. 6) both rank among the best.
-LD
[Philadelphia Business Journal, Site Selection Magazine, h/t The20’s @richnegrin and @DPBell]
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Philadelphia Among Best Places to Relocate or Expand Businesses. For business owners looking to grow or relocate their companies, there are few cities better than Philadelphia. In fact, only six cities with metropolitan populations over 1 million top “The City of Brotherly Love,” (as noted last week by the Philadelphia Business Journal). Site Selection Magazine, a go-to magazine for business owners looking to move their locations, pulled the numbers and took into account new businesses that invested $1 million or more, hired at least 50 people, or built at least 20-thousand square feet.
The top ten cities, in order, were:
- Houston
- Chicago
- Pittsburgh
- Dallas/Fort Worth
- New York
- Cincinnati
- Philadelphia/Camden/Wilmington
- Washington, D.C.
- Atlanta
- Tampa
Also of note, in terms of cities with metro populations between 200,000 and 1 million, the Allentown/Bethlehem area (No. 5) and Harrisburg area (No. 6) both rank among the best.
-LD
[Philadelphia Business Journal, Site Selection Magazine, h/t The20’s @richnegrin and @DPBell]
Photo: Getty Images
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Facebook Speaks Out Against Employers Asking for Passwords. As we told you earlier this week, many employers are now asking interviewees to log in to Facebook and/or hand over their password before they even have the job. It’s an issue that got a lot of attention in the media and has now prompted a response from the social networking site. Facebook spoke out against the practice via a blog post by Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan Friday, saying:
“This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends. It also potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability.”
Additionally, Egan goes on to say:
“The most alarming of these practices is the reported incidences of employers asking prospective or actual employees to reveal their passwords. If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends. We have worked really hard at Facebook to give you the tools to control who sees your information. As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job. And as the friend of a user, you shouldn’t have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don’t know and didn’t intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job. That’s why we’ve made it a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to share or solicit a Facebook password.”
-LD
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Report: Philadelphians Lose More Cell Phones Than People In Any Other City. Mobile security firm Lookout estimates that $30 billion worth of smartphones are lost every year in the United States. Sometimes those phones are found, many times they are not. And who loses more phones than anyone? Philadelphians (ahead of Seattle, Oakland, Long Beach and Newark, NJ). In a new website launched today, Lookout takes a look at the lost (and stolen) phone conundrum by digging into how, when and where phones are lost. And the statistics don’t bode well for us.
- Residents of Philly lose their phone two times per year on average
- The price tag for lost phones in Philly is $48 million
- The most likely spots in Philly to lose your phone are: buildings, automotive shops, pizza places, and churches.
The most popular places to lose or have your phone stolen globally are a coffee shop, a bar and an office. Have you lost your phone in the last year? How many times?
-LD
Photo: AP
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Jimmy Fallon Reprises Tim Tebow/David Bowie Hybrid. With Peyton Manning officially joining the Denver Broncos Tuesday with a 5-year, $96 million contract, Jimmy Fallon decided to bring back “Tebowie,” one of his most popular characters, for last night’s show here on NBC. In the skit, Fallon sings the lyrics to Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” but with a Tebow/Manning twist (The Huffington Post posted the video online, so watch there before it gets taken down).
Some of the lyrics below, however:
“Peyton was a Colt, screwed up neck and screwed last season / Spent a year on the bench, and while he was sitting, Tebow was winning / Tebow was the craze, everything was going great / And then came John Elway and he kicked him right in his balls / They replaced him with Peyton / Tebow got shown the back door and now he’s a virgin no more.”
Fallon ended the skit on a very hopeful note, saying that Tebow will rise again. Could that be with the Eagles? The20’s @dhm has his own thoughts over at The Philly Post and thinks that the Eagles should go all-in to acquire Tebow, stating that a Tebow signing would lead to one of two things:
“The good Christian role model helping the run-oriented Eagles to a Super Bowl victory, or Andy Reid getting fired. These are the only two outcomes Eagles fans hope for at the start of every season.”
-LD
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Philly.com, @dhm, The Philly Post
Photo: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
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![Should Job Seekers Have to Give Up Their Facebook Passwords? With the rise of social networking, it has become commonplace for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially on Facebook, have their profiles set to private, making them available only to selected people or certain networks (read: most likely not a potential employer).
A new trend, as pointed out in this Associated Press story that is making the rounds on the Internet, is employers asking interviewees to log in to Facebook and/or hand over their password before they even have the job (during the interview process).
“In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around.”
This comes on the heels of a study released Monday by Eurocom Worldwide that says 1 in 5 technology firms has rejected a job applicant because of social media.
The main question here: is it legal? More from the AP story:
“Giving out Facebook login information violates the social network’s terms of service. But those terms have no real legal weight, and experts say the legality of asking for such information remains murky…The Department of Justice regards it as a federal crime to enter a social networking site in violation of the terms of service, but during recent congressional testimony, the agency said such violations would not be prosecuted.”
What do you think? Should potential employers have access to your Facebook profiles? Or is that private?
-LD
[MSNBC, Eurocom]
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Should Job Seekers Have to Give Up Their Facebook Passwords? With the rise of social networking, it has become commonplace for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially on Facebook, have their profiles set to private, making them available only to selected people or certain networks (read: most likely not a potential employer).
A new trend, as pointed out in this Associated Press story that is making the rounds on the Internet, is employers asking interviewees to log in to Facebook and/or hand over their password before they even have the job (during the interview process).
“In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around.”
This comes on the heels of a study released Monday by Eurocom Worldwide that says 1 in 5 technology firms has rejected a job applicant because of social media.
The main question here: is it legal? More from the AP story:
“Giving out Facebook login information violates the social network’s terms of service. But those terms have no real legal weight, and experts say the legality of asking for such information remains murky…The Department of Justice regards it as a federal crime to enter a social networking site in violation of the terms of service, but during recent congressional testimony, the agency said such violations would not be prosecuted.”
What do you think? Should potential employers have access to your Facebook profiles? Or is that private?
-LD
Photo: Getty Images
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Rita’s Releases National Commercial In Preparation For Free Water Ice Day. Philadelphia’s favorite water ice chain is making a national splash in 2012. To coincide with their 20th annual annual first day of Spring “free water ice” giveaway, the company also has a national TV spot ready to air (as first reported by the Philadelphia Business Journal).
“The Trevose, Pa.-based franchise company, which has 550 stores in 18 states, plans to run the commercial in markets around the country.”
So watch the commercial, then get in line early tomorrow for your free water ice!
-LD
Rita’s, Philadelphia Business Journal, h/t The20’s @dhm
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![Study: Wilmington, Atlantic City More Dangerous Than Philadelphia. Think Philadelphia is unsafe? Apparently it is not as bad as a few other local cities. NeighborhoodScout.com crunched crime numbers for their recent study and based results on population, area and incidents of all property and violent crime, not just murder. Philadelphia came in 52nd on the list. East St. Louis, Missouri is number one overall, but the Delaware Valley has a lot of representation. Some of the other local towns ahead of Philly on the list, along with their rank:
Chester, Pa. (No. 2)
Camden, NJ (No. 5)
Wilmington, Del. (No. 8)
Atlantic City, NJ (No. 9)
Harrisburg, Pa. (No. 20)
Trenton, NJ (No. 31)
-LD
[NeighborhoodScout.com, h/t The20’s @victorfiorillo]
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Study: Wilmington, Atlantic City More Dangerous Than Philadelphia. Think Philadelphia is unsafe? Apparently it is not as bad as a few other local cities. NeighborhoodScout.com crunched crime numbers for their recent study and based results on population, area and incidents of all property and violent crime, not just murder. Philadelphia came in 52nd on the list. East St. Louis, Missouri is number one overall, but the Delaware Valley has a lot of representation. Some of the other local towns ahead of Philly on the list, along with their rank:
- Chester, Pa. (No. 2)
- Camden, NJ (No. 5)
- Wilmington, Del. (No. 8)
- Atlantic City, NJ (No. 9)
- Harrisburg, Pa. (No. 20)
- Trenton, NJ (No. 31)
-LD
[NeighborhoodScout.com, h/t The20’s @victorfiorillo]
Photo: Getty Images
