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19/11/2022

07/11/2022

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1588868872643391489

07/11/2022

"If you allow the most intolerant voices to be as loud as they want to, you’re going to shut down voices of different opinions... allowing all speech is not actually leading to free speech, it just leads to a cesspit of hate"

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

05/11/2022

It is too soon to say how Twitter's future will look but, in the meantime, it may be a good idea to get yourself established on a different platform.

https://www.slashgear.com/1078028/what-is-mastodon-the-twitter-alternative/

Now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, many users are threatening to ditch their accounts. What is Mastodon, and is it the ideal alternative?

19/10/2022

Experts spanning the public and private sectors are coming together to lead a new initiative launched by Issue One to address [the impacts of social media]

Issue One’s new Council for Responsible Social Media’s members include Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), former Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), former Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler and others with experience at tech companies, government agencies and civil society organizations.

The council aims to elevate nonpartisan voices including parents, pediatricians, child psychologists and national security experts to help drive the conversation about social media reform at a time when there’s mounting scrutiny about tech companies from both sides of the aisle.

The group is designed to address the harms of social media on three areas: children, communities and national security.

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Experts spanning the public and private sectors are coming together to lead a new initiative launched by Issue One to address the impacts of social media, the advocacy organization announced Wednes…

18/10/2022

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We saw his vision (read: dystopian nightmare) in a highly-polished demo that featured everything from Zuckerberg roaming around a luxury home to interacting with aliens and friends on a spaceship. Sure, it looked fun… for a minute. But a glaring problem became immediately clear. He could claim this was the future, he could demo use cases that showed us jumping into the Metaverse for work, play, and more, but it wouldn’t change the fundamental fact — when I’d take my headset off, I’d be immediately confronted with the reality that none of it is reality.

The stock price is almost as low as January 2019, when Facebook was dealing with the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica crisis.

There was also the troublesome irony behind the purpose of the technology. Zuckerberg continually describes the Metaverse as a tool to connect with people. While there will be some interesting uses for the technologies, the bottom line is that this is another step away from physical interaction with people. A Metaverse world is potentially dangerous to society, breeding depression, addiction and mental health issues. But never mind all that — you can buy cool s**t that you can’t afford in real life! (In fairness, you might not be able to afford it online either.)

The company has wiped out nearly all of its pandemic gains

18/10/2022

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When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, he was surprised by what he discovered. Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, "was over a decade behind industry security standards," he later testified.

13/10/2022

This decision could mark the end of a decade of users spreading disinformation on social media with few consequences, as platforms were reluctant to step in and censure them.

The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?

13/10/2022

VR is such a powerful technology, as anyone who has used it even once can attest. But Meta, its biggest proponent, doesn't seem to know what to do with it beyond "what you already do, but worse,"

Meta keeps saying VR is the future, but everything it shows us is an inferior rehash of the things we already have.

13/10/2022

Zuckerberg's metaverse play isn't unusual in the tech world, it's just not one we've often seen pay off outside the world of venture capital.

Unlike a VC that can make dozens of risky bets on startups in hopes that maybe one becomes the next billion-dollar company, Meta doesn't necessarily have that ability, nor that luxury — after all, it has virtual-reality headsets to make, social-media platforms to grow, and advertising dollars to recoup.

Zuckerberg's metaverse play isn't unusual in the tech world. It's just not one we've often seen pay off outside the world of venture capital.

25/09/2022

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24/09/2022

Washington Post
September 17, 2022

A two-year-old French photo sharing app is earning the highest form of flattery from Big Tech's social media titans: imitation.

BeReal which prompts users once a day to snap and share a quick photo from wherever they happen to be, is topping app charts with a social media experience that prioritizes spontaneous connection over image-conscious curation. The app uses your phone's front and rear camera simultaneously, resulting in a post that overlays a candid selfie on an image of whatever's in front of you.

It's also inspiring copycats. This week Tik Tok became the latest big platform to responf to BeReal's surge. announcing a new feature called Tik Tok Now that will give users daily prompts to share impromptu photos or short videos, using the phone's front and rear cameras. The move comes after Instagram has confirmed it is working on a similar feature called IG Candid Challenges, and weeks after Snapshat debuted its own dual-camera mode.

24/09/2022

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22/09/2022

Kids don't need rigid and arbitrary rules to stay safe online. What they need is a strong sense of digital agency.

Well-meaning messages meant to keep teens safe can backfire. The key is to focus on judgment and agency, not rigid rules for screen time.

02/08/2022

"The simple truth is that you cannot simultaneously dedicate yourself to making untold fortunes for a giant corporation and to championing a social good," Caitlin Flanagan writes.

29/07/2022

Steve Jobs wanted to go "thermonuclear" on Android. He lost.

A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.

26/07/2022

Historical review of social networks
1971: The first mail is sent. The two computers involved in shipment were next to each other.

1978: BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) is exchanged over telephone lines with other users.
1978: The first copies of Internet browsers are distributed via the Usenet platform.

1994: GeoCities is founded, one of the first social networks on the Internet as we know it today. The idea was for users to create their own websites and to host them in certain neighbourhoods according to their content (Hollywood, Wallstreet, etc.).

1995: TheGlobe.com gives users the ability to customize their own online experiences by publishing their own content and interacting with others with similar interests.

1997: AOL Instant Messenger is launched.

1997: The Sixdegrees.com website is inaugurated, allowing the creation of personal profiles and the listing of friends.

2000: The "internet bubble" burst.

2002: The Friendster portal is launched, pioneering the online connection of "real friends". It reaches 3 million users in just three months.

2003: The MySpace website, originally conceived as a Friendster "clone", is launched. Created by an online marketing company, its first version was coded in just 10 days.

2004: Facebook is launched, originally conceived as a platform to connect university students. It was launched at Harvard University and more than half of its 19,500 students signed up for it during its first month of operation.

2006: The microblogging network Twitter is inaugurated.

2008: Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network in terms of unique monthly visitors.

2011: Facebook has 600 million users worldwide, MySpace 260 million, Twitter 190 million, and Friendster just 90 million

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26/07/2022

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10/07/2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/08/how-to-fix-news-media/

Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?

02/07/2022

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appears to be among the Americans who roll their eyes – and scratch their heads – when imagining the metaverse.

At the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, this week, Schmidt conveyed indifference and a bit of confusion when asked how the metaverse might affect global relations. “There’s not an agreement on what the metaverse is, even though one company has changed its name in anticipation of defining it,” Schmidt said on Tuesday, alluding to Facebook’s name change to Meta in October 2021.

The tech billionaire, who currently has a net worth of $19.3 billion, according to Forbes, said he’s unsure how the future collection of digital worlds — which, in theory, could enable people to virtually play, travel, work, and shop together — will actually affect regular people’s lives day-to-day.

It’s a commonly shared perception: Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a recent Axios survey said they weren’t exactly sure what the metaverse even was, and 58% of respondents said they were neither scared nor excited about the concept.

Eric Schmidt says isn't joining the cohort of tech CEOs who have invested in the metaverse – primarily because he doesn't think anyone can fully define it yet.

01/07/2022

The first ‌iPhone‌ was announced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and went on sale on June 29, 2007. "An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are not three separate devices," Jobs famously said. "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone," he added.

Ever since its debut, the ‌iPhone‌ has gone on to change the world and the mobile technology industry forever. After its launch on June 29, 2007, it took only 74 days before Apple announced it had sold over 1 million iPhones.

Fifteen years ago to this day, the iPhone, the revolutionary device presented to the world by the late Steve Jobs, officially went on sale. The...

29/06/2022

“I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic,” Charlie Warzel writes in the latest issue of Galaxy Brain.

“I urge you to watch the clips, because it’s baffling how befuddled these men look when asked to articulate concrete, compelling use cases for their next big thing.”

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Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”

29/06/2022

New to the market? Learn how to use Social Media for small businesses and which (free) software you should have in your toolbox.

Discover what we learned when we surveyed small businesses on how they're leveraging social media. Plus, find out which tools you should use.

28/06/2022

https://blog.hootsuite.com/reasons-tiktok-is-intimidating/

TikTok can be overwhelming, yes. But that’s exactly why it’s such an exciting opportunity for your business. Here’s why.

25/06/2022

This 715-song playlist is scientifically verified to give you the chills, thanks to "frisson"

Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?

24/06/2022

Find out how to build an effective social media content creation process and learn about the tools that will make it easier.

Find out how to build an effective social media content creation process and learn about the tools that will make creating content easier.

22/06/2022

At the end of 2008, Firefox was flying high. Almost 15 years later, things aren’t so rosy.

17/06/2022

A successful live tweet makes any event feel more interactive. Here's how to use Twitter to draw attention in real time.

17/06/2022

The third in a series of related essays by Richard Reisman and Chris Riley.