We landed on the moon 50 years ago using computers that occupied entire rooms. Today, we possess more computing power than was used to land us on the moon, and using it to connect with each other in unexpected ways. Like using lobster emojis to bring awareness to social issues, creating convincing videos using Artificial Intelligence, and finding out how we look when we’re old. Read on for everything cool that happened this week on social media!
In this week’s roundup — find out how you can watch live TV with your friends, who’s next to jump onto the gaming bandwagon, how Instagram is going to deplete all of your savings, and to see the literal biggest dog to ever live.
It’s a whole new (augmented) reality here on the Internet! While Facebook and Instagram are debuting new features, Snapchat tries to save itself from doom, and it’s time to say goodbye to Google Plus. Keep reading to find out more deets on the latest social media news.
Awesome news in this week’s #MMSocialReport: Adobe is finally killing off Flash, and Microsoft confirms that Paint will still be available for Windows 10.
We also cover a Google Chrome extension that will allow you to view Facebook stories on it’s browser, BuzzFeed is selling a hot plate that can be connected to your smartphone, and lastly find out what the Snapchat Hotdog means for the future of AR.
This week’s #MMSocialReport is all about updates. Snapchat rolled out an update with Tint Brush, Google gave us a new security feature warning about unauthorized apps, and Amazon’s latest mobile update includes an Instagram-like feature called Amazon Spark.
It’s Friday and that means…. the #MMSocialReport. This week was a hectic week for the social world, especially Facebook. We saw Facebook reveal the ability to capture emotions via facial scanning to offer emojis, plans for Messenger Ads to go global, and how to upload your own GIFs. Twitter tagged along with an update to filtering notifications and Google Earth announced big plans for Google Earth stories.
Welcome back to the #MMSocialReport — this week we’re covering the celebration of Pride on social media, Bitmoji’s continued takeover of Snapchat, video selfies — which are a thing now (and are apparently different from regular videos), Facebook’s update to Safety Check, and Chrome killing pop-up ads.
Social media keeps evolving. There’s always a new feature or a new app threatening to change the game. We keep up with them all so that you don’t have to. From Apple’s new video editing app to Instagram potentially competing with Yelp—here are the top five social media headlines for the week.
In this week’s #MMSocialReport – The North Face and Spotify team up to create a super cool playlist with a twist, research on Twitter bots and Facebook job posts, another Google App was released, and a tiny robot dog trained to monitor your social media accounts now exists.
Two major efforts to undermine online harassers, the Super Bowl’s takeover of social media, Mark Zuckerberg’s new focus on video, and the Snapchat IPO—read about it all on this week’s #MMSocialReport.
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