I’m not sure about the potential of LinkedIn Stories as yet. After initially launching the new option in Brazil back in April, LinkedIn then followed that up with steady expansions into France, the Netherlands, and UAE over the next month (May), then Australia a month after that (June). But then the roll-out stopped, with no new…
After giving users to capability to export their posted photos and videos to Google Photos last December – the first step in its broader Data Portability Initiative – Facebook is now also facilitating the transfer of your Facebook visual content to Dropbox and Koofr, as it continues to explore new options in this respect. As explained by Facebook: “We’ve long believed…
TikTok has added a new feature which enables users to re-use snippets of other people’s video clips, in order to create responses and remixes on the theme. As explained by TikTok: “Stitch allows users the ability to clip and integrate scenes from another user’s video into their own. Like Duet, Stitch is a way to reinterpret and add…
Twitter has announced a new push to improve its accessibility options in order to ensure that tweets can be accessed and utilized by all potential users. As explained by Twitter: “Testing voice Tweets earlier this summer made us realize how much work we still need to do as a company, and we made a commitment to make Twitter more…
Is Facebook Watch really a significant video platform? It’s hard to say how successful Watch is, or will be, based on its performance thus far, but as per Facebook, it is seeing more usage over time: “Today, more than 1.25 billion people visit Watch every month to discover and share videos from millions of creators and publishers.” Which…
It’s not just Facebook’s messaging tools that are slowly becoming more intertwined – this week, some users have reported seeing this notification in their Facebook feed: The note, as you can see, explains that some users are now able to view Instagram Stories on Facebook, with the Instagram Story appearing within the Facebook Stories feed,…
GIF platform GIPHY, which, as you may recall, was purchased by Facebook back in May, is looking to expand on its offering, with a new, custom virtual meeting background creator tool which enables you to create animated meeting backdrops to spice up your video calls. I mean, those are pretty frenetic – but they don’t have to be…
Facebook has published the latest version of its Community Standards Enforcement Report, which outlines all of the policy and rule violations that Facebook has taken action on, across both Facebook and Instagram, over the preceding three months. The latest version of the report utilizes a new layout to present the data, which is essentially a large page of…
LinkedIn has sold off its presentation platform SlideShare, which it acquired in 2012, to eBook publishing platform Scribd. Terms of the deal were not made public. As explained by Scribd: “Today, Scribd’s premium subscription service offers over 1,000,000 professionally published ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, sheet music, and magazines, alongside over 100 million documents uploaded from our community. These documents include information and…
Last month, Facebook published its first Global State of Small Business Report, which provided a snapshot of how SMBs around the world are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, based on responses from more than 30,000 small business owners across 50 countries. And the results, as you might expect, were sobering – among the keynotes. A…