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zolotarev

Q1 2019 Social Trends - eMarketer Trends, Forecasts & Statistics - 2 views

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social networks social platforms

shared by zolotarev on 21 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • “We plan to build this [platform] the way we’ve developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental and private use case—messaging
  • WeChat Pay and Tenpay (Tencent’s business-oriented payment platform) accounted for 38.8% of the total amount spent via mobile payments in China during Q3 2018
  • games were the most popular category of miniprograms, used by 42% of WeChat miniprogram users in China
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  • and then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups, Stories, businesses, payments, commerce, and ultimately a platform for many other kinds of private services,” Zuckerberg wrote.
  • Advertisers worldwide will continue to shift spending from the News Feed to Stories, slowing ad revenue growth for Facebook in 2019. Stories monetize at a lower rate than the News Feed.
  • More social commerce: Facebook is likely to expand its “Checkout on Instagram” to new countries and companies throughout 2019.
Oleg Batluk

Digital media may be changing how you think: New study finds users focus on concrete de... - 0 views

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social digital dementia physical-digital overlap data digitalization

shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly
  • wake-up call to how digital media may be affecting our likelihood of using abstract thought
  • Reading comprehension and problem solving success were affected by the type of platform used.
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  • For the abstract questions, on average, participants using the non-digital platform scored higher on inference questions with 66 percent correct, as compared to those using the digital platform, who had 48 percent correct
  • On the concrete questions, participants using the digital platform scored better with 73 percent correct, as compared to those using the non-digital platform, who had 58 percent correct
  • it's crucial to recognize the role that digitization of information might be having on this important aspect of cognition
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

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chatbots messaging technology Social

shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
alexbelov

Oculus announces new social features to help personalize VR experiences | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology VR Social gaming

shared by alexbelov on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Starting tomorrow, users on the Gear VR platform will be able to create their own user profiles and search for friends by username who they can interact with in virtual space.
  • Social Trivia, which will allow you to hang out with buddies’ avatars in a social space and compete in trivia battles. Users will also be able to create VR chatrooms of sorts with Oculus Social where they can watch videos together from Vimeo or Twitch.
  • retty soon we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you’re just there right there in person
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  • Alongside this launch, Oculus announced a new multiplayer game that makes use of some of these new social features.
  • alexbelov on 11 Mar 16
     
    Gaming and social media market landscape will very soon change a lot thanks to virtual reality.
Maria Gurova

Facebook will give video makers a cut - 0 views

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Technology Facebook video content Immersive Entertainment Social Media content consumption content snacking micro-moments news platforms UGC Maker Movement

shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • "There's a certain class of content which is only going to come onto Facebook if there's a good way to compensate content owners for that,"
  • "We've recently rolled out the business model for this. We'll give a revenue share on a portion of the views to content owners
  • To grasp the scope of change unraveling in content creation, which is increasingly fragmented, consider all the mobile apps on your smartphone.
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  • Studies consistently show users thumb through only a handful of apps on a regular basis
  • This is why tech bellwethers — from social media platforms such as Facebook to traditional hardware companies like Apple — are churning out news products, designed to court and engage audiences to their brand-ecosystems.
  • Facebook plans to announce the launch of Notify, a standalone news app, the Financial Times reports. Featured content will come from media partners including Vogue, The Washington Post and CBS.
  • Professional content already is splintered across content creators and technology platforms
  • Apple News, for iOS 9. The mobile app aggregates news from a wide range of sources into a mobile-friendly format,
  • Twitter Moments is a feature on Twitter that links tweets in a traditional story format, from beginning to end.
  • Snapchat has been partnering with publishers for Snapchat Discover. The app, widely popular with millennials, includes a "Discover" feature that showcases stories from publishers including Vice, People, CNN and National Geographic
  • For example, with instant articles Facebook directly hosts outside publishers' articles on its social network — and Facebook pockets the traffic
  • Facebook on Wednesday also said its daily video views have reached 8 billion, though some tech analsyts including Pfeiffer wonder if a single view is measured by only a few seconds on an autoplay setting.
  • Facebook in fact is testing its own, site-specific video hub, as Re/code has reported.
  • Maria Gurova on 01 Dec 15
     
    social media is rapidly moving towards serving as a one-stop destination for all consumer media needs 
alexbelov

Scienverse To Launch Social VR World | Virtual Reality Times - 0 views

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virtual reality Technology Social entertainment VR ecosystem

shared by alexbelov on 29 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • alexbelov on 29 Oct 15
     
    Chances are that soon we will interact with VR worlds similar as we interact with social media today. Scienverse is a combination of an open platform of 3rd party VR apps and a social network aiming to consolidate all VR apps in one place and compatible with all VR headsets. Provides virtual space for people to interact.
zolotarev

Britain Proposes Broad New Powers to Regulate Internet Content - The New York Times - 1 views

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content regulation western countries

shared by zolotarev on 14 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Britain is proposing sweeping new government powers to combat the spread of violent and extremist content, false information and harmful material aimed at children.CreditHenry Nicholls/Reuters
  • Australia passed a law last week that threatens fines for social media companies and jail for their executives if they fail to rapidly remove “abhorrent violent material” from their platforms. New Zealand is also considering new restrictions.
  • In Singapore, draft legislation was introduced last week that supporters said would restrict the spread of false and misleading information.
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  • Germany last year began prohibiting hate speech
  • The rules would apply to social media platforms, discussion forums, messaging services and search engines.
  • Western democracies
  • are becoming more willing to intervene.
anna_nelidova

AirConsole Is A Browser-Based Gaming Platform Where Your Smartphone Is The Controller |... - 0 views

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Technology gaming smartphone controller interfaces accessibility entertainment simplification

shared by anna_nelidova on 23 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers
  • For a local multiplayer gaming session AirConsole is super simple to use
  • your phone becomes the touch pad to control the goings-on on the other screen
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  • it’s cross platform and cross device — so you don’t need specific hardware to get a gaming session up and running
  • You won’t be able to play the newest AAA games with it, but that’s also not really what we’re all about. AirConsole is to play a few quick games with friends while having a beer.
  • anna_nelidova on 23 Oct 15
     
    Your smartphone can easily become a controller if you go to AirConsole.com on your computer and phone and enter the link code. It's target audience is not pro gamers community, but the casual social gaming crowd.
Olga Bykova

Piggybackr Launches Its 'Kickstarter For Kids' To Let Youth Get In On The Crowdfunding ... - 1 views

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kids freetime social

shared by Olga Bykova on 07 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that’s specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls
  • Olga Bykova on 07 Aug 13
     
    Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that's specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls.
Irina Marchenko

G20's Young Entrepreneurs are Increasingly Interested in Digital Technologies but not H... - 0 views

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Entrepreneur Summit Young

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  • Irina Marchenko on 05 Aug 13
     
    The recommendations summarized in a final Summit communique primarily focus on the following: *Need to develop digital infrastructure. Young entrepreneurs are the most active group in terms of both starting up businesses and using the latest digital technology to help run the business and optimize business processes; *Importance of developing educational programs for entrepreneurs, advancing the entrepreneurial culture, and streamlining government funding for "green" technology studies; *Need to ease the tax burden in the fields of scientific-technical programs and social entrepreneurship, namely the taxes imposed on employers and employee income tax; *Access to funding for startups and emerging companies. Ensuring funding on easy terms, changing banking requirements, developing rules for new forms of funding, including cross border online platforms, investors' and entrepreneurs' networks.
Maria Gurova

YouTube's Grand Plan to Make VR Accessible to Everybody | WIRED - 0 views

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Technology Social entertainment youtube VR Advanced Content Monetisation Impactful Communication Economy Immersive Experience Immersive Entertainment accessibility content maker movement Market

shared by Maria Gurova on 09 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Today, YouTube is unveiling 360-degree virtual reality videos and a virtual movie theater for all YouTube videos, available to anyone with a Google Cardboard headset. The goal is to “democratize virtual reality” and “bring VR to everybody
  • social network is now seeing 8 billion daily video views. Facebook itself recently debuted 360 video. And the social networking giant owns Oculus,
  • But Facebook, its biggest competitor, is rapidly encroaching on YouTube’s turf.
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  • expects that library of content to grow “very rapidly,” especially as the company works with YouTube creators to get more VR content up on the platform
  • According to Variety, these YouTube stars are even more influential among US teens than Hollywood celebrities.
  • The one stumbling block is that not that many people have the equipment to experience VR. Google says some 1 million folks already own the Cardboard viewer
  • it’s convenient that the company is launching these virtual reality features right before The New York Times ships 1.3 million Google Cardboard sets this weekend, as it debuts its new VR documentary, “The Displaced.”
Maria Gurova

Instagram Testing 3D Touch Ads - 1 views

www.fastcompany.com/...instagram-testing-3d-touch-ads

Technology social media e-commerce Instagram mobile advertising micro-moments Shop Now ADD instant shopping Market Access vs Ownership Consumerism 2.0

shared by Maria Gurova on 10 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • says the move by Instagram is part of an ongoing initiative to add more e-commerce features to the platform, as well as more ways to display and interact with products
  • "Mobile commerce is definitely a space we are looking at closely.
  • Instagram has become increasingly more interested in advertising and has deployed a variety of new products and ad formats for advertisers.
  • Maria Gurova on 10 Nov 15
     
    Instagram is testing tools that might make it the e-comemerce platform of the future
alexbelov

Future of messaging apps - 3 views

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Technology messaging apps Social

shared by alexbelov on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • users of the messaging app WeChat can order food, call a taxi, check their bank balance and even shop flash sales of limited-edition goods. And for the user, the experience is just like texting a friend.
  • alexbelov on 11 Mar 16
     
    Messengers are becoming a platform for B2C communication offering a new retail experience and allowing to order goods, get special offers or discounts, check or top up balance, book tickets, or schedule activities. Businesses start using AI and language processing technologies to automate communication with their customers.
Vladimir Antonov

Pirate Bay gets 'Stream It' option for in-browser viewing (Wired UK) - 1 views

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Piracy Technology Social content online theaters simplification accessibility

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 11 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • A new browser plugin for Windows and Mac computers has turned The Pirate Bay into the world's biggest streaming site
  • plugin lets people stream torrents embedded in webpages without needing to use an external client or download the torrent itself
  • A new 'Stream it!' button has appeared alongside existing options to download, although the feature is still in beta with poor image quality and slow speeds the main issues.
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  • Unlike conventional torrent downloads, the service is easy to use and lets users start watching pirated films and TV shows in seconds
  • The streaming add-on works by finding enough peers to stream content without buffering. Existing torrent streaming services used HTTP, which quickly became too demanding on bandwidth
  • By launching on The Pirate Bay, the service has instantly become one of the world's largest online streaming platforms, albeit one completely based on piracy
  • The team behind Torrents Time claimed that ad server integration was "coming soon". And if Torrents Time can make money, and dodge almost inevitable legal take-downs, it could be here to stay
  • Vladimir Antonov on 11 Feb 16
     
    seems we'll have legal online movie theatres and pirate ones, who'd gain more users in the future?
isoldatenkova

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future and What Scares Him Most | WIRED - 0 views

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socialmedia content privacy

shared by isoldatenkova on 08 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • “will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure.
  • There are all these different kinds of utilities for basically all the different things that you would want to do with everyone you know. And we basically built this whole platform around the town square
  • If you want to message someone on Instagram, you have to use Direct, if you want to message someone on WhatsApp you have to use WhatsApp. But I think people tend to have one of the messaging apps that they prefer the most. So giving people the choice to say, “Hey, I want to use WhatsApp because I prefer that as my service where I can not only message people on WhatsApp but I can message people on Facebook or Instagram as well and have those services connect …” I think that that will unlock a lot more convenient and seamless experiences. So connecting the services in that way I think will be valuable.
isoldatenkova

Facebook is planning to launch crypto in 2020 - Business Insider - Business Insider - 0 views

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Technology crypto Economy

shared by isoldatenkova on 03 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • The social media giant will roll out the digital currency in around a dozen countries by the first quarter of next year,
  • Facebook has a huge ecosystem of users it can provide new value for using the nascent asset class. Its crypto can reduce friction for these users, enabling them to make purchases or make transfers to each other without having to leave the platform,
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