Move Over, Zoom—Voice Memos Are the Real Way to Stay in Touch | WIRED

Veröffentlicht am 18. November 202018. November 2020 von Jaime Stathis

The ongoing Covid pandemic stretches us to our limits. During the last months, many of us have been quarantining or (self-)isolating and working from home. The Aspen Institute has studied the effects and published several reports with the telling titles: “Lessons in Loneliness” and “Artificial Intimacy.” Bascially, there is no one size fits all technical […]

WhatsApp will let you shop directly from chats | Engadget

Veröffentlicht am 22. Oktober 20203. November 2020 von Author on Source

Facebook is extending WhatsApp with shopping features. While WhatsApp has had cataloge features in the past, they appear to be limited to that what Facebook’s now previewing. It’s not yet clear, how the system works, but it could be something along these lines: A user messages a business The business replys with a link to […]

WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results — But is it a Bug? | Threatpost

Veröffentlicht am 9. Juni 20209. Juni 2020 von Author on Source

The WhatsApp feature “Click to Chat” exposes mobile phone numbers on the web and Google’s search engine is able to index them. You can try it using the search string site:wa.me “+43” The phone numbers are simply as part of an URL string (https://wa.me/<phone_number>) and available in plaintext. Facebook claims that this not a bug: […]

Instagram changes embedding API ToS

Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 20205. Juni 2020 von Martin Treiber

In an surprising announcement, Instagram stated that the platform does not provide users the copyright license to embed images to other websites: While our terms allow us to grant a sub-license, we do not grant one for our embeds API. Our platform policies require third parties to have the necessary rights from applicable rights holders. […]

Facebook cancels physical events through June 2021(!)

Veröffentlicht am 17. April 202017. April 2020 von Author on Source

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 […]

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times

Veröffentlicht am 21. Januar 202021. Januar 2020 von Author on Source

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 […]

Der mobile IKANGAI Newsletter Service im Vergleich mit WhatsApp

Veröffentlicht am 17. September 201918. September 2019 von Martin Treiber

Mobile Newsletter über Plattformen wie WhatsApp oder FB Messenger zu versenden, erfreuet sich enormer Beliebtheit bei vielen Unternehmen, insbesondere im Medienbereich. Allerdings schiebt WhatsApp Newslettern mit Dezember einen Riegel vor. Also höchste Zeit, um sich nach Alternativen umzusehen. Im Folgenden vergleichen wir WhatsApp Newsletter mit der mobilen Newsletter Lösung von IKANGAI. WhatsApp Newsletter IKANGAI Mobile […]