VELOCITY ALERT: Dear Obama: Funerals Are No Place for Selfies

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Dear Obama: Funerals Are No Place for Selfies It looks like Barack Obama has taken a few pointers from Sasha and Malia on his selfie game. The president was caught snapping a photo with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a California Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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