Ever since being acquired by Microsoft last year, LinkedIn has gone from strength to strength. The latest milestone: 500 million professionals are now linked in. Half a Bil and counting LinkedIn’s half a billion members are spread over 200 countries, and collectively represent over 10 million active jobs and over 9 million companies. This community […]
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Snapchat is taking another step towards Augmented Reality (AR) with World Lenses, and the result is everything you would hope it to be. Augmenting fun to your surroundings The idea of AR is nothing new and we’ve seen it used to a great extent, from popular Pokemon franchises to Snapchat’s real-time face swapping. The new
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Google is taking the gloves off and cracking down on offensive Search results. It’s a Wonderful World Google’s made a number of changes to its search ranking, feedback tools, and transparency rules to reign in the amount of offensive or misleading results that surface on Search. Google now prioritises content that has been fact-checked, and
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Microsoft might own LinkedIn, but the monoliths are learning to play nicely, with deeper data integrations on the way. Linking In Microsoft Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn Sales Navigator will soon link up, giving marketers the inside scoop on LinkedIn’s 500 million users. Microsoft says this will allow marketers to locate and connect with the right decision
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GoPro has returned to what it knows best – cameras. The company has announced the forthcoming release of a camera capable of capturing spherical video for VR. Early word, specs Announced in a press release on the company’s website, there’s a good chance that the GoPro Fusion will be the next big thing in consumer
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Last year Mevo Cam made it easy to stream quality video directly to Facebook Live and Periscope. In Australia, it was around $625—but was limited to 720p via iPhone or iPad. Now, Mevo has moved to the next phase, with a bunch of upgrades on the way for resolution, platform compatibility, and service integration. Ripper resolutions
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Online Circle Digital has just launched the latest version of our ongoing Facebook Performance Reports for Q1 2017. We have analysed over 2600 Australian Facebook brands from January 1st to March 31st 2017, to rank the largest and most-engaged Facebook Pages in the country. The analysis was conducted by the Online Circle Digital data and
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Cabana is a social video viewing app. What does that mean exactly? Tumblr seems to know – they bought Cabana when it was in development and have now brought it to market. Chat, watch Cabana lets users simultaneously stream YouTube and connect via video chat with up to five others. It seems like a competent
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Facebook has slowly but steadily been moving into the Augmented and Virtual Reality space. Now that commitment has increased with the launch of the Camera Effects platform. Virtual Likes Facebook made the announcement as the recent F8 developer conference. The platform will let third-party developers create augmented reality filters that can be viewed through the Facebook
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Long-time darling of the home and cake decorating set, Pinterest has announced plans that seem intent to take it off the social network track – at least at first glance. Who likes likes? ‘Likes’ are officially gone from Pinterest. As single-click feedback mechanisms, likes, hearts and thumbs-up are associated with social media. Pinterest has declared
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