The Tuesday Madrid meeting will be followed by one in Rome on September 10, in Paris on September 25, in Warsaw on September 30, in Berlin on October 14, in London on October 16, and in Brussels on November 4.
Category: Web
Facebook to update video feature with view counter
The social networking giant reported 1 billion video views per day in June, up by 50% from the month of May!
Microsoft revamps MSN homepage
Steve Lynas, regional director of MSN: It’s a strong change in content direction for us, it’s a merging of Bing apps and the MSN website… It’s being mobile-first and cloud-first, as we are.
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook ready to spend even billions to bring internet to the entire world
Mark Zuckerberg: What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world. Even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world.
Twitpic going down; trademark dispute with Twitter to blame
Twitpic has announced that it is taking down its picture sharing service on September 25 following a trademark dispute with Twitter. Twitpic revealed that Twitter has sent out an ultimatum to either…
Facebook ‘Privacy Checkup’ tool puts you in command
Facebook has made its ‘Privacy Checkup’ feature, which was announced in May, available to all its users enabling them to review all the stuff they share on the social network manually as…
eBay down for hours due to technical glitch; Facebook suffered 15 minutes outage
Yahoo’s Tumblr, Apple’s iTunes store and LinkedIn have also faced similar issues on Wednesday!
YouTube fan funding feature debuts for content creators in 4 countries
All the payments will be processed through Google Wallet and the company will get a part of the revenue thus generated.
EU scrutinizes Facebook-WhatsApp deal; asks rivals and customers for feedback
EU: As a result of the Facebook/WhatsApp transaction, do you expect that it will be more difficult for WhatsApp’s competitors to expand their user base or to launch a new consumer communications service/app in the European Economic Area?
Time-travel with Internet Archive’s 2.6 million historic pictures posted on Flickr
Internet Archive: What if every illustration, drawing, chart, map, or photograph became an entry point, allowing one to navigate the world’s books not as paragraphs of text, but as a visual tapestry of our lives?
Google: Authorship no longer supported in web search!
Google’s John Mueller: We realize authorship wasn’t always easy to implement, and we greatly appreciate the effort you put into continually improving your sites for your users. Thank you!
Facebook weeds out clickbaits
Facebook: We’re making these changes to ensure that click-bait content does not drown out the things that people really want to see on Facebook.
Amazon to take on Google AdWords with new advertising platform?
If the reports are to be believed Amazon could be testing its new ad platform “Amazon Sponsored Links” later this year.
Twitter: BotMaker helped decrease spam by 40%
Twitter: To fight spam on Twitter, we built BotMaker, a system that we designed and implemented from the ground up that forms a solid foundation for our principled defense against unsolicited content.
Islamic State extremist posts pose trouble for the social network diaspora
Islamic State or the ISIS which stands as one of the most dangerous Jihadist groups at par with the Al Qaeda has recently found an alternative to posting extremist messages on Facebook,…