#SeoTips The New York Times is working to expand its ever successful gaming section with Zorse, a game the company is testing in beta. Per a report in Semafor, this will be a phrase guessing game where each puzzle is a mash-up of two phrases. You k...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
Queer social app Lex acquired by the former Musical.ly CEO’s conglomerate #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lex's users have high standards for the app, since it serves a community that has been historically overlooked and mistreated by mainstream social platforms. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www....
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Tech YouTuber MKBHD’s Panels app is a bit underwhelming #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, is stepping out of the reviewer role and into the mindset of a builder. This week, he launched a wallpaper app called Panels on iOS and Android, where he’s personally curating high-quality digital ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024
MatPat, the first big YouTuber to successfully exit his company, is lobbying for creators on Capitol Hill #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Though MatPat retired from YouTube, he’s still pretty busy. In fact, he’s been spending a lot of time on Capitol Hill. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Amanda Silberling, Khareem...
Friday, July 19, 2024
The CrowdStrike outage is a plot point in a rom-com #Ecommerce
#SeoTips There’s a man in Florida right now who wants to propose to his girlfriend while they’re on a beach vacation. He couldn’t get the engagement ring before he flew down from New England, but it didn’t seem like that big of an issue — his girlf...
From the Sphere to false cyberattack claims, misinformation runs rampant amid CrowdStrike outage #Ecommerce
#SeoTips This serves as an example for how easy it is to spread inaccurate information online during a time of immense global confusion and panic. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Amanda ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Facebook keeps asking me to say ‘happy birthday’ to dead people #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Two of my friends died within the last three years. By some coincidence, both of their birthdays fall in the beginning of July. So, twice this week, Facebook has reminded me to write “happy birthday” to two people who will never respond. F...
Thursday, May 30, 2024
This founder says meme tech is the next big thing #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Alex Taub, a longtime founder with multiple exits under his belt, believes it’s time to disrupt the meme industry. “I have this big thesis that meme tech is going to be the next big category,” Taub told TechCrunch. “Like, there’s health te...
Thursday, May 23, 2024
The U.S. government sues to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The United States Department of Justice and 30 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, for alleged monopolistic practices. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, ...
Friday, April 5, 2024
Is it just me, or was that an earthquake? #Ecommerce
#SeoTips For just a brief moment, this was the internet at its best. I stared at a vase of dried out Trader Joe’s flowers, rumbling on my table for maybe thirty seconds, but I was too shocked to even process what was happening. Then, I saw the twee...
Friday, March 22, 2024
Calmara suggests it can detect STIs with photos of genitals — a dangerous idea #Ecommerce
#SeoTips You’ve gone home with a Tinder date, and things are escalating. You don’t really know or trust this guy, and you don’t want to contract an STI, so… what now? A company called Calmara wants you to snap a photo of the guy’s penis, then use i...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join #Ecommerce
#SeoTips After almost a year as an invite-only app, Bluesky is now open to the public. Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. Befor...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
BeReal, which now has 23M DAUs, is onboarding brands and celebs #Ecommerce
#SeoTips BeReal, a rising social media app that emphasizes authenticity, is making its first outreach to brands and celebrities. Starting February 6, brands and celebrities will be able to sign up as “RealBrands” or “RealPeople,” and fans can watch...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
The internet moments that defined 2023 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne? Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate o...
Monday, December 25, 2023
Spill is now in open beta on iOS and Android #Ecommerce
#SeoTips It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, yet we’re still seeing the reverberations of that deal on other social platforms, including the new ones that have cropped up since. Spill, a platform founded by ex-Twitter empl...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Elon Musk is looking to raise 1/44 of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is seeking $1 billion in funding for his next venture. According to an SEC filing, Musk has raised about $135 milli...
Grand Theft Auto VI trailer breaks MrBeast’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours #Ecommerce
#SeoTips In just 22 hours, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast video’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours. That ranking excludes music videos, but the hype around this long-awaited gam...
Friday, May 12, 2023
Elon Musk appoints new Twitter CEO, NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The rumors are true: Elon Musk has chosen NBCU leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter. Musk confirmed Yaccarino’s new role in a tweet this morning, a day after he announced that he had completed his search for a new CEO. “Lookin...
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links #Ecommerce
#SeoTips So much for “free speech absolutism.” Twitter is censoring Substack links by making the posts impossible to reply to, like or retweet. While quote-tweeting works, simply pressing the retweet button surfaces an error message: “Some actions ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open-source Twitter alternative #Ecommerce
#SeoTips As Twitter users fret over the direction that new owner Elon Musk is taking the company, masses of users have hopped over to Mastodon, an open-source Twitter alternative. Since October 27, when the SpaceX and Tesla CEO formalized his Twitt...