The king of burgers wants you to build your very own Whopper – and they want you to do it while cruising Instagram Stories. What’s the recipe? Burger King Spain's newest advertising campaign focuses on entertaining the consumer with polls and favoured toppings in order to generate unique coupons sent via Instagram DM. First, Burger […]
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After rocky reviews over location and user data sharing, Snapchat is looking for a better way to bring users back to Snap Map. A map to success has no shortcuts Snapchat allows users to share ongoing location data in real-time to friends or have their location requested, which critics worried could be exploitive. Location sharing
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Instagram wants to make it easier for consumers to reach out to businesses with the messaging they’re familiar with. (Insta)mail Similar to email, the new tool will incorporate filtered messaging through Instagram that allows brands to communicate with customers more effectively. Soon brands will also be able to provide quick reply responses to common questions
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UX changes with YouTube’s May app update have met with a frosty reception from reviewers on the Play Store. They want more swiping and intuitive back-button control. Official line The official ‘What’s New’ for YouTube’s 25 May Android app update mention two improvements: A new ‘Activity’ tab to see and control notifications The ability to
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Google has taken to Twitter to formally announce a couple of new, social-style feature in its Photos app for Android, iOS and web. Tweet your features As if balancing a Trump bile-storm, Google has tweeted photos of smiling folks and puppies in sunnies. In fact, the first of those is a screenshot on how to mark
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With communities continuing to be Facebook’s main push, several updates are coming to the platform to help keep Groups safe and easier to manage. A new home for overseers With an intended response time of one business day, a new support centre is being piloted and tested with select admins across Android and iOS. All
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Here's something that could be a mixed blessing for many users: Instagram is working on a feature to show how much time you spend 'Gramming. Grammy Award Winner? The feature, called Usage Insights, and first spotted by lurking deep in code contained in the Android application package. While details remain scant, it's fairly safe to
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Google has made a tool to automatically convert Google Sites built with the ‘classic’ interface into shiny ‘New Sites’ sites. Motivated interface updates When Google announced New Sites, there was much to look forward to: responsive pages, Drive integration, a better editor. But, converting an existing Google Sites page to the New version proved too
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In a late May tweet, YouTube has acknowledged they are ‘experimenting with how to show content in the subs feed’. Newest not always best People are generally used to YouTube suggesting what they should view next. People know those suggestions are algorithm-driven. Until now, however, the subscriptions feed has shown logged-in users videos from their
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Facebook may have conquered all of the land, now it's turning its gaze (and appetite) to the cloud. Airy Facey Facebook is releasing a series of updates making it easier to upload and save your photos and videos to the Facebook cloud. You’ll also be able to shove Stories and voice messages into Facebook’s virtual
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