Episode 266

January 30, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

This week’s headlines: Snapchat Gears Up for IPO, Snapchat Lets Advertisers Buy Ads Based on Nielsen Digital Rankings, Facebook Updating Trending Topics, Facebook Testing Prominent Ads on Messenger, Explore Tab Makes Debut on Twitter and Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm to Emphasize Long Videos.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Voice Gets First Update in Five Years, Twitter Launches Vine Archive, Tumblr Adds Stickers and Filters, Instagram Live Stories Rolling Out Globally, Facebook Tests Its Version of Stories, Google Purges Fake News Publishers from Advertising Platform, Facebook Updates Privacy Basics Page, Facebook Supports Physical USB Keys for Authentication and Twitter Joins Instagram.

Episode 174

October 06, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

This week’s headlines: Attention Focuses on Ello, Facebook Introduces Atlas at Advertising Week, Twitter Working on New Platform for Developers and Facebook Introduces New Research Guidelines.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Introduces New Mobile Ad Units, Hong Kong Protesters Turn to FireChat, Reddit Gets New Round of Funding and Plans to Give Back to Community, LinkedIn Updates Pulse, Facebook Making Changes to Real-Name Policy Following Controversy and LinkedIn Launches Slideshare App.