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Brand strategy will beat serendipity on Twitter at World Cup
2018-06-12

Twitter’s head of global brand strategy Alex Josephson talks about what we should expect during the world’s biggest sports event. During the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, arguably the biggest moment for any brand on Twitter came when Uruguay’s Luis Suarez bit–yes, with his...

Inside Reddit’s new website and AI: Design tech trends from TNW2018
2018-06-12

The future of design is uncertain, with technology gradually blurring the lines of ownership and creativity. So how do we look ahead? At the Design Thinkers track at TNW Conference, designers from all fields shared their experiences and visions for the future. We’ve highlighted the key takeaways: Chris Slowe,...

Google should learn from Apple’s cryptocurrency guidelines
2018-06-12

It appears that Apple has learnt its lesson when it comes to tackling cryptocurrency scams. The company has amended its app store review guidelines to extend its section on cryptocurrencies. On the face of it, the  new guidelines may seem somewhat restrictive for cryptocurrency businesses, and users are already...

This web app shows the power of Lightning Network (and a lot of dicks)
2018-06-12

If you think blockchain technology is boring, this Twitter user is out there to prove you wrong. Lightning K0ala has created an online graffiti board, called satoshis.place, to show the power of Lightning Network (LN) in processing micro-transactions. For those who do not know, Lightning Network is a layer that sits...

Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ is now ‘Memories’ and we still think it’s pointless
2018-06-11

Facebook is making a new page called Memories, an expansion of On This Day, a pointless feature in which Facebook spits out your own most popular posts and calls it nostalgia. Now it proposes to throw even more of your own memories to you. The new Memories page, announced by Facebook today, takes the usual On This Day...

This web app shows the power of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (and a lot of dicks)
2018-06-11

If you think blockchain technology is boring, this Twitter user is out there to prove you wrong. Lightning K0ala has created an online graffiti board, called satoshis.place, to show the power of Lightning Network (LN) in processing micro-transactions. For those who do not know, Lightning Network is a layer that sits...

Master digital marketing to grow a business and acquire users for $19
2018-06-11

The Internet Business Advertising reported that U.S. advertisers spent a total of $88 billion on digital ads in 2017. To put that into perspective, advertisers spent an average of $270 trying to market to each person in the U.S last year. With advertisers flocking to search and social media platforms, the bottom line...

How to not be upstaged with video when you’re onstage
2018-06-11

Follow these four steps to make yourself (and your message) the center of your audience’s attention. Video content is everywhere. By one recent estimate, it’ll make up over 80% of online content consumption by 2021. Video has long been changing norms in the business world, too, with videoconferencing,...

Here’s an idea: How about showing us the data that was used to target us with online ads
2018-06-11

Requiring such data might remind consumers of the real cost to them of using “free” services like Facebook. Browsing YouTube on Wednesday night, I just happened to click on a trailer for the new horror flick Hereditary. The movie looks promising, so I ended up watching a couple of trailers for...

The best reactions to Angela Merkel’s viral Trump G7 photo
2018-06-11

It’s the photo that defines 2018: Trump versus the free world. It was a photo which rapidly spread around the world this weekend after Angela Merkel, the German chancellor–and the person who many now see the de facto leader of the free world–posted it on her Instagram feed.Read Full Story

Google’s enterprise ambition is the reason behind Gmail’s redesign
2018-06-10

The recent redesign of Gmail is exciting news and has been a long time coming. While Gmail has looked pretty much the same for years, it hasn’t gotten in the way of its growth. Well over a billion people worldwide now rely on Gmail for their email and the service continues to expand rapidly. The majority of those...

Employers, your idea about employee happiness is all wrong
2018-06-09

Rather than investing in a “happiness” culture, companies should think about career opportunities and fostering trust between management and employees. When Google promoted a software engineer named Chade-Meng Tan to the role of “Jolly Good Fellow,” his career–and the entire culture...

In the EU’s fight against fake news, disinformation is winning
2018-06-09

It hasn’t even been a month since Brussels was hyped about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being (supposedly) grilled by the European Parliament. COO Sheryl Sandberg is next on the agenda, rumored to be questioned by MEPs in June. Simultaneously, for five months now the European Commission has been hard at work within...

Twitter troll David Leavitt offers up a master class in how to be an asshole
2018-06-09

The dust hadn’t even settled in the arena before David Leavitt’s first ill-advised joke. After an explosion killed 22 people, including children, and wounded 59 others at a Manchester, England arena, Leavitt didn’t hesitate. Being first matters, even in tragedy, and especially on Twitter. With a click of the...

Facebook apologizes. It does other stuff too, but mostly it apologizes
2018-06-09

Yesterday, Facebook was sorry. Millions of people’s private posts were exposed to the public due to a bug. The company’s Chief Privacy Officer, Erin Egan, told reporters “We have fixed this issue and starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that...

Google’s principles for developing AI aren’t good enough
2018-06-08

Google CEO Sundar Pichai yesterday published his company’s new rules governing the development of AI. Over the course of seven principles he lays out a broad (and useless) policy leaving more wiggle room than a pair of clown pants. If you tell the story of Google’s involvement in building AI for the US military...

MIT’s new tech turns power plants and data centers into water sources
2018-06-08

To keep from overheating, cooling towers vent huge amounts of steam into the atmosphere. A new innovation could efficiently harvest that water for us to drink. In the future, the rooftop of a data center owned by Amazon or Facebook might become a new source of local drinking water. New technology from MIT researchers...

Why are media veterans investing in this startup news app?
2018-06-08

“Instagram of news” app Zig–backed by legends like Graydon Carter and Quincy Jones–is seeing steady growth, trending toward more than 400,000 users, say its founders. If you’re an investor, you’re always looking to figure out what is next. So it’s interesting to look at...

Facebook courts teen audience with dedicated game streaming page
2018-06-08

Facebook has launched a new page specifically to attract video game streamers and viewers. In a world where Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube Gaming are already fighting for dominance on that market, Facebook would have to make up a lot of ground to be in the running. What it is: Facebook is building its own dedicated gaming...

A bunch of ‘art bots’ got swept up in Twitter’s political crackdown
2018-06-08

The ‘art bot’ community on Twitter is still recovering from a platform ban that saw dozens of bot-powered accounts go silent for approximately 11 hours on Wednesday. What happened: The bots, including popular accounts like @infinite_scream (which has 43.3k followers) and @tinycarebot (which boasts 125k), went down...

Facebook matching donations for Guatemala relief up to $250,000
2018-06-08

If you were planning on donating, now is the time. Since the devastating volcanic eruption in Guatemala, people around the world have been rushing to help donating supplies and money as they can. Facebook has become a community space for those wanting to help whether by raising funds on the site or offering...

Anthony Bourdain, a great journalist, would deplore the clickbait coverage of his death
2018-06-08

The clickbait gold-rush is a cynical and disgusting a state of affairs, one that it’s easy to imagine Bourdain deriding with voluptuous profanity. Just hours after the news broke this morning that the chef, author, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain had committed suicide, outlets began scrambling for a piece...

A mall in China put in a traffic lane just for people staring at their phones
2018-06-08

Never get stuck behind a phone-staring slow walker again. Thanks to a brilliant design decision, no one at the Bairui Plaza shopping mall in Xi’an, China, will ever again get stuck behind a slow walker, blocking the path while they watch a MuchDank video on their phone. Some genius has added a pedestrian...

Facebook! Stop sending us lobbyists! demands European Parliament
2018-06-08

The European Parliament is sick and tired of Facebook refusing to properly answer its questions. After the fiasco of the Mark Zuckerberg show, a further two hearings are planned for 25th June in Brussels and 2nd July in Strasbourg. However despite a clear request for COO Susan Sandberg to join the latter, Zuckerberg...

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