You can still auto-post to Pages, but I suspect that will eventually come to an end too if Facebook is serious about eliminating bots. “Facebook is sunsetting its API which allows users to automatically post updates to their “Profile Page” or News Feed. Only the Facebook API allowing automatic posts to Facebook Pages, will remain.”…
I mean, this is what Google does. It provides a number of different products, for free. The price for signing up is giving up some of your personal information so they can make money from targeted ads based on it. It’s the same thing Facebook does, the same thing the entire ad-tech industry is built…
Doesn’t sound creepy at all, does it? “The application, first reported by Metro, was published on June 14 and lays out how Facebook might remotely turn on your phone’s mic to start recording. Essentially, Facebook would embed high-pitched audio signals in “broadcast content” (think TV ads) that would be inaudible to humans. But whereas our…
According to this article, yes we should. And I tend to agree. It takes seconds to tag a brand, send a mean Tweet and publicly shame them into responding to a complaint in front of millions. But we often forget that there are still real people manning the phones, and hiding behind a screen doesn’t…
I was listening to the latest Akimbo podcast and Seth Godin said something very interesting about how his blog helps him. He talked about how it forces him to focus, and to think about what he wants to say, etc. Having been a blogger for as long as I have, I paused to think about…
We’ve all felt like this was happening, didn’t we? “For your smartphone to actually pay attention and record your conversation, there needs to be a trigger, such as when you say “hey Siri” or “okay Google.” In the absence of these triggers, any data you provide is only processed within your own phone. This might…