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Tap the knife emoji to begin James Patterson’s new thriller on Facebook Messenger

sudshr47 November 5, 2018

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Best-selling crime author James Patterson has released an interactive thriller novel on Facebook Messenger, and instead of turning a page, the only way to progress through the story is by clicking the knife emoji.

The Chef follows the exploits of Caleb Rooney, a New Orleans “police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night.” Rooney finds himself under investigation for murder, so he’s got to follow the trail of clues — and that means you can too.

Want to dig in? The Chef has been sitting in wait on Messenger since Oct. 30, but the hard copy is not due out until Feb. 2019. All you have to do is hit “send message” to the Facebook page for The Chef by James Patterson to get started. Read more…

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Zuckerberg says the future is sharing via 100B messages & 1B Stories/day

sudshr47 October 30, 2018

The News Feed won’t sustain Facebook forever, and that’s scaring investors. Today on Facebook’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg stressed that sharing is shifting to private chat, where people send 100 billion messages per day on Facebook’s family of apps, and Stories, where he says people share 1 billion of these slideshows per day (though it’s […]

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Messenger redesigns to clean up Facebook’s mess

sudshr47 October 23, 2018

If Facebook Messenger’s redesign succeeds, you won’t really notice it even happened. I hardly did over the past week of testing. There’s just a subtle sense that the claustrophobia has lifted. Perhaps that’s why Facebook decided to throw a big breakfast press event with 30 reporters today at its new downtown San Francisco office, complete […]

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Facebook is trying to make Messenger less of a mess

sudshr47 October 23, 2018

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Facebook is trying to clean up Messenger. The company showed off a new, redesigned version of the app, which is starting to roll out to users now.

The reason for the redesign is what many users have known for years: Messenger, in its current form, is a bloated confusing mess. 

Consider this: The current version of the app has nine — yes, nine — tabs.  I ignore most of these, so it’s easy to forget just how bloated Messenger has become in recent years, but there can’t possibly be a good reason for five different tabs that all show you slightly different lists of the same friends.  Read more…

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Facebook Groups can now launch up to 250-person group chats

sudshr47 October 11, 2018

If you miss the old AOL chat rooms, you’ll love Facebook’s plan to combine Groups and with Messenger without spamming you to death. Starting today, Facebook will gradually roll out the abilty for members of Facebook Groups to launch group chats about specific sub-topics that up to 250 members can join. A dog owners’ Group […]

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Facebook Messenger internally tests voice commands for chat, calls

sudshr47 October 5, 2018

Facebook Messenger could soon let you user your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders. Messenger for Android’s code reveals a new M assistant button atop the message thread screen that activates listening for voice commands for those functionalities. Voice control could make Messenger simpler to use hands-free or while […]

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Inside Facebook Stories’ quest for originality amidst 300M users

sudshr47 September 26, 2018

There’s a secret Facebook app called Blink. Built for employees only, it’s how the company tests out new video formats its hoping will become the next Boomerang or SuperZoom. They range from artsy Blur effects to a way even old Android phones can use Slo-Mo. One exciting format in development offers audio beat detection that […]

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Chat app Line hopes its own crypto token can solve its user growth problem

sudshr47 August 31, 2018

Line, the Japanese messaging app firm that’s best known for its cutesy characters and stickers, is pushing deeper into crypto after it launched its own token to help grow its stagnant user base. Line went public two years ago with 218 million monthly active users, but it hasn’t been able to kick on. The company no longer gives out […]

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Say “Aloha”: A closer look at Facebook’s voice ambitions

sudshr47 August 21, 2018

Facebook has been a bit slow to adopt the voice computing revolution. It has no voice assistant, its smart speaker is still in development, and some apps like Instagram aren’t full equipped for audio communication. But much of that is set to change judging by experiments discovered in Facebook’s code, plus new patent filings. Developing […]

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Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

Backlash swelled this morning after Facebook’s aspirations in financial services were blown out of proportion by a Wall Street Journal report that neglected how the social network already works with banks. Facebook spokesperson Elisabeth Diana tells TechCrunch it’s not asking for credit card transaction data from banks and it’s not interested in building a dedicated […]

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2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps

sudshr47 July 25, 2018

Facebook is hiding that users are leaving its main app but sticking with Instagram and WhatsApp by publicizing a new metric. Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people, […]

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