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Instagram announces a new scheduling post feature for businesses

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Instagram has recently announced a scheduling feature that allows Instagram business users to schedule Instagram posts in advance. While social...

Mobile Web

The all-in-one video editing, compression and conversion platform with in-built privacy and sharing

Google’s new Perspective API can help you not sound like a jerk while commenting

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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Google and Jigsaw launch machine learning platform Perspective to identify comments that may be labeled as "toxic," and you can...

Business

Machine Learning startup DataRPM accepted to Microsoft’s Seattle accelerator program

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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Machine Learning and analytics company DataRPM joins nine other later-stage startups in being accepted for Microsoft's Machine Learning and Data Science Accelerator in...

Business

Payment service Stripe makes its first acquisition, Kickoff

Darren McCarra7 years ago

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Stripe, the online payments system for developers and founded by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison, has made its first acquisition; Kickoff.

Twitter: No third-party image services please

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Twitter’s removing third-party image services from its official apps

Darren McCarra7 years ago

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With all of Twitter's rules, display guidelines and API changes over the last few months, it's quite clear that Twitter now wants to be in complete control of its service. So much so that it is removing third-party image services like TwitPic and yFrog from its official apps.

Social Media

Get Twitter RSS feeds with these one click bookmarklets

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Get any user's Twitter RSS feed or a Twitter search term's RSS feed using these browser bookmarklets.

Social Media

StumbleUpon reaches 25 million users, plans to localise in Europe

Darren McCarra8 years ago

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Content discovery engine StumbleUpon reached 25 million registered users this week, growing from 5.5 million just three years ago, according to CEO Garrett Camp who spoke to TechCrunch's Anthony Ha.

Social Media

Getting started with Google Schemer

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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As Google's location-based, activity-focused social network, Google Schemer, gains traction our FAQ looks at how the site works, and how you can access it.

Social Media

Manage Google+ Pages using third-party clients like HootSuite

Darren McCarra8 years ago

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Managing Google+ Pages for businesses and organisations just got a lot easier as Google today announced a limited pilot programme granting six companies early access to the Google+ API. These six initial test partners are Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, HootSuite, Involver and Vitrue.

Social Media

Google+ to support Google Apps accounts in “coming days”, relaxing real name policy

Darren McCarra8 years ago

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Google+ Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra and Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed on stage yesterday at The Web 2.0 Summit in California that Google's new social network will begin to support Google Apps accounts in the "coming days".

Social Media

Twitter RSS feed generator

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Use our Twitter RSS generator to create RSS feeds for Twitter users, Twitter lists, and Twitter search.

Social Media

Here’s how to create an RSS feed of a Twitter List

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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It is easier than you might think to generate an RSS feed for a Twitter list. Here's how to do it

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

The internet is full of trolls. This is nothing new. However, the tactics used by trolls can go way further than stupid comments on YouTube, and doxxing is an example of this.

If you are not familiar with the term doxxing, it is the publishing of private or identifying information, such as a home or work address, about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. While this might sound outright illegal, as it stands the law surrounding doxxing is limited and vague.

To get a better understanding of where the US law stands on this issue, what the future of doxxing might look like, and how you should respond if you are a victim, we are joined by Joseph Hoelscher, a criminal defense attorney and Managing Attorney of a Texas law firm, Hoelscher Gebbia Cepeda PLLC, who has worked on multiple doxxing cases in the past, from both sides, as clients who were charged with online harassment and with clients who were the victims of doxxing.

And for our side piece today, we have Computer Says LOL, where we have a stand-up comedy bit from Don McMillan, a technology engineer turned stand up comedian.