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Newt Gingrich has been many things in his life. House speaker. Presidential candidate. Moon-colonizing advocate. And he’ll soon add Mashable tech blogger to his resume. It started in 2013. Gingrich queried his followers about self-driving cars for one of his “Newt University” workshops. Have you read or seen anything interesting on driverless cars? Tweet it to…
TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit. Running a community-based site is complicated; running a site with 9,000 active communities in a changing world is even more complicated. For the…
article start Publishers are still digesting the details of Facebook’s new “Instant Articles” initiative, which in the first 24 hours has set off reactions ranging from panic to confusion to envy across the online news landscape.There are many questions for media executives to consider about the program, which allows whole articles and videos to be…
We look at Facebook engagement around the first ‘Instant Articles’ on Facebook. Yesterday saw the launch of Facebook’s long-anticipated ‘Instant Articles’. The new format sees a chosen group of publishers able to post media-rich articles straight to the news feed. For now, Instant Articles are only available to iPhone users with the latest version of the…
On Wednesday, nine major publishers began publishing articles straight to Facebook under the social network’s long-anticipated product, called Instant Articles. Facebook sweetened the deal by letting publishers control the ad sales, branding and content; sell ads on the articles and keep all the revenue; and get data on their readers. Still, publishers were mixed in their embrace:…
end of ShanesHouse1 Facebook Instant Articles are here, and it feels like a cross between Christmas and a funeral in the media world. Christmas because everyone gets to write a navel-gazing hot take on what this means for the future of the fourth estate; a funeral because many, including some New York Times newsroom vets, are…
1. The manner in which Instant Articles are seen within Facebook’s News Feed is nearly as important as they way they’re hosted. Yes, they load faster. But the way they are previewed in the feed—differentiated fonts, auto-playing video—gives them a second advantage over everything around them. 2. The first batch of articles is very very…
Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community…
google+ [if lte IE 8]>< ![endif][if lte IE 7]>< ![endif][if lte IE 8]>< ![endif]begin:wrapper begin:image-block end:image-block Headlines about a computer’s pricetag beyond consumer imaginations have been rolling in this week. They’re calling it the Raspberry Pi killer. The crazy-cheap computer. The every-hacker’s dream toy. By now you may have seen the stories about this $9…
It could represent a seismic change for both the publishing industry and for the media company itself. Mark Thompson, President and CEO, The New York Times Company. Photo: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images Wednesday morning, in what marks a tectonic shift in the publishing industry, the New York Times is expected to officially begin a long-awaited partnership with…