Disney today is wading into the mobile messaging market with a new chat application called Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While the app will compete to some extent with popular messaging clients like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and others, the goal with Disney Mix is to provide a safer alternative that’s built with the needs of kids in mind. That means the… Read MoreDaily Archives: August 4, 2016
Disney today is wading into the mobile messaging market with a new chat application called Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While the app will compete to some extent with popular messaging clients like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and others, the goal with Disney Mix is to provide a safer alternative that’s built with the needs of kids in mind. That means the… Read More
Jim Prosser, Twitter’s head of corporate, revenue, and policy communications, is leaving the company. He’s headed over to SoFi to run communications and policy, he said on Twitter. It’s noteworthy that three of Twitter’s top communications executives have left in the past month. The highest profile departure in the past few weeks was longtime Apple veteran PR… Read MoreAnother communications head leaves Twitter
Facebook Pages and websites that frequently withhold, exaggerate or distort information in their link headlines will disappear from News Feed thanks to a new anti-clickbait algorithm that’s now rolling out. Facebook manually classified tens of thousands of headlines with a clickbaitiness score to train the new algorithm. Now it can detect headlines like “When She Looked Under… Read MoreFacebook’s new anti-clickbait algorithm buries bogus headlines
Video has generally been available — and is often shared — on Pinterest, but it hasn’t quite received the same treatment that the company’s traditional content has seen.
Over the next few months, however, that will be changing. Pinterest is starting to test ways to get video running directly on its services, including building a native video player. And beyond that… Read MorePinterest starts expanding its visual search tools to video
Say what you will about OnePlus’ now-defunct invite system – it certainly helped the company control its supplies and gauge demand. The launch of the OnePlus 3 marked a brave new, invite-free world – one that’s apparently come with a few growing pains as the company works to meet demand. Co-founder Carl Pei took to the company’s forums to announce that it will… Read MoreOnePlus says it’s temporarily halting European sales to meet increased ...
Apple’s forthcoming reality TV show just scored itself some big-time Hollywood star power: according a report out this morning from Variety, actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow will serve as a mentor to the contestants on the new series, “Planet of the Apps.” The show, which is debuting next year, will also see Gary Vaynerchuk and will.iam join the show as advisors,… Read MoreGwyneth Paltrow joins Apple’s reality TV show “Planet of the ...
In the 80s, there were dozens of 1-900 hotlines that anyone could call to chat about a certain topic. These ranged from phone sex lines to WWF chats to fan hotlines for stars like The New Kids On The Block and Hulk Hogan.
Chatrooms eventually ended this lucrative industry, until now.
Unmute, an app that lets users make and listen in on live phone calls, is today unveiling v2 of the product… Read MoreUnmute reinvents the phone hotline with an social calling app
This might sound like inside baseball, but I’ve been using Ulysses for all my writing for a few months now. It’s a rock-solid, well-designed writing app for iOS and macOS. And now, the app lets you publish on any WordPress website with a native export screen, among other things. Read MoreUlysses is now a damn good WordPress editor for Mac ...
Apple released a brand new ad just in time for the Olympics. The video is all about diversity and happiness. It features many different photos and short clips of human faces, smiling and enjoying life. Maya Angelou is reading her own poem “Human Family” to narrate the ad.
Apple will air it for the first time during the Olympic Opening Ceremonies tomorrow. Compared to previous… Read MoreApple focuses on diversity with new ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad
There are signs that a growing number of Brits are feeling overwhelmed by the neverending demands of digital technology, with many web users attempting to reset the balance between their online and offline lives by taking a temporary break from c...