Is This Publix Mother's Day Ad Pro Life?

By Todd Wasserman2013-05-06 18:03:37 UTC

A pregnant mom and her daughter prepare a meal in this sweet Mother's Day ad for supermarket Publix which some conservatives are championing as a pro-life statement.

In the ad, the mom feels her baby kicking and asks her daughter to feel her belly. The mom then asks if the daughter wants to talk to the unborn child and "tell her what a great sister you'll be." After some hesitation, the girl says, "You're really going to love Mom."

The ad, which launched in 2012, makes no reference to unborn children and merely says, "Happy Mother's Day." Yet it has become a cause celebre on Twitter among conservative bloggers. Most notably, Michelle Malkin, who tweeted:

Beautiful===> MT @twitchyteam 'You're really going to love mom': Publix Mother's Day ad 'salutes moms & unborn' bit.ly/13lRSe4

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 6, 2013

Twitchy Team, which has 90,000 followers, is described as, "Michelle Malkin's human-powered Twitter aggregator."

Right-leaning blogs like Newsbusters have also cited the ad as "pro-life." However, so far Publix's Facebook followers haven't picked up on a possible pro-life message but merely seem to see the ad as a poignant tribute to moms.

A Publix rep says the ad isn't meant to convey a double meaning: "The commercial is meant to celebrate moms across our operating areas and to celebrate life’s most memorable occasions with Publix and food. The commercial was not intended to send any type of subliminal messaging."

Image courtesy of Publix, YouTube

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Happy 10th Birthday, LinkedIn!

By Seth Fiegerman2013-05-06 16:52:05 UTC

Back on May 5, 2003, Reed Hoffman launched LinkedIn in his living room and asked several hundred of his friends and colleagues to join. Ten years later, the social network for professionals has more than 200 million users, 3,700 employees and 26 offices around the world.

Looking back, it almost seems inevitable that LinkedIn would become a huge hit, but it took awhile before the network really started to take off. On some days, as few as 20 people signed up to use the service.

"At the end of our first month, we had 4,500 members in the network," Hoffman wrote in a post Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of launching LinkedIn. "10 years later, we’re honored and humbled that so many of you have made LinkedIn a part of your daily professional lives."

It's an accomplishment for a startup in any industry to survive for a decade, but it's particularly impressive for Internet companies to enjoy that kind of longevity. LinkedIn was founded in the aftermath of the Dot-Com bust, at a time when the biggest social networks were Friendster and MySpace.

LinkedIn launched before most of the social networks that are considered big players today. It's about a year older than Facebook, three years older than Twitter and eight years older than Google+ — though it's younger than Google itself, which launched in 1998.

Unlike some of its competitors, LinkedIn's team focused early on creating a business model. In 2005, two years after launching, LinkedIn introduced job listings and tiered subscriptions to generate revenue. Now, LinkedIn is generating more than $300 million in revenue each quarter.

To celebrate its first decade as a company, LinkedIn put out a collection of pictures showing how the website has evolved over the years from a relatively static page with some basic information about your professional connections to a dynamic social network for businesses and individuals alike.

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Justin Timberlake Uses Instagram to Announce '20/20 Experience' Part 2

By Brian Anthony Hernandez2013-05-05 21:53:50 UTC

Singer Justin Timberlake, who until this year hadn't released new music since 2006, will release part two of his successful 20/20 Experience album on Sept. 30 — just six months after part one debuted.

Timberlake made the unexpected announcement Sunday through photos posted on Instagram on Facebook. The picture on Instagram, which he joined on Grammy Sunday in February, quickly racked up nearly 50,000 views within the first hour it was uploaded.

The visual announcement continues Timberlake's use of social sites to tease or release items related to his music career. It all began in January, when Timberlake posted a cryptic tweet on Twitter. The message teased his musical comeback. He also unleashed interactive art for The 20/20 Experience album on image-tagging startup Stipple's website. And he used Myspace to promote the album's lead single, "Suit & Tie." (Note: Timberlake is an investor in Stipple and has ownership stake in Myspace.)

The blitz helped spark Timberlake's comeback into a commercially success. "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay-Z broke airplay records and globally charted atop iTunes' top-selling singles rankings in its debut week. Meanwhile, The 20/20 Experience ranked number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its first week. The album's second single, "Mirrors," (watch below) has performed well. It peaked at number one on the Billboard's UK singles chart and number five on the U.S. chart.

Before part two of The 20/20 Experience arrives, Timberlake will embark on the "Legends of the Summer" tour with Jay-Z in July and August.

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Even Sports Stars Get Salty About Being Unfollowed on Twitter

By Sam Laird2013-05-06 20:08:34 UTC

It's one of the most severe passive-aggressive disses of the social media age. It's a belittling gesture of another human being's insignificance. It can lead to introspection, self-doubt and vindictive muttering.

We're speaking, of course, about the Twitter unfollow.

And, it turns out, even sports stars are susceptible to the antisocial action's power to peeve.

ESPN The Magazine's latest issue features a profile of 20-year-old tennis phenom Sloane Stephens, who surged to prominence in January after beating Serena Williams to win the Australian Open. The piece, which hit the web Monday, goes into some detail about a falling-out between Stephens and Williams since the upset victory, and here's part of what Stephens has to say:

"She's not said one word to me, not spoken to me, not said hi, not looked my way, not been in the same room with me since I played her in Australia," Stephens says emphatically. "And that should tell everyone something, how she went from saying all these nice things about me to unfollowing me on Twitter."

Her mom tries to slow her down, but Sloane is insistent. "Like, seriously! People should know. They think she's so friendly and she's so this and she's so that — no, that's not reality! You don't unfollow someone on Twitter, delete them off of BlackBerry Messenger. I mean, what for? Why?"

But that's not all the Twitter drama. Stephens also responded to this alleged subtweet Williams posted two days after the open:

I made you.

— Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) January 26, 2013

"I was like, 'You really don't think I know that that's about me?'" Stephens tells the magazine.

Interestingly enough, back when she won the Open, Stephens was already thinking social media.

"I hope to have a lot more Twitter followers," she said in a televised interview immediately following the match.

She ended up getting that wish, and then some. Stephens' followers more than doubled in the hours following her win and she received congratulatory tweets from Shaquille O'Neal, Dirk Nowitzki, John Legend and other celebrities.

Between the high hopes and unspoken snubs, it seems, Stephens is truly a sports star for the digital era.

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10 Pics From My Dog's Google Glass

By Christine Erickson2013-05-05 17:19:34 UTC

Humans are foaming at the mouth over Google Glass. The tiny projection screen, voice commands and user-friendly experience could very well be the technology of the future.

But what about dogs? Could our four-legged friends benefit from Google Glass? Would anyone actually buy this technology for a dog? Considering that people buy $3.2 million collars for their dogs, why wouldn't they?

SEE ALSO: SNL Mocks How Google Glass Can Be Used "Discreetly"

We went undercover to learn what it would be like to be a dog wearing Google Glass, playing with a canine friend.

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Get Psyched for 'Iron Man 3' With This Superhero Remix

By Neha Prakash2013-05-05 16:45:32 UTC

Tony Stark makes his epic return to the big screen this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, but it's been a while since we've been privy to the superhero's — shall we say — swagger?

Ease yourself back into Stark's world of wealth and fighting evil with the "Iron Man Trilogy Remix" by YouTuber relmvision. Prepare to remember all those lovely explosions, fire blasts and special effects that made you fall in love with this protector of Pepper Potts and gang.

For some added Stark power, there are even a few soundbites from The Avengers.

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Knicks Star Checks the Haters in Audacious Instagram

By Sam Laird2013-05-06 18:26:15 UTC

New York Knicks super sub J.R. Smith had a really bad game in his team's playoff loss to the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. How bad? Try 4-for-15 from the field bad.

The subpar performance in a critical game had some wondering what Smith had been up to the night before. Well, a Saturday night tweet from New York's Jay-Z-owned 40/40 club seemed to indicate that he hadn't exactly been at home quietly preparing for the Knicks' second-round series:

Cam Newton, JR Smith, CC Sabathia, CJ Watson, Andre Blatche and Joe Johnson in the building!The lineup is serious tonight NY!

— The 40/40 Club (@The4040) May 5, 2013

Predictably, Smith's poor outing coupled with his rumored pre-game partying drew plenty of criticism from fans and media alike. Sunday night, however, Smith took to Twitter to let the haters know:

First an for most I wasn't clubbing before the game so y'all can kill that. Don't try an find reasons when I miss shots! #HopOff

— JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) May 5, 2013

That, however, was just the beginning. Smith followed the tweet up by posting a Twitter link to this Instagram of a quote-unquote Official NBA Bandwagon Transferral Form:

While LeBron James was recently named the NBA's Most Valuable Player, it says here Smith is the league's Most Valuable Tweeter. His defiant Sunday night posts were the latest in a long line of truly outstanding social media shares.

There was the time he roasted Knicks coach Mike Woodson for a polka-dotted fashion fail. There was the time he sent a Kanye-laced zinger to Kardashian ex Kris Humphries. Then, of course, there was also the time he accidentally gave us all an intimate window into how NBA stars proposition their Twitter followers with the immortal pickup line, "You trying to get the pipe?"

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