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Farewell to Katch It’s been an amazing ride, but it’s time to say goodbye. Katch will be shutting down on May 4th, 2016. To our users — you have been incredible, inspiring, and supportive… which makes this post that much harder to write. It is with great disappointment that we’re announcing that Katch will be shutting down…
The ability to interact with Facebook posts had remained static for a long time. Like, share, comment, ignore and report were pretty much the only ways to make your feelings known. Facebook Reactions offered users another way to express themselves, and results have been mixed. Content marketing agency Fractl looked at the top three posts, as ranked…
Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned. A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and taking a cut of the ad…
This post was updated on Tuesday when Facebook confirmed it took the page down for “IP violations” but didn’t cite go into specifics. On Monday, Facebook took down the Facebook page for celebrity news and gossip site The Shade Room. The page, which was verified, has (had?) more than 4.4 million likes. The Shade Room’s…
As even the most deft social media ninja will tell you, social media campaigns are hard. But it really seems like the New York Police Department should have seen this one coming. A coalition led by the NYPD and Manhattan’s top prosecutor launched a campaign to “highlight the impact encryption is having on public safety…
As a young astronomer, Joan Schmelz worked alongside men and the pinups they tacked to the lab walls. She didn’t have a precise vocabulary for the subtle harassment she experienced every day. Schmelz’s supervisor gossiped about her to colleagues and demeaned her, making inappropriate comments that highlighted their uneven power dynamic. When Schmelz, now a…
Now with Kerning! We have a Special Celebrity Guest Comment of the Week this week, from the very person who we wrote about right here at Yr Wonkette! Thursday, we ran a story about Matthew Keys, a jerkbaby who was convicted of computer criming for distributing his LA Times administrator login and password to an…
Photo: mskyrakennedy/Instagram Have you heard of the “Snap Pack”? So christened yesterday by the New York Times, the Pack is a group of privileged 22-year-olds living, loving, and Snapchatting in New York City. They are the sons and daughters of Matisses, Kennedys, and Trumps, and now some of them are…
Live Video Upload with the Graph API The Live API allows you to create stories on Facebook using live video content from a variety of sources. This allows you to go beyond mobile device cameras and bring in video from professional cameras, multi-camera setups and programmatic sources such as games or screencasts. If you would…
Markdown formatting on Facebook? Is it real? So I was minding my own business on Facebook (read: spamming the shit out of anyone who’d want to come to my They Might Be Giants piano happy hour) when I noticed something. On events pages, there’s a button I haven’t noticed before. Wait… is that… Markdown? On…