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President Obama proves yet again that he is a politico that is "with it" and has joined the iPhone photo sharing platform Instagram.

From the Instagram blog:

We’re excited to welcome President Barack Obama to Instagram! We look forward to seeing how President Obama uses Instagram to give folks a visual sense of what happens in the everyday life of the President of the United States. In addition to sharing photos through the @barackobama Instagram account, the Obama 2012 staff is asking supporters to share their photos from the campaign trail with the tag #obama2012.

His account is run by staff of the Obama 2012 campaign, and so far there are three pictures up--and all of them are using the funky Instagram photo filters. Neat-o.

From party photos, to Catch's reviews, to Club XIX's staff shakeup, to LES secret dance parties, check out today's Nightlife News Round Up! More»

When it comes to the internet, what you post will last forever. Fortunate for employers, and unfortunately for those looking to be employed, this can affect your career. (Especially for those who are a little too comfortable sharing their lives online.) Mashable took the time to figure out all the stats, of who doesn't get hired and who gets fired. Check out our breakdown of the numbers. More»

Thanks to Reggie Bush's improper acceptance of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts as a Trojan running back, the BCS strips USC of its 2004 national championship title. [KTLA]
"Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof takes to Twitter to tell the world that January Jones' acting in the latest X-Men installment sucks. [TMZ]
In other non-news, kids under popular social networking sites' minimum age requirement of 13 are lying about their ages to gain access and create profiles. [KABC]
After admitting to sending explicit messages and photos to women, RNC chairman calls for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign from congress. [LATimes]
Since leaving her post at "CBS Evening News" Katie Couric does Leno, says Donald Trump acted like a "jackass" during his campaign for president kick. [PE]

Solar Impulse made its first international flight, WhereBerry has given us another opportunity to publish more personal information on the Internet, Americans think Facebook and Google are evil, power fiends, (including influencing a baby name) and much more! More»

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Last night's kickoff party at The Standard Downtown for Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Festival read like an index of anti-social behavior for the web 3.0 generation. Whether they were texting, emailing, BBMing, or Tweeting, the fact that we'd often rather engage in virtual socializing than the real thing was clear as day. And evidently such anti-social practices have broken ground in socially acceptable displays of disengagement... More»

We had to read this proposal story about three times in order to keep the sequence of social media straight (wait, FIRST he updated his foursquare, THEN he tweeted? Or vice versa?), but once we did, we thought this story was totally sweet! More»

Starting yesterday, through Friday, the Microsoft Worldwide Partnership Conference will take place in downtown DC. Yes, WORLD WIDE partnership. If the coach buses weren't already thoroughly clogging the downtown part of the District, we can count on Microsoft to do so. More»

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Digg.com, yet another way to share online content, hosted a cocktail party at the Delancey rooftop on Monday. The exclusive cocktail event catered only to executives and founders of online Social Media, so alas mere users were excluded from the festivities... More»

Back in 2007, Billy Corgan let Courtney Love intimately rest her head on his shoulder. Fast forward to today, and he's slamming her on Twitter. And we mean slamming her. How'd they get there? More»