Facebook might want to be everything to everyone, but Pinterest has the edge when it comes to threads. Now Pinterest Lens can offer you fashion tips. Pining to Pin The feature, called Lens Your Look, works by letting you add photos of clothes to text searches. For example, you’re looking for something to go with […]
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Google’s global cloud database, Cloud Spanner, got a few updates recently that promise to make the service more reliable, and even bigger. Spanner in the Works Cloud Spanner now has multi-region support, which means databases are closer to clients in different regions. Previously, all of Cloud Spanner’s data was hosted in one area. Besides a speed
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Here’s something that could be of real benefit for brands: a subscription-based model for purchasing promoted tweets. Money in the bank After months of testing, Twitter has launched a self-service ad subscription service (try saying that three times fast) for small to medium sized businesses. The service, called Twitter Promote Mode, lets advertisers automate Twitter
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You’d have to be living under a rock not to notice that Instagram Stories has been somewhat of a success. Now Stories looks set to expand, as its lifespan just got longer. What a difference a day makes Until now, Stories could only be posted if they were captured in the past 24 hours. Reversing
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While concrete social stats are hard to come by in the Antipodes, Facebook has recently unveiled a bunch of data about Down Under. It turns out we’re really quite keen on Messenger. Pump up the Volume It turns out more than 13 million Aussies are now on Messenger – more than half the country. Significantly,
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Never one to sit on its laurels regardless of the time of year, Facebook is working on at least two new interesting features over the silly season: Red Envelopes and Breaking News. Red Letter Day? According to Recode, Facebook’s red envelope is a payment service that lets users send money to their friends. Red envelopes
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Looking for a fresh start in the New Year? Once the turkey and Christmas pudding has been digested, consider sprucing up your resume over the break. Indeed, LinkedIn has a new resume wizard to streamline the process. Look at me LinkedIn has teamed up with Microsoft Word to launch Resume Assistant. LinkedIn reckons the integration
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You can follow everything from dapper dogs to bread face blogs on Instagram. If that’s not enough, you may soon be able to follow hashtags. #Trending In an update that's many a marketers’ digital dream, canny user @Social.pip has spotted a beta test inviting ‘Grammers to follow hashtags. While Instagram’s keeping mum about details, it appears you
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Proving the old adage ‘less is more’, it seems Twitter’s recent move to fling open the gates of character limits has fallen flat with users. Muted movements Since allowing tweets to extend to 280 characters in November, new data shows less that 5% of tweets now stray beyond the classic 140-character limit. To be fair,
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Snapchat has revealed new data around how location plays a big part in Snaps being shared. At the top of the list: parties. Social spots spur snaps It turns out it’s not merely interesting locales that are driving snap sharing. Art galleries and museums are not nearly as prevalent as parties according to the latest
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