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21/03/2017

Fake news and filter bubble, they go hand in hand. This is what Facebook wants to do about it:

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20/03/2017

The first article featured in this week's Sunday Digital: Google is overhauling its Google Hangouts app in order to compete with Slack. Microsoft has Office 365 and bought LinkedIn a few months back: the battle for workplace productivity is going to get heated!

Hopefully we as consumers can profit off this through better products and competitive pricing

Google Hangouts finally gets that "enterprise" overhaul we've been hearing about...

19/03/2017

It's Sunday Digital #6 already. Read up now! 🙈

19/03/2017

YouTube will be pushing 6-second unskippable "bumper ads" in favor of the longer-form formats. Obviously, viewer frustrations are a big reason to change this. Advertising Age weighs in on this change.

Innovations like YouTube's Trueview are breaking the old model for bumper video spots, writes Andrew Wohlwend, VP advertising and sales operations at ZEFR.

18/03/2017

Better user experience, or more page load room for ads?

Speed is everything on the internet, and as a general rule of thumb: the smaller the file, the faster it’ll load. To help with that, Google created a new open-source JPEG encoder that will...

18/03/2017

Remember Facebook wanting to kill Snapchat? Hubspot wrote up a nice guide on how to use Messenger Day, the stories-features of your omnipresent chat app. Check it out →

Learn what Facebook Messenger Day is, how it works, and what it means for the ephemeral content arms race.

18/03/2017

Who pays influencers? This Tumblr blog sums it up in neat short posts. It hasn't been updated in a while, but it gives you some idea on what to expect (or to pay) →

An anonymous crowd-sourced list of which companies/brands pay their artists/influencers and how...

18/03/2017

Are you travelling to the U.S. soon? Conveniently timed, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released an extensive guide on digital privacy when crossing the U.S. border. Follow their guidelines to avoid handing away your personal life through your devices →

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border:Protecting the Data On Your Devices and In the Cloudby Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in...

18/03/2017

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18/03/2017

Tonight and next week, we'll be judging the graduation projects of Syntra AB students enrolled in the programme to become a social media consultant. Taking notes ensures them to get the most complete feedback. 👌

18/03/2017

REC.​ found its new home in De Krook​, and their students on the postgraduate programme on Digital Storytelling need some coaching on their graduation projects. Let's go! 👊