It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that I simply could not put down. “Going Zero” by Anthony McCarten (German edition) managed that. The story is about an experiment where CIA/FBA/NSA cooperate with a Facebook-like company called “WorldShare” in order to see if that company … | Continue reading
"Aggregate Facebook traffic to a group of 792 news and media sites that have been tracked by Chartbeat since 2018 shows that referrals to the sites have plunged by 58%." I'll bang this drum forever: establish direct relationships with your audience. Do not trust social media comp … | Continue reading
Apple had it's big event, but what do these new devices mean for developers? Are we impressed, is thin to thin? Why can't we have the M4 in our development machines? We discuss. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, … | Continue reading
I don’t try to be well known. I don’t have a big social media presence. I just write this blog and keep family and a few friends updated regarding my whereabouts using Facebook. Yet there I was, in a Walmart parking lot, having lunch and goofing around on the computer, door open … | Continue reading
The above is a post from a grief support group that I follow on Facebook. The topic got me thinking, which brings me here to the blog. It occurred to me literally yesterday that I will not be able to pick flowers from my mother’s garden this year. My father no longer lives in the … | Continue reading
Overcome by the desire to write about electric car conversions after a recent conversation with Graeme from OZDIY, I shared my interest with Facebook and received several generous offers of story. Here is one, written by Ra Cleave and Boyd Benton of New Zealand, with some slight … | Continue reading
Overcome by the desire to write about electric car conversions after a recent conversation with Graeme from OZDIY, I shared my interest with Facebook and received several generous offers of story. Here is one, written by Ra Cleave and Boyd Benton of New Zealand, with some slight … | Continue reading
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A group of Democratic secretaries of state has formally requested that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, discontinue allowing advertisements… Continue reading Democratic secretaries of state urge Meta to ban misleading election ads The post Democratic secretaries of state urg … | Continue reading
Despite bans on militias, Facebook continues to struggle with content moderation. | Continue reading
I squeezed in two screenings of The Social Network — the 2010 film by David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, dramatizing the founding of Facebook — on the day it was released in Australia. I went up to the local cinema the morning it opened, so I could write about it here, then returned … | Continue reading
Today's links CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools: Unfollow Everything rises from the grave. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lates … | Continue reading
Shared by Sup Gau in the Facebook group "Language Nerds": Unknown writing system or just a prank? Selected reading "Unknown language #16" (3/5/24) — with references to previous posts "Mirabile scriptu: fake kanji created by AI" (1/7/23) "I (don't) doubt that the letter is fake" ( … | Continue reading
William Deresiewicz writes: “Having recently moved across the country, I thought that Facebook would help me feel more connected to the friends I’d left behind. But now I find the opposite is true. Reading about the mundane details of their lives, a stready stream of trivia and e … | Continue reading
EU probes Facebook/Instagram owner for possible Digital Services Act violations. | Continue reading
With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitt … | Continue reading
A very bizarre thing happened the other day, and, no, we’re not talking about someone donating a billion dollars to me, but that would be pretty sweet. The incident began on Facebook, actually. First of all, I know the name changed. Still though, I want to have future generations … | Continue reading
Yesterday Manton shared a recent post by Manuel Moreale The web is not dying – Manu: Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS t … | Continue reading
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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
This is not the news ban you're looking for. | Continue reading
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
John Gruber in 2020 on the tracking industry led by Facebook: The entitlement of these fuckers is just off the charts. They have zero right, none, to the tracking they’ve been getting away with. We, as a society, have implicitly accepted it because we never really noticed it. You … | 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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