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Jan 21, 2018

Technology January 21, 2018

WhatsApp launches an app for small businesses

WhatsApp has formally propelled WhatsApp Business, a different application utilized by private companies to all the more effortlessly interface with clients.

The Android application enables organizations to rapidly react to clients and additionally furnish them with away messages, telling them when the business is occupied. It additionally enables organizations to survey straightforward measurements, for example, the quantity of messages sent by their organization that have really been perused, as per the organization.

Organizations utilizing WhatsApp Business can associate with common WhatsApp clients as typical, as there's no requirement for standard WhatsAppers to download the different application, the organization said. WhatsApp clients will know when they are being reached by a business as opposed to a person, as it will be recorded as a business account.

After some time, a few organizations will have affirmed accounts once it has been affirmed that the record telephone number matches the business telephone number, a blog entry from WhatsApp clarifies.

This app is accessible to download in the U.S. and the U.K., Italy, Indonesia and Mexico . It will take off far and wide finished the following couple of weeks.

Read also: Twitter: Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

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Jan 15, 2018

Social Media January 15, 2018

Facebook's ''engagement baiting'' what is that?

Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting

Facebook is getting serious about a crisp sort of clickbait: Posts that request that guests "Like" or share or comment to goose engagement numbers, what Facebook is calling "engagement bait."
You've presumably observed posts like this in your bolster. Like in the event that you trust felines are ideal. Share if you believe dogs are best.It's a tactic that publishers use to game Facebook's algorithm, which rewards posts that improve engagement and shows them to more people.

Facebook's ''engagement baiting'' what is that?

Facebook has decided it doesn't like publishers gaming the device in this manner, and claims users don't want it either. “People have told us that they dislike spammy posts on Facebook that goad them into interacting with likes, shares, comments, and other actions,” the company wrote on its blog.

So starting Monday, posts that Facebook considers to be engagement bait will be pushed down in News Feed.Beginning in a few weeks, publishers and Pages that continue to use this tactic will dsicover their reach diminished for all their posts.
Facebook tweaks its algorithm all the time to prioritize or de-prioritize certain forms of content. Just last week Facebook announced an algorithm tweak intended to show users more video, and in the past it has cracked down on other types of spammy posts, like clickbait or links that send users to websites full of ads.

It's unclear if Facebook's effort to eradicate spam is clearly working — the business doesn't share any metrics around spam content and whether it has gone down as a result of its algorithm changes. On one hand, it continues to tweak the algorithm to fight spam, which means the issue still exists in some form. But considering Facebook has a ton of control over what people can and cannot see in News Feed, it’s probably safe to assume there’s less spam than before.

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Social Media January 15, 2018

Twitter : Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Twitter: Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Twitter : Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Twitter is not planning to put a leash on President Donald Trump.

The cultural system said in a post Friday so it won't stop or eliminate controversial tweets from world leaders and decided officials, actually once they usually separate the site's rules. Censoring them "would cover important info persons should be able to see and question," the within an unsigned blog post.

Twitter added that removing their tweets "would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary debate around their phrases and actions.

ban-hitler-image-outside-twtr — Twitter critic Alan Marling has expected this image outside of the company's San Francisco headquarters for weeks. On Friday Twitter said world leaders may twitter what they want. Alan Marling
Alan Marling

The record marks Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's newest try to stability the occasionally incendiary way that high-profile persons use its service and the site's rigid community criteria covering what content may and can't be posted. The most clear-cut case of this pressure is Trump , whose sometimeshave ignited question concerning the consistency with which the business enforces that ban violent conduct like targeted harassment and death threats.

The move following Twitter got below fire for not removing a series of controversial Trump tweets that threatened North Korea.

Officials in the remote state translated them as a "assertion of war." at the time, Twitter said the newsworthiness of the twitter and the tweeter, along with whether it's in the public interest, are typical taken into consideration when deciding whether to delete material.

"We maintain all records to the exact same rules, and consider several factors when assessing whether tweets break our rules," the business tweeted. "One of the factors is'newsworthiness'and whether a twitter is of community interest.' " Twitter dropped to comment further Friday. The White Home did not react to a request for comment.

Twitter : Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Jennifer Grygiel, a cultural media expert and teacher at Syracuse University, said Friday's post was all about one person:.Since joining Twitter in March 2009,has published significantly more than 35,000 tweets. And because getting president a year ago, Trump has tweeted significantly more than 2,400 instances to criticize US'companions and adversaries, the FBI and Justice Department and NFL people protesting police treatment of African-american Americans by kneeling throughout the national anthem, based on.

"There's been such outcry over his twitter manage and whether he violates their rules," Grygiel said.

"This really is practically being addressed due to his tweets and the reaction he gets." Still, Grygiel informed that Twitter could have exposed itself as much as new scrutiny since it did not date=june 2011 how it identified a world leader. She noted that many persons regarded leaders aren't decided or technically in the government.

Months of question Trump's controversial Twitter behaviors extend beyond what he says. The , who tweets rather than the White House's formal bill, in addition has clogged individuals who criticize him.

That's on the lands that the US Constitution's First Amendment allows persons unfettered rights to petition their government. One critic was disappointed with Twitter's position. Alan Marling, an artist who has significantly more than on Twitter and has used several nights previously year along with his projector beaming his important commentaries onto the exterior walls of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, said Friday, "Today, Twitter offered people their answer.

" He then valued of the more recent commentaries he expected that asked: "Would Twitter Bar Hitler?" Earlier in the day Friday, Twitter said it reviews tweets "by leaders within the political context that identifies them" and can enforce its rules while they see fit. "We perform hard to stay unbiased with the public interest in brain," the business said. "No one No one person's bill pushes Twitter's development, or impacts these decisions."

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Social Media January 15, 2018

Facebook news feed will be changed

**Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a new vision for your news feed.**

Facebook news feed will be changed

Your Facebook feed will soon start to look a little different.

But this isn't just about you. It's also about the power and influence of the world's dominant social network.

President Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that Facebook is updating the news bolster to organize posts from family and companions, instead of those from brands and distributers..

That implies its 2 billion users will see less news articles, viral recordings and other media content. Rather, they'll see more babypictures and announcements from close relatives, youth companions and colleagues. The change is the greatest change the informal community has made to the news sustain - basically the spirit of Facebook - in years.

The thought is to give you a chance to have more "meaningful interactions" and to endeavor to ensure you don't experience the ill effects of the time you spend on Facebook.

A month ago, the organization discharged a write about how individuals devour content on Facebook and on the results of that conduct. Latently looking over and perusing things, it found, can have negative impacts, while being more intelligent - - "liking" posts and writing comments -- can be positive.

"We feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. "I'm changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions."

Facebook news feed will be changed

Facebook has been under exceptional investigation as it thinks about its scale and impact. Its omnipotent calculations have the ability to choose what individuals see on the web, and the reasoning is that can affect how they see the world.

Related post: Facebook's ''engagement baiting'' what is that?

The organization, alongside Twitter and Google, has been in the last place anyone would want to be with lawmakers for the part its stage played in the 2016 election. Russian trolls manhandled the service to endeavor to influence the outcomes and sow disagreement among Americans.

Not long ago, Zuckerberg said his most recent yearly test is to "settle" a portion of the issues that have spread on Facebook, similar to abhor and mishandle. He prodded the up and coming change by saying one of the objectives is "setting aside a few minutes invested on Facebook is well spent."

'If we do the right thing...'

On Thursday, he likewise recognized that, temporarily, the company's business could endure a shot because of the change. Distributers, organizations and different brands depend on Facebook's new sustain for conveyance.

"By making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down," he wrote. "But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable."

That affirmation of the potential hardship on the business side shook speculators. On Friday morning, Facebook shares were down more than 4 percent.

But those worries may be overblown, according to one Wall Street firm. In a note to investors Friday, Evercore ISI offered a reassuring perspective.

"Facebook appears to be trading engagement for a higher-quality user experience," Evercore's analysts wrote. "Ultimately, we see the announced change as a likely long-term positive that comes at a time when Facebook is making strategic decisions from a position of strength."

Plainly, Facebook felt this was a vital move to make, even with the disturbance.

"If we do the right thing," Zuckerberg wrote, "I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term too."

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Jan 4, 2018

Social Media January 04, 2018

Instagram users may be able to post their Stories to WhatsApp

Instagram users may be able to post their Stories to WhatsApp

Instagram Stories, by design a clone of Snapchat's once defining feature, have been rapidly growing in popularity ever since their introduction back in March, 2017. Despite the feature's initial inept integration in Facebook, the things went quite well when the company introduced it to Instagram. So well, in fact, that Instagram Stories have by now far its Snapchat counterpart in terms of popularity, boasting some 300 million daily active users as of November, 2017.

But Facebook's efforts of pushing the format show no signs of abating. In fact, the company is now experimenting cross-posting Stories to WhatsApp, albeit only in Brazil. According toTech, who received official confirmation from Facebook, the feature is being tested with a limited number of people in Brazil, with a wider rollout in the cards for later this year.

The users who have access to the feature are able to share their Instagram Stories directly to WhatsApp, as a WhatsApp Status. The Stories are protected by the same encryption method used throughout WhatsApp and disappear after 24 hours.

“We are always testing ways to improve the experience on Instagram and make it easier to share any moment with the people who matter to you,” a Facebook spokesperson

The feature is based on WhatsApp's ability to be integrated within other apps. Users can share their Stories by tapping the "Share" button in Instagram, selecting WhatsApp, and then tapping the "Send" button to publish the Story. There's no word yet on when exactly the feature is going to go live worldwide, but it's expected to see a wider rollout later in the year.

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Dec 26, 2017

Technology December 26, 2017

2017 tech report card: Google

2017 tech report card: Google

The world was kind of a crappy place in 2017, especially online. Google, as a company, needs to do a better job dealing with that.

Google is doing so much that it can be a little difficult for any one thing to break through as the primary narrative for the company, something to move it beyond just search. Apple and Samsung make mostly hardware, but Google seems to be trying to do everything. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has decided what he'd like that primary to be — the expansion of AI and Machine Learning into every corner of the world — but damned reality keeps upending that narrative.

These realities sometimes undercut Google's self-image as an AI powerhouse. The biggest example was the rash of fake news stories that appeared at the top of Google's "Top Stories" carousel, which effectively gave those false stories a patina of Google approval. You'd like to think a company that prides itself on algorithms wouldn't allow them to fail so badly and so dangerously. The company also failed to adequately protect children from both watching or being made to participate in some supremely sketchy YouTube videos.

Other times the realities were simply an indication that Google is not the charmed, utopian company that it often gets presented as. The lawsuit about pay discrimination for women and the drama surrounding the incendiary James Damore memo were important reminders that Google faces the same issues (and can make as many mistakes) as the rest of the world outside Silicon Valley.

Google has weathered these storms with perhaps more grace and good will than other companies would have managed, but they were storms nonetheless. But too often it has been caught flat-footed, reacting to a political world that has shifted under all of our feet. It's fighting a €2.4 billion antitrust fine from the EU. It (along with the rest of tech) has been ineffectual in making a dent in the Trump administration's stance on both immigration and net neutrality. At least the company has (rightly or wrongly) thus far avoided much direct blame for Russian meddling in last year's election.

Step outside politics and just look at Google's products, however, and the company looks quite a bit more effective. Its DeepMind AI went from definitive victories in Go to definitive victories in chess with just hours of self-traiting. The Google Assistant, while still playing second-fiddle to Amazon Alexa in mindshare, made its way to more devices while extending its lead in actually providing useful information. Its answer to instant articles, AMP, has supplanted Facebook as one of the dominant drivers of internet traffic to publishers. YouTube TV seems to be a quiet success, too.

Other Google products had a rougher go of it this year. Two of the products it released this fall had rocky launches — the Pixel 2 XL had a questionable screen and the Google Home Mini had a broken touch sensor. 2017 was the year that Android Wear went from side note to punchline in the wearable space, and Android apps on Chromebooks spent much of the year mired in a buggy beta. And the ongoing slapfight with Amazon over YouTube and retail has been an annoying distraction, to say the least.

It's clearer than ever before that Google has infused nearly every part of our online lives: it controls history's most-used computing platform (Android), makes the most popular browser, runs an absolutely gargantuan ad network, and of course, provides all those search results. But infusing the world also means that the world has infused Google, it's not some separate, don't-be-evil shangri-la anymore (and it never was, really).

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Social Media December 26, 2017

WhatsApp will stop working on some devices

WhatsApp will stop working on Nokia S40 on December 31, 2018

WhatsApp's farewell note for 2017 is not good news for some smartphone users. WhatsApp will stop working on devices running BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone 8.0 and older from December 31, 2017. The WhatsApp blog post with end-of-life dates clearly mentions that users of BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone 8.0 and older operating systems will not be able to use the app after December 31, 2017 - less than a week from now.

To recall, WhatsApp had extended support for both platforms in June this year. At the time, WhatsApp had also revealed that the app will stop working for phones running Nokia S40 will be stopped from December 31, 2018. The app will stop working on phones running Android 2.3.7 and older (Gingerbread) will be stopped from February 1, 2020. The messaging application became unavailable on Nokia telephones running Symbian S60, from July 30, 2017.

Finishing help for Rim and Windows Phone has observed no longer extensions and can come into place on the stated date. If your phone has some of the two specified operating systems, you should consider improving to a more recent phone in order to entry WhatsApp properly. WhatsApp changes for other OS types like Windows Phone 7, Android 2.1, Android 2.2, and iOS 6 were stopped in 2016.

WhatsApp, earlier in the day this month, formally took covers down their new standalone application for organizations, which features equally tested and non-verified profiles. This provides organizations a proper route to perform organization on the messaging app.

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Dec 18, 2017

Social Media December 18, 2017

Twitter has new rules

Twitter’s new rules could result in a major purge of alt-right accounts
Twitter began enforcing new rules today to suspend users affiliated with hate groups “on and off the platform” — a policy that already has led to the disabling of some alt-right accounts.

Initially announced in November, Twitter also started penalizing users whose profiles include “hateful imagery and display names,” presumably including Nazi insignia, or those who use a “username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behavior.”

For Twitter, the two new restrictions are attempts to combat rampant harassment and abuse on the site. Users affiliated with the alt-right or neo-Nazi movements particularly have seized on the company's notoriously lax oversight to stoke racial tensions, peddle false news reports and attack their critics, including Democrats.Earlier this year, they organized a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., with the aid of the platform.

To that end, the Dec. 18 enforcement deadline left some of Twitter’s right-leaning users this weekend fearing a full, messy “purge.” Some said they’d be shifting to Gab, an alt-right-friendly social media site, and encouraged their supporters to do the same.

And by Monday morning, some alt-right accounts had indeed gone offline. That includes the account for the white supremacist group American Renaissance as well as some users tied to the far-right group, Britain First, including a user that President Donald Trump once retweeted.

Twitter has new rules

“Today, we are starting to enforce these policies across Twitter,” the company said in a blog post today. “In our efforts to be more aggressive here, we may make some mistakes and are working on a robust appeals process.

We shall evaluate and iterate on these changes in the coming days and weeks, and will keep you posted on progress across the way.” To be sure, Twitter never explicitly mentioned alt-right or neo-Nazi groups in the principles it first previewed in November. Rather, its new policy more broadly sought to outlaw “specific threats of violence or want the serious physical harm, death, or disease of someone or group of people.”

Notably, though, Twitter has said it will be monitoring groups'behavior not in the website, since it makes its decision regarding which users have run afoul of its new guidelines. “In addition, you might not affiliate with organizations that — whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform — use or promote violence against civilians to help expand their causes,” the policy says. For months, Twitter has felt pressure — from users in the U.S. and regulators around the world, particularly in Europe — to crack down on hate speech.

As of late, the business has started stripping confirmation status — the notorious blue checkmarks — from clients who abuse its strategies.

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Tech-Racdis

Jan 21, 2018

WhatsApp launches an app for small businesses

WhatsApp launches an app for small businesses

Jan 15, 2018

Facebook's ''engagement baiting'' what is that?

Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting

Twitter : Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Twitter: Trump says : other world leaders can tweet what they want

Facebook news feed will be changed

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a new vision for your news feed.

Your Facebook feed will soon start to look a little different.

Jan 4, 2018

Instagram users may be able to post their Stories to WhatsApp

Instagram users may be able to post their Stories to WhatsApp

Dec 26, 2017

2017 tech report card: Google

2017 tech report card: Google

WhatsApp will stop working on some devices

WhatsApp will stop working on Nokia S40 on December 31, 2018

Dec 18, 2017

Twitter has new rules

Twitter has new rules

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