Google’s Hangouts Chat is looking more social as it lets users react to messages with a variety of emoji reactions. Following Facebook More than two years after Facebook launched their expanded options for the standard set of emoji reactions for posts, Google Hangouts Chat is doing something similar. You can use all the traditional favourites: […]
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Facebook plans to launch its own dating feature within its flagship app, rather than creating a standalone one. Social love Though it isn’t quite ready to launch, Facebook is making a clear statement that it's looking to enter Tinder territory with its own Facebook dating feature. The foray into romance seems to be geared more
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Adobe wants to make your next email campaign fast and efficient with AI and a whole suite of useful tools. Space Odyssey 2018 The name Sensei is Adobe’s catch-all term for its entire wing of artificial intelligence tools. While their premier email marketing service, Adobe Campaign, is making waves with precision emailing. Marketers need only
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A UK social worker has been let go for having made unflattering remarks about “nightmare parents” on Facebook. Facebook faux pas North East Lincolnshire Council had been employing Joanne Thomas through a social work agency when she posted complaints about “nightmare parents and demonic children” and was swiftly fired. The worker had allegedly referred to
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Google has published a short guide to best-practice push notifications. Noticed in the noise App notifications can reach both active and lapsed app users. When they get good interaction, their app generally experiences better retention rates. Because they work, more apps are using them. As they become more commonplace, it’s increasingly challenging to ensure your
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The Undo feature which allows users a brief window in which to cancel a possibly embarrassing email has arrived on mobile. The power of ‘oops’ It has taken about four months for Undo to make its way from desktop to mobile but the inevitable has happened with the latest Android 8.2 update. Very much like
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Instagram’s direct message polls can be handy for all kinds of questionnaires and if you want to keep the answers to yourself, you can. Gather info quietly Now users don’t have to broadcast the info collected from Instagram Direct Message surveys, thanks to new poll sticker options. The feature was rolled out a few weeks
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Facebook has finalised a deal that will make them the sole coverage provider to specific nations for the next three years. Football for the people Facebook has recently bartered an unprecedented deal that will make them the exclusive provider of La Liga to viewers of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, The Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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The 2018 Australian Email Benchmark inaugural report has been developed by Australian email specialist The Orchard Agency in partnership with online business publication SmartCompany to assess the current and future state of email marketing. The report is based on a major research study that surveyed 400+ Australian businesses of multiple sizes across a range of
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App analytics giant Apptopia has released aggregated session time data for the world’s leading apps. Comms, socials and streams The ‘time wasters’ label is most commonly applied to games, Apptopia’s figures shows that communication apps are taking up many more hours of users’ time. WhatsApp tops the list for the most time spent in-app, with
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