Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
In the wake of Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it’s perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught—and gutted—another big fish. https://gizmodo.com/its-official-yahoo-is-buying-tumblr-508846808 Yes, Yahoo’s a different company now, especially with Marissa Mayer at the helm. And Tumblr, along with its price tag, are an order of magnitude larger…
Facebook’s Messenger Protocol Will Power the Internet of Things
One of the big problems with creating a connected house—where thermostats talk to light swtiches which talk to coffee-making robots—is that there’s a lot of communication protocols, and most of them are proprietary. But never fear, a new standard’s been agreed on: um, Faccebook Messenger. More strictly, it’s the protocol that powers Facebook Messenger’s mobile…
Why Your Twitter Friends Are More Interesting Than You
Ever felt you can’t quite match up to the people you follow on Twitter? While you’re tweeting about that lunchtime cheese sandwich, their feeds are full of elegant witticisms, important-sounding conferences and bungee jumps. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault – your Twitter friends are just more interesting than you. Sociologists have long known that…