September 26, 2019
Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy
If their post has lots of Likes, you feel jealous. If your post doesn’t get enough Likes, you feel embarrassed. And when you just chase Likes, you distort…
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September 25, 2019
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
Facebook today announced it’s building its own Ready Player One Oasis. Facebook Horizon is a virtual reality sandbox universe where you can build your own environments and games,…
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Why Flexport built a slick Slack SaaS for shipping
“Make their metrics your metrics” is one of Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen’s mantras. Sometimes that means building free software for your clients. It can be frustrating aligning your…
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Facebook promises not to stop politicians’ lies & hate
Facebook confirms it won’t fact check politicians’ speech or block their content if it’s newsworthy even if it violates the site’s hate-speech rules or other policies. This cementing…
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Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M
Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text…
Read articleSeptember 22, 2019
How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO
It makes lazy people like me work out. That’s the genius of the Peloton bicycle. All you have to do is velcro on the shoes and you’re trapped.…
Read articleSeptember 21, 2019
Facebook has acquired Servicefriend, which builds ‘hybrid’ chatbots, for Calibra customer service
As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it’s putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest developments, it…
Read articleSeptember 19, 2019
Facebook expands its playable and AR ad formats
Ahead of Advertising Week, Facebook is announcing the expansion of three interactive ad formats. First, it says that poll ads (which you may already have seen in Instagram…
Read articleSeptember 18, 2019
How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack
Colin Bendell Contributor Share on Twitter Colin is Senior Director of Analytics and Strategy for Cloudinary, the co co-author of High Performance Images, and passionate about data, web…
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Out of the box influencer strategies to accelerate awareness for your startup
Kamiu Lee Contributor Share on Twitter Kamiu Lee is CEO at Activate, an influencer marketing technology platform and agency that partners with brands and influencers to tell engaging…
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