Coinbase is growing up fast — or at least trying to. As an emblem of its current effort to accommodate the massive demand on its platform, the mainstream U.S. cryptocurrency exchange just added Facebook Vice President of Messaging Products ... Facebook Messaging VP David Marcus joins Coinbase boardThis entry was posted in Bitcoin Social TC and tagged facebook on December 12, 2017 by Taylor Hatmaker
If you want to make a living creating white supremacist content, you’re probably not going to do it via sites like Kickstarter and Patreon, which prohibit hate speech. Fortunately there’s Hatreon, a hate speech crowdfunding site that,... How hate speech crowdfunding outfit Hatreon crept back onlineThis entry was posted in Crowdfunding Diversity Media Social TC on December 12, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
Startups die by suicide, not competition. It wasn’t that anyone was stealing SoundCloud’s underground rappers, bedroom remixers, and garage bands. SoundCloud stumbled because it neglected these hardcore loyalists as it wrongly strived... To fix SoundCloud, it must become the anti-SpotifyThis entry was posted in apple music Apps eCommerce Entertainment Mobile Opinion soundcloud Spotify Startups TC on December 12, 2017 by Josh Constine
Twitter today is announcing the launch of a new feature that will allow people to more easily post tweetstorms – that is, those series of connected tweets that have grown to become a popular workaround for getting past Twitter’s chara... Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting ...This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged twitter on December 12, 2017 by Sarah Perez
You can now compose your tweetstorms all at once, and send them out into the world as one contained screed. Twitter’s Newest Feature: Multi-Tweet ThreadsThis entry was posted in Gear on December 12, 2017 by David Pierce
Storify’s eventual shuttering has been a long time coming. The social timeline curation service was acquired by commenting platform Livefyre back in 2013, which, in turn, was picked up by Adobe in May of last year. In a pithily worded note ... Storify’s standalone service is shutting down next yearThis entry was posted in Adobe livefyre Social on December 12, 2017 by Brian Heater
Facebook is trying to close the augmented reality gap with Snapchat with the help of an army of third-party developers. Today, eight months after debuting its Augmented Reality Camera Effects platform and AR Studio tool at F8, Facebook is allowin... Facebook opens AR platform and “world effects” to all developersThis entry was posted in Apps augmented reality Mobile Social TC on December 12, 2017 by Josh Constine
Facebook today said it is shifting to a “local selling structure” in countries outside of the U.S., in which its advertising revenue in that country will be recorded by their local company in the country. That means that rather than d... Facebook will no longer always divert international advertising revenue to ...This entry was posted in Mobile TC and tagged apple facebook on December 12, 2017 by Matthew Lynley
Yesterday, The Verge published comments made by investor and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, quoting his interview last month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he echoed recent comments made by former Facebook... Facebook bats back after a second former exec accuses it ...This entry was posted in Drama Social TC and tagged facebook on December 12, 2017 by Connie Loizos
Instagram has always been a social network where you follow friends and creators, but today it’s evolving with a new way to follow hashtags so you see top posts and Stories about a topic on your home page. Rather than having to dig this con... Instagram becomes an interest network with hashtag followingThis entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged instagram on December 12, 2017 by Josh Constine