Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer
Clubhouse, Fleets, whatever Facebook just announced, etc. etc. But not everything works best as audio, IMO. Some things are better consumed and stored as text. But then, I am an old Sara Fischer / @sa...
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor
In a weird way, I've known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way into my own family. Tweets: @airpir_southern , @sarahfallon , @mathewi ,...
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer's CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers
Hi. This is your host Can Duruk speaking. Joyce Koh / Bloomberg : Singapore Isn't Waiting for Facebook to Crack Down on Fake News Leif Johnson / Macworld : Apple News+ FAQ: Magazine list, price, down...
Chrome's default ad blocker goes live, removing ads on sites that repeatedly display pop-ups, autoplay video with sound, and other invasive ads
and why it's not your new ad blocker Greg Synek / TechSpot : Google shares details of Chrome's built-in ad blocker Brett Molina / USA Today : How Google Chrome will limit the ads you view Rik Henderso...
Instagram “Stories” clones Snapchat's Stories feature for ephemeral photo and video slideshows, will roll out globally on iOS and Android over next few weeks
One of the more eye-rolling sentiments … Alexandra Vaidos / Softpedia News : Instagram Introduces Snapchat-like Feature Stories Shashidhar KJ / MediaNama : Instagram takes on Snapchat with self-destru...
MapQuest Updated To v3.0 With Improved Maps, Multi-Stop Route Optimizations, And More
Okay, MapQuest still exists. I know, now that I've completely blown your mind, I can also tell you the MapQuest Android app has been updated to v3.0, and there are some substantial improvements. Twee...
AMP adds constraints for faster loading webpages that restrict Javascript and ban some HTML tags including iframes; new AMP-specific elements introduced
and distributed — web David Nield / ReadWrite : Google Introduces Accelerated Mobile Pages To Keep Content On The Web Peter Kafka / Re/code : Google Unveils ‘AMP’ — Its Answer to Facebook's Instant Ar...
Great content isn't commodified, and is a key differentiator for media companies, and Facebook hosting news won't change that
Facebook hosting doesn't change things, the world already changed — Like any industry, the media loves a bit of navel-gazing (what is the origin of this phrase … Tweets: @mathewi , @aakruse , @marga...