Breakfast Update Week 33
Another Friday, another update you can go through with your breakfast.
Facebook now let’s you create a fundraiser at your birthday, so all of your birthday wishes can mean something to others. You can choose between 750.000 non-profits, currently only in the US.
Instagram has added comment threads, meaning that anyone can reply to a specific comment. Available in version 24 and above, and will we globally available in the coming weeks.
Facebook is rolling out their Marketplace to 17 countries in Europe. Among these are Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Marketplace is essentially peer-to-peer selling, directly on the platform.
Googles chat application Allo and Assistant, has arrived on web.
Outside Scandinavia, Amazon is one of the worlds biggest search-engines. Here is a little guide on how to optimize for it. Interesting for international retailers.
Snapchat developed a feature called Crowd Surf that is stitching together user-videos to a single concert video.“It uses artificial intelligence machine learning technology to analyze when lots of people are all recording the same musical performance at the same time. It can then lace together the different angles while keeping the song playing smoothly so you can choose where to watch from and see more than 10 seconds of footage in a row.”
And this week, Barack Obama made history on Twitter as his powerful Nelson Mandela quoted image following the violence in Charlottesville became the most liked tweet ever:
He is right. Have a great weekend.
