The biggest names in tech and social are partnering up with the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter to participate in the Data Transfer Project. Big data According to Facebook, “using your data from one service when you sign up for another still isn’t as easy as it should be,” so a push for standardisation […]
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Alphabet shares a lot of similarities with Facebook, but it's in the profits and diversity that the former is beginning to really stand out. Trouble for Zuck Google’s parent company Alphabet has reported strong earnings and firm growth in its core businesses, giving investors and bankers more faith in the juggernaut company. Facebook’s record low earnings
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Google Communities are getting easier to manage, with new capabilities that make it possible to batch-add individuals and groups. Assigning collaborate and share Domain-restricted Google communities, secure ones where posts are only accessible to people within the same domain, can now be more efficiently managed from within G Suite. Once properly authorised, select personnel can
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In a new update, Pinterest has added an activity feed intended for group boards, acting as a streaming timeline of recent business, such as likes, comments, and pinned items.. Group Planning It’s the new comments update that will prove the most useful as users can now see when others are responding in real-time. Comments need no
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YouTube’s doing a limited test on a presumably Instagram-inspired feature—an Explore tab. Discovering effectiveness of discovery As explained in a Creator Insider clip, YouTube’s Explore tab will be a new way for viewers to discover content that they might otherwise miss, but to do so with the help of an algorithm that filters out the
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The 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot from We Are Social and Hootsuite says that around 44% of the world's population is active on social media, with the vast majority of them (40%) being active via mobile device. Overall ups There are 11% more social media users now than there were twelve months ago. In real
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Have trouble keeping track of messages in the hubbub of all your convos? WhatsApp wants to make keeping track of secondhand messages easier than ever. The name game Group chats and one-on-one exchanges are about to get streamlined thanks to extra context provided with the brand new labeling system, making it simpler to discern what’s
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Instagram is testing a new feature enabling users to discretely remove creepy followers. Living life out loud! If you’re one of the millions of people out there that enjoy sharing your personal journey with the world via photo, video, and emoji, you can now also quietly boot undesirables. The feature is being tested on Android
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Google has launched a new inventory control tool in Display & Video 360 (ie the new DoubleClick), to limit ad distribution exclusively to sites that adhere to the ads.txt standard. Voluntary standard Since November 2017, ads.txt files have been getting added to ad-displaying websites. The smart acronym stands for ‘Authorized Digital Sellers’. The simple text
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The ability to link Facebook contact info has been the cornerstone of many social media apps, and now the process goes both ways as Instagram becomes the starting point. River flows upstream In a bid to keep Messenger’s relevance up to par with all its other IPs, Facebook wants users to pull contacts from Instagram’s
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