2018-01-19
Posted on January 19, 2018 9:10 am by Shel Holtz
| Virtual and Augmented Reality
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TWiT is suing Twitter—TWiT—Leo Laporte’s podcast network anchored by This Week in Tech—has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement. Laporte says he and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams came to an agreement of Twitter’s name based on the fact that Twitter would not venture into TWiT’s market. (TWiT existed before Twitter.) But Twitter is now distributing content including video, which Laporte… Read More »
2018-01-12
Posted on January 12, 2018 1:53 pm by Shel Holtz
| Employee Engagement
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Facebook News Feed will focus even more on friends and family—Like it’s not hard enough getting your company’s posts to appear in a Facebook user’s News Feed, the company is introducing “sweeping changes” to what its members see, prioritizing posts and comments from friends and families “while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.” Takeaway: Later in this update, you’ll read that Facebook is the overwhelming preference for… Read More »
2018-01-05
Posted on January 5, 2018 4:38 am by Shel Holtz
| Virtual and Augmented Reality
Happy New Year! Let’s kick off 2018 with the first edition of the Friday Wrap. As always, I choose the items to appear in the Wrap from those I have curated into my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing..
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You’ll soon be able to embed Snapchat Stories on your website—Stories Everywhere is a new program that will let third-party publishers embed Snapchat Stories on their websites. Takeaway: Stories was so massively popular a feature that Instagram copied it, then WhatsApp, then Facebook. Several other apps adopted the feature, too. It wouldn’t be hard… Read More »
2017-12-22
Posted on December 22, 2017 12:01 pm by Shel Holtz
| Chatbots
The Wrap will take a holiday break, returning on January 5. I will continue to maintain my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.
News
Facebook inks deal with Universal Music Group—Facebook users will be able to upload videos that include music from Universal Music Group’s vast library across Facebook, Instagram, and Oculus as a result of a deal the companies have signed. That’ll put Facebook on somewhat equal footing with YouTube, which with has signed similar deals with Universal and Sony. Takeaway: Quite a difference from the days of Napster when the… Read More »
2017-12-15
Posted on December 15, 2017 9:36 am by Shel Holtz
| Chatbots
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Storify is shutting down—Storify, the curation tool that made it drop-dead easy to curate content around breaking news or issues, will shut down permanently on May 16. Users can still access Storify 2 if they pay for a Livefyre license. Takeaway: While I haven’t used it in a while, Storify was my main curation tool for a couple years. It never took off the way it should have (though it was front-and-center in a couple breaking news situations), but its purchase by Livefyre… Read More »
2017-12-08
Posted on December 8, 2017 9:35 am by Shel Holtz
| Instagram
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News
Video game aims to replace prescription medications—An ungodly number of children take medications for ADHD but the developers of a video game have demonstrated that playing it delivers the same benefits without the side effects. “In a study of 348 children between the ages of 8 and 12 diagnosed with ADHD, those who played Akili’s action-packed game on a tablet over four weeks saw statistically significant improvements on metrics of attention and inhibitory control,… Read More »
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