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Dani Mathers

Dani Mathers: When a Playboy Playmate Exposes Too Much

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Dani Mathers looked up and saw a woman who aesthetically offended her. She had a thought … a silent, personal thought. A hackneyed, pop-culture meme came to her: “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.” It was so clever! So witty. She lifted her smartphone. It’s a bit catty, but it’s sooo perfect. A quick Snap. It’s funny, right? She was done typing the caption before she finished thinking. Well, mean/funny … but it’s OK. A quick tap. It was over in an instant -- Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers's thought unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Clearly, we now have all the tools we need to use our thoughts to destroy ourselves -- and they are more powerful than you probably imagine.

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Snap Spectacles, Glass for the Masses

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Glassholes, rejoice! Your hopes and dreams are about to be fulfilled by a $129 pair of video-recording Spectacles that its creator calls a "toy." But while they are going to be super-fun to play with, Snap Inc.'s Spectacles are a serious brand extension for the company that created ephemeral visual conversation.

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Your Snapchat Photos May Have Leaked, But Don’t Blame Snapchat

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In the last day, news has been circulating that a database of some 200,000 Snapchat photos is being leaked after a third-party app used to save people’s otherwise-disappearing pictures got hacked. While some people argue over which third-party app is responsible for the breach, and whether the whole thing is actually a hoax, Snapchat has […]

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Snapchat is Getting Ads Pretty Soon

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As was reported in August, advertisements are finally about to come to Snapchat. Evan Spiegel, the company’s co-founder and CEO, made the announcement today at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. “People are going to see the first ads on Snapchat soon,” he told Katie Couric, who moderated a discussion with him and former New […]

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – September 10, 2014

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When Facebook launched Slingshot, some people saw it as nothing more than a Snapchat knockoff. But Slingshot had a unique feature: to see the photos or videos your friends sent you, you’d need to sling a photo or video back to them. The most recent update to the app, though, makes that feature optional. Now […]