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March 24, 2020
It’s like Google Docs for everything. Screen is a free interactive multiplayer screensharing app that gives everyone a cursor so they can navigate, draw on and even code…
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Snapchat’s location-sharing app acquisition Zenly has gamified shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 outbreak. Today the app launched its Stay At Home challenge that shows a leaderboard of which friends…
Read articleMarch 24, 2020
Now you can scroll Instagram together with friends, turning a typically isolating, passive experience into something more social and active. Today Instagram launched Co-Watching, which lets friends on…
Read articleMarch 22, 2020
We’ve been diligently following the development of virtual worlds, also known as the “metaverse,” on TechCrunch. Hanging out within the virtual worlds of games has become more popular…
Read articleMarch 21, 2020
The flood of status symbol content into Instagram Stories has run dry. No one is going out and doing anything cool right now, and if they are, they…
Read articleMarch 19, 2020
Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat’s most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn’t already cloned. Instagram has prototyped an unreleased ephemeral text messaging feature…
Read articleMarch 18, 2020
You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to…
Read articleMarch 18, 2020
When Slack first launched in 2013, the product was quickly embraced by developers, and the early product reflected that. To get at advanced tools, you used a slash…
Read articleMarch 13, 2020
Instagram is embracing its potential as a news source, employing its ubiquity to distribute coronavirus prevention techniques through a new call-out at the top of its homescreen feed.…
Read articleMarch 9, 2020
Facebook’s latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps will…
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