August 19, 2016
Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles
“What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video?”…
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August 18, 2016
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity
Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it’s working with game…
Read articleAugust 12, 2016
Facebook’s next big platform: Your camera
Facebook can’t build everything. For a decade, its strategy has been to provide the canvas, then let developers paint it however they want. That’s because there’ll always be…
Read articleAugust 11, 2016
Facebook will soon update code to nullify Adblock Plus’ workaround
Today’s Adblock Plus workaround to Facebook’s adblock bypass ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCrunch. “We’re…
Read articleAugust 11, 2016
Facebook feed change that predicts what’s informative could reprioritize news
News outlets may get back some of their mojo stolen by a June Facebook feed algorithm change that preferred friends over publishers. Today Facebook will start predicting stories…
Read articleAugust 10, 2016
Facebook’s 360 video Guide and Heatmap can steer or track where you look
Facebook has to train people how to make great video if it wants it “at the heart” of its services like Mark Zuckerberg promised, so today it launched…
Read articleAugust 9, 2016
Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter
This is the strategy behind Instagram Stories. Snapchat invented a brilliant format for sharing day-to-day life: photo and video slideshows jazzed up with commentary that disappear after 24…
Read articleAugust 9, 2016
Facebook will bypass web adblockers, but offer ad targeting opt-outs
Facebook is making the HTML of its web ads indistinguishable from organic content so it can slip by adblockers. But in exchange for taking away this option for…
Read articleAugust 5, 2016
Facebook snatches up team from Eyegroove, a musical selfie app
The team from a startup called Eyegroove, a “musical selfie” app, has joined Facebook. According to a message on the company’s website, most of the small team who…
Read articleAugust 5, 2016
Facebook tests MSQRD selfie filters and opening your camera atop feed
Snapchat opens to the camera by default to spur content creation, and now Facebook is trying the same starting with an Olympics-themed test in Brazil and Canada. Instead…
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