A few good algorithms
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00When I heard there was a new Facebook algorithm coming out, I geared myself up for a ranty blog about spoonfed social and curated Instagram algorithms. […]
Stop!
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00Today, class, we shall be studying grammar. Recent guidelines from the Department of Education advises children to restrict their use of exclamation marks and advises teachers to only mark their [...]
Getting emoji-nal
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00There are certain idiosyncrasies that set the British race apart from the rest of the world. First and foremost is the sheer quantity of tea consumed on these shores. The [...]
A great big Facebook ‘Like’
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00It’s a long-running joke on Facebook that people write ‘dislike’ next to posts in the absence of a button that does the job for them. While, on a serious note, [...]
Just Peachy
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:12+00:00Fed up with Facebook? Sick of Snapchat? Luckily for you there’s a new kid on the block ‘Peach.cool’, or just Peach to its friends, created by the founder of Vine, Dom [...]
Power of squared
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:12+00:00Is your iPhone’s memory clogged with apps like Instasize and Whitagram for creating landscape and portrait snaps? Forget them. Instagram has changed the rules – in addition to square posts, [...]
Seeing stars
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:13+00:00First Instagram ditches the square and now Twitter loses its star – what is going on? Why are beloved social media sites hell bent on changing the things that make [...]
A Twitter Moment to myself
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:13+00:00Twitter’s new feature ‘Moments’ is a section of curated content for the individual – live news, stories and ‘moments that matter now’. Updated throughout the day, there are also topics [...]