Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Apple launches some Apple Intelligence features like writing tools, image cleanup, and typing in Siri, with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1
If software is judged by the difference between what it is actually capable … Apple on YouTube : Apple Intelligence | Create memory movies | iPhone 16 David Phelan / Forbes : iOS 18.1 Goes Live With A...
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US
Facebook unveiled a new product today called Facebook Campus … Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : Campus Returns Facebook To Its College Roots, Sort Of David Cohen / Adweek : It's Back to School f...
Instagram is testing “favorites”, editable lists allowing users to share posts with a limited group of friends
Reinventing the friends list — Instagram has begun testing a way to share posts with a more limited group of friends. Called favorites, the feature attempts … Tweets: @kevinweil and @joshelman Twee...
Behind Facebook Live, in conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and chief product officer Chris Cox
Why Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Went All In On Live Video — It was February, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just back from paternity leave, sitting in on his first M team meeting since return...
Nextdoor is testing Nextdoor Now, a product that matches users with neighbors providing home services without handling payment or taking a cut, in SF and Austin
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @joshelman and @startupljackson Tweets: Josh Elman / @joshelman : Great feature from @Nextdoor http://twitter.com/... Startup L. Jackson / @startupljackson : T...
What media firms can learn from the PC video game industry's embrace of freemium models, remixes, mods, and crowdsourcing
Lessons from the PC video game industry — The future of media is here—it's just not evenly distributed — The success or failure of tech and media products depends … Tweets: @cdixon and @joshelman ...
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte in private beta for iPhone, allowing users to make and share collages of text, sound, photos, memes, emojis, and more
Casey Newton / The Verge : Tweets: @joshelman , @mgsiegler , @pomeranian99 , @bpapa and @harrymccracken Tweets: Josh Elman / @joshelman : Byte looks very cool. We are all getting too boxed in to the ...