Snap Map makes me feel old
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Snap Map is a new feature in SnapChat designed to connect friends by encouraging users to share their current locations on a map.
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InstaSnapchatGram
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You know those changes that companies try to make sound like a Really Big Deal while users generally just shrug? Add the new slideshows on Instagram to the list.
Read MoreSnap goes public: But what about profits?
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Snap Inc., maker of SnapChat and Spectacles, and the general new hotness in social media these days, filed for an IPO on Thursday. The catch?
Read MoreSpectacles, Sales Talk, and Statistics
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It’s been a busy week in social media. For starters, Snapchat is launching a new wearable, a pair of connected glasses that “make memories from your perspective.” Can these glasses, called Spectacles, work where Google Glass didn’t?
Read MoreHello, Lifestage. Goodbye, Privacy?
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For a while now, I’ve been wondering what hot new app will draw in teens now that the olds are braving Snapchat. Facebook is ready to win them back over with its new Lifestage app.
Read MoreTwitter needs a moment
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In official coverage, Twitter announced that it’s expanding its Moments feature to “influencers, partners, brands… and in the coming months, everyone.”
Read MoreNow you see it, now you don’t
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Delete may still be the default, but Snapchat made it much easier to hang on to snaps with the launch of its new Memories feature. Memories is basically an in-app photo roll, backed up on Snapchat’s servers. Users can later access things saved in their memories and remix them into new snaps and stories.
Read MoreBots, Blackface and Brands Behaving Badly
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The crowds may have gone home, but the dust is still settling from Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference. The conversation is still all about bots. The Washington Post is ready for them to start chipping away at the $50 billion app store economy. After all, no one will download a stand-alone app when you can just text a bot through Messenger, right?
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