Blog: Social media - Page 8

Last week saw headline grabbing announcements from the two big “traditional” players in social media - Facebook and Twitter. Facebook’s announcement that it was going to widen its live broadcasting service Live to groups and events was accompanied by its statementthat it was placing a new vide...

Snapchat rolled out a new set of features to its chat capabilities yesterday. Besides adding direct voice and video calling capabilities, the ‘Chat 2.0’ now offers a seamless way to switch between various types of communication within a chat session.

Guardian Circle is a new app, which allows you to build groups of ‘guardians’ consisting of personal contacts that you wish to rely on. You cansendalerts to these groups immediately bringing your guardians into an ‘alert room’, where they see your location and can chat with you to figure out...

YouTubers have become some of the biggest reach content creators out there. The likes of Marcus Butler, Zoella and Pewdiepie are living proof that it is completely possible today for a single YouTuber to supersede the reach of large traditional content creators and their programmes for a fraction of...

GIFs have been around since 1987, Vine popularised the feature case for super-short form content in 2013, but in the last few months it’s been raining super-short form innovation. Recent announcements include iOS Live Photos, Facebook’s GIF profile pictures, Disney Gif or Instagram’s Boomerang...

LinkedIn previewed a new version of its mobile app , which will be deployed in the upcoming weeks. It took place at the company’s TalentConnect, an event focused on recruiters. Although the preview was mostly about new user functionalities, part of the message to recruiters was that these features...