Microsoft has announced a few enhancements for their spreadsheet app Excel, integrating AI with the aim of helping to boost productivity. Four AI features Microsoft is working to sure-up Excel’s position as spreadsheet-extraordinaire with four new tweaks, including: ‘Ideas’: intelligent productivity suggestions Stock Quotes and Geographic data types Simplifying complex formulas with ‘dynamic arrays’ The …
Continuing its push into more intimate virtual spaces, Facebook is nearing their next run of hardware products. Behold, a new quest Yes, Facebook has announced the the Oculus Quest Virtual Reality, which will now include a pair of wireless controllers as well. Mark Zuckerberg’s hope was to have 1 billion users engaging through Facebook’s virtual spaces when …
Proving once more what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, Facebook is bringing a GIF keyboard to Instagram. There’s a meme for that Some users may remember when Facebook added GIFs to their interface a year or so back, now Instagram is also adding a Giphy-powered keyboard for direct messaging. In a …
In an effort to make remote meetings more effective and personal, Microsoft will allow LinkedIn profiles to integrate with Office 365’s new people cards. Integration power! Things like calendar syncing will help users see what the day-to-day of other workers are like, and help better coordinate projects. New coauthor features for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will …
In an effort to tame the timeline, Twitter will soon allow users the option to view feeds in either ranked or chronological order. Feeds with flexibility Twitter's latest attempt is the “Show the best tweets first” option. Clicking this feature will revert timelines to a non-algorithmic mode, and a reverse-chronological order. A return to form While …
In a long awaited update, Facebook Pages can now interact with communities on Facebook Groups. Set for new settings! Within Facebook Group settings is a new option for admins to “allow Pages to request to join as group members.” Previously, only individual accounts could associate with Groups. According to Facebook, “We previously launched the ability …
Facebook is rolling out a trifecta of new features for video streaming, fact finding, and community building. The big three The new additions are Premiers, Polls, and Top Fans. Users will soon have access to Premieres within Pages which provides creators and publishers with pre-recorded and live formats to help better stimulate online conversation and streaming. …
Users need no longer dig deep into third-party apps and technical workarounds to reshare other people’s content, now Instagram will allow a feature called ‘regram’. All about them ‘grams While reposting is nothing new (Twitter allows retweets, Facebook allows sharing), but until now Instagram has only offered…well nothing. The Native Share Feature will arrive in the …
Who makes money selling online ads? You can probably guess the top two. Perhaps more surprisingly, though, a report says Amazon is coming third. Heatseeker Online marketing research house eMarketer has shared figures that show Amazon shooting up the charts to secure a significant market share for online advertising revenue. For 2018 in the US, …
Instagram is testing a new geofencing feature, which would allow users to post to select locations rather than globally. The invisible grid According to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, “[geofencing] allows creators to limit the specific countries where their content will be visible,” without fear of governmental repercussions, in theory. Twitter and Facebook already offer similar restriction …