Heads-up to any Pinners out there, Pinterest recently announced it changed its home page algorithm. According to company engineers, this new algorithm should increase user engagement by promoting interactive and diverse content. Although Pinterest’s algorithm will analyze your previous activity to determine suggestions, it will place a greater
Read more →If you didn’t know about TikTok before the coronavirus, chances are you have it on your phone today. Get this: recent data shows this video-sharing app hit 2 billion downloads worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. As TikTok’s popularity continues to soar, more people are interested in how the company
Read more →In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, Facebook wants to do its part to promote high-quality original journalism. To achieve this goal, the social media giant said it’s tweaking its News Feed algorithm. In a blog post published on June 30th, Facebook announced it would employ this
Read more →On March 18, 2019, users of Google+ received an email from “Google+ Team” titled “Save your Google+ content before March 31, 2019”. The email is legitimate and is not fraudulent or a scam. Here’s what the email says: You’ve received this email because you have content in
Read more →Perhaps the thing I admire the most about Amazon is that they are constantly trying new things. Of course, some of these things fail and others are massively successful. When something doesn’t work out, they learn from it. One of my favorite quotes is from Jeff Bezos
Read more →Laundry detergent packets such as Tide Pods are poisonous and extremely dangerous to eat. They are concentrated and come in a variety of different chemicals. Potential effects of eating detergent include seizures, pulmonary edema, respiratory arrest, coma, and death. Sources: American Association of Poison Control Centers http://www.aapcc.org/press/83/
Read more →Kyokye recently reached out to me and we were chatting about his Snapchat account. I tuned into Snap today and there was was jumping off of a cliff. Here’s a pic he recently posted from Nanakuli: When I asked Kyokye about his Snaps he said: Being from
Read more →Late at night on October 1, 2017, a horrific event took place. A 64yr old man, Stephen Paddock, holed up in his hotel room at Mandalay Bay, opened fire on people having a good time. At this point, the media is still trying to figure out if
Read more →On April 28, 2017 Yik Yak closed its app down. On that day, they published an article on their blog. The blog is now gone. I scraped the content and it is here as a “mirror” to be preserved in case anyone ever wants to see it.
Read more →No. Unfortunately, if you change the URL on your Facebook Business Page, people visiting the old URL will not automatically be redirected to the new URL. Instead, they will see “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.” This is shame
Read more →Yes. If you change the URL on your Pinterest account, people visiting the old URL will automatically be redirected to the new URL. This week I’ve been assisting a brand with a bit of a rebrand. The company name is changing, so all the social profiles and
Read more →Snapchat rolled out some new features July 5, 2017 including backdrops, voice filters and the paperclip. The first thing brands, publishers and normal users are going to want to is test out this new feature. So, we tried it out for you and have complete details below.
Read more →At a baseball game tonight I saw a teenage girl whose ex-boyfriend located her down to the seat she was sitting in because her bitmoji was displaying her exact location, and it made m wonder the same thing millions of other people are wondering: is this safe?
Read more →Snapchat Spectacles Version 2 will likely feature Augmented Reality (AR) based on the fact that Snap’s “World Lenses” feature already displays AR via mobile devices and a patent application from 2015 reveals designs of AR integrated glasses. However, this is not guaranteed and there has been no
Read more →When Snapchat was first created, it lacked one component that all other social media sites were built on: the ability to post content to all a user’s followers at once. A user could send a “snap” to each of their friends individually, but they could not post
Read more →Mere moments ago, I discovered the Snapchat story search. An interesting new feature that Snapchat has launched to help navigate its extremely popular Snapstory feature since millions of snapstories are posted every single day. And after my first encounter, I must say that people should use Snapchat’s
Read more →In the wake of numerous violent broadcasts on Facebook’s live stream platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he is working hard to re-vamp his company’s video screening process. To do this, Zuckerberg said Facebook will hire and train 3,000 employees to monitor and censor video content going
Read more →Yesterday, May 3, 2017, the news broke that Wicked Weed is selling to Anheuser-Busch. Lots of people congratulated Wicked Weed, and plenty of people had negative things to say. This is because Wicked Weed has a massive fan base who LOVE them. On Facebook, the announcement had
Read more →To celebrate April Fool’s 2017, Google introduced Google Gnome and Amazon jumped in on the fun with Petlexa. Did Twitter partake? On Twitter, when you create a new account, until you enter your own pic you are given an egg. Makes sense, as the logo is a
Read more →People love sharing political content on Facebook. They want politicians thrown in jail. Lock him up, lock her up. I’m with her, I’m with him. People feel the need to tell their friends about their new pink hat or Donald Trump bumper sticker, or why Obama ruined
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