Facebook canceled all physical events with more than 5o people through June 2021. They will replace some of them with virtual events, but Mark Zuckerberg didn’t provide further details in his post. This outlook is certainly a bit grim since Facebook could set an example for the IT business. We might see other tech organizers...
Category: Social Media
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times
How do you feel about the end of privacy on public places? In public transport? When you can identfy every stranger that passes by? When every stranger can indentify you without your knowledge? While this might be still a bit away, the NY Times reports that a start-up called Clearview AI is using a massive...
Why your App is no replacement for WhatsApp newsletters
The WhatsApp newsletter ban has huge impact on businesses. While some businesses will just abandon their WhatsApp audience, others will try to convert users into their apps. This might work for some users, but there are several reasons this might not work very well: Users value the WhatsApp newsletter style. It gives them quick access...
Fünf Gründe warum Sie Ihre WhatsApp-Newsletter-User nicht aufgeben sollten
Nachdem WhatsApp die Newsletter-Dienste mit Dezember untersagt, sehen sich Unternehmen mit einer schwierigen Entscheidung konfrontiert. Was tun mit den WhatsApp-Newsletter-Usern? Einige Unternehmen werden einfach nur sprichwörtlich mit den Schultern zucken und zu einer anderen Social-Media-Plattform wechseln. Aber Ihre WhatsApp-Newsletter-User sind besonders: sie bevorzugen eine komprimierte Infoübersicht und schätzen den direkten Zugriff auf Informationen und Services....
Five reasons not to abandon your WhatsApp newsletter audience
After WhatsApp basically killed newsletter services, companies face a difficult situation in dealing with it. Some companies will just shrug and move on to another social media platform. However, your WhatsApp newsletter audience is special: they prefer a condensed info overview and value the direct access to information and services. Now simply abandoning your WhatsApp...
Wie ersetzt man WhatsApp (from Facebook) Newsletter?
Die bevorstehende Umbennenung vom WhatsApp in WhatsApp from Facebook gibt die Richtung vor, in welche sich WhatsApp wohl in naher Zukunft entwicklen wird. Vieles deutet darauf hin, dass es eine gemeinsame Plattform geben wird. Über Änderungen an den AGBs und deren mögliche Auswirkungen kann nur spekuliert werden, aber es wird sicherlich Änderungen geben. Ein möglicher...
How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem – The Verge
After the neo nazi network Gab migrated to Mastodon, the alternative social media network tries to deal with internet’s Nazi problem head-on. The distributed nature of the network (federation) makes it almost impossible to respond with a single strategy. Instead, individual instances as the nodes of the network are called, have taken different measures. For example....
