Just ahead of today’s Google’s hardware event, the company has quietly rolled out an update to its Google Photos application which introduces a new, automated way of organizing and sharing photos: Live Albums. According to the app’s “What’s New” description, Live Albums appear to be a spin-off from partner sharing, introduced last year. But instead […]
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What Instagram users need to know about Facebook’s security breach
Even if you never log into Facebook itself these days, the other apps and services you use might be impacted by Facebook’s latest big, bad news. In a follow-up call on Friday’s revelation that Facebook has suffered a security breach affecting at least 50 million accounts, the company clarified that Instagram users were not out […]
View More What Instagram users need to know about Facebook’s security breachMobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down
It’s that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. Following the shuttering of Klout earlier this year, now Path, the one-time rival to Facebook, is closing its doors, according to an announcement made today. (Yes, you may be surprised to learn that Path was still alive.) The […]
View More Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing downInstagram launches parent portal to teach internet safety
For parents who grew-up with dial-up connections and tape players, the high-speed, digital social lives of their teens can be a mystery. Today, both the good and destructive aspects of social interactions are taking place behind screens on apps like Instagram . To help parents navigate these online environments Instagram released Thursday a parents guide […]
View More Instagram launches parent portal to teach internet safetyFabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal moments
Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook’s closure of the Moves location tracker, by offering its own tool to record your activities, photos, memories and other moments shared with […]
View More Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal momentsFacebook also removes 4 Infowars videos, including one it previously cleared
Days after defending its decision to give a voice to conspiracy theory peddler Alex Jones and his Infowars site, Facebook has removed four of his videos for violating its community standards. But one of the four had already been allowed to slip through the firm’s review system. A source within Facebook told TechCrunch that one of […]
View More Facebook also removes 4 Infowars videos, including one it previously clearedWith its goofy video loops, YC backed Splish wants to be the ‘anti-Instagram’
Is there any space on kids’ homescreens for another social sharing app to poke in? Y Combinator backed Splish wants to have a splash at it (😊) — with a super-short-form video and photo sharing app aimed at the under-25s. The SF-based startup began bootstrapping out of their college dorm rooms last July, playing around with […]
View More With its goofy video loops, YC backed Splish wants to be the ‘anti-Instagram’The erosion of Web 2.0
It seems quaint to imagine now but the original vision for the web was not an information superhighway. Instead, it was a newspaper that fed us only the news we wanted. This was the central thesis brought forward in the late 1990s and prophesied by thinkers like Bill Gates – who expected a beautiful, customized […]
View More The erosion of Web 2.0Virtual Instagram celebrity “Lil Miquela” has had her account hacked
The Instagram account for the virtual celebrity known as Lil Miquela has been hacked. The multi-racial fashionista and advocate for multiculturalism, whose account is followed by nearly 1 million people, has had “her” account taken over by another animated Instagram account holder named “Bermuda“. Welcome to the spring of 2018. The hack of the @Lilmiquela […]
View More Virtual Instagram celebrity “Lil Miquela” has had her account hackedThe problems with Facebook are inherent in its design, but that can change
Amber Case Contributor Share on Twitter Amber Case is the former CEO of Geoloqi, a past keynote speaker for SXSWi and at TED, and author of the O’Reilly book Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things. She is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. […]
View More The problems with Facebook are inherent in its design, but that can changeHow Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More posts by this contributor Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream” 2018 might be […]
View More How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messagingPrecious uses artificial intelligence to help parents figure out what to do with all their baby photos
While pregnant, I imagined I’d spend maternity leave making elegant baby albums with detailed captions each month. That didn’t happen and now I have thousands of baby photos on my phone and no idea how to even begin organizing them. Created for parents who, like me, are overwhelmed by their digital memories, Precious uses artificial intelligence […]
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