Instagram really wants you to post Reels — they’ll even pay you up to $10,000 for one, if you’re lucky. As TikTok surpasses the 1 billion monthly active users mark, competitor platforms like YouTube Shorts, Snapchat Spotlight and Instagram Reels are incentivizing users to post their short-form content on their apps instead. YouTube established a […]
Twitter no longer crops image previews on the web
Twitter will no longer automatically crop image previews on the web after rolling out full-size image previews on mobile earlier this year. On Twitter for the web, images will now display in full without any cropping. Instead of gambling on how an image will show up in the timeline, images will look just like they […]
Tencent shares its metaverse vision for the first time
How could Tencent not jump on the metaverse bandwagon when Facebook is hinging its future on the new buzzword? At this stage, Tencent’s approach seems more measured than Facebook’s $10 billion investment into its metaverse division. But any early hint from the Chinese social media and gaming giant will provide enough fodder for investor speculation. During […]
Web 3.0 can repair the attention-driven digital economy
From imbalanced creator economics and poor security, to centralized control and disgruntled communities, Web 2.0’s flaws have been on full display these past few months.
New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition
A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a competing product and ultimately killing its business. The app, Phhhoto, launched in 2014, inviting users to create and share short GIF-like videos. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the same functionality was […]
顔認識技術の使用を中止するという、Facebookの決断の意味
写真や動画に写っている人物を自動的に特定する顔認識技術について、Facebookが使用を中止すると発表した。プライヴァシーと人権上の懸念があるとして米国では使用中止を求める声が高まってきたが、Facebookの決定はこうした動きが加速するターニングポイントになる可能性もある。
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I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself
We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance – but what do we lose?This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was s…
Facebookを“退会”したい？ データを保存してアカウントを「完全に」削除する方法
個人データの不正利用のみならず、安全より利益を優先していたことが内部告発で露呈するなど問題が噴出しているFacebook。いまが退会の好機と考えるなら、データとアカウントを完全に削除してしまうといい。その手順を詳しく説明しよう。
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TikTokはいまや芸術運動となった：蘇るシュルレアリストの遊戯「優美な屍骸」
マルセル・デュシャンやアンドレ・ブルトンといったシュルレアリストたちが興じた「優美な屍骸」の遊戯のように、TikTokから次々に生まれるダンスやデュエット、さまざまなチャレンジは、自然発生的なコラボレーションの価値とハプニングを求める点で、新しい芸術運動だといえるだろう。デジタルテクノロジーはいまや、人がアートに関わる機会を増やし、同時に芸術の形態をも変えつつある。ネットワーク化された創造性ははたして何を生み出そうとしているのか。
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ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt
African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser, Ahmed ElKawass, Abdelrahman Hosny in […]