Tag: facebook
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Glass observations – an update
One year ago I wrote Glass observations, a post wherein I wrote about the state of sharing photos on the web, and what I thought about the photo sharing app Glass. This morning I read that post anew to see if my opinion still stands – it does. So if you missed it and were…
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I do not like Reels
Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now, as it clones TikTok, it is jamming those features into Instagram as well. The Snapchat-like features are easy enough to ignore if you…
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Libra (the new cryptocurrency) must-reads
So Facebook, among others, announced a new cryptocurrency and blockchain called Libra. You’ve likely already seen the headlines. But perhaps you’re wondering what it means, what makes Libra any different than, say, Bitcoin, or perhaps you have other questions. I did too. So I’ve rounded up a few links that helped me gain some perspective…
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My interpretations of announcements by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter
Apple pre-announcing something: “We’re excited to get this in customer’s hands late next year”. My interpretation: “We never pre-announce things. Why are we doing this? We’re terrible at it. In fact, we make fun of other companies for doing it! Steve Jobs would never allow this! (mostly) We must be doing this because some group…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Op-Ed
Go read it. It is actually shorter than his recent Facebook post on privacy. This part was… umm, interesting? Finally, regulation should guarantee the principle of data portability. If you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. This gives people choice and enables developers to innovate and compete.…
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Is Instagram about to plummet?
When Instagram first started to hit popularity – long after their failed attempt at being a check-in service – the app was all about photo filters. Anyone could snap a photo with their phone and quickly add a filter to make it look “better” or at least more interesting. It made everyone feel like a…
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Twitter isn’t going anywhere
Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: Regardless of all of that, I think it’s clear the leadership at Twitter has no idea what they are doing, and I think the network’s time is ticking away faster than ever. Not to be contrarian but I disagree. Update January 24, 2019: I must have misread Hackett’s post. I…
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RSS is not dead. Subscribing is alive.
Sinclair Target, writing for Motherboard: Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was. This isn’t the first nor the last article to cover the creation of the RSS standard, its rise to relative popularity with Google Reader, and its subsequent fall from popularity. But the big…
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Observations on Oculus Go
At work we picked up an Oculus Go for research and development purposes. But of course I commandeered the device first to put it through its paces and I think I have a good enough feel for it to write up a few observations. These are, as always, in no particular order. Many of my…
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Fred Wilson on owning your content
Fred Wilson: I would never outsource my content to some third party. I blog on my own domain using open source software (WordPress) that I run on a shared server that I can move if I want to. It is a bit of work to set this up but the benefits you get are enormous.…
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Oculus announcements galore
Be sure to check out the Oculus blog as they’ve announced a slew of new things. I’m still going through them all and will be sifting through it over the coming days. But, at first glance, I’m really excited to see this category of product move forward. Here are the highlights for me (though there…
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Facebook will drop the patent clause for React license
Matt Mullenweg: I am surprised and excited to see the news that Facebook is going to drop the patent clause that I wrote about last week. They’ve announced that with React 16 the license will just be regular MIT with no patent addition. I applaud Facebook for making this move, and I hope that patent…
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Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s use of React
Matt Mullenweg: I’m here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year. Automattic will also use whatever we choose for Gutenberg to rewrite Calypso —…
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Outsourcing your online presence
Joe Cieplinski: Look, I get that I’m the nut who doesn’t want to use Facebook. I’m not even saying don’t post your stuff to Facebook. But if Facebook is the only place you are posting something, know that you are shutting out people like me for no good reason. Go ahead and post to Facebook,…
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Is VR overrated?
Kristopher B. Jones, an entrepreneur from near my neck of the woods, weighs in on VR in a recent Forbes piece debating the applicability of the technology: I’m a strong believer that virtual reality is overrated, as it has limited applications outside of very specific industries. Industries like gaming and medical training are likely to…
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The slow web and POSSE
David Mead: This year all of my posts, replies, and retweets on Twitter will be coming from this blog and not using the Twitter app (#OwnYourData). That probably means doing it at the end of the day. I’m hoping that will make them more considered (something we may all want to be in the coming…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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Three microphones
I began posting to my own site in earnest on March 6th of this year. I wrote: So, starting tonight that is what I’m going to try again to do with a goal of sticking with it in perpetuity. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be posting to Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, but that everything…
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Two needs for deep linking
What are Deep Links? Scott Rosenberg recently wrote a piece on Backchannel on Medium about Deep Links. He wrote: Deep linking means to bore a wormhole-tunnel that hops you directly from a specific spot in one app to a spot in another, no side trip to a browser or a home screen needed. You get…
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The Web 2.0 Expo experience
When I first found out that the entire Viddler team would be going to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo – I wasn’t sure of what to expect from the Expo. Would it be a social (tshirt and jeans) or more a professional (suit and tie) type of conference? And really, it turned out…