Shop My Closet!

I'm moving to Roanoke, VA on June 12th! I need to lessen my moving load so I'm selling tons of clothes! Check out my closet on Poshmark. I also think this is a great site for anyone looking to sell their stuff.

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Spring cleaning

I'm moving in a few months, so I need to get rid of some clothes! Check out my poshmark closet (as well as my favorite closets) below.

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Police department open up "safe lots" for craigslist transactions

Hartford Police Department

The online classified site Craigslist updated its safety page this week, encouraging users to make exchanges at local police stations. Some police departments across the country are already offering up their headquarters as voluntary "safe zones" for Craigslist deals.

Sebastian Rivera likes to ride BMX bikes. And when he's customizing his ride, he says he'll hop onto Craigslist to look for free stuff or to trade bike parts with people in his area.

"It's pretty easy, as long as like I get the person's number or I get their Facebook ... another way to communicate besides Craigslist," Rivera says.

As we talk in downtown Hartford, Conn., Rivera echoes what a lot of people have told me: Be cautious with anonymous online deals — get as much information as you can about the person you're dealing with and always meet in a public place.

Now, the Hartford Police Department is hoping the public's place of choice will be a parking lot right outside its headquarters.

"That parking lot is under 24-hour video surveillance. It's well lit. There's cops all around this building all the time," Chief of Detectives Brian Foley says.

Hartford police are calling it Operation Safe Lot and the idea is to provide the public a well-guarded space for buying and selling its stuff. Foley says it's in response to crime spikes tied to Craigslist deals in the city.

And even though the parking lot is small, he says officers are willing to work around occasional electronics or furniture swaps happening right outside their front door.

"If it's gonna prevent a robbery, if it's gonna prevent a homicide, if it's gonna make our citizens feel safe ... we can live with it," Foley says. "We don't want it to become a flea market out there, but certainly it hasn't been a problem."

Hartford police aren't the first department to try the idea, and others around the country have been starting this up too.

Boca Raton Police Chief Daniel Alexander says his department started offering up its parking lot last June.

"It's something that's positive for us to do for the community," he says. "A lot of people come down here for situations and circumstances that aren't very positive. This, to us, is a positive."

Since the "Safe Lot" programs are new, Alexander and other officers say it's hard to gauge yet whether it's working.

Craigslist wouldn't answer questions about why it's now telling users to consider police parking lots for high-value exchanges. But back in downtown Hartford, Mike Loin says he thinks the company should embrace this idea for smaller transactions, too.

"I think it would open it up for a bigger customer base," Loin says. "Especially for someone who may be a mother or a woman who may not feel as comfortable selling or buying a product that way."

Hartford police officials say they hope more stations start offering up their parking lots for all types of social media transactions. That is, of course, as long as they're legal.

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Mother's Day will be around the corner before you know it! Don't get caught scrambling to get a gift. If your mother lives in another state, check out my "Miss You!" mugs that I can customize for any two states. You can give mom the set or keep one for yourself. Check out my Etsy page here.

New browser extension may get you to visit the DC library more

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The D.C. Public Library does a lot of great work in the community — from expanding outreach for homeless patrons to creating cool special programming built around authors like George Orwell. But when compared with the ease of shopping on Amazon or exploring new releases on the social media site Goodreads, the DCPL online catalog be downright cumbersome.

That's where "Books for D.C." — a new extension for the Google Chrome browser — comes in. It automatically searches the DCPL catalog when you view a book's page on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Goodreads, and tells you whether you can find a copy at the local library.

Yes, Amazon Kindle owners, this includes eBooks as well.

You can see a GIF of it in action here.

Emanuel Feld, the programmer behind the extension, says the idea occurred to him because it always seems to be Amazon — and not the library — that shows up at the top of a Google search for a book. He wanted to level the playing field.

"It seemed like the sort of issue that was ripe for tackling. I spend a lot of time at the library, and they're doing all sorts of really great things — they're very forward-thinking," Feld says. "I thought this would be a good project to show what the library has to offer."

Feld doesn't have any official relationship with the D.C. Public Library, but says he did consult them for information about how their catalog works and received lots of positive feedback.

The extension is actually Feld's second effort to make it easier for the public to get information about what's available at the local library. He also recently launched a @booksfordc Twitter account that uses a script to scan the library's catalog every hour to look for recent additions and tweet them out to the public — functionality that their existing catalog technology just doesn't have.

He says he's also thinking about ways to use his coding skills to address a problem recently covered in the Washington Post: the unequal distribution of resources at D.C.'s school libraries.

"I wanted to build a bunch of tools that were mutually self-supporting, so this is part of that," he says.

The extension is still a work in progress, and Feld is soliciting feedback on his website. Other civically-minded techies who want to get involved are encouraged to shoot him an email or seek him out at Code for D.C. meetups.

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Facebook adds new suicide prevention feature

Starting on Wednesday, Facebook is rolling out a new feature for suicide prevention.

The social media site is partnering with Now Matters Now, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Save.org and Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, a nonprofit operating out of the University of Washington's School of Social Work, to give users more options when they see a friend post something that is concerning. It works on both desktop and mobile.

If a Facebook friend posts something that you feel indicates he or she could be thinking about self harm, you'll be able to click the little arrow at the top right of the post and click "Report Post." There, you'll be given the options to contact the friend who made the post, contact another friend for support or contact a suicide helpline, the University of Washington reported on Wednesday.

After that, Facebook will look at the post. If Facebook feels like the post indicates distress, it will contact the person who posted it. That person will be greeted with the following pop ups when he or she next logs in:



Then they'll see options to reach out to a friend or get tips and support.

If he person decides they'd like to talk to someone, they'll be prompted to call a friend, send a friend a Facebook message or contact a suicide helpline. They can either call or message a suicide prevention expert. Facebook also provides videos that use true stories of people who have dealt with suicidal thoughts.

There's also a section that recommends simple relaxation techniques like baking, drawing, going for a walk or visiting a library.

Facebook will even help someone find a self-care expert.


Facebook has had a way to report potentially suicidal content since 2011, but this is the first time this support will be built directly into posts. Until now, you had to seek out Facebook's suicide prevention page and upload a screenshot or URL of the post.

The new reporting feature is currently available for 50 percent of Facebook users in the U.S. and will roll out to the rest of the country in the next few months, a spokesperson for Facebook told The Huffington Post in a phone interview on Wednesday.

"We have teams working around the world, 24/7, who review any report that comes in," Rob Boyle, Facebook Product Manager and Nicole Staubli, Facebook Community Operations Safety Specialist, wrote in a post for Facebook Safety on Wednesday. "They prioritize the most serious reports, like self-injury, and send help and resources to those in distress."'

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From my etsy page: State "Miss You!" Mugs

I decided to start a new project making these mugs for people! I made them for my boyfriend, but they are a great gift for a friend, family member, or anyone else you want to remind how much you miss them! Completely customizable with the 50 states and DC. Check them out at my etsy page here.

Yelp accused of bullying businesses into paying for better reviews

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Nadia Kalnieva says she can no longer bear to check online reviews about her Toronto moving company on Yelp. “I feel it’s too much bad energy.”

Her troubles with the hugely popular customer review website began about two years ago when she noticed a couple of negative reviews about her business were prominently featured. To make matters worse, she says, positive reviews about her company were hidden below in a "not currently recommended" category.

Then she starting getting calls from a Yelp sales representative trying to convince her to pay to advertise on the site.

She says she got the distinct impression from the salesperson that if she accepted, her problem would disappear: "What I got without spoken direct words is, 'Start paying, and we’ll find a way to get rid of the bad reviews.'"

Kalnieva, who runs the small family company S & Sons Moving, refused to pay up. She believes Yelp continued to unfairly highlight her negative reviews, resulting in lost clients who got cold feet after reading them.

"I felt helpless,” she says.

Complaints piling up

Perhaps Kalnieva misread the situation. But she joins many small businesses in North America that have accused Yelp of a shakedown of sorts — implying in some way it can improve review listings for a price. Yelp is based in San Francisco, active in 29 countries, and boasts 139 million monthly visitors.

Ephraim Dloomy says his Yelp saga began about six months after he opened his Toronto restaurant, Ba-Li Laffa, in June 2012. Like Kalnieva, he says negative reviews about his business were posted prominently while positive, five-star reviews were hidden in the not currently recommended section.

Then he started getting frequent calls from a Yelp salesperson, trying to sell advertising. The restaurateur says the representative didn’t blatantly tell Dloomy he could solve his problem by paying up, but he believes that was the underlying message: "They said people who generally advertise with them end up having more stars. They implied it."

Dloomy turned down the $350 a month advertising offer because he couldn’t afford it. Then he says his situation only got worse: "What I would notice is, I would get three to four positive [reviews] and a day later they would be gone," dumped in the hidden section.

A furious Dloomy concludes, "Basically, I was being bullied into advertising."
'I was being bullied into advertising.'— Ephraim Dloomy, restaurateur

Mafia-like extortion?
Over the past few years, the Better Business Bureau has dealt with numerous complaints about Yelp involving allegations about manipulated reviews that Yelp offers to fix if the business pays to advertise.

One recent complainant went as far as to claim that "Yelp is trying to extort money from me … they are no different than the Mafia.” According to the Better Business Bureau, this issue has been resolved.

Yelp is also facing a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of shareholders. It alleges the company misled investors about its business practices to boost share prices. The suit filed this past August in the U.S. District Court in California claims Yelp posted unreliable reviews and offered to make negative ones go away if companies paid for advertising. The suit also notes that the company generates revenue primarily from ad sales.

Yelp fights back
In a statement, Yelp told CBC News that the lawsuit's allegations "are without merit and we will vigorously contest them."

The company also adamantly denies that businesses can pay to change their reviews or ratings: “There has never been any amount of money a business can pay Yelp to manipulate reviews and our automated recommendation software does not ‘punish’ businesses who don’t advertise."

Yelp also points out that, so far, none of the allegations against the company have stuck.

This past September, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out a lawsuit filed by several businesses accusing Yelp of extortion by trying to bully them into advertising. The court said the allegations could not be proven.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission received more than 2,000 consumer complaints about Yelp from 2008 to March 4, 2014. But according to a Yelp announcement last week, the FTC has closed its investigation without taking any action. The commission said it could not comment.
The computer’s in control

So why do some businesses believe Yelp is posting reviews unfairly? The company says that its automated recommendation software weeds out reviews that might be biased or fake. For example, ones a business may have solicited from family to boost its profile.


That explanation doesn’t sit well with Nishi Sood. She says she wrote a genuine, positive review for Swansea Massage Clinic in Toronto. But on Swansea’s Yelp site, it’s hidden in the not currently recommended section.

“I wasn't even made aware that it got buried,” she says.

Yelp explained that sometimes the software filters out genuine reviewers because it doesn’t have enough information. But if the person writes more reviews, he or she could earn Yelp’s trust.

The co-owner of Swansea Massage, like others, complains of unjust review postings on Yelp. Beverly Gordon says that a few months ago the company approached her to buy advertising. But she claims the salesperson never implied he could manipulate her reviews: "They were very careful not to say that. They said they couldn't promise anything."

Even so, Gordon has signed up for the lowest ad package — $200 a month — in hopes her now hidden positive reviews, including Sood’s, willbe prominently displayed. She says she reached her decision based on “what I've heard from other business who get positive reviews posted and they’re paying [for advertising].”

Is Gordon misreading the situation? She says she’s paying to find out. So far, her review postings haven’t changed.

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The facebook baby invasion might be a figment of your imagination

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Last year, I experienced a Facebook trauma that made me question if I could ever trust my News Feed again. There I was, scrolling away and minding my own business, when the photo of a sonogram popped up: “The arrow is pointing at baby’s scrotum/peepee!!” the caption exalted. “That’s our boy!!! Mommy and Daddy love you soooo much!!!!” For some reason, I hadn’t registered that this would be my News Feed’s natural progression after all of those engagement ring, “OMG I SAID YES, NOW CHECK OUT THIS ROCK!,” photo shoots. And like that, I started seeing baby Facebook photos everywhere.

Or maybe, like many other Internety 20-somethings, I was just being melodramatic. Because according to a piece on Wired,which enlisted the help of Microsoft Research computer scientist Meredith Ringel Morris, there really aren’t that many baby photos out there.

After a child is born, Morris discovered, new mothers post less than half as often. When they do post, fewer than 30 percent of the updates mention the baby by name early on, plummeting to not quite 10 percent by the end of the first year. Photos grow as a chunk of all postings, sure—but since new moms are so much less active on Facebook, it hardly matters.

New moms undershare. I’m probably more likely to see someone taking a selfie with Crab Cakes Eggs Benedict than their progeny. But I am probably less prone to be shocked by bacon and eggs than I am by a peer entering the parenthood stage of life.

Morris said that another reason why baby photos might seem to show up more frequently could be because they get a disproportionate amount of likes and, thus, get promoted on feeds. I’ll admit, I panicked and liked the “Peepee” shot… I’m part of the problem!

So what it all comes down to is, we all need to chill out and stop whining about the baby pictures. Even though some people definitely do overshare—a Twitter employee recently live tweeted her own labor—it’s not that big of a deal.

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NPR April Fool's prank shows that no one reads the articles they comment on

Remember those obnoxious tests you took in elementary school that tested how well you followed directions? You'd be asked to read all the directions carefully before starting the test, and if you did, the directions would tell you not to take the test at all. If you didn't, you'd answer all the questions until you got to the end and were told you failed the test, because you didn't read the directions first. It was basically to find out if you were terrible with instructions or if you would've fared really well in 1930s Germany.

Earlier this week, NPR conducted a brilliant version of that test for April Fools’ Day. Except instead of trying to trip up third-graders with ADD, the joke was on their online readers who comment on articles without reading the story itself.

Basically, here’s what went down: Last Monday, NPR posted a link to a story on their Facebook page to a story with the headline, “Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore?”



Although the story looked legit, with art and a sub-hed and everything, if you actually clicked on the link, this is what popped up:




Clever, right? Because people do comment on stories without actually having read them all the time!

If you’ve ever spent at least two seconds perusing an Internet comments section, you can probably guess what happened next. That’s right: Most NPR readers are those terrible third graders who failed the test. The original Facebook thread got more than 1,500 comments, mostly from people who clearly hadn’t even clicked on the article.












I believe the term for what you just did, Ryan Balas, is "epic fail."

So what can we learn from this? Either that NPR and other media outlets should do away with Internet comments sections altogether, or we should get rid of the articles and just replace them with comments sections. What say you, Daily Dot readers? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments, if you hadn’t already.

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Airbnb is possibly worth $1 billion

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Airbnb, the short-term couch and apartment rental site, could be worth more than some major hotel chains, if a deal that's in "advanced" stages of talks goes through. That's according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that the plan to raise money for the site would place its value over $10 billion. That's more than hotel giants Wyndham Worldwide Corp. ($9.4 billion) and Hyatt Hotels Corp. ($8.4 billion).

While obviously a success, Airbnb has not been without controversy: for one thing, horror stories of rentals gone bad seem to regularly crop up in the news. Just this week, a New Yorker very nearly ended up with an "XXX freak fest" in his apartment after renting his home out for a night through the service. While he stopped the orgy before it began, Ari Teman now faces the possibility of eviction.

Plus, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed the company for its user data in order to determine whether the company allows some residents to break a 2010 law limiting short-term apartment rentals. But Airbnb has recently teased plans to expand its services into to other areas of the hospitality industry — picking up renters from the airport at the start of their trip, for instance. According to Time, the company has said it wants to become "the Apple of the hospitality business."

In 2012, the company did a fundraising round that put its valuation in the $2.5 billion range, according to a few reports. Airbnb hasn't yet disclosed its profitability or revenue, according to the Journal. There are currently about 600,000 rental listings on the site. For each successful listing, the company gets a portion of the rental fee.

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Facebook goes beyond 'male' and 'female' with new gender options

You don't have to be strictly a man or a woman on Facebook anymore.

In a nod to the "it's complicated" sexual identities of many of its users, the social network on Thursday added a third "custom" gender option for people's profiles. In addition to Male or Female, Facebook now lets U.S. users choose among some 50 additional options such as "transgender," "cisgender," "gender fluid," "intersex" and "neither."

Users also now have the ability to choose the pronoun they'd like to be referred to publicly: he/his, she/her, or the gender-neutral they/their.

"When you come to Facebook to connect with the people, causes, and organizations you care about, we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self," Facebook said in a post on its Diversity page.

"An important part of this is the expression of gender, especially when it extends beyond the definitions of just 'male' or 'female,' " the post continued. "So today, we're proud to offer a new custom gender option to help you better express your own identity on Facebook."

Facebook said it worked with a group of leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations to come up with the new gender categories.

"Facebook users from across the country have been asking for the ability to reflect their gender accurately, and today Facebook showed they have been listening," said Allison Palmer, a former GLAAD vice president, who worked on the project with Facebook.

To edit your gender status (or other personal information), Facebook offers these instructions:

Go to your Timeline (which we sometimes refer to as your profile).

Click Update Info at the bottom of your cover photo.

Click Edit in the top right of the section you'd like to change. (The new gender options are only accessible within an autocomplete drop-down menu, so you have to begin typing to see them appear.)

Enter your new info and click Save.

Among other new gender options identified on Facebook so far: Trans Female, Trans Male, Trans Person, Gender Variant, Gender Questioning, Bigender, Androgynous, Pangender and Transsexual.

Facebook also tweaked its privacy settings to let users control with whom they share their custom gender.

Reaction on social media Thursday was largely positive, although some people joked they would need a dictionary to look up many of the gender-identity terms.

The social network did not say Thursday when the new gender options might be available to users outside the U.S.

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This Google chrome extension lets people see when you read their email

Bye bye, everyone. It's time to quit the Internet.

There's a Google Chrome extension called Streak that, when installed, lets you see when someone has read an email you sent. You know what this means? It meansother people can use Streak and see that you have opened their email without responding.

We're all doomed.

An email recipient doesn't have to have the plugin installed in order for the sender to be notified that it was opened. The recipient won't get any notification that you're tracking your emails, either. It's all very secretive.

The plugin is free and easy to install. Once you download it and give it access to your Gmail account, it will start automatically start tracking your outgoing messages.

If you send an email to multiple people, Streak will tell you how many people have viewed it, but won't necessarily reveal their identities.

Streak does a lot of other useful stuff, too. It's built as a tool for customer relationship management, and it can do things like schedule emails in advance. Streak has been around since 2012, but the read receipt feature was added in November.

Do read receipts sound familiar? They should, since they are a big part of BlackBerry's messaging service, BBM, and have been making people crazy for years. You can alsoenable read receipts in iMessage, though Apple makes the feature optional.

Another plugin, Boomerang, also offers users read receipts, but if you want to track an email, the recipient will be notified that it's being tracked with a line inserted at the end of the email.

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Mom creates facebook page to wish a happy birthday to her friendless son

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When a Michigan mom heard her 10-year-old son say he didn't want a birthday party because he didn't have any friends to invite, her surprise solution went viral.

The mom, Jennifer, who lives near Kalamazoo, Mich., created a Facebook page for her son - "Happy Birthday Colin."

The page had a simple request: please send Colin virtual birthday wishes so that on his 11th birthday, March 9, Colin can see how much he is loved.

"I thought if I could create a page where people could send him positive thoughts and encouraging words, that would be better than any birthday party," Jennifer, who asked that her last name not be used, wrote on February 2. "Please join me in making my very original son feel special on his day."

Jennifer, who also has a daughter, Ella, says it was actually not Colin's birthday that inspired her to turn to Facebook but the actions of fellow parents at Colin's school.

"The main thing was finding out that a lot of parents were trying to get their kids out of Colin's class and the teacher told him," Jennifer told GoodMorningAmerica.com. "His peers don't understand him but every adult who meets him loves him so I thought I would go to a place where adults and my friends are, Facebook, and have them write nice messages to Colin so I could share them on his birthday."

According to Jennifer, many of the posts on the page have come from moms who have experienced the same thing with their own children as Jennifer has with Colin, whom Jennifer describes as having a condition similar to Asperger's syndrome that causes him to struggle with facial expressions and verbal cues.

"I think that this is a big problem right now, that kids are being misunderstood and don't have friends and I think it speaks to a lot of people," Jennifer said of the response. "I think too many parents are allowing their kids to exclude others because of weirdness."

Just one week after Jennifer's post, and one month before Colin's actual birthday, the Facebook page has more than 40,000 likes and Jennifer purchased a P.O. box in response to the hundreds of people asking if they could send Colin a birthday card.

"I'm so completely overwhelmed," Jennifer said. "A woman today sent me $200 on PayPal to take him to dinner and I heard from someone with the Corvette industry who said they're going to send a car to take Colin to school the day after his birthday."

The unexpected problem Jennifer is facing now is how to keep the outpouring of love a surprise from Colin, whose last birthday party was when he was in kindergarten and only one classmate showed up.

"I've been reading and catching up with all of the posts, messages and comments on this page, all the love and support is causing me to just cry, and Colin keeps asking me, 'Are you okay mom, what's wrong?!,'" Jennifer wrote on February 4. "He doesn't know about this page yet, so I've been telling him I'm watching sad videos."

The original plan was to take Colin, a fifth-grade student who loves Nintendo 3DS, Pokemon and "Doctor Who," to a local McDonald's with WiFi and show him the messages on Jennifer's laptop.

"Now that it's gotten so big, I don't know what we're going to do," Jennifer said.

There's still time to wish Colin a happy birthday on the Facebook page here.

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Netflix to spend $3bn on TV and film content in 2014

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Netflix is committed to spending almost $3bn on TV and film content in 2014 and more than $6bn over the next three years, as the cost of securing international rights and commissioning new shows continues to mount on the streaming giant's balance sheet.

The US company also announced this week that it is to raise $400m to help fund this investment in original programming and a major European expansion later this year.

Its annual report, published this week, shows that at the end of 2013, Netflix had run up $7.3bn in "streaming content obligations", which are incurred when the company signs a licence agreement for programming, up 30% from the $5.6bn owed at the end of 2012.

The company said it has to pay $2.97bn of that by the end of 2014, with a total of $6.2bn due within three years.

Netflix made $4.3bn in total revenues last year, a healthy 19% year-on-year rise, growth which has made it a darling of US stock market investors, with its share price surging from $92 to $367 across 2013.

However, total "cost of revenues", of which licensing costs are the major factor, also rose 17% from $2.6bn to $3.1bn.

With another $500m ploughed into marketing, $378m into technology development and $180m in "general and administrative expenses", the US company ended the year with net profits of $112m.

The US movie and TV streaming giant, which is expected to expand into Germany and France later this year, said that it expects to "substantially increase" investment in shows that it makes itself, such as House Of Cards and Orange is the New Black.

"We expect to significantly increase our investments in international expansion, including substantial expansion in Europe in 2014, and in original content," the company said in a Securities & Exchange Commission filing. "As a result, and to take advantage of the current favourable interest rate environment, we plan to obtain approximately $400m in long-term debt in the first quarter."

Netflix has been able to build its business by snapping up relatively cheap streaming rights, the potential value of which had been largely unrecognised by rivals and rights owners.

However, as Netflix has prospered and expanded its operational internationally and faced more competition from video-on-demand rivals, the value of securing these rights has mounted.

Netflix pointed out that despite planning a major increase in its original content budget, it would still represent less than 10% of the company's overall global content expenditure on rights to stream TV and films.

In a press statement, the company added that some of the $400m could also be earmarked for "potential acquisitions and strategic transactions".

Netflix's international expansion is becoming increasingly important to the company's growth plans.

The company's international subscriber base grew by 1.7 million to 10.93 million in the final quarter last year. Across 2013, Netflix put on 4.8 million new international subscribers in total, an 80% year-on-year increase.

Its international operations made $712m in revenue last year, up 148% year on year.

The international operation continues to make a loss, $274m in 2013, although this was a 30% year-on-year reduction.

Netflix launched its first streaming operation outside the US in 2010, when it expanded to Canada.

Latin America followed in 2011, the UK and Ireland in early 2012, and Scandinavia later the same year. The Netherlands is Netflix's latest market, launched in September last year.

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