Threads has announced it has reached the milestone of 150 million active monthly users. The social platform from Facebook and… Continue reading Threads reaches landmark 150 million active monthly users The post Threads reaches landmark 150 million active monthly users appeared fi … | Continue reading
The home team talks about the current state of the software job market, the changing sentiments around AI job opportunities, the impact of big players like Facebook and OpenAI on the space, and the challenges for startups. Plus: The philosophical implications of LLMs and the frie … | Continue reading
Following the passage of the Online News Act, the Media Ecosystem Observatory studied the behaviour of Canadian Facebook and Instagram users. The resulting report (PDF) is a brief but useful read. Sara Parker, et al. summarizing two of its findings: The Facebook Pages of national … | Continue reading
So called “pay or ok” consent models allow social media users to access services such as Facebook or Instagram, without adverts, if they’re prepared to pay a subscription. Otherwise they’ll see ads, possibly targeted ads, at some point, and obviously be OK with that. At face valu … | Continue reading
A military court in Russia sentenced a spokesperson for Meta to six years in prison on Monday, according to a new report from the English-language Moscow Times. Andy Stone was convicted in absentia for the “justification” of terrorism after the Facebook parent company changed its … | Continue reading
We are talking AI this week and trying to get to the basics. We take a look at what goes into GPTs and how these models figure things out. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Ameth … | Continue reading
Mohamed Aboelez recently learned his roommate, a person he shared a residence with, had died. But no one called to say so, instead Aboelez read the news on Facebook: I froze. I hadn’t seen Paul in about two days. I had assumed he’d been with his friend. But not dead. Of course no … | Continue reading
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Mladost 2, Sofia. There’s a facebook group dedicated to removing items like this but I find it interesting. Probably because I don’t see it very often. | Continue reading
Anyone checking into their Instagram or Facebook pages in the last few days, will have no doubt noticed the presence of Meta’s AI “assistant”, named, um, Meta AI. Britney Nguyen, writing for Quartz: The tech giant said on Thursday that it is bringing Meta AI to all of its platfor … | Continue reading
Justin Searls writes: I’ve been pairing with ChatGPT (using GPT-4) every day for the last few months and it is demonstrably terrible 80% of the time, but 20% of the time it saves me an hour of headaches, so I put up with it anyway. Nevertheless, my experience with Llama 2 was so … | Continue reading
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Meta is making a significant stride in the AI space this week, expanding the reach of its AI assistant across… Continue reading Meta’s AI assistant launches on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp The post Meta’s AI assistant launches on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp appeared fi … | Continue reading
A POI Database in One Line Overture maps offer an extraordinarily useful freely licensed databases of POI (point of interest) listings, principally derived from partners such as Facebook and including restaurants, shops, museums and other locations from all around the world. Thei … | Continue reading
From time to time, a few years ago now, I found myself walking passed a bar called The Dock (Facebook page), on Monday evenings. The bar, located in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, was host to something I’d not witnessed at a watering hole before: everyone singing. And, as fa … | Continue reading
Got amazing feedback on the first brutally honest BUSINESS advice email… so we’re back with PART 2!! If you’re new, my business (AppSumo.com) is about to do $100M in revenue this year. But before that, I was rejected by Microsoft and Google (twice!). Fired by both Facebook and Mi … | Continue reading
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data. [...] | Continue reading
Articles I read Favorite reads of the week What I watched How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (YouTube)I did not know the story behind React. I enjoyed hearing how it came about and from those who worked on it. Books I am reading W … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($49.99 value each) for Unite 5. Unite creates Single Site Browsers, self-contained apps designed to work with a specific website. You can create an SSB for Facebook, one for Slack, one for any tool you use that has a website. Ke … | Continue reading
It is time to make our console apps look beautiful! There are some amazing libraries out there to help us out. We discuss! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citri … | Continue reading
Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector: Facebook’s unrefined artificial intelligence misclassified a Kansas Reflector article about climate change as a security risk, and in a cascade of failures blocked the domains of news sites that published the article, according to technology exper … | Continue reading
AppSumo is about to do $100M in revenue this year. But before that: Rejected by Microsoft and Google (twice!) Fired by both Facebook and Mint after less than a year And built 20+ startups that didn’t work out In short… I’ve made A LOT of mistakes. Today, I want to share 9 pieces … | Continue reading
Frank is getting ready to release an app and we talk through paid vs freemium, onboarding, and that magical 30 seconds to wow moment for his app. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Dave Kendall of documentary production company Prairie Hollow and formerly of a Topeka, Kansas PBS station, wrote in the Kansas Reflector an article criticizing Meta. Kendall says he tried to promote posts on Facebook for a screening of “Hot Times in the Heartl … | Continue reading
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"On Thursday I reported that Meta had blocked all links to the Kansas Reflector from approximately 8am to 4pm, citing cybersecurity concerns after the nonprofit published a column critical of Facebook’s climate change ad policy. By late afternoon, all links were once again able t … | Continue reading
It was like a fun game to them. – “Jeny” The Prudish Giant (#1011) Why does anyone still trust Facebook? In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understa … | Continue reading
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Keine Angst, es geht nicht um Avatare ohne Beine! Threads has entered the fediverse!!! TL;DR: Ich freue mich, dass Meta diesen Schritt geht und ich zukünftig vielleicht all meine Freunde im Fediverse Social Web treffen kann, ohne dafür einen Threads, Facebook oder Instagram Accou … | Continue reading
Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook following suit about 30 minutes late … | Continue reading
Awhile back, a reader left a comment on the Facebook page asking, "If I have $200 to make my backyard look a little more like your school, what should I get?" First off, $200 is a pretty good budget for a project like that, mainly because most of the coolest stuff we have in our … | Continue reading
Templates, templates, templates. Project templates, item templates, default templates, custom templates, and beyond. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by … | Continue reading
This week saw a tragic event as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came crashing down after a cargo ship crashed into it. The rest of the week’s new wasn’t that better as Apple users were subject to a huge phishing scam to a Facebook plot involving Snapchat being uncovered … | Continue reading
"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a writte … | Continue reading
Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on. | Continue reading
Schools in several major cities in Canada have initiated legal actions against social media corporations, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook,… Continue reading Canada schools sue social media giants for $4.5bn The post Canada schools sue social media giants for $4.5bn appea … | Continue reading
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date. Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to” links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, etc. There have been a few attempts to creat … | Continue reading
Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic. | Continue reading
When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the promotional images for her new photo-sharing app, Shine, on Tuesday, I thought I was looking at one of the Facebook posts my elderly aunt has a habit of creating. But alas, the person posting was not my aunt, it was Mayer. Read mor … | Continue reading
Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was kneecapped starting in 2018 to protect Zuckerberg’s advertising relationship with … | Continue reading
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, TechCrunch: In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, ac … | Continue reading
Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called “Project Ghostbusters.” Meta did so through Onavo, a Virtual P … | Continue reading
"All of this has led to some pretty serious soul-searching among America’s journalists. Is the future email newsletters? Will podcasts save the news? Does everything need to be short vertical video now? Well, here’s a question that it might be time to start asking: What about Lin … | Continue reading
There’s a new startup in San Francisco, and they’re into marketing. Alone, that wouldn’t be so interesting, but this company has made its business about “algorithmic marketing.” This is 2006, in the days when Facebook was still new and generative artificial intelligence was a con … | Continue reading
The European Commission has initiated non-compliance investigations into Google, Apple, Meta. And instructed Amazon and Microsoft to retain certain documents. Also Facebook Messenger gets 6 months further grace period for the interoperability requirements. | Continue reading
Whoops Apple broke Java and some .NET local development in macOS 14.4. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.app … | Continue reading
© Rob McDonald RSS is a trendy topic among tech circles, it’s coming back from time to time without a breakthrough but still, it’s a technology used. Unfortunately, a lot of websites don’t offer RSS feeds anymore. Big web players like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are promoting … | Continue reading
Today's links Why Millennials aren't leaving Tiktok: It's the same reason that Boomers can't leave Facebook. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Podcasts, events and more. Lates … | Continue reading