Tag: social media

August 23, 2016

Facebook has made no secret of its love for video, challenged only perhaps by its affection for bots. The re-creation of Facebook as a video platform is well underway: Facebook Live experiments abound, it’s trialling what are basically 15-second ad […]

August 5, 2016

My Journalism professor used to say: “If people want garbage, then garbage they shall get.” Well, clickbait is a form of the garbage he was referring to. We could probably track down the origins of these types of articles back […]

May 31, 2016

It feels like we were facing the end of print only years ago, but the time may be ripe to begin lamenting the end of the website. After the dominance of URLs, we’re entering the platform era where more design […]

May 17, 2016

Graph databases are an 18th century concept with a host of modern applications. Used for tasks as diverse as dating sites and fraud detection, graph technology works by looking at relationships, not just data. But the idea behind them – […]

May 9, 2016

Twitter has blocked U.S. intelligence agencies from accessing Dataminr, a social media tool that sends out real-time alerts based on an algorithm that includes keywords and geotags, according to a report on Sunday night from the Wall Street Journal. Twitter […]

May 3, 2016

When most people think of “Linux nerds,” the first phrase that comes to mind typically isn’t “super-duper social.” But it should be. If you’ve ever been to a Linux convention, you’ve seen these social Linux butterflies firsthand. And that social […]

December 8, 2015

Facebook gives priority to native videos (as opposed to video links to external sources) to encourage this type of content. Videos that are directly uploaded to Facebook perform better and provide a better experience. They receive 30% more video views […]

November 26, 2015

In May 2014, Google complied with the EU’s ruling that enabled citizens to request certain URLs to be removed from search results. A year and a half later, in its bi-annual Transparency Report, Google has announced it received 348,085 such […]

November 6, 2015

Facebook’s Messenger app has taken on a life of its own ever since the social network giant made an unpopular move last year and chiselled it out from the main Facebook experience. Even though this meant friends had to use […]

October 7, 2015

Language barriers are falling down one app at a time. If you’re running Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your device, you can now translate text directly within apps without the trouble of switching between apps. First, download the Translate app; you […]

October 5, 2015

Learning the intricacies of Photoshop can be a daunting task if you’re not a pro and really only want to use a few tools. So Adobe added another app to its growing mobile lineup on Monday with Photoshop Fix, which […]

September 2, 2015

Hate ads on Hulu? There’s finally a solution… but it’ll cost you Hulu announced on Wednesday that it would be introducing a new subscription tier that will remove advertising from its platform The ad-free version will cost $11.99 per month, […]

August 27, 2015

2015 will be remembered as the year budget Android smartphones stopped being junk and started being pretty damn good. The $199 Obi Worldphone SF1 and $129 SJ1.5 are the two latest budget Android phones to shake things up on the […]

August 19, 2015

Call it a selfie stick on steroids or just a less technical way to get great aerial shots. Either way, the Fotokite Phi is a camera tool that may have arrived just on time. Instead of forcing you to learn […]

August 6, 2015

The world’s largest social network is finally jumping on the livestreaming bandwagon. Facebook on Wednesday launched a new feature simply known as “Live” that’s part of its Facebook Mentions app for public figures. The new feature can be used to […]

August 2, 2015

That was the original pitch for Google’s Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network’s chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company’s top brass. Gundotra, described by colleagues we spoke with as charismatic […]

July 30, 2015

Facebook has another quarter in the books, and the company’s business continues to boom. Its revenues rose roughly 40 percent year over year, to $4.04 billion. But its net income declined compared to last year, declining from $791 million to […]

July 30, 2015

Twitter announced — in a tweet — that you can view a person’s Twitter bio on the Twitter website anytime you hover over the person’s avatar. This is just the latest change Twitter has made to its consumer-facing service. Other […]

July 29, 2015

China has in the past banned sites such as Facebook and Twitter and filtered online content using the ‘Great Firewall’. Now its government is reportedly trying to redesign the internet so it can police parts of it on its own […]

July 13, 2015

Video has been a core component of Twitter for some time, with a number of products — including SnappyTV, Vine, and Periscope —  attracting broadcasters, journalists, and amateurs alike. But what about when Twitter accounts are transformed into actual TV […]