Social Media Archive
01 Apr 2015
Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors
Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors Annoyed by those promoted tweets on your Twitter feed? Hopefully, Twitter will make these ads more relevant to you in the near future. Today, the company released Partner Audience, a new ad-targeting feature to let publishers select intended demographics such as “cereal buyers” and
01 Apr 2015
Twitter’s building a second-screen experience for TV shows
Twitter’s building a second-screen experience for TV shows itter is experimenting with TV Timelines, a new way to surface tweets and media related to TV shows on air, reports Mashable. The feature, which is still being tested in Twitter’s iPhone app with a limited number of users, becomes available when you use a hashtag for
01 Apr 2015
How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute
How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute While you can drop out of aTwitter group DM, you’re still stuck in any public Twitter conversation that include your user name. This phenom is also referred to as a canoe (because they’re long boats filled with people?). Sometimes these conversations go for hours – even
01 Apr 2015
Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline
Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline IT seems like everyone wants to shove autoplaying videos in your face and now Twitter wants to join the ranks of Facebook and Instagram in the fight for your eyeballs. According to Advertising Age, Twitter is now testing video advertisements that automatically play in your feed.
31 Mar 2015
50% More Users On Windows Phone Due To Windows 10
50% More Users On Windows Phone Due To Windows 10 It’s not often Microsoft talks about the performance of Windows Phone, but the interest in Windows 10 certainly is having a positive effect on the mobile operating system. So much so that it is bringing more people to it. The company is working to make
31 Mar 2015
Microsoft Still Thinking About Android Apps On Windows
Microsoft Still Thinking About Android Apps On Windows There are some things that just don’t go away. Whispers that Microsoft might allow the possibility of running Androidapps on Windows, natively, have been going on for more than a year now. And yet, the company is yet to confirm or deny this strategy. But there are
31 Mar 2015
Microsoft Said To Be Preparing $149 Windows 10 Laptops
Microsoft Said To Be Preparing $149 Windows 10 Laptops That Microsoft is cooking up extremely cheap notebooks is nothing new, but a new report claims that when it comes toWindows 10 laptops, the company has a new figure in mind. A ridiculously low one at just $149. Apparently Google and friends (companies like ASUS and
30 Mar 2015
Pharrell pops up in Google Maps and Hangouts to mark International Day of Happiness
Pharrell pops up in Google Maps and Hangouts to mark International Day of Happiness IF you thought you’d heard Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ song for the last time, you were wrong. Today is the International Day of Happiness, so there’s a pretty good chance you’d have heard it anyway, even if the singer hadn’t teamed up with
30 Mar 2015
Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map
Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map Google and the SPARK movement have teamed up to put women from history back on the map. SPARK stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance and Knowledge. It’s an organization that encourages healthy sexuality and promotes gender equality in all areas, including on the Web. Did you
30 Mar 2015
Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth
Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth Google recently launched a new Chrome browser extension in beta that reduces your data usage. Dubbed Data Saver, the extension uses Google’s data compression proxy service to optimize pages before serving them to your browser. It doesn’t work with SSL and incognito