Social Media
It's social media that forms virtual communities and networks 🤝 to create and share information and ideas 💬 locally 🏠 & 🌐 globally.
Collection by Gerrit Eicker
The Verge
Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads
3 min · · The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends. · Shared by 96, including Gerrit Eicker, Builtvisible, Melonie Dodaro, Madalyn Sklar Digital Marketing since 1996, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, luis antónio santos, Matt Navarra, Jeremiah Owyang, Michael (मुकेश), Stephanie A Kowalski
The Guardian
YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the line of free speech
15+ min · · As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper · Shared by 34, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Gerrit Eicker, @grzewap@mastodon.social, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Mathew Ingram
The Information
Growing Pains: Facebook Pushes Instagram to Earn Its Keep
2 min · · Inside a conference room at Facebook headquarters in January 2018, a discussion among senior executives—a group known within the company as the “M Team”—turned to Instagram, the photo-sharing app that… · Shared by 33, including Gerrit Eicker, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Mari Smith, Matt Navarra, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Messina
Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
15+ min · · Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends,… · Shared by 337, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Talkwalker, Harpreet Singh, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Amy Jo Kim, Builtvisible, Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays, Dominik Grolimund, Jan Firsching 🆒, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, Adam Tinworth, Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros, Jane, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Mark Tabladillo PhD
CNN
Instagram is changing the way people buy things
3 min · · Instagram is great for sharing photos, interacting with celebrities and discovering trendy looks — everything even Amazon has struggled to perfect. Fashion houses, retailers and big brands see an… · Shared by 15, including Gerrit Eicker
WIRED
Reddit Now Lets You Livestream. What Could Go Wrong?
2 min · · The platform is running a weeklong experiment called RPAN to see how Redditors use new livestreaming capabilities. · Shared by 42, including Gerrit Eicker, Matt Navarra, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Fanzo, RebelMouse, Builtvisible
CJR
Could WordPress + Tumblr create an alternative to Facebook?
7 min · · When Verizon announced earlier this week that it was selling Tumblr, the blogging platform Yahoo acquired in 2013 for $1.1 billion, most of the attention focused on the price: according to Axios, the… · Shared by 48, including Gerrit Eicker, Rick Powell, Jonathan Kogan, rogerverhoeven, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Mathew Ingram
Buffer
If Likes No Longer Matter on Social Media, Then What Does?
4 min · · Attention is the new like. Here's a look at how social media behaviors are changing and what it means for marketers and brands · Shared by 47, including Mari Smith, Katja Evertz, Martin Jones, Robert Rose, Gerrit Eicker, Klaus Eck, Tony Restell, Thomas Power, Stephanie A Kowalski
MIT Technology Review
A teen video app is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict
4 min · · Hindu nationalists are flooding TikTok with videos declaring they plan to go to Kashmir, get married, and ostensibly make the majority-Muslim contested region Hindu. · Shared by 18, including Larry Balaclava, Vikram Dutt, Gerrit Eicker
The Spectator
How Google’s tunnel vision cost us all
4 min · · As a member of the marketing team for Google’s once-hyped Google+ social network (remember that?) I can recall only one… · Shared by 111, including Dominik Grolimund, Chris Messina, Gerrit Eicker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
MarketingLand
16 social media updates for marketers in 2019... so far
7 min · · There’s been a lot of changes in social media this year and more are rolling out all the time. Here are some highlights to note. · Shared by 44, including Gerrit Eicker, Martin Jones, George Waititu, Rosh Sillars
VICE
TikTok Users Are Inventing Wild Theories to Explain Its Mysterious Algorithm
5 min · · No one knows how TikTok’s For You page algorithm works, so users have taken it upon themselves to construct their own theories. · Shared by 17, including Gerrit Eicker
kwokchain.com
The Arc of Collaboration
13+ min · · The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows. Why Slack is an Else Statement, there is no distinction between productivity and collaboration, and why the S… · Shared by 177, including Amy Jo Kim, Fabricio Teixeira, Oscar MacDonald, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Kunal Bhatia, lehrjulian, Sachin Rekhi, andrew chen, Pete Skomoroch, #MuskOut (not parody), Gerrit Eicker, Julien Bilger, George M 🇪🇺
The Guardian
Has Tinder lost its spark?
5 min · · Dating apps are a huge success – but people are looking elsewhere for the perfect match · Shared by 45, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Gerrit Eicker
Fast Company
These are the most surprising apps for professional networking
2 min · · Forget LinkedIn or Twitter. What about TikTok or Goodreads for finding that new job? · Shared by 47, including Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Thomas Billeter, Gerrit Eicker
hedonometer.org
Hedonometer
· Hedonometer.org is an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time. The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and… · Shared by 7, including Gerrit Eicker