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Facebook-owned Instagram is the centre of some new controversy over the issue of embedding posts from the service on a news website. As reported by Ars Technica, Newsweek used a photograph taken by professional photographer Elliot McGucken. He captured a lake in Death Valley full of water when it’s...
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As you go about Facebook, you have the ability to leave comments, or as many do, simply a reaction to the content in your feed. What started as a Like button, has now expanded to a range of reactions including Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry. Apparently Facebook didn’t...
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Each year, Cloud-communication platform Twilio releases a State of Customer Engagement report, which reveals industry trends, powered by their platform that supports nearly 800 billion human interactions each ear. The five biggest trends in communications from 2019 are: Consumers want real conversations Conversational AI is everywhere Robocalls kill trust...
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UpdateTweetdeck is now back, however, Twitter has not provided any detail on the outage. Given the significant outage in the service, that indicates the level of commitment they have for power users. TweetDeck is not available right now. For the past few hours, users of Twitter’s multi-column Twitter interface...
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If you’re holding an event for your business, band, charity or community group, chances are you’ve heard of Eventbrite. While the platform has long offered event creators the ability to promote events through social media, they just got a big boost through new Facebook functionality. A new feature on...
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TikTok is the most interesting social network right now. The creativity on that platform is second to none. The potent combination short videos, with effects and music clips, seen it become one of the world’s most downloaded apps in 2018. Over the past few months there’s been an increase...
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Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister just joined Snapchat. Ahead of a federal election, I have no doubt the decision to join and then recruit new followers by using his existing social platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), was on the advice from a media advisor that it’s good for his...
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This afternoon, the Managing Director of Australia’s 5th largest NBN retail service provider (Aussie Broadband), Phil Britt jumped on Reddit for an AMA. The AMA has attracted 3,600 votes and received a very healthy 828 comments. While not all were answered, Britt did a good job at getting to...
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If you’re a social person who wants to stream online, chances are you’ve tried Periscope, but maybe it didn’t have the multi-person video function you wanted. Well with their latest update, Periscope users can add up to 3 guests in a live stream. Just click an icon that displays...
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Netflix have announced they are making it possible to share your favourite Netflix shows to Instagram Stories, and help your friends, family and followers discover something new to watch. With Netflix’s latest mobile app update, you will have the ability to share your latest Netflix binge favourite to Instagram...
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Facebook are rolling out Messenger 4, starting today and will roll out globally over the coming weeks. The updated interface is simplified in response to a recent study that found 71% of people told Facebook, simplicity is their top priority. Making changes to Messenger is not a simple process,...
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This morning many of us woke to news of a Facebook security breach. Zuckerberg has done the now standard post to his timeline on Facebook to explain the drama. The issue occurred on Tuesday (US time), when they discovered an attacker had exploited a technical vulnerability in the ‘View...
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Right now you think of Twitter as the place you go to consume the thoughts of the world and reply with your incredibly insightful comments. Twitter is trying to change that and want you to think of the network as the best place to see what’s happening in the...
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This morning WordPress users received an email (below in full), explaining that as of August 1st, 2018 (tomorrow) third-party tools can no longer automatically post to Facebook Profiles. This common technique is used by thousands of wordpress blogs as an efficient and reliable workflow. This includes Publicize, the Jetpack...
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Today is another one of those made up international days, but given the subject matter, it seemed relevant to us. Today (July 17th) is World Emoji Day and Messenger has released new facts showing just how much we love emojis. Messenger and Facebook are also launching new features to celebrate...
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Reddit is one of the largest sites on the web, but until now has had a design that belonged in the 90s. While any redesign of a site of this scale is going to be controversial, this change is definitely an improvement (that wouldn’t be hard). Card, Classic and...
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The Facebook Newsfeed is a difficult computer science problem. As you joined the service, you began to add friends and like pages and as a result, your Newsfeed is filled with new posts from both sources. Perhaps the most obvious thing to do is to show this content ordered...
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This morning, Facebook CEO and Chairman, Mark Zuckerberg fronted a marathon joint hearing with the US Senate Judiciary Committee “Facebook, Social Media Privacy and the use and Abuse of Data”. Lasting more than 5 hours, Zuckerberg answered questions on how his company is responding to increasing concerns about privacy...
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Instagram is launching a new camera format on Stories. Focus lets you take professional-looking portraits right from your Instagram camera. When you take a photo or video of someone in the Focus format, depth of field is applied to blur the background and keep their face in focus, making...
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Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to new changes, announced last week, to the News Feed algorithm which heavily prioritised social interactions with family and friends over public content, including news, video, and posts from brands. This means public posts you see will account for just...
Facebook-owned Instagram is the centre of some new controversy over the issue of embedding posts from the service on a news website. As reported by Ars Technica, Newsweek used a photograph taken by professional photographer Elliot McGucken. He captured a lake in Death Valley full of water when it’s...
As you go about Facebook, you have the ability to leave comments, or as many do, simply a reaction to the content in your feed. What started as a Like button, has now expanded to a range of reactions including Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry. Apparently Facebook didn’t...
Each year, Cloud-communication platform Twilio releases a State of Customer Engagement report, which reveals industry trends, powered by their platform that supports nearly 800 billion human interactions each ear. The five biggest trends in communications from 2019 are: Consumers want real conversations Conversational AI is everywhere Robocalls kill trust...
UpdateTweetdeck is now back, however, Twitter has not provided any detail on the outage. Given the significant outage in the service, that indicates the level of commitment they have for power users. TweetDeck is not available right now. For the past few hours, users of Twitter’s multi-column Twitter interface...
If you’re holding an event for your business, band, charity or community group, chances are you’ve heard of Eventbrite. While the platform has long offered event creators the ability to promote events through social media, they just got a big boost through new Facebook functionality. A new feature on...
TikTok is the most interesting social network right now. The creativity on that platform is second to none. The potent combination short videos, with effects and music clips, seen it become one of the world’s most downloaded apps in 2018. Over the past few months there’s been an increase...
Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister just joined Snapchat. Ahead of a federal election, I have no doubt the decision to join and then recruit new followers by using his existing social platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), was on the advice from a media advisor that it’s good for his...
This afternoon, the Managing Director of Australia’s 5th largest NBN retail service provider (Aussie Broadband), Phil Britt jumped on Reddit for an AMA. The AMA has attracted 3,600 votes and received a very healthy 828 comments. While not all were answered, Britt did a good job at getting to...
If you’re a social person who wants to stream online, chances are you’ve tried Periscope, but maybe it didn’t have the multi-person video function you wanted. Well with their latest update, Periscope users can add up to 3 guests in a live stream. Just click an icon that displays...
Netflix have announced they are making it possible to share your favourite Netflix shows to Instagram Stories, and help your friends, family and followers discover something new to watch. With Netflix’s latest mobile app update, you will have the ability to share your latest Netflix binge favourite to Instagram...
Facebook are rolling out Messenger 4, starting today and will roll out globally over the coming weeks. The updated interface is simplified in response to a recent study that found 71% of people told Facebook, simplicity is their top priority. Making changes to Messenger is not a simple process,...
This morning many of us woke to news of a Facebook security breach. Zuckerberg has done the now standard post to his timeline on Facebook to explain the drama. The issue occurred on Tuesday (US time), when they discovered an attacker had exploited a technical vulnerability in the ‘View...
Right now you think of Twitter as the place you go to consume the thoughts of the world and reply with your incredibly insightful comments. Twitter is trying to change that and want you to think of the network as the best place to see what’s happening in the...
This morning WordPress users received an email (below in full), explaining that as of August 1st, 2018 (tomorrow) third-party tools can no longer automatically post to Facebook Profiles. This common technique is used by thousands of wordpress blogs as an efficient and reliable workflow. This includes Publicize, the Jetpack...
Today is another one of those made up international days, but given the subject matter, it seemed relevant to us. Today (July 17th) is World Emoji Day and Messenger has released new facts showing just how much we love emojis. Messenger and Facebook are also launching new features to celebrate...
Reddit is one of the largest sites on the web, but until now has had a design that belonged in the 90s. While any redesign of a site of this scale is going to be controversial, this change is definitely an improvement (that wouldn’t be hard). Card, Classic and...
The Facebook Newsfeed is a difficult computer science problem. As you joined the service, you began to add friends and like pages and as a result, your Newsfeed is filled with new posts from both sources. Perhaps the most obvious thing to do is to show this content ordered...
This morning, Facebook CEO and Chairman, Mark Zuckerberg fronted a marathon joint hearing with the US Senate Judiciary Committee “Facebook, Social Media Privacy and the use and Abuse of Data”. Lasting more than 5 hours, Zuckerberg answered questions on how his company is responding to increasing concerns about privacy...
Instagram is launching a new camera format on Stories. Focus lets you take professional-looking portraits right from your Instagram camera. When you take a photo or video of someone in the Focus format, depth of field is applied to blur the background and keep their face in focus, making...
Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to new changes, announced last week, to the News Feed algorithm which heavily prioritised social interactions with family and friends over public content, including news, video, and posts from brands. This means public posts you see will account for just...
