Today Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter collectively announced a new partnership aimed at reducing the accessibility of internet services to terrorists. The new Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism adds structure to existing efforts by the companies to target and remove from major web platforms recruiting materials for terror […]
Read more →Procter & Gamble and Unilever have both aggressively pushed for more transparency in the murky digital media landscape in recent years, even threatening to pull back on digital spending unless the system is cleaned up. And now, it seems like the world’s biggest advertisers are putting their […]
Read more →YouTube’s experimental app Uptime, which lets you watch videos with friends while reacting and commenting, has now opened up to all users. The app was first launched in March of this year, from Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, as a means of testing a more interactive and […]
Read more →BBC News SpaceX completes launch and landing double billBBC NewsUS rocket company SpaceX completed back-to-back launches at the weekend. Late on Friday, it used one of its refurbished Falcon 9 vehicles to put up a Bulgarian satellite from Florida. Then on Sunday, SpaceX lofted another 10 spacecraft […]
Read more →The political rhetoric against strong encryption continues to crank up. Reuters reports today that Australia will be pushing for greater powers for countries to tackle the use of encrypted messaging services by terrorists and criminals at an upcoming meeting of ministers from the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence […]
Read more →In a recent webinar, author & keynote speaker Andrew Davis joined us to share his knowledge about growing your business and becoming more successful with less content. We live in the age of information overload. There is more content created today than ever before. There are 17 […]
Read more →Remember 1994? I don’t. But apparently, it was a significant year. On August 11, 1994, a US Internet startup called Net Market performed the world’s very first secure online transaction, which marked the beginning of the ecommerce era as we know it. And what was sold? You’ll […]
Read more →While Google and Facebook still dominate the beach at the Cannes advertising festival and Snapchat has a pop-up Ferris wheel, Pinterest’s presence is noticeably more pronounced this year. For the first time, the company has built a makeshift villa on the sea. And the company seems to […]
Read more →On the heels of a major redesign of its desktop site which delivered an overall cleaner look-and-feel and a “dark mode” for nighttime watching, YouTube this week announced it will soon roll out an update to its mobile app, as well. The new app will better support […]
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There’s an easter egg when you post or comment about Harry Potter on Facebook
Facebook certainly didn’t forget about Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary. The social media giant quietly rolled out an easter egg in time for Jun. 26, the day J.K. Rowling first published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997 (which Americans will of course know as Harry Potter […]
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