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"If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground too," NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said This astronaut cast her long-distance ballot! NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on Thursday posed in a pro-voting photo that was taken in space and shared via Twitter. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Rubins, 42, smiled from the International Space Station as she officially voted via their "ISS Voting Booth" ahead of the Nov. 3 election. According to CNN, Rubins is the only American currently in space, and she also voted while not on planet Earth back in 2016. "If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground too," Rubins added. "There's been legislation passed a number of years ago to allow astronauts to vote in space," Rubins explained. "I think a lot of astronauts do this, they feel that it is very important. It's critical to participate in our democracy." "We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space," she continued, explaining that astronauts fill out a form before they vote via absentee ballot. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. According to a post from NASA's official Tumblr account, astronaut David Wolf was the first American to vote from space in 1997, the same year the Texas law was passed. NASA officials said in the Tumblr post that the "voting process starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to participate in while in space."

If you're using the Instagram app for your business, you might be wondering if it's worth it to make a business account, or if a personal account will cut it. And while a personal account may work very well for some businesses, Instagram created business accounts with several key features that make it easier to run and grow your business. Read this guide to see the differences between personal and business Instagram accounts, and the pros and cons of each.What is an Instagram business account?An Instagram business account tells Instagram that you are using the platform for a marketing or business purpose, and provides features that make it easier to market your business and analyze your activity on Instagram.What is the difference between a personal and a business Instagram account?The main difference between a personal Instagram account and a business Instagram account is that a business account provides a number of additional features you don't get with a personal account. Here are some of those extra features: The ability to add swipe-up links to Stories (if the account has at least 10,000 followers) The ability to boost posts Shoppable posts Instagram Insights Promoted posts Contact links Post scheduling Auto posting When you're deciding whether to start a business account, think about your business and what you want to accomplish through Instagram. Are you using it just to share content about your business and connect with followers? Or do you want to use it as a full marketing tool and have access to analytics, insights and other robust features?Look at your social media marketing strategy, and think about which account type will better help you accomplish your goals."The difference between a personal and a business Instagram account is that the business account gives you the ability of tracking your analytics and...

ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 1, 2020 the coolest place on the internet for the Podcasting Professional launches on Pod-Booking.com Founded by Daniela Garcia, a Cuban-American entrepreneur who believes, "With over 1 million Podcasters world-wide it's about time we all came together," PodBooking is determined to be the industry-focused social network the podcasting community desperately needs. Connecting Hosts with not only potential guests for their show but also potential sponsors, editors, networks, softwares, media buyers, and as the world of Podcasting grows, so will the list of relevant collaborators. Podcasting has been the fastest growing medium in media for the last four years, and as the fan base grows, so does the global community serving them. This growth is faced with a continuous problem, which is the lack of organization within the community as a whole. It's just as difficult for brands and agencies to find podcasts that are connecting with their desired audience as it is for the hosts to find the brands who see value in their audience. For now. PodBooking aims to be the resource that streamlines the inevitable growth of Podcasting through curated discussions, live events/webinars, and of course a sleek streamlined platform that is not filled with political discourse, family pictures, or frienemies from high school. Beta Testing began October 5th 2020 at 12:01 ESTOfficial launch is November 1st, 2020 For More info or Inquiries email SOURCE PodBooking Related Links https://www.pod-booking.com Read More

Facebook recently added a shopping button in WhatsApp. The button will allow users to shop products directly from WhatsApp. In a promotional video shared by the company, one can get a glimpse of how the upcoming feature will work. The video shows a user messaging a business for the product she is interested in. The business then replies back with a catalogue of products that a buyer can choose from. The buyer, then simply adds the product to the card and checks out from the app itself. Here’s the link to the video: The product catalogue will allow users to see products in their chat boxes. Announcing the feature, WhatsApp said “We will expand ways for people to check out available products and make purchases right from a chat. We also want to make it easier for businesses to integrate these features into their existing commerce and customer solutions. This will help many small businesses who have been most impacted in this time.” WhatsApp plans to bring hosting services on its platform. It will provide a new option to businesses to manage their WhatsApp messages. “This will make it easier for small and medium size businesses to get started, sell products, keep their inventory up to date, and quickly respond to messages they receive - wherever their employees are,” the company added. WhatsApp shopping button is said to be coming soon for users in India as well. Read More

Global Online Streaming Platform Market 2020 by Company, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2025 presents the accurate and strategic analysis of the market assets, growing factors, supply, industry size, regional segmentation, dynamics, and forecast till 2025. The report gives a detailed analysis of the industry status and outlook of major regions based on key players, countries, product types, and end industries. The report consists of information according to the manufacturers, regions, types, and applications. It also reviews the competitive landscape scenario seen among top market players, their company profile, revenue, sales, business tactics, and forecasts market industry situations. It offers the overall analysis of the segments such as global Online Streaming Platform market opportunities, import/export details, market dynamics, key manufacturers, growth rate, and key regions. Important Facts about Market Report: The global Online Streaming Platform market report offers the company profile of major players including progress trends, competitive landscape breakdown, and key in regions development status. The report covers different geographical areas that are studied systematically to assist new entrants, leading market players, and investors to regulate emerging economies. Further, the study research throws light on upcoming trends, up-to-date growth factors, historical data, guidelines, current, and future projects. The report presents an in-depth analysis of fluctuating competition dynamics and puts you ahead of your competitors. This report helps users in comprehending the key product segments and their future developments. DOWNLOAD FREE SAMPLE REPORT: https://www.marketsandresearch.biz/sample-request/89095 NOTE: Our report highlights the major issues and hazards that companies might come across due to the unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19. The report has profiled some of the important players prevalent in the global like: Google, Dailymotion, Vimeo, IBM, Netflix, Amazon, SpotX, Muvi, Dacast, Disney+ Hotstar, Tencent, Kugou, NetEase Cloud On the basis of the product segment, this report covers: SVOD (Subscription-based Video on Demand),...

Over the past few months, the video game Among Us has skyrocketed in popularity. In the past thirty days, the game has seen an average of 194,809.9 players and an average of 152K views on Twitch. No matter how popular this game is, I along with others were surprised when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on October 19 that she was interested in playing the game on Twitch with others. It wasn’t long before other popular creators started messaging her saying they were interested in playing. Others also helped her in the technical aspect and in under forty-eight hours, her twitch account and streaming set up were ready to go. Unfortunately, I was unable to watch her stream live however, there happened to be a recording of it on her Twitch channel and on YouTube, so I watched it there.  In total, her stream was about three and a half hours long of which included about three hours of gameplay. In the first half-hour of the stream, she was chatting about how important it is to vote in this election which was one of the reasons she did this stream in the first place. She very heavily recommended going to the website iwillvote.com to make sure you are registered to vote. She also greatly recommended that you make a voting plan because it has been shown that more people vote when they plan to rather than not plan. In AOC’s stream, some of the people I took note of that joined her were Pokimane, Disguised Toast, moistcr1tikal, Jacksepticeye, Mxmtoon, Corpse Husband, and Gus Johnson. One thing I thought was funny about this stream was before she started the game, she kept saying that she was super nervous about getting imposter the first round and once the first round started, she was one of the imposters. I also thought it was funny when Corpse Husband joined the game because she couldn’t get over how deep his voice was just like me. One part...

Content Partnership With Nirvana Digital Generates Over 350 Million Views and 26 Million Minutes Spent Viewing  MUMBAI and TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2020 /CNW/ - Global media company QYOU Media (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) has announced that The Q India has delivered the 100th episode of the hit series, "Bolly2Box" produced by Nirvana Digital,  via Snapchat India. "Bolly2Box" has become a "go to" show on the Snap platform generating massive viewership numbers during its run including receiving over 350 Million unique views, 26 Million minutes viewed and average daily viewership of over 150,000 unique viewers.  This growth has happened in conjunction with ad revenue for the series continuing to increase month over month during its run. The Q India receives a share of all ad revenues generated by the series. Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP) Chief Strategy Officer Jared Grusd recently reported that the messaging app's users rose 150% in India versus a year ago.  Research firm Apptopia has projected that there are at least 20 Million Snapchat users in India and the market has become a key focus for growth.  This comes on the heels of Snap competitor Facebook investing $5.7 Billion into leading mobile and digital platform group Reliance Jio.   India has risen to become a key market for digital growth in part due to estimates that it has a larger population of people under the age of 25 than any country in the world. "Bolly2Box" is a mixture of the latest Bollywood news and gossip and is powered by Nirvana Digital and The Q India. It launched on the Snap Platform on September 27, 2019.   Nirvana Digital produces and distributes content across multiple content categories and has been a leader in empowering digital content creators in India to monetize content globally.   Manu Kaushish and Pinakin Thakkar of Nirvana Digital commented, "We are thrilled...

Snapchat declared about upcoming additions for its snap camera as its annual partner summit in June. That also includes the ability to identify dog and plant breeds. Along with that users will get additional product information such as nutrition data. All one needs to do is ‘scan’ a plant, dog, or product with its camera function. Now, Snapchat jumps to the next step and bring some more doors of opportunity for the users. Users will be able to scan even wine and food labels to gather more information. It works as; you have to hold your finger on the screen while viewing a product’s barcode. Then you will receive a new listing by the app carrying all the nutrition information of the product. However, when it comes to wine, you will even get review data. This additional product data gets benefits via third-party apps like Vivino and Yuka. The name of the app branding would be visible at the top of each listing. This connection enables Snapchat with a range of scan options. And that is also on established databases. It means that the users can scan a wide range of products to get additional data and insight. After the dog breed scanner got added in June, the new inclusion takes this capacity further. Earlier users could identify products via Amazon and music via Shazam. Now, Snap has partnered with both Coca Cola and McDonald’s on scannable promotions as per their logos. Snapchat in a 2015 field patent expanded a summary of the possibilities of its visual recognition tools. That followed, “For example, a photograph including an object recognized as a restaurant may result in the user being presented with photo filters that overlay a menu of the restaurant on the photograph.” This additional contextual info will also enable businesses...

I realized that I was a lesbian in grade eleven. Here’s how it happened: I kissed a girl for the first time, I discovered the infamous lesbian masterdoc, and I read about a little thing called compulsory heterosexuality. It was 2016, and after years of assuming I was bisexual, I’d finally found the label that I wear to this day. 2016 was a great year for lesbian media – I got to see my sexuality represented in Glee’s Santana and Brittany, in Hayley Kiyoko’s bop “Girls Like Girls,” and in Stef and Lena’s marriage on The Fosters. But despite what these characters and people have meant – and continue to mean – to me, I’ve noticed a trend in how lesbians were depicted when I was a teen: most of them were femmes, and certainly all of them were cisgender. At the time, I didn’t understand why this felt alienating to me. But when I arrived at McGill in 2018 and made my first non-binary friends, I finally got it – and came out, again.  It’s not that there was no non-binary representation in the media when I was in high school. As an active member of many Tumblr fandoms – I was dedicated to YouTubers like Dodie and Dan and Phil – I’d interacted with non-binary people in some capacity. I had also engaged with more community-based forms of media created by non-binary folks, like the YouTube channels of Chandler Wilson and Ash Hardell, various fanfictions featuring non-binary characters, and informative comics on my Tumblr dashboard. This content made me feel more comfortable in my gender identity, but it also made me believe that being non-binary was something that only “happened” online on Tumblr, or at Vidcon. Most of my school friends and teachers didn’t understand non-binary genders, and…

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