tech
Why You Haven’t Seen GIFS on Instagram Stories and Snapchat
Instagram Stories and Snapchat posts are entertaining vignettes into the lives of people you think you know and others who live far away. When you click to watch, you’re transported somewhere else and get to share in the moment or a snicker. The fun skyrockets with added stickers and GIFs.
What The Fresh Hell Is This Facebook Face Recognition?
Facebook showed you a vaguebooking post this week entitled “Introducing Face Recognition for More Features.” Facebook, which these days is 90% wannabe viral videos that you can’t scroll past fast enough, announced in a post that showed up once (and only once!) on your timeline earlier this week that “We’re
Fraud, Identity Theft & the Dark Side of the Sharing Economy
Fraud, Identity Theft & the Dark Side of the Sharing Economy or How I invited a thief into my home with an app Guest post by Johnathan Crawford We put a lot of trust into the services & apps we use. When you think about it, we let strangers into our homes
Before You Post About Your Crappy Job Download This App First!
I got laid-off from my ‘day-job’ about a month ago. It’s been good and bad. Actually….it was really hard when they first told me as I had been there over 3 years. I was angry and sad and frustrated and scared. Our first response seems to be venting on social
Uber Sabotages Dozens of Tech Companies with Plot to Monopolize News All Week
Early Friday morning, Aereo, the tv streaming company that has battled long and hard against television networks to steal and re-resell programming to users, filed for bankruptcy. In the past, the company has captivated the attention of gossip-hungry readers everywhere. But after a week of world-class PR from the team at Uber,
Ello: Ad-Free Empowerment in the Era of Social Networking
Yesterday Stuart invited me to try out a Beta version of this new site Ello. My knowledge went no further than a pal mentioned he had applied to join. I thought that sounded rather official for a social networking site, so I decided to investigate. Ello was started in early July
Umano: Finally An App Worth Listening To
Facebook has recently decided to inundate us with forced and annoying advertisements for Apps. I’m intrigued by maybe two of out every ten because most look pretty useless. When I do decide to take a chance it never ends well. They are usually overly complicated or are trying to be