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How You Can Lift Your Social Media Platform Instagram is developing great and fast applications these days. Instagram clients are not using this application as an online social media platform stage, yet they are using it to support their business. Getting likes on Instagram is very important...

Social bookmarking sites are one of the best ways to discover new sites. This can be through their own submission services or by simply searching for them on a search engine. There are thousands of social bookmarking websites, but only a few of them can be considered as being useful. Here is our...

Rick Song Contributor Rick Song is co-founder and CEO of Persona. More posts by this contributor The next era of moderation will be verified It’s time for social media and dating apps to face the music and curb fraud, deception and disinformation on their platforms once and for all. In...

Sahar Massachi / MIT Technology Review: A framework for fixing social media: apply lessons from physical cities, prevent fake accounts, improve corporate behavior, and listen to integrity workers — We need to make our online spaces more similar to our offline ones to limit the reach of bad...

A new forecast has dubbed TikTok as the world’s third-largest social network, just behind Facebook and Instagram. In its inaugural forecast on TikTok’s global install base, Insider Intelligence — the firm previously known as eMarketer — predicts that TikTok will reach 755.0 million monthly users...

New York Times: Investigation details China's social media propaganda machine, which uses private contractors to generate content to spread on Facebook and Twitter — Register accounts on foreign social media platforms — 按月报单 价 — 境外.交&#24179 …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Social gaming startup Rec Room raises $145M led by Coatue at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in March, and says it has 37M players, up from 2M in March — On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has...

Supernova is a new app that has now gone live on the Apple and Android app stores billing itself as a new “ethical alternative” to Instagram and Facebook, where most of the ad revenues go to charities. Does it have a chance? It would be fair to say that after many years of either watching...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment — One of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy right now is the question of how to...

BBC: A look at Russia's efforts to censor Western social media with fines and takedown requests, as most posts Russia wanted removed in 2021 were pro-Navalny content — Google and Meta face the threat of multi-million-dollar fines for failing to delete content that the Russian government...

John Callery Contributor John Callery is the senior vice president of technology at The Trevor Project. The debate around social media’s impact on mental health is hardly new, but the conversation has recaptured the world’s attention in light of reports this fall that suggest Facebook has...

FinSMEs: Fable, which provides a social reading platform for online book clubs, raises a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global — Fable, a Palo Alto, CA-based platform for social reading to improve mental wellness, raised $20m in Series A funding. — The round was led by Tiger Global with...

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of...

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Stocktwits, a social network used by traders and investors, raises $30M, source says at a $210M valuation, led by Alameda Research and says it has 1M MAUs — Stocktwits, a social-media platform used by day traders and other retail investors, raised $30 million in a...

Aditya Kalra / Reuters: ShareChat, a social network offered in 15 Indian languages, raises $266M led by Alkeon Capital at a $3.7B valuation — Indian content-sharing platform ShareChat on Thursday said it had raised $266 million in fresh funding from U.S.-based Alkeon Capital and some existing...

Rest of World: A look at Chinese fast fashion online retailer Shein, as 2020 sales reportedly hit $10B thanks to knockoff items, a nimble supply chain, and social media — By connecting China's garment factories with Western Gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of “ultra-fast” shopping.

Jaime Bosch Contributor Jaime Bosch is the co-founder and CEO of Voicemod. In the many conversations around “the metaverse” sparked by the Facebook corporate name transition to Meta, much has focused on the visual elements. What’s hardly mentioned is audio. Yet voice really matters when...

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Now out of private beta, the app offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories via their...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe launches Creative Cloud Express, a mobile and web app to help create social media content, available for free or $9.99/month with more advanced templates — Adobe today launched Creative Cloud Express, a new mobile and web app that brings some of the best...

'Tis the season to be...socializing. If you're someone who needs ample alone time, here's how to fulfill all your obligations—including to yourself. The post Recharge Your Social Battery With This Soothing Flow appeared first on Yoga Journal.