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A party announcment on Facebook about an innocnet sweet 16 party in Ferndale could have lured uninvited guests. Police responded to a 911 call arrived to see people running from the party site. Ferndale officers said they responded to 911 calls shortly after midnight and found about 200 people running from VFW hall, yelling that somebody was inside firing shots. Police said the party was thrown by two mothers for their 16 year old daughters. But not all who turned up had been invited. Police believe this resulted of members of two gangs squaring off. Happened at VFW hall at 177. Police have not yet made an arrest, nor have they identified the victims except to say that both were boys, 16, one from Detroit and the other from Royal Oak Township. Investigators think the uninvited people may have learned of the party because of an innocent announcement in the popular social networking website. An original post by Sociolatte

Twitter will make about $25 million after striking search deals with Google and Microsoft, as reported by people familiar with the matter. According to sources Twitter stands to make $15 million from the deal struck with Google and $10 million from the Microsoft deal. The deals have to do with real-time search. With Google and Bing now showing real-time search results on the main search pages. The latest Twitter updates will show up beside progressing news stories and other matters of interest. This has been a huge deal for search engines looking to give updated search results which are mostly available on Social Networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. The deal will enable Twitter to make a small profit in 2009 according to analysts who estimate that it cost Twitter $20 to 25 million in operational costs each year. Twitter has 105 employees according to their site. Representatives from both Google and Microsoft declined to comment. An original post by Sociolatte

A user tweeted about a  snowball fight in Washington D.C. and a crowd arrives and begin to enjoy themselves, in the melee threw a few snowballs on passing vehicles. Passing by is an under cover cop driving a hummer. A few of the snowballs make contact with his vehicle. Out jumps the cop pulling his gun to stop the fight. Cops admit to pulling the gun because as one of the cops says he got hit with a snowball. The second video is the longer one and clearly shows the cop  with the gun in his left hand. When backup arrives another cop with a gun because he things someone else in crowd has a gun. This was a Twitter crowd and sure enough the tech savvy got the videos and the pics. Take a look and decide for yourself... An original post by Sociolatte

Customer have been informed by Barnes & Nobel Inc. that if they do not receive their e-reader Nook by Dec 24th, they would receive an online gift certificate for $100. The Nook is a wireless reader that costs $259. Responding to a request for comment Saturday, Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said : "The vast majority of customers who pre-ordered nooks and were given a pre-holiday estimated shipping date should receive their devices in time for the holidays. We are working very hard to keep up with the demand and to get all nook orders out the door and to customers on or before Dec. 24. Unfortunately, there may be a very small percentage of customers who may not receive their nooks before the holiday. We communicated with this handful of customers yesterday, offering our sincere apologies and providing them with the following: a nook holiday gift certificate so that they have something to wrap and give if it was bought as a gift as well as a bn.com gift certi...

US internet Giant Google was fined by a French count for copyright infringement. Google was fined for digitizing books without prior approval from publishers. The court ruled that Google violated French copyright laws and was asked to pay $14,300 a day until it removes excerpts of  French books from it's online database. Google was also ordered to pay $430,000 in damages  and interest to French Publisher La Martiniere which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers . Google's attorney said the they would appeal. Books that are in Google's database with the consent of publishers will still be searchable in their database even in France. An original post by Sociolatte

An unknown producer from Uruguay decide to make a video and post it on YouTube. He spends $300 shoots the file uploads it on YouTube and heads home for the weekend. Opens his email on Monday and finds his inbox filled with offers from top producers in Hollywood. Unfortunately, this script will never play out in Hollywood because it is too realistic . Yes, too realistic! This is the story of  Fede Alvarez , an unknown producer who just signed a monstrous contract with Sam "Spiderman" Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, to the tune of $30 million. What is he going to do for all that money? He is going to create a feature-length version of his viral YouTube picture; "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) The four-minute short will remain in its place online, while Alvarez starts from scratch and attempts to "wow" you again but this time in a theater. The deal rings of this summer's surprise hit  District 9 , which started as a short film called  Alive to JoBur...

"The Beautiful life" gets cancelled on TV, no problem they are moving to YouTube and being sponsored by HP. (Via The Washington Post ) "Okay, so here's what happened. We put the show on TV, it went for two episodes, nobody knew it was on. And so the rating on the TV wasn't happening," Kutcher said in a YouTube intro, in which he's seen sitting in his Katalyst Films office with iJustine, who is known at her bank as Justine Ezarik but who, outside the bank, is immediately recognized as (at least according to Wikipedia) a viral video comedian-actress sensation with her own video-stream  channel . "I was like, listen: If we put this thing on the Web, more than a half-million people will watch it on the Web," continued Kutcher, seated on a really ugly leather couch, dressed as a preppy lumberjack in a plaid flannel shirt, rugby-stripe sweater, jeans and a Nike cap. "So my feeling is, I want this to be the first show ever that gets more viewers ...