Practically everyone knows about Mom Central and the variety of blogs full of expert advice, opinions from real parents and of course, the amazing community run under their banner. We like Mom Central a lot, we participate in the community, in their awesome Twitter parties and write about them fairly often. Well, considering moms have been having a blast over at Mom Central for such a long time, it was only natural for them to branch out some more and have a little nook for all the dads.
Dad Central Consulting is a division of Mom Central just for all the dads out there who are pretty spectacular and eager to connect and engage with each other while building brands. On Thursday, August 26th from 12PM to 1PM EST (that’s tomorrow, folks!) join Dad Central for the Power of Dads Twitter party. The focus of the Twitter party will be discussing how becoming a dad has influenced what you buy, why you but it and who you trust for advice. As an extra, special perk for participating in the party, Dad Central will be giving away six $50 American Express gift cards during the party. To join in on the Twitter party, just search for and use Twitter hashtag #PowerofDads. Also, make sure you’re following @DadCentral and @MomCentral for the discussion and chance to win prizes.
If you’re a blogging dad and want to get involved with Dad Central, join the Dad Central Blog Roll. If you want to be considered for getting to test and review cool new products and take surveys for the chance to win prizes, join the Dad Testing Panel and if you’re on Twitter, join the Dad Twitter Team! If you’re on Facebook, you may also want to join the Dad Central Facebook page to stay up to date on all things Dad Central, participate in discussions and more!
Facebook has reached 500 million users, making it the most popular social website on the internet (by a long shot.) To celebrate the tremendous milestone, not only will Facebook launch Facebook Stories, a website within Facebook that will sort user-submitted stories and feature them for all to see, but Facebook CEO, infamously camera shy Mark Zuckerberg, also sat down for an interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer.
Sawyer asked Zuckerberg about the recent lawsuit pending in the Supreme Court of Allegany County, New York, that claims Zuckerberg had signed a contract to sign over 84% of ownership over Facebook. Here’s what he had to say about what has already been called a pretty ridiculous lawsuit across the board:
Facebook has also had a great deal of problems with users when it comes to privacy. People are running into confusion when it comes to what they are sharing and who they are sharing it with. Zuckerberg also addressed that.
You can watch the entire exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer and Mark Zuckerberg here.
Facebook has quickly become the most popular social website and next week, they will reach the tremendously impressive milestone of having 500 million users. This time last year, the site had just reached 200 million users and five months ago, 400 million people were logging onto Facebook.
To celebrate 500 million users, Randi Zuckerberg, the marketing guru behind Facebook, gave an interview to All Things Digital’s BoomTown blog, saying that to celebrate its number of users, the company wants it to be all about the users. The initiative she’s talking about is Facebook Stories.
“Facebook Stories will be a website within Facebook that’ll sort actual, submitted user stories by location and theme. Theme examples given included “finding love” and “natural disasters.” Each story will be limited to the same number of characters a Facebook status caps out at: 420.”
Do you have a great Facebook story of your own you would like to share with the 499 million other Facebook users out there? You can submit your own story and if it becomes popular, gaining more “Likes” than most of the other user-submitted stories, it could be featured among other popular Facebook stories.
Summer is the time for going on vacation with your family, coming up with fun activities for your kids and best of all, enjoying the weather with good friends and great cocktails.
On the 4th of July Bacardi USA launched their “Salute to Summer’s Best 60 Second Cocktail Program” that will go on until Labor Day (September 6th). This program has brought together celebrity chef John Besh and celebrity mixologist Bryan Stowe, both who are also former US soldiers, who have created a phenomenal menu of cocktails and grilled dishes that are healthy and delicious. Both the dishes and cocktails feature and utilize the flavors found within Bacardi’s line of products.
The cocktail recipes on the menu take just 60 seconds to make and the grilled dishes take 10 minutes. With these recipes, you can put together an entire menu of exquisite recipes and accompanying cocktails that will look and taste fabulously. These recipes will also wow the pants off of your loved ones and will look like they were made in more than just a few minutes with incredibly easy-to-find ingredients.
The cocktail recipes use Bacardi’s unique and flavorful alcohol and some of the recipes include Grey Goose Fresh Berry Lemonade and Bacardi Limon Iced Tea. Among the grilled foods recipes you will find Grilled Chicken Breast with Tequila Cazadores Reposado Lime Glaze and Grilled Flank Steak with Louisiana Peach and Grey Goose Citron Glaze, among others.
Take a look at how easy it is to create the Bacardi hand shaken daiquiri in this video from Bryan Stowe.
You can find easy-to-locate recipes right on the cocktail recipes section of the 60 Second Cocktails Facebook page or you can download their entire recipe book! [PDF]
Bacardi USA hasn’t just put together some awesome menus for you to utilize throughout the rest of the summer using their products and flavors, although that is certainly pretty amazing. In addition to recipes and ideas for your own recipes, Bacardi USA has also committed to donate $75,000 to the USO and Bacardi consumers who are over 21 years of age can increase the total donation amount of $100,000 through their participation in the 60 Second Cocktails Facebook fan page. Every time someone becomes a fan of the page on Facebook, Bacardi USA will donate $1 to the USO until they reach $100,000.
And today on the topic of ridiculous lawsuits! Paul Ceglia, a wood pellet distributor who claims he had signed a contract with Facebook in 2003 to design and develop thefacebook.com, Facebook’s original name, is suing the social media website. No, Mr. Ceglia isn’t suing the website for a set monetary amount. He’s going for the juggler. He wants power in the form of 84% of ownership of the website.
The lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of Allegany County in New York last month and according to the contract he signed with the people behind “thefacebook.com”, he was to be given $1,000 and a 50% stake in Facebook for the services he provided. Not only that, but he claims he was also to be given a 1% stake in the company for each day that passed until the site was finished. The website was complete on February 4, 2004 and after adding it all up, Ceglia claims that he should rightfully be owed 84% of Facebook.
The lawsuit is a little weird because firstly, where has this guy been? Facebook is bigger now than it has ever been which definitely piques your interest when you’re thinking of the perfect time to sue a company and get a pretty penny out of them. Ceglia has not made any mention of this case for over six years after he had signed the contract with Facebook. Furthermore, Ceglia was just sued last year for failing to deliver wood pellets to customers. He racked up damages to the effect of $200,000. How is he going to dig himself out of that whole? Well, 84% of Facebook should more than cover it, don’t you think?
While the likelihood of Paul Ceglia actually walking out of court with 84% ownership of Facebook is very slim, the court has issued a temporary restraining order which makes it illegal for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook to transfer any assets. To put it lightly, Facebook is definitely feeling the pressure from this court case. Facebook will need to go to court to disprove Ceglia’s claims and from the sounds of it, the lawsuit sounds pretty ridiculous, to say the least. How does a company give a web designer and developer stake in the company and keep adding to the stake the longer it takes him to complete his work? That is just rewarding someone for not completing a project and that makes absolutely no sense.
You can see the entire lawsuit and all 9 court documents over at Mashable.
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Summer is the time for going on vacation with your family, coming up with fun activities for your kids and best of all, enjoying the weather with good friends and great cocktails.
And today on the topic of ridiculous lawsuits! Paul Ceglia, a wood pellet distributor who claims he had signed a contract with Facebook in 2003 to design and develop thefacebook.com, Facebook’s original name, is 
