I used to love Instagram Stories.
After long days at work, mindlessly tapping through Stories on the train home became my go-to way to unwind. They’re entertaining, carefully crafted, and the perfect way to stay up-to-date with acquaintances, friends…
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This Instagram account of brutally honest book titles will make you feel so seen
An Ode to… is a weekly column where we share the stuff we’re really into in hopes that you’ll be really into it, too.
As a girl who spends around six hours a day commuting to and from work, when I first learned about the novel, The Girl on the Tra…
View More This Instagram account of brutally honest book titles will make you feel so seenInstagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant “winning”
Rather than be sore about losing independence within Facebook, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told me it was an inevitable sign of his app’s triumph. Today at South By South West, Systrom and fellow co-founder Mike Krieger sat down for their first on-stage talk together since leaving Facebook in September. They discussed their super hero origin […]
View More Instagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant “winning”The viral ‘Trashtag Challenge’ encourages people to clean up litter
There’s a new viral challenge spreading across social media, and it’s making the world a cleaner place.
The “Trashtag Challenge” is inspiring people on Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit to take a walk outside and clean up any litter they stumble upon.
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Queen Elizabeth II posted on Instagram for the first time
The Queen, 92, shared a letter to her great-great grandfather Prince Albert, by computer pioneer Charles Babbage. The Queen wrote that it was fitting to share the post from London’s Science Museum “which has long championed technology, innovation and …
View More Queen Elizabeth II posted on Instagram for the first timeDon’t break up big tech — regulate data access, says EU antitrust chief
Breaking up tech giants should be a measure of last resort, the European Union’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has suggested. “To break up a company, to break up private property would be very far reaching and you would need to have a very strong case that it would produce better results for consumers in the […]
View More Don’t break up big tech — regulate data access, says EU antitrust chiefElizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon and Facebook
The influential Massachusetts Senator and Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been a longtime critic of the consolidation of economic power by Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Now she’s making their break-up a key component of her Presidential platform. Warren has just released her plan for breaking up big tech, in what seems like a watershed moment […]
View More Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon and FacebookInstagram appears to be testing a way to watch videos with friends
Some things are just better with friends.
Like watching videos on the internet, which Facebook has tried to make more social with the introduction of its Watch Party feature, introduced last year.
It appears the company is testing a similar co-watching feature on Instagram, as spotted by Jane Manchun Wong of Hong Kong.
The feature seems like it would be accessible during a video chat on Instagram Direct, and by clicking a button to activate it (as indicated by Wong’s finger).
Instagram is testing Co-Watching in Video Calls
It’s like Facebook’s Watch Party but for Instagram Direct
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View More Instagram appears to be testing a way to watch videos with friendsInstagram prototypes video co-watching
The next phase of social media is about hanging out together while apart. Rather than performing on a live stream or engaging with a video chat, Instagram may allow you to chill and watch videos together with a friend. Facebook already has Watch Party for group co-viewing and in November we broke the news that […]
View More Instagram prototypes video co-watchingFacebook will downrank anti-vax content on News Feed and hide it on Instagram
After indicating that it was exploring its options for fighting the potentially deadly rise of anti-vaccination content on its platform last month, Facebook is making a plan of attack. Facebook’s strategy in the effort is to both minimize the spread of vaccination misinformation and to point users away from inaccurate anti-vaccination propaganda and toward “authoritative […]
View More Facebook will downrank anti-vax content on News Feed and hide it on InstagramParisians want to erect a gate to keep out Instagrammers
Residents of Rue Cremieux, a cobblestone street lined with pastel-colored houses in the 12th arrondissement in Paris, have a problem: the Instagrammers have taken over.
On Thursday, the BBC reported that Parisians who live on Rue Cremieux have asked …
The best places to feed your hunger for pasta porn
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