Facebook Ramps Up Messaging Features for Instagram At the start of 2019, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the future for his Facebook empire, with messaging at its core, and the entire family of apps acting interoperably, as one. Following a sweeping product release in recent days, that roadmap has taken a sizeable leap forward, with Facebook's […]
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First Major LinkedIn Product Redesign In Five Years After five years, LinkedIn has finally got round to their much-needed redesign and added a ton of interesting products, in what is quite a sizeable update rather than just a cosmetic overhaul. Sure, they have tried to make the platform easier to navigate, more intuitive, and all
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Business Suite Streamlines Facebook, Instagram & Messenger Marketing Managing Facebook, and its extended family of apps, day to day can be a painful experience. Over the years, as the Facebook network has grown and become more sophisticated, day to day execution has become far more challenging, due to the dizzying array of marketing features and
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What's The Real Deal With Reels? After a much-vaunted launch, we are now several weeks into Instagram’s TikTok clone, Reels, and to say it’s a mixed bag wouldn’t be an understatement. While the reaction from users and influencers has been lukewarm, there are definitely reasons for optimism for the fledgling feature. Within days of the
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TikTok Is Now Third Biggest Western Social Platform With its U.S. operations up in the air and predatory glances from Microsoft and Oracle, TikTok has recently come out swinging as it sues the U.S. government over its impending ban. In its lawsuit challenging the U.S. government over an effective ban that is set to take
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Facebook Launches Shopping Tab & Expands Instagram Live Shopping Following on from Facebook’s major eCommerce upgrade in May, Facebook has announced a series of new Shopping features across Facebook and Instagram. Of the flurry announced, the most significant development is perhaps the launch of Facebook Shop, which is a new shopping destination directly within the
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Instagram Introduces “Suggested Posts” & New Ads Two years after launching its "time well spent" features, Instagram appears to be rolling over an element of its mental health policy, chasing expanding usage. Amidst concern related to over-usage, back in 2018, Instagram introduced a feature alerting users when they'd scrolled through all the new content in
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Facebook Now Offers End-to-end Online Events Solutions Facebook has announced a significant upgrade for online events, with the introduction of social payments within Facebook. Now Page owners can create an online event, set a price, promote the event, collect payment and host the event, all within Facebook. As if Eventbrite needed more lousy news… Events
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LinkedIn Aims To Wipe Out Inappropriate InMail Messages Dealing with idiots is, alas, part and parcel of communicating on the internet. And the bigger the social footprint one has, the greater the idiot quotient. A point made frighteningly clear in a fascinating recent blog post from Tim Ferris. In most social channels, the brunt of
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Personal Branding Gets A Major Upgrade With New "People Cards" Facebook's long-term admiration and steady cloning of Snapchat, and now TikTok, is well documented. How good is Instagram Reels… But Facebook's not the only player in town which draws inspiration from its Silicon Valley neighbours, as Google's new LinkedIn-esque features demonstrate. Google's new "People Cards"
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