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
A few weeks ago, tech analyst Ben Thompson wrote an article entitled Aggregator’s AI Risk, where he talks about the risks Facebook, Google etc. face from offering AI tools. I was interested because the AI vs. ads series is, in large part, about risks of AIs to Aggregators. ( | 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 They’re all out of date.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
In the IndieWeb movement there's a concept of "POSSE" - Publish Once, Simultaneously Syndicate Elsewhere. You should publish your words, pictures, songs, reviews on your own site. And then you can choose to share them out to where your audience is. Perhaps that's posting the link … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I wrote this Facebook post in the morning before heading to work: "In olden days, I'd have already been on the road for several hours, driving to get to Quilt Camp at Lutheridge. What a blessing that I can drive an hour down the mountain to teach at Spartanburg Methodi … | Continue reading
What does it mean to “poke” someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous feature was largely invisible for many years, but now Facebook is reporting a 13x spike in poking in the last month. … | Continue reading
Meta's lowest price yet still isn't low enough for most users, NOYB argues. | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Liz RSS Archive www.thelittleworldofliz.com © Liz Climo 2011 inquiries: lizclimoasst@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram March 18, 2024 6:50pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/ZVgbcwfNyTlQ4m00 (Notes: 2,331) Filed under: liz climo comics lifeissucking reblogged this from lizclimo … | Continue reading
Tesla (TSLA) started rolling out FSD Beta v12.3 (2023.44.30.25) to non-employee beta testers on Tuesday. First impressions testing videos of this new Tesla Full Self-Driving build have started to surface on social media platforms like X and Facebook. The majority of early beta te … | Continue reading
AI is here for your Blazor, MVC, and Razor pages apps with Smart Components and is super simple. Use a control and AI is infused and ready to go! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music … | Continue reading
CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment About Harper Silent Sunday Share this: Pinterest Twitter Facebook Like Loading… A Curious Introvert March 17, 2024 Enjoyment, iPhone Journey, Silent Sunday Bakery, Blogging, Cookie, Enjoyment, Frosting, Gene … | Continue reading
Skip to content beetleypete The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk Menu Home About Reactions To Disasters Around The World Image ~ March 16, 2024 ~ beetleypete Share this: Twitter Facebook Email LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Posted in Uncategorized DisastersHumourIma … | Continue reading
Facebook is a wasteland. Once the default gateway to the internet, today the site has a reputation as one of the least cool places on the web—at least for America’s taste-making young people. But, as the New York Times recently pointed out, there’s one corner of the platform that … | Continue reading
Skip to content beetleypete The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk Menu Home About Modern Romance Image ~ March 15, 2024 ~ beetleypete Share this: Twitter Facebook Email LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Posted in Uncategorized DatingHumourImage Post navigation < Previou … | Continue reading
CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment About Harper Some Days You Just Wanna Embrace Your Inner Silly Goose And Dance A Jig Share this: Pinterest Twitter Facebook Like Loading… A Curious Introvert March 15, 2024 Enjoyment, iPhone Journey, Photogr … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « support arXiv on Π data protection [not from Les Houches] » significant otters [cover] Share: Share Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter … | Continue reading
By Jyoti Madhoosoodanan (from a Facebook post) urrently in an email thread that is 70 messages long (and growing) — all to check the accuracy of a 3,000 word story, with a special focus on a few sentences. Those sentences are not wrong, but we’d like to be sure that people who im … | Continue reading
Have you seen a stunning photo of Hollywood Mountain, California recently? One image is making the rounds on social media platforms like Facebook and BlueSky depicting what appears to be a lush green mountain with the L.A. skyline in the background. But it’s completely fake. Ther … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « my life as an obstetrician [spam] significant otters [cover] » support arXiv on Π Share: Share Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Ope … | Continue reading
Mom would have been 111 today. She passed in ’03 at 90, but that’s not what matters. What matters is that she was a completely wonderful human being: as good a mother, sister, daughter, cousin, friend, and teacher as you’ll find. There is a thread in Facebook (which seems to be d … | Continue reading
I have contemplated the value of social media in my life for a while now. The first social media account I signed up for was Facebook in 2009 when I was going into high school. Since then, I've had accounts on several other platforms including Snapchat, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram … | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Liz RSS Archive www.thelittleworldofliz.com © Liz Climo 2011 inquiries: lizclimoasst@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram March 13, 2024 2:51pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/ZVgbcwfMI2NTuu00 (Notes: 951) Filed under: liz climo comics destielsangel liked this linguist-by-name li … | Continue reading
Reposted SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange) Post details Y’all realize everyone in Helpdesk at your job can just import your browser cookies into their machine remotely and browse your Facebook at their leisure, right? Like, you understand what Administrator mean … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « a journal of the conquest, war, famine, and Gothic death year my life as an obstetrician [spam] » Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems, and Hands-on Demonstrations [it’s out now!] Share: Share Click to email a link to a fri … | Continue reading
Ok, maybe some of it's dying. I believe it's too far reaching and too deeply-embedded to really, truly be dying. What we're seeing is a bust cycle for commercial social media and information-driven platforms. It's pretty clear that traditional social media is on the wane — growth … | Continue reading
Ok, maybe some of it's dying. I believe it's too far reaching and too deeply-embedded to really, truly be dying. What we're seeing is a bust cycle for commercial social media and information-driven platforms. It's pretty clear that traditional social media is on the wane — growth … | Continue reading
Trina Messer knew the weather in Dallas-Forth Worth had been unusually warm this year, but she hadn’t anticipated needing her clay-colored yarn in February. “Today we are expecting a high in the 90s!!!,” she marveled in a Facebook update last week, adding regretfully, “I was hopi … | Continue reading
Donald Trump called into CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday where he talked about crypto, tried to defend his complete 180 on a TikTok ban, and promoted his new sneakers. The former president also railed against Facebook, calling it the “enemy of the people.” But there’s one thing Trump … | Continue reading
Frank's Vision Pro app is live, was paid worth it? Also, James rented & drove an EV for the first time, we discuss. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by A … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « computing Bayes, with some approximations a journal of the conquest, war, famine, and Gothic death year » on the edge and online! Share: Share Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Ope … | Continue reading
. If you’re in Montreal this Wednesday (March 13, 2024 at 19:30) you should definitely go see Like Eagles at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines: https://levivier.ca/en/concert/2023-24-season/eagles Facebook event. A re-creation and multimedia conception of the film Like Eagles (Mā … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « oceanographers in Les Houches on the edge and online! » computing Bayes, with some approximations Share: Share Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share … | Continue reading
Temu, the bargain, e-commerce, too-good-to-be-true items merchant, has a strong relationship with Meta. According to the Wall Street Journal, it spent… Continue reading The biggest advertiser on Meta ‘spent billions’ on Facebook and Instagram The post The biggest advertiser on Me … | Continue reading
Evan Prodromou explains that he has access to a feature in Threads that we don't have, which allows him to follow his Threads account from a Mastodon account. This is the easy side of interop, the other direction is more difficult, not technically, but from a regulation and PR st … | Continue reading
Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more… « postdoctoral research positions at PariSanté oceanographers in Les Houches » International Women’s Day 2024 Share: Share Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Clic … | Continue reading
It's never easy being dumped. But Meta has dumped us good and hard. We need to acept that — and move on. | Continue reading