Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Facebook unleashed its new Reactions on the world yesterday. Instead of just “liking” a post, you can also now tell your friends, coworkers, and family how you really feel (assuming your feels are limited to “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry”). But they’re not the only ones. You can now also share your deepest (six)…
We use the word “troll” liberally these days. Take a spin through Google News using the word as a search term. You’ll see Maxim calling Kanye West a troll for tweeting that Mark Zuckerberg should give him a billion dollars. Then you’ll see Sports Illustrated saying the Grammys “trolled” Kanye. A 12-year-old with Down’s Syndrome…
Unless you work in the media, or have a fascination with things like the mechanics of Javascript calls in publishing software, you might have missed the launch of a Google project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP. In typical Google style, this boring name hides something fairly revolutionary — or something that could be…
If you’ve been searching on Google’s mobile site, you may have started seeing a selection of news articles from various publishers at the top of the search results, in a carousel that allows you to swipe from one to the other. And in the corner of the “card” for each article you might have noticed…
It’s time! This week, news that Hamburg banned coffee pods from government buildings set off a larger conversation about why we’re still giving our money to companies like Keurig and Nespresso. Let’s be honest: It’s time for the whole world to stop buying coffee pods. The news from Hamburg comes a year after Keurig announced…
Social media gives women the power to decide what sexy looks like. Delany*, a 22-year-old college student, tells all of her female friends to get on Tumblr, not for the body-positive memes or feminist art projects, but for the porn. “I tell all my female friends, start with Tumblr,” Delany told The Huffington Post. “It’s…
The last few times you’ve used Facebook, there’s a good chance you noticed something different. Lots of different publishers, including big names like the Washington Post, are now publishing full-length content directly to Facebook. The program, called Instant Articles, is designed for mobile users. It pushes full articles directly to Facebook, meaning that users…
Instant Articles are a fast and interactive experience for reading articles in News Feed. Powered by the same technology that loads photos and videos quickly in our mobile apps, Instant Articles display as much as ten times faster than standard mobile web articles and feature tilt-to-pan photos, auto-play video, interactive maps, and embedded audio captions…
Facebook wants to make publishers happier. Facebook: Instant Articles paging_filter Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform. Starting today, publishers utilizing Instant Articles will be able to place an ad every 350 words instead…
We explain exactly what Facebook’s Instant Articles are, and how publishers are using them. From a social publishing perspective, Facebook Instant Articles have been one of the major talking points of 2015. With some of the biggest news brands, from legacy sites to digital upstarts, now participating, Instant Articles are now a dominant talking point in…