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Someone Totally Ruined the Memory of PalmOS By Putting Twitter on It
PalmOS devices may look incredibly antiquated now, but the PalmPilot and Handspring Visor had one major advantage over modern smartphones: They didn’t have a Twitter app. Unfortunately, Jorge Cohen has just changed that with a PalmOS Twitter app that brings doomscrolling to these 24-year-old devices.The original PalmPilot was released by…Read More
Snapchat Plans Show to Spotlight Top Creator Posts
9:00 AM PST 3/11/2021 by Natalie Jarvey Snap, Inc. 'The Best Snaps Show' hosted by Salice Rose and Brent Rivera will showcase posts from Spotlight and Snap Maps. Snapchat wants to shine a light on some of its best user-generated posts. The mobile app is launching a new original series…Read More
Nina Zafar joins Emerging News Products as a Multiplatform Editor
Announcement from Emerging News Products Director Chris Meighan and Snapchat Discover Editor John Taylor:We are excited to announce that Nina Zafar is joining Emerging News Products as a multiplatform editor on the Stories team.Nina comes to us from Features, where she has been an editorial aide working with the pop…Read More
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings Begin to Roll Out for YouTube CTV
YouTube and Nielsen roll out new ad measurements as YouTube CTV viewership continues to increase. Here's what you need to know.In 2020, more people than ever streamed YouTube on connected TVs (CTV).This is driven in part by people spending more time at home, resulting in more folks choosing to watch…Read More
Evan Spiegel on the Future of Snapchat–and All of Social Media
Bicycles scared people when they were first introduced, says Evan Spiegel. The lesson? Don't be too quick to dismiss the usefulness of emerging technologies. Spiegel, the CEO and co-founder of Snap, discussed the future of his company's best-known product and the broader social media landscape at Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies Summit on Tuesday. Snapchat has 265 million…Read More
Facebook To Let Content Creators Earn Money From Short Videos
Facebook Inc will allow content creators on its platform to earn revenue from short-form videos.Facebook Inc will allow content creators on its platform to earn revenue from short-form videos via advertisements, the social network said on Thursday.The announcement came in a blog where the company detailed its plans to help…Read More
“It's Kind of Scary to Think About Letting Anyone and Everyone Into the Edit Bay”: Jethika Director …
Drawing from the world of gaming, writer/director Pete Ohs is embarking on a post-production experiment for his pandemic-shot film, Jethika: live-streaming his edit. “I know that YouTube is overflowing with editing and software tutorials but I’ve never heard of anyone actually editing a movie live,” he writes in an email,…Read More
It's about time! You can finally make WhatsApp video calls from your laptop
WhatsApp recently announced that the voice and video call functionality is no longer limited to smartphones. (Photo: GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES) WhatsApp has finally caught up with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype, Apple Face Time and Google Meet and introduced a video call option from its desktop app for PCs and laptops.Voice…Read More
WhatsApp PC Video Call: How to Make Voice and Video Calls on WhatsApp for Windows or Mac
WhatsApp now lets you make or receive voice and video calls on its desktop app for Windows and Mac. The feature was earlier being rolled out for select users only, but now it is available for everyone in India. It will be useful for those who use WhatsApp desktop every…Read More
UK – Community-based learning a priority during pandemic, LinkedIn finds
11 March 2021 UK organisations are encouraging employees to learn skills together to foster a sense of belonging amid the pandemic and the rise of remote working, according to a new report from LinkedIn Learning, the learning platform from LinkedIn.The report found that 75% of UK Learning and Development professionals…Read More
Talk to the Talent – Stephen 'tWitch' Boss
March 11, 2021 WNKY Staff, Ellen’s Game of Games is back for a new season, and this morning, Ellen’s sidekick, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss joined us on SoKY Sunrise to talk more about it! The next episode of the show airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on WNKY NBC 40.
Los Lunas locals question Facebook's data center expansion, worry about water use
Residents group call for crucial vote to be delayed in New Mexico A community organization says that the Village of Los Lunas needs to delay a vote into a huge Facebook data center expansion, over water concerns in New Mexico, US.The Valencia Water Watchers group claim that the village in…Read More
How Snapchat made a comeback and won back users and advertisers
Hi, this is Amanda Perelli and welcome back to Insider Influencers, our weekly rundown on the business of influencers, creators, and social-media platforms. Sign up for the newsletter here. In this week's edition:How Snapchat made a comeback and the key moments in its turnaroundHow YouTube creators are using Amazon's live shopping…Read More
What Brands Need To Consider As They Look Beyond Facebook
Ross Shelleman is the CEO of Aisle Rocket, a full-service performance marketing and creative services agency. getty Facebook’s overwhelming dominance in the social advertising space has been well established for years now. But as demographics and media behaviors shift and Facebook continues to come under scrutiny for its practices, brands and…Read More
Slower internet bothering you? New Instagram Lite with just 2MB runs on 2G networks
JERUSALEM: Facebook said on Wednesday it was launching a "lite" version of Instagram in 170 countries that will enable people with poor internet to access the photo and video sharing social networking service. Instagram Lite will be available for Android-based phones and require less bandwidth than the traditional version. The…Read More
Covid holds back women
New research from LinkedIn has shown COVID-19 is having a detrimental impact on women’s careers. The study of more than 20,000 working professionals from around the world has found that nearly half (49 per cent) of women say their career has been set back or put on hold due to…Read More
Instagram Is Experimenting With Automated Captions for Stories
If you follow a lot of influencers on Instagram, you will know that they upload a lot of content updating you about some things on their stories and at times it can be hard to sit and listen to all of it. Also sometimes because of language barrier and accent…Read More
Myanmar's state-run enterprises shunned by global tech firms
Major global tech firms have stepped up to reexamine the use of their platforms by military-owned companies including state telco Mytel and television network MRTV, but activists argue that only “stance and action” could prevent the situation from worsening. Vimeo, a US video streaming site, said on Thursday that it…Read More
