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Kanye plays new songs for Facebook staffers

Kanye West’s promo tour to support his new record sometimes moves in mysterious ways.

After singing on top of a virtual mountain during the BET Awards and making a public appearance at the Tutankhamun exhibition at Times Square and with LeBron James for the latter’s new team announcement,  the rapper has now performed some of his new songs at Facebook’s California offices.

Wearing a suit, West performed some killer a cappella verses for employees of the popular social networking site.

"I’ve been writing new stuff for the new album and I’ve just got a couple raps that I really like, so I thought it’d be cool just to say them for you all,"" West told to the audience of cheering Facebook staffers. "All y’all turn your phones off."

West rapped some versese from Lost, Chain Gang, and especially the song Mama’s Boyfriend, a very personal song that describes his parents’ separation: "It took me 33 years of my life to write [this]. It means a lot to me, and it’s called ‘Mama’s Boyfriend.’

The new album Kanye record will be released in September. The first single, Power, is already popular on the Web.

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Musique

Facebook photo indicates a possible reunion for The Cars

They’ve been broken up since 1988 and they lost lost one of their two singers, Benjamin Orr, to pancreatic cancer in 2000,  but a new photo of the four surviving members of American early ’80s New Wave band The Cars suggests a possible reunion.

The photo on the Cars’ Facebook fan page shows Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson relaxed in the studio, practicing what might be new material, or possibly new versions of an old hit. Drive, Just What I Needed or You Might Think were all singles that did very well on the rock charts of the ’80s, and the band always played to sold-out stadiums.  
Since the band broke up, Ric Ocasek has had the most successful career, as a music producer who has worked with Weezer, Bad Religion, No Doubt, Suicide, Hole and Motion City Soundtrack, among others.

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Musique

A first for Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor is a prolific artist who has not been twiddling his thumbs since taking a break from Nine Inch Nails.

He has been making music with a new group, How To Destroy Angels, along with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross.

He was planning on taking a well deserved break when David Fincher came a knockin’. The filmmaker and music video director has worked with Trent Reznor before. He made an offer the Nine Inch Nails frontman could simply not refuse.

Reznor describes how it went down on the NIN website: "David Fincher started inquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming film, The Social Network… When I actually read the script and realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned."

The film revolves around Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It opens October 1. Reznor has been working on the score with Atticus Ross and reveals the record will likely be released a few weeks before.

Music by Nine Inch Nails has appeared on movie soundtracks before, including Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. This will be Reznor’s first full movie score.

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Potins

Bono buys Facebook shares

U2 frontman Bono invested $90 million US in the popular Facebook social network site through his private equity firm, Elevation Partners.

The Irish singer secretly bought 1% of Facebook shares at the end of 2009, for a reported $20 per share.

Bono is a co-founder of California-based Elevation Partners, an investment fund worth $1.8 billion that specializes in media and entertainment.

Bono hopes that this investment will enable Elevation to regain some value following some unsuccessful investments.

One of those major bombs was a $460 million investment in 2007 to obtain shares of smart phone maker Palm Inc. The downtown in the global economy caused share prices of this company to drop by 35%. 

Last month, editors at the financial journal 24/7 Wall Street gave Bono the dubious title of Worst Investor in America. They based their choice on "an unprecedented string of disastrous investments which even bad luck could not explain." They also said that Elevation Partners is "arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States."

This investment in Facebook might cause editors at this journal to change their tune next year.

 

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Nouvelles quotidiennes

Facebook Lures Tourists to New Hampshire

Added to Facebook in July 2009, the VisitNH page, which is an online site administered by New Hampshire tourism, offers videos, photos and information on hot spots to visit in the state.  New Hampshire has benefitted from the web traffic brought in by the popular social networking site.

The Division of Travel and Tourism Development added the link on Facebook, where over 1 500 new subscribers have signed up for free subscription thus far. The department has decided to reap the benefits of this efficient, economical means of online marketing to attract tourists looking to explore New Hampshire.
Starting this month, the first travel deal will be a 50% discount on the price of mid-week lodging at the Church Landing Inn on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith.
The state’s tourism bureau expects that the discounts on Facebook will increase the number subscribers, and the state will continue to use the new means of advertising, and ultimately create an influx of tourists.
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Nouvelles quotidiennes

Twitter & Facebook Changing How We Travel

More and more, a trend is emerging when it comes to planning trips or vacations. Two Internet sites in particular, Facebook and Twitter are rocketing in popularity for gathering trip information. This phenomenon is due mainly to the fact that consumers are becoming more and more weary of Internet travel sites in terms of impartiality and of the information being released.

When Internet sites such as TripAdvisor or Yelp publish comments on a particular travel destination, Internet users and future travelers alike don’t necessarily buy into all the hyped-up comments and gushing testimonials found there. Savvy consumers are very aware that such comments often come from anonymous sources or even the owners of the destination itself! If comments are particularly negative, it may be coming from a direct competitor. There may even be secret deals going on between merchants and the Internet site in the form of kickbacks. 

Enter Facebook and Twitter. With the ever-growing popularity of such Internet sites, comments left by users on the quality of a hotel, a restaurant, an airline or a travel destination, can generally be asserted as impartial. They come from our friends.

The trend is growing by leaps and bounds. So much so, that many companies and agencies are now setting up their own Facebook pages or using Twitter to attract more business.

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Nouvelles quotidiennes

Take a Virtual Cruise

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The Oasis of the Seas, from Royal Caribbean Cruises, is the largest cruise ship (5 times bigger than the Titanic) to have touched water.  On board, for its inauguration cruise, 3 people working for the site CruiseCritic.com will give their impression of this immense steamship. 

Editor Carolyn Spencer Brown will take the trip in order to evaluate and enjoy everything offered on this historic trip.  The floating building, being 40% wider than its closest competitor in the cruise world, was built at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars in Finland, and left October 30 heading for Fort Lauderdale, its docking harbour.   

Able to accomodate more than 6,200 passengers and more than 2,000 crew members, this sea monster will carry out its first trip on November 20, for a 2-day journey offering the experience to travel agents and the media. 

During this cruise, 3 critics from CruiseCritic.com will offer their evaluations and you can experience their journey aboard this ship that was commissioned when the economy was flourishing. Using several tools, the critics will blog commentaries through Twitter or Facebook and post photos and online videos on November 19, the day before departure.