This will come in handy for many, many Google Chrome users. Do you ever open so many tabs that you have no idea what’s what, or why you even opened each one in the first place? This feature is for you – this week, Google has outlined its new option to group tabs in Chrome, with…
Group live-streaming app Houseparty is using a three-day, virtual ‘In The House’ festival, which includes a range of celebrity guests, to showcase its latest co-watching feature update. I mean, that’s obviously not the only reason – with Facebook and YouTube running star-studded graduation events for the Class of 2020, Houseparty, which is primarily used by young students, is also…
US users get excited – Facebook and its Bitmoji-style Avatars are coming to you. After initially launching them in Australia last June, then rolling them out across Europe last month, Facebook’s Fidji Simo today confirmed that the cartoonish likenesses will be available in the US from today. Avatars, much like Bitmoji, provide users with an alternate, cartoonish character likeness,…
While it’s still in the process of rolling out its new Messenger Rooms group video chat feature to all users, Facebook has today announced that Messenger Rooms will also be available within groups and events, providing another engagement option within smaller audience subsets. First off, on groups – Facebook says that both group admins and members…
Google has launched a new tool that will enable podcasters that have their podcasts available via Google Podcasts to glean more insights into their audience behaviors in order to recognize relevant trends and shifts and help maximize podcast performance. Called ‘Google Podcast Manager‘, the new analytics platform will provide data on a range of elements. As explained by Google:…
YouTube is reportedly working on a new option which would enable publishers to more directly add paying subscribers to their publications via their YouTube channels, providing another means for the video giant to help support the news industry. As reported by Digiday: “YouTube is developing a tool for news publishers to sell subscriptions to their owned-and-operated digital properties…
Facebook is updating its group settings to stop any Facebook Group, of any size, from changing its settings from ‘private’ to ‘public’, in order to protect group users from unintended exposure. As shared by social media expert Matt Navarra, the new setting will ensure uniformity across all Facebook group types – up till now, Facebook has allowed groups with…
Twitter has launched a new, limited test on iOS which will provide warnings on tweet replies that include potentially harmful language, and could cause unnecessary angst. As explained by Twitter, if your reply includes words or phrases that Twitter’s system has identified as being commonly included in aggressive, harmful, or otherwise offensive tweets, a prompt…
Instagram has announced that it will now surface Stories from official health bodies that you follow higher in your Stories feed, in order to help increase the distribution of key COVID-19 updates and information. Starting today, we’ll bring Stories related to COVID-19 from credible health organizations you follow closer to the top of your tray….
Whats a second, isn’t this…? Didn’t Twitter already announce this? Today, Twitter has announced that some users on iOS and web will now see its new threaded tweet replies layout, which includes a line linking replies to the original tweet. Which is what Twitter also announced back in February. We’ve given conversations a makeover on iOS….