Monday, November 12, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Weekly Wrap Up: October 4 - 10
Top news this week in social media and tech (and other fun stuff I care about):
- Apple Sells 3 Million iPad Minis During Debut Weekend - Apple said it sold 3 million units of its iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad during the debut weekend, a sign that the new devices can help the company withstand accelerating competition in the tablet market.
- Instagram Launches Web Profiles - Instagram announced this week the launch of web profiles, full-fledged Instagram profile pages you can access from a web browser--however they maintain a clear focus on mobile.
- New Twitter policy lets users see tweets pulled down for copyright - Twitter has changed the way it responds to DMCA copyright notices. Rather than removing tweets, it is “withdrawing” them instead. This helps show when and why tweets go missing, and also brings new transparency to the DMCA process.
- Facebook App Updates Includes Photo Filters - Facebook users with the updated iOS app can now add Instagram-style filters to pictures uploaded via their mobile device.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Weekly Wrap Up: October 28 - November 3
Here's what you missed this last week while you were in a Halloween candy induced coma or were without power thanks to Sandy:
- Hurricane Sandy Blows Up Weather.com - Forty-one million visitors. Nine hundred sixty million page views. Three days.
- Apple Will Sell App-Enabled, Color-Changing Light Bulbs - Philips calls Hue the world’s smartest light bulb. It’s actually a web-enabled LED home lighting system that, when used with the free mobile app, lets consumers control and play with the lights in their home.
- iPad Mini is Sold Out - When the Apple iPad mini officially goes on sale those who have not pre-ordered will need to wait at least two weeks to pick up the new tablet. Apple’s online store marked those iPad Minis as “sold out” over the weekend.
- Sandy Takes Out BuzzFeed, Gawker and the Huffington Post - Tons of great Sandy coverage on the Web last night and this morning. Largely absent from the conversation, though, are three New York-based news/aggregation sites: BuzzFeed, Gawker and the Huffington Post.
- Laptop With First Presidential Email Up For Sale - Bill Clinton was the first president to send an email while in office (he sent a grand total of two during his eight-year term). Although one would think his Toshiba Satellite Pro computer would belong in a museum, a private collector is selling the laptop on eBay. It's totally authentic (no sarcasm)!
- Twitter Is Working On A Windows 8 App - Finally
- Apple Drops Below $600 After Executive Shakeup - Apple’s stock fell back below $600 in pre-market trading Wednesday and opened at $594.49 a share, down more than 1.5% from its previous close, following several big changes to the company’s executive leadership.
- Facebook Shares Drop 5 Percent As Employee Lockup Expires - At market opening Wednesday, Facebook took another hit, with shares trading at 20.94, 5.02 percent below Friday’s level, the last day trades were made since Hurricane Sandy hit. 234 million Facebook shares held by employees are now eligible to be sold on the market thanks to a stock-lockup expiration.
Here's some cool stuff from some fellow bloggers:
- Artifact Uprising makes beautiful Instagram books by Kiran Umapathy, Holiday Matinee
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Recap: TedxDetroit 2012
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I can't even put into words how amazing of an opportunity it was to be in the same room with such inspiring people who truly care about the city of Detroit and want to make it a better place.
Here's my super-quick, super-Instagram recap:
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Beware of Fake Sandy Pictures
Earlier today I was searching for live information coming out of NYC about Sandy. The first place I checked was Instagram because if I was there I would be gramming up a storm.
After searching IG for #newyork my feed became flooded with regram after regram of this picture:
Then it was all over Facebook along with an image of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unnamed Soldier in the rain paired with a caption stating they were enduring Sandy's wrath as their duty to stand guard.
I was instantly skeptical that these were real, however I scoured the internet trying to find the truth.
Then I came across a BuzzFeed article that confirmed my suspicions that these pictures was fake and outlined 10 other Sandy picture lines.
Don't fall for these people's photoshop trickery!
USA Today's Mark Smith, Senior of Social Media Marketing, offers up this advice for picking out a fake:
Here's my advice:
After searching IG for #newyork my feed became flooded with regram after regram of this picture:
Then it was all over Facebook along with an image of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unnamed Soldier in the rain paired with a caption stating they were enduring Sandy's wrath as their duty to stand guard.
I was instantly skeptical that these were real, however I scoured the internet trying to find the truth.
Then I came across a BuzzFeed article that confirmed my suspicions that these pictures was fake and outlined 10 other Sandy picture lines.
Don't fall for these people's photoshop trickery!
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USA Today's Mark Smith, Senior of Social Media Marketing, offers up this advice for picking out a fake:
(from his Facebook) A tip on photo-sleuthing for you as we see more and more Photoshopped Sandy images. You can take an image file and drop it into the search bar of Google Images. Just drag and drop. Google then searches the web for similar images, tracking down everywhere online it's been published before. This is what the search for the viral photo of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (which was actually taken in September) looks like.
Here's my advice:
- Don't get caught up in the hype with these types of things
- Think about the likely hood of what you're seeing
- Do some research to validate
- There's a 90% chance that what you're seeing is fake
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