Facebook’s Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More

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 Face it. Your photos aren’t all that interesting. But Facebook’s going to help you jazz them up with its shiny new photo uploader, which just began testing on iOS. It lets you add overlaid text in any color, instantly preview filters that you swipe across your photos, or paste Facebook’s stickers on top. Facebook offered more standard filters before and had tested photo… Read More

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Facebook’s Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More http://www.danieluk.net/news/facebooks-snapchatty-new-photo-uploader-lets-you-overlay-text-and-more/ #Color, #Facebook

Bits Blog: Behind Silicon Valley’s Self-Critical Tone on Diversity, a Lack of Progress

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Tech giants like eBay, Facebook and Google acknowledge that they have work to do to increase diversity, but the repetition of that sentiment shows how little has changed.








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Bits Blog: Behind Silicon Valley’s Self-Critical Tone on Diversity, a Lack of Progress http://www.danieluk.net/news/bits-blog-behind-silicon-valleys-self-critical-tone-on-diversity-a-lack-of-progress/ #Facebook, #Google, #Technology

From Social Networks To Market Networks

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 Most people didn’t notice last month when a 35-person company in San Francisco called HoneyBook announced a $ 22 million Series B. What was unusual about the deal is that nearly all the best-known Silicon Valley VCs competed for it. That’s because HoneyBook is a prime example of an important new category of digital company that combines the best elements of networks like Facebook… Read More

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Tracking Facebook’s Book Challenge

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On January 2, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would be challenging himself to read a new book every other week in 2015.

Tracking Facebook’s Book Challenge http://www.danieluk.net/news/tracking-facebooks-book-challenge/ #Facebook

Kindle’s Sharing Features Now Support Messaging Apps, Plus Web-Based Book Previews

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 Kindle e-book readers will now have a new way to socialize with their friends about their favorite books or quotes from those books by way of mobile messaging apps, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, texting, and more. The change is indicative of the trend toward private sharing as the preferred means of connecting with friends, versus larger, more public social media platforms like… Read More

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Kindle’s Sharing Features Now Support Messaging Apps, Plus Web-Based Book Previews http://www.danieluk.net/news/kindles-sharing-features-now-support-messaging-apps-plus-web-based-book-previews/ #Books, #Facebook, #Media

HBO and Facebook are teaming up to stream Ballers and The Brink

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HBO has announced that the premiere episodes of new comedies Ballers and The Brink will be available to stream on Facebook for a limited time starting Wednesday. The series both premiered last Sunday night, and the network’s partnership with Facebook is exclusive: the episodes won’t be available on YouTube or through any other streaming platforms, only through HBO’s official services (HBO Now and HBO Go). The Ballers premiere is being hosted on star / executive producer Dwayne Johnson’s personal Facebook page, which weighs in at just under 50 million followers; The Brink is sitting on its series page, which is decidedly smaller.

This is a big move for both HBO and Facebook

This isn’t HBO’s first unexpected partnership with an online…

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Now you can sign up for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account

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Starting today, you can sign up for Facebook Messenger even if you don’t have an account with the social network. You don’t even need an email address, in fact. Facebook only requires your first and last name, phone number, and a photo to get started. “With this update, more people can enjoy all the features that are available on Messenger — including photos, videos, group chats, voice and video calling, stickers and more,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Messenger has 700 million monthly users, and this move could bring in new users who have shied away from the complete Facebook experience or abandoned it. But the company says there are still significant benefits to signing up for both. “People can easily message with their Facebook…

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Messenger No Longer Requires A Facebook Account

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   Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger, so it’s expanding the ability to sign up for its chat app without an account on its social network. Users can sign up with just a first name, last name, and phone number, starting today in the US, Canada, Peru, and Venezuela before rolling out elsewhere. Facebook tested accountless signups for Messenger on Android… Read More

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Messenger No Longer Requires A Facebook Account http://www.danieluk.net/news/messenger-no-longer-requires-a-facebook-account/ #Facebook, #Phone

Manus Machina Is Building Gaming Gloves For VR

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 Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, Microsoft’s Hololens or HTC-Valve’s Vive, to name a few VR devices in the works (some others: FOVE, Razer… the list goes on). Dutch startup… Read More

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Manus Machina Is Building Gaming Gloves For VR http://www.danieluk.net/news/manus-machina-is-building-gaming-gloves-for-vr/ #Facebook, #Htc, #Microsoft