Inbox by Gmail has just got a little more mobile, and now alerts you to upcoming tasks directly from the app. Mobile mover and shaker Alerts from Trello, GitHub project updates, and Google Alert previews are now integrated within the Inbox app. Google Drive is also easier to use with Inbox. Drive links can be […]
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Always iterating its News Feed, Facebook's latest change is another push to rid users' feeds of clickbait and unscrupulous headlines. Having previously tried to punish pages by reducing their reach if users didn't spend long enough reading an article, the company has stepped up its fight against clickbait tactics. Fool me once Manually analysing tens
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In another indication that Snapchat's reach is becoming more global, the ephemeral messaging service has released a heap of new geofilters custom made for Down Under. Oi oi oi 50 personalised geofilters are now available, mainly based around Sydney locations including Sydney Harbour and Bondi Beach. And Snapchat's just getting started: 100 new filters for
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Since LinkedIn was snapped up by Microsoft back in June, things have been a little quiet over at the social network for professionals. Presumably there were many documents to be signed and champagne to be swilled. Now the dust has settled, LinkedIn has rolled out its biggest update since the acquisition: Influencer videos. Under the
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The NBN might seem like a far off dream, but Google Search isn't wasting any time in its quest for speed. Its latest update sees a significant boost to mobile loading times. Loaded question Google has recently been working on the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, an open source platform designed to streamline mobile loading
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You can now post view your favourite videos on YouTube, safe in the knowledge that they're encrypted. Mostly. Private viewing YouTube announced the update to its security settings in a blog post. Essentially, YouTube now has Google's HTTPS transparency report. What this means in English is that 97% of YouTube traffic is now encrypted. And
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It sounds like Instagram is testing a new "Save Draft" feature. Savers Certain Instagrammers have reported seeing a dialogue box pop up offering to save their drafts, when hitting the Back button after composing a post. Until now, backing out of a post would result in any content being lost. Baby steps While the update
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The modern marketer is faced with many agonies of choice. To keep in touch with clients via Skye? Or do you collaborate using Slack? Mercifully, a flipping good new app spares you from ever having to make such fraught decisions ever again. One App to rule them all All-in-One Messenger is billing itself as the only
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A new study says that Facebook will continue to surge as Twitter looks set to sputter. New World Order According to research from eMarketer, Facebook is set to increase its US user base by 2.9% this year, to claim 167 million Facebookers. The data predicts Facebook will gain another 15.2 million US users by 2020.
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The battle of the sexes has found a new platform: social media. A new infographic from Digital Flash explores how men and women are using social – here are the highlights. Wonder Women Women take the prize for social representation. In the US 56% of social media users are female, that’s over 81 million women.
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