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Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet
In the wake of Yahoo’s $US1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it’s perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught — and gutted — another big fish. Yes, Yahoo’s a different company now, especially with Marissa Mayer at the helm. And Tumblr, along with its price tag, are an order of magnitude larger than Flickr was when Yahoo bought it. There are differences.
How To Handle Instagram Tagging Without Being An Asshole
We’ve all been victims of the distasteful Facebook tag at one point or another, and we’ve all felt that tiny shiver down our spine when that fateful red “1″ tells us [insert casual acquaintance] just tagged a new photo of you. That feeling won’t be going away anytime soon — today Instagram’s “Photos of You” tagging system goes live and to the public. But there are ways to minimize the pain and embarrassment of this entirely new set of unwanted tags. Here’s how you can make navigating this brave new, sepia-toned world as painless as possible.
Where Do You Chat?
Real-time chat has been everywhere for, you know, forever now and has swallowed everything in its path. Integrating chat platforms and finding a way to coherently deal with texting vs. chatting has become a major issue. Other than venting here in hallowed Gizmodo chatroom posts, how do you manage all the Google chat options, Facebook chat, Skype and everything else?
What A Facebook Re-Design Would Be Like In Real Life
By now we’re mostly used to Facebook moving the furniture around every once in a while. We complain for a while, then just deal with it. But in a way, it’s still maddening.
Facebook Home Is Now Available For The HTC One And Galaxy S4
Since Facebook launched last month, it’s only officially been available for a small pool of phones. But now it seems the HTC One and Galaxy S4 are now fully Facebooked too.
Instagram Finally Adds A Real People Tagging Feature
The Facebookification of Instagram continues today, as the company just added an official feature for tagging people photos. On your profile page, there will be a “Photos of You” section.
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