The very latest web standards now allow web based applications to be used on a multitude of devices. If it supports a browser then you can access your social networks. As our use of the Internet evolves, so does the mechanisms behind it.
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Yahoo picks up Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m)
Yesterday, the board of Yahoo! met and agreed the purchase of Tumbler for $1.1bn (£725m). This is the largest purchase made by Yahoo! since Marisa Mayer took charge back in 2012. The BBC reports on some of the details of the deal, Yahoo ‘to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn’ Under the terms of the acquisition, Tumblr would continue [...]
Instagram updates it’s logo, no one really notices
Instagram, the photo sharing site, has updated it’s logo with a slight redesign. The Verge reports on the changes and how they came about. From ‘Instagram filters out the noise with redesigned logo‘… …the script was designed by Mackey Saturday, a Denver-based typographer and friend of Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. As Gizmodo UK reports, Mackey began working [...]
Tweetdeck to become browser based, goodbye apps
Twitter, which has owned TweetDeck since mid-2011, will be shutting down Tweetdeck for Adobe air and mobile app versions. It will be removed from Google Play on May 7th and Adobe Air versions will stop working after that date. This leave just the web based version which Twitter says it will continue to support. The [...]
A very difficult week for Twitter, Jeep and Burger King!
This week Twitter has suffered, Burger King and Jeep have had their accounts hacked. It started when Burger King lost control of their account and the new owners had plenty of fun… From AdAge, @BurgerKing Becomes McDonald’s: What You Missed in the #failurewhopper Twitter Hack Hacks of high-profile corporate Twitter accounts are usually detected quickly, but [...]
Posterous is closing – long live Posthaven
Posterous has announced the date when it will be going offline. According to their last blog post, April 30th will be the last day. It goes on to say… On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as [...]
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