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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...
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What you’re looking at is now less than 18 columns on Tweetdeck on a single monitor. If you’re someone who loves Twitter, for work or pleasure, experiencing Twitter this way is an absolute delight. What may look like an information overload nightmare for some, personally this allows me to...
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Stories Archive and Stories Highlights are two new features that are available on Instagram. Archive provides users with a private space to save and reshare their favourite stories (even after they expire) and Highlights is a new part of the user profile screen that lets you group and feature stories you’ve shared in...
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The smartphones we carry in our pockets are amazing. One of their best attributes is being the ability to capture the real world in amazing quality, thanks to serious camera technology investments. Photography combined with connectivity means that its easy to share these photos with our friends and family...
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Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has met with Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. The meeting took place during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference that’s happening right now in Vietnam. Sandberg says Asia Pacific is home to 60% of the world’s population and that more people use tech...
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Twitter has announced a deal with the Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup. The main race won’t be geoblocked, so our friends overseas will also be able to tune in. to an Australian and global audience. As well as...
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Twitter is experimenting with increasing the character limit for tweets from the long-standing 140 character limit, born from the service’s SMS origins, to 280 characters. Twitter says this gives you more characters to express yourself. In a post by Twitter Product Manager, Aliza Rosen and Senior Software Engineer, Ikuhiro Ihara. One...
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Instagram’s have announced some pretty staggering usage numbers. Globally they’re now have 800 million users with 500 of those coming back every single day. In Australia, there’s more than 9 million active users each month, pretty impressive given the 24 million population, many of those who are under the...
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Twitter has today made two major announcements at the All That Matters conference in Singapore. Twitter wants to be known as the first place you go to see what’s happening, and are now pushing heavily into premium live and in-stream video content. These partnership deals range from sports, news and...
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Snap Inc, creators of Snapchat, have finally made it easy for people to get Spectacles, by offering them through Amazon. The US$129.99 price tag will get you a pair of glasses that capture video from your perspective in the world, freeing up your hands to interact with people, sporting...
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When Twitter began, internet across the world collectively sucked and so compressing the hell out of content made a lot of sense both for their bandwidth costs and the data consumption of users. Its now 2017 and the world has moved on. Sure not everyone has the best connection,...
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Convicted Bali Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has joined Instagram. After being convicted and sent to jail way back in 2004 for famously carrying more than 4 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie board bag, Corby has returned to Australia. Update Corby’s account is now passing 150,000 followers as she continues to hide...
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Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local area buy, swap, sell groups and posting photos of their goods with a description and price. Over the years Facebook has moved to support this...
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When it comes to professional gaming, this weekend marks a major milestone for Australia. For the first time, Sydney will host a world-class esports event, the Intel Extreme Masters 2017. Twitter today announced that it has partnered with the world’s leading esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream esports events...
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Twitter Australia has a new feature today, specifically designed to help commuters know about transport delays ahead of time. Inevitably there are delays in the system, it may be from maintenance, congestion, emergencies or even strike action, but you need to know if your train is going to be...
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Instagram is fun and cutesy right? While there’s a few ads in your stream, its not serious business right? Well from next week, things are definitely getting serious. Many of the things we take photos of are products and especially the brands that are on Instagram. With mobile making such...
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...
What you’re looking at is now less than 18 columns on Tweetdeck on a single monitor. If you’re someone who loves Twitter, for work or pleasure, experiencing Twitter this way is an absolute delight. What may look like an information overload nightmare for some, personally this allows me to...
Stories Archive and Stories Highlights are two new features that are available on Instagram. Archive provides users with a private space to save and reshare their favourite stories (even after they expire) and Highlights is a new part of the user profile screen that lets you group and feature stories you’ve shared in...
The smartphones we carry in our pockets are amazing. One of their best attributes is being the ability to capture the real world in amazing quality, thanks to serious camera technology investments. Photography combined with connectivity means that its easy to share these photos with our friends and family...
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has met with Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. The meeting took place during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference that’s happening right now in Vietnam. Sandberg says Asia Pacific is home to 60% of the world’s population and that more people use tech...
Twitter has announced a deal with the Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup. The main race won’t be geoblocked, so our friends overseas will also be able to tune in. to an Australian and global audience. As well as...
Twitter is experimenting with increasing the character limit for tweets from the long-standing 140 character limit, born from the service’s SMS origins, to 280 characters. Twitter says this gives you more characters to express yourself. In a post by Twitter Product Manager, Aliza Rosen and Senior Software Engineer, Ikuhiro Ihara. One...
Instagram’s have announced some pretty staggering usage numbers. Globally they’re now have 800 million users with 500 of those coming back every single day. In Australia, there’s more than 9 million active users each month, pretty impressive given the 24 million population, many of those who are under the...
Twitter has today made two major announcements at the All That Matters conference in Singapore. Twitter wants to be known as the first place you go to see what’s happening, and are now pushing heavily into premium live and in-stream video content. These partnership deals range from sports, news and...
Snap Inc, creators of Snapchat, have finally made it easy for people to get Spectacles, by offering them through Amazon. The US$129.99 price tag will get you a pair of glasses that capture video from your perspective in the world, freeing up your hands to interact with people, sporting...
When Twitter began, internet across the world collectively sucked and so compressing the hell out of content made a lot of sense both for their bandwidth costs and the data consumption of users. Its now 2017 and the world has moved on. Sure not everyone has the best connection,...
Convicted Bali Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has joined Instagram. After being convicted and sent to jail way back in 2004 for famously carrying more than 4 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie board bag, Corby has returned to Australia. Update Corby’s account is now passing 150,000 followers as she continues to hide...
Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local area buy, swap, sell groups and posting photos of their goods with a description and price. Over the years Facebook has moved to support this...
When it comes to professional gaming, this weekend marks a major milestone for Australia. For the first time, Sydney will host a world-class esports event, the Intel Extreme Masters 2017. Twitter today announced that it has partnered with the world’s leading esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream esports events...
Twitter Australia has a new feature today, specifically designed to help commuters know about transport delays ahead of time. Inevitably there are delays in the system, it may be from maintenance, congestion, emergencies or even strike action, but you need to know if your train is going to be...
Instagram is fun and cutesy right? While there’s a few ads in your stream, its not serious business right? Well from next week, things are definitely getting serious. Many of the things we take photos of are products and especially the brands that are on Instagram. With mobile making such...
