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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…
Facebook Tests Auto-Play Video Ads
NewsSocial Media September 15, 2013
Social networking site Facebook is testing videos that play automatically on mobile versions of its service, thus firing things up to turn the 1.15 billion-member club into an attractive venue for lucrative, television-esq video ads. The videos will be silent when they appear in a user’s newsfeed, but then expand and... Read more
Future Skype Calls Could be Made in 3D
NewsSocial Media August 30, 2013
Skype has confirmed that it is working on 3D video calling but is unable to release the development until camera and video capture technology catches up. Mark Gillett, Microsoft’s Skype vice president said that the popular app has the potential to support 3D conversations in the future but it... Read more
Tumblr Say Hack is Not to Blaim for Porn Pop-Ups
InternetSocial Media August 22, 2013
Tumblr is claiming that the random posts appearing on the blogging site are due to corrupted data, not hackers. A spokesperson from Tumblr said, “Earlier this morning, an infrastructure failure lasting roughly 15 minutes led posts created in this window to become corrupt. No data was lost, but this... Read more
China Offers Reduced Prison Sentences in Exchange for Positive Posts
InternetSocial Media July 17, 2013
According to new study, the Chinese government is offering reduced prison sentences for inmates who post pro-Beijing comments on social media sites. Professor Xiao Qiang of the Berkeley’s School of Information and founder of China Digital Times has gone through over 2,600 Communist Party directives that have been sent... Read more
There are countless tools online that you can use to make your life easier, especially if you are a social media professional. Every pro has his own particular favorite, but for those who have interacted with me, it is no secret that I love Buffer. What started out as... Read more
The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC lost a red panda, aptly named Rusty, over the weekend. To find him the zoo turned to social media, namely Twitter for help. Poor Rusty had only been a resident at the zoo for three weeks and was acquired as a breeding... Read more
Android Users Now Dominate Instagram
MobileNewsSocial Media April 12, 2013
A little more than a year ago, Instagram was released for Android. Prior to that release, the photo app was the sole domain of filter-happy iPhone users. I could be wrong, but I think that many an iOS hipster was not happy that the audience base for Instagram suddenly... Read more
Twitter Founders Launch Medium
NewsSocial Media April 11, 2013
Twitter co founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have launched a joint publishing application called Medium, which allows multiple people to submit photos and text to Pinterest-style content hubs. It has been launched, ironically enough, by the San Francisco based The Obvious Corporation founded by Williams and Stone. How... Read more
Whisper is an upcoming app that has already gained a large and steadily growing group of followers, along with favorable attention from a group of investors. A Series A funding from a group of partners led by Lightspeed Venture Partners have already raised $3 million for the start up.... Read more
Similar to Pinterest in layout and design, Luvocracy is a new San Francisco-based social network that launched into beta last fall. On Pinterest, users can pin any kind of inspirational content that interests them, such as clothing, recipes, vacations spots, and diy project, to share with friends and other... Read more
Twitter’s global ad revenue is increasing and is expected to hit new heights, according to a new estimate from eMarketer. According to the estimate, Twitter’s ad revenue will almost reach $1 billion in 2014. The numbers are much higher than previously expected. The reason for the huge increase in... Read more
The e-commerce site for pinners has announced its intentions to prolong its beta testing period for 6 more months before release of the company’s SMB-focused sales plan. Additionally, the company has also launched “ShopInterest Sales Network”, marketing programs that allows vendor’s items to be sold through third-parties. The idea... Read more
The upcoming social network, Pheed, which was launched last year, topped the App Store’s social networks in late February. The social platform allows users to share photos, texts, video and audio. The majority of the site’s users are teenagers with 81% of them between the ages of 14-25. Teensagers’... Read more
Pinterest Acquires Livestar
BusinessNewsSocial Media March 25, 2013
Pinterest has announced its acquisition of Livestar. Livestar was founded in 2011 and was launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2012. Livestar provided personalized recommendations from your friends and also from expert sources from around the web. While the terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, it has... Read more
CollegeFeed Connects College Students and Employers
InternetSocial MediaSoftware Reviews March 25, 2013
A social site was launched for college students,on Tuesday. The social network was created so that Students could connect with each other and with potential employers. Collegefeed also gives students access to tuition help, interviewprep help, alumni and mentors, and assists the students with their job search. The feed,... Read more
TechBeat is devoted to covering the latest and most interesting stories in the tech world. We cover the full spectrum of technology developments -including reviews, product comparisons and breaking news. TechBeat is making it easier than ever for readers to have access to all of our web content. If... Read more
Facebook Announces Updated News Feed
NewsSocial Media March 12, 2013
Facebook has recently updated its Timeline, but the one area of the site that has been somewhat neglected since the start of the site in 2006, is its News feed. For this reason, on Thursday, Facebook revealed its updated version of the news feed, which will provide the users... Read more
This Is How China Censors Its Version Of Twitter
NewsSocial Media March 12, 2013
The rest of the world may live in the Twitter stream, checking updates and sending tweets more often than they check email, but in China, it’s Weibo that rules. Weibo is the Chinese term for microblog, and it was originally launched in 2009. In 2011, the domain name was... Read more