Facebook acquires social media giant "JamieKelly"

Facebook acquires JamieKelly

By Kevin Dayhoff, Kant BeTrue and New Bedford Herald news staff reports.

Facebook acquires “JamieKelly,” a new age, cutting edge social media networking empire founded by a mysterious mid-west social media guide

August 11, 2009, Cedar Rapids Iowa - - Earlier today, Facebook successfully acquired “JamieKelly,” a cutting edge social media networking site that is considered by to be a hot property among the much sought after 18 to 35 female demographic.

Jamie Kelly, also known as “JK,” a service based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is named after the charismatic – some say, messianic founder, by the same name, who is quoted to have said, that his service was first launched when he was a sophomore at Dickenson College, a nationally recognized and highly selective liberal arts college located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

When reached for further comment as the exciting news broke across the wire services, Kelly said, “I’m wearing a bow tie today was just a set up for my master plan. One day, I'm coming to work in a tux with tails, spats, and a walking stick.”

As he shuffled away to his office, he noted, “I just mailed out a bundle of letters. Next thing, I'll be hunting a saber-tooth tiger.”

Young women were reported to have gathered outside the world headquarters of JK at 500 3rd Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, chanting “Jamie Kelly” and holding sounds which read, “We love U,” and “JK Rocks.”

Whatever.

This the latest in a series of tech wars, and mergers and acquisitions after the recently announced Microsoft-Yahoo search deal.

JamieKelly's 12-employee team will join Facebook family.

The four founders of JamieKelly – Emily Johnson, Boris Hartl, Carrie Ann Knauer and Jamie Schmidt Wagman, will take senior positions in Facebook's Engineering and Product teams.

Currently, the acquisition amount is undisclosed but JamieKelly looks happy with the acquisition and the joy was obvious in a recent interview with Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly, who have been good friends for many years.

JamieKelly was looked upon as close competitor of Twitter, microblogging service for the same task - sharing information online.

However, both services combined don't have enough users to match up Facebook's more than 250 million user base. Facebook couldn't buy Twitter, a service that has seen a tremendous growth since its inception, so, the next close substitute was JamieKelly.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information.”

As of now JamieKelly will work as it is and the founders are yet to lay out future plans for integration of both services.

Facebook's JamieKelly acquisition is buzzed as directly challenging Google and leapfrogs Twitter.

JamieKelly service went out cold until they had announced the second version of their API this month. So, now Facebook will make use of ex-Google's excellence in expanding Facebook platform to the next paradigm: Real-time search.

If Google and Twitter are listening to this, they better sit together at least for mutual partnership on Twitter's search technology.

Asked what’s next on the horizon for JamieKelly, Kelly, a former rap star from Pittsburgh, PA, said quixotically, “The music industry is proposing a new format for digital music…”

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20090811 sdsom Facebook acquires JamieKelly

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GREEN & GLOVER EXTRA: Fox News' Megyn Kelly pregnant

GREEN & GLOVER EXTRA: Fox News' Megyn Kelly pregnant

http://tinyurl.com/czcj8w Washington Times

By Stephanie Green and Elizabeth Glover Monday, April 13, 2009

Fox cub?

The lady spies have learned that Fox News "America's Newsroom" anchor Megyn Kelly is expecting her first child in October.

“The 38-year-old Ms. Kelly” has been rumored to have been linked with Carroll County’s own Jamie Kelly in the past. See: http://tinyurl.com/cpmqpn “Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kendall link rumors denied”

Then again, Mr. Kelly was also to have been rumored to have had a liaison with Katie Couric also… http://tinyurl.com/cywrzb “Katie the cougar Couric goes triathlon”

So far, no rumor has ever stuck to the elusive, well-dressed, and erudite Mr. Kelly – and now that he has removed himself to Iowa, it has, unfortunately, been increasing difficult to keep tabs on him…

Meanwhile, Ms. Megyn Kelly has since moved on from whatever relationship she may have had – or not have had – with Mr. Kelly and has since “married her husband Doug Brunt last year.”

Mr. Kelly, who is well known for decorum, maintaining confidences and keeping his month shut – has hardly ever uttered a word.

Well, not quite, in an exchange in researching, “Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kendall link rumors denied.” Mr. Kelly did emit a denial…

Is it all just a coincidence? Then how does one explain this photo
that has recently surfaced?

“Photoshop” says Mr. Kelly.

“That’s just crap and you know it, responded Mr. Kelly.
“There is no truth to the rumor that I’ve hooked-up with Megyn Kendall – or
Kelly, or whatever her name is,” waxed Mr. Kelly.

As for this latest development, so far Mr. Kelly has stayed true to character and not commented. So who knows if he feels melancholy or blue over the whole situation?

Read the rest of the report by Stephanie Green and Elizabeth Glover here: http://tinyurl.com/czcj8w

20090413 Fox News Megyn Kelly pregnant

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20070413 Katie the cougar Couric goes triathlon

Apparently it was only a magical coincidence that Jamie Kelly and Katie Couric were "photographed" together recently at a Broadway outing to see “The Year of Magical Thinking.”

Katie the cougar Couric goes triathlon

April 13th, 2007

Hat tip: “Couric New Boyfriend 17 Years Her Junior”

When the buzz surfaced that Katie Couric had a new hunky love interest in her life, many in Carroll County were curious if it was our own Jamie Kelly of the Carroll County Times.

And my goodness, heaven only knows that Ms. Couric needs something positive in her life these days…

As you are aware rumors were flying last January that linked Jamie Kelly with Megyn Kelly of Fox News.

If there was anything to that rumor – it was never proven. As it has also been recently revealed that Mr. Kelly is NOT the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s child…

Nevertheless, phone calls to Jamie Kelly and his publicist requesting a comment on suggestions in the community that link him with Katie Couric - were not returned.

Now comes the New York Post with another theory as to the boy-toy in Katie, the cougar’s life in an article by Mark Bulliet and Jennifer Fermino on April 12^th, 2007, “Katie Cougar: New Love Is 17 Yrs. Her Junior.”

Who cares about ratings when you've got your very own hunky triathlete on the mark and ready to go?

Katie Couric's dishy new boy toy is a good-looking, physically fit, almost 33-year-old from Manhattan's East Side with a posh pedigree.

Brooks Perlin — son of financier Sanford Perlin of Darien, Conn. — has been running around with the perky anchorwoman-turned-cougar for several months, according to a source.

"These are two private people and I respect that," said Sanford Perlin Wednesday when reached at his office at Kleos Capital Management.

His mother, Anne Perlin, 68, didn't want to comment on her son's new 50-year-old girlfriend.

"I don't believe in any meddling in people's personal lives," she said.

When pressed, she added, "It's a lovely story and I hope we don't ruin it."

[…]

Last July, Perlin competed in the Greenwich Cup triathlon - where he swam, ran, and cycled - and finished in an impressive one hour, 19 minutes and 16 seconds.

Read the rest here: Katie Cougar: New Love Is 17 Yrs. Her Junior

I just hope this doesn’t give my wife any ideas about trading me in for a couple of twenty-five year olds…

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20070103 Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kendall link rumors denied

20070103 Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kendall link rumors

Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kendall link rumors denied

January 3^rd, 2007 – January 6^th, 2007

It what can only be understand as “news” to a certain someone in Mr. Jamie Kelly’s life; rumors of a link between Fox News Channel journalist Megyn Kendal and our own Jamie Kelly of the Carroll County Times, were vigorous denied by Mr. Kelly in a recent phone call.

Avid readers of the Carroll County Times are usually aware when various members of the local paper’s news staff go missing from time-to-time.

And it was not unnoticed that Carroll County Times city desk editor Jamie Kelly took some time off recently

Then, as a coincidence(?) it was announced as the new year began, that Fox News Channel personality Megyn Kendall has changed her name – to Kelly.

Hmmmm.

FishbowlDC reported that she changed her name back to her maiden name.

Could this be a ruse to put us off the trail of a breaking news story right here at home in Carroll County? Inquiring minds want to know.

First, on June 22, 2006, there was an oblique link between Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kelly…

But rumors really began flying as early as last July 28^th, 2006, when it was rumored that Mr. Kelly was spotted with Ms. Kendall at the Cafe Milano in DC eating pizza.

Ms. Kendall “was wearing a tight white strapless summer dress and looked gorgeous. She also is sporting platinum blonde hair now. She sat in the corner seat at the bar on the left as you walk into the bar area.”

And Mr. Kelly, well, he was dressed in his usual young journalist attire; jeans, blue shirt – with the shirt tail hanging out, a new brown and yellow stripped sweater. Reports were that he looked rather dapper.

And then, the day after Christmas, Ms. “Kendall (was spotted) at the Pentagon City Nordstrom… She was wandering around men’s furnishings talking on her cellphone. She’s very attractive (not just hot for D.C.), but she definitely looks older in person than on t.v. She also has a smoker’s voice that’s kind of sexy on t.v., but not so much in person.”

Well, we all know that Mr. Kelly is a clothes-horse and loves Nordstrom.

Is it that Mr. Kelly, who has recently been feeling a bit under the weather, has been running himself ragged in his double-life?

Is it all just a coincidence?

Then how does one explain this photo that has recently surfaced?

“Photoshop” says Mr. Kelly.

“That’s just crap and you know it," responded Mr. Kelly (with a smile.) “There is no truth to the rumor that I’ve hooked-up with Megyn Kendall – or Kelly, or whatever her name is,” waxed Mr. Kelly.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bercovici and John Cook posting on “Radar Online” has reported upon a possible link between Ms. Megyn Kelly and Brit Hume.

For months, a rumor has been circulating among TV news insiders in Washington, D.C., and New York that Brit Hume, Fox News Channel's managing editor in Washington and host of prime-time hour Special Report, has been having an extramarital affair with a younger colleague. The object of his alleged attentions: Megyn Kendall, a general-assignment correspondent who has been with the network since 2004.

There is no evidence to suggest that the rumors are true. Of the half-dozen sources who relayed the allegation to Radar, none could claim first-hand knowledge, and several Fox insiders said they believed it to be false. Still, the whispers have grown so loud that Hume and Kendall have been forced to deny them repeatedly to curious colleagues. (One Fox source said Hume seemed genuinely amused and somewhat flattered to be linked by gossip to the attractive and much younger Kendall.) A Fox spokesperson also flatly denied it, and suggested it was being "shopped around" by enemies of the network.

(Well, one thing is for sure, here at Soundtrack, we know that we totally made-up a connection between Jamie Kelly and Megyn Kelly because, well, we just couldn’t help ourselves. Mr. Kelly is way too much fun and besides, it was too good a coincidence and a wonderful photoshopping opportunity.)

For now, we’re going to take Mr. Kelly at his word. But we’ll keep our ears to the ground and you’ll be the first to know if we find any additional information on this story of intrigue and wonder.

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20060622 A picture suggestion for Jamie Kelly

A picture suggestion for Jamie Kelly

June 22, 2006

A picture suggestion for Jamie Kelly’s weekly blog spot on the Carroll County Times.

Jamie Kelly, over at the Carroll County Times, knows what he is doing and has been working hard at bring the Carroll County Times into the electronic media age.

Jamie has been attempting to get a live blog thing going every Monday at 12 noon for an hour. Why not give it a try?

Meanwhile Jamie, lose the picture you have on the web-site. The Carroll County Times has some of the best photographers in the mid-Atlantic region, so what’s up with the ugly picture?

Attached above-right is an example of a better picture to put on your blog site.

Hey, just trying to be of some help.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.

E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org

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