Lina Saleh is a product designer who developed her experimental idea for silicone plates that can morph intro different shapes when she was a student in London. Read more…More about Uk, Instagram, Food, Design, and Dessert
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Instagram now lets you add any photos or videos to your Stories
Instagram is turning on a feature that many users have asked for, letting users add photos and videos from their camera roll – even if they’re older than 24 hours. The limitation in place previously seemed designed to encourage Stories to be more of a repository for spur of the moment sharing (as well as a more accurate copy of the original Snapchat product), but Instagram seems to… Read More
Snapchat just teased a major redesign
Snap really isn’t looking so hot to Wall Street, and so they’re making some radical changes.
“One thing that we have heard over the years is that Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use, and our team has been working on responding to…
The Worst Things You Can Do on Instagram Stories
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View More The Worst Things You Can Do on Instagram StoriesInstagram pushes more influencers to adopt its new format for sponsored posts
Instagram is moving forward with the rollout of its branded content tool, which allows celebrities and other popular users to identify posts that are paid for by advertisers. The company first introduced the tool in June, then made it available t…
View More Instagram pushes more influencers to adopt its new format for sponsored postsFinally, Instagram is getting serious about influencers tagging #ads
Instagram wants more people to share when they’re being paid to post.
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The Facebook-owned app announced Tuesday it will expand its official branded content program. Now, mor…
Photoslurp bags $870k for its ‘shop the look’ UGC marketing platform
Bootstrapping Barcelona-based visual commerce startup Photoslurp has taken its first external funding: Announcing €750,000 (~$870k) in pre-Series A financing, led by Spanish VC Inveready Technology Investment Group, with participation from Bankinter VC, Caixa Capital Risc and ICF. Read More
Download this: When former Insta engineers make a camera, it’s all about the app
When two former Instagram engineers team up on a camera, unsurprisingly, it’s the app that really counts.
That’s the premise of Rylo, a new 360-degree camera created by two former Instagram engineers. It launched this week after two years in de…
Maybe don’t brag about violating your roommate’s stuff on Instagram
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If you’re rubbing used tampons onto your college roommate’s backpack, contaminating her eating utensils, spitting into and poisoning her lotions, and abusing her toothbrush, you’re a terrible person, but also, don’t post about it on social media.
Brianna Brochu, 18, was charged Wednesday with “criminal mischief” for allegedly doing all of the above and more to her unsuspecting roommate at the University of Hartford in Connecticut—which was discovered because she bragged about it on Instagram.
Chenel Rowe, who goes by Jazzy on social media, posted and livestreamed a video this week detailing the terror she endured as Brochu’s roommate since the end of August. Before knowing about the poisoning and tampering, Rowe had already made arrangements to move out. She had been having throat pain and other ailments since moving into her dorm. While she was moving out, she discovered the Instagram post and other evidence that her belongings had been contaminated. Read more…
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View More Maybe don’t brag about violating your roommate’s stuff on InstagramHere’s how Russia targeted its fake Facebook ads and how those ads performed
It’s impossible to know just how much stuff being circulated on social networks is Russian state content in sheep’s clothing, although tech companies are scrambling to figure that out. Now, thanks to Congress, we just got a rare peek behind the curtain of how Facebook’s ad operations were manipulated by a foreign power to foment outrage and division in American society. Read More
Thoughts on the #techhearings from my time in Product Safety at Twitter
I created the Product Safety and Security Team at Twitter. At different points in time I was responsible for the engineering of tools to mitigate abuse, compromised accounts and the login infrastructure, up to, and including, 2 factor authenticat…
View More Thoughts on the #techhearings from my time in Product Safety at Twitter120K Instagrams by Russian election attackers hit 20M Americans
Facebook detailed the extent of Russia’s election interference campaign on Instagram today during its second congressional hearing. Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch said that 120,000 posts by Russian election attackers reached 16 million Americans from October through the election, and the posts reached an additional 4 million Americans prior to October. That’s on top of the… Read More