an The Rise and Demise of RSS By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:39:38 -0500 About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. complete article Full Article
an Facebook, Mozilla, and others take on Indias proposed new social media regulations By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:57:09 -0500 Global social media and technology giants are gearing up to fight sweeping new rules proposed by the Indian government that would require them to actively regulate content in one of the world’s biggest Internet markets, sources close to the matter told Reuters. The rules, proposed by the Information Technology ministry on Christmas Eve, would compel platforms such as Facebook, its messaging service WhatsApp and Twitter to remove unlawful content, such as anything that affected the sovereignty and integrity of India. This had to be done within 24 hours, the rules propose. complete article Full Article
an You Do Not Even Need to Be on Social Media, The Companies Still Have Data on You By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:06:08 -0500 We have all thought about it. Maybe it's time to flick Facebook. Terminate Twitter. Silence social for good, and just be a person again. Sadly, if this dream of going off the grid is about reclaiming your lost privacy, that might not actually be possible, according to new research. A new study by researchers at the University of Vermont shows that social media posts by people you're connected with can actually be used to predict your own future posts – and even more accurately than if your own previous posts were being mined for insights. complete article Full Article
an How fake news is changing the internet By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:24:23 -0500 The tools we all use for knowledge, communication and business are being re-engineered to stop disinformation. Is our loss of control worth it? complete article Full Article
an Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 09:27:16 -0500 Amazon is now letting anyone create and publish Alexa skills into the Alexa skills store. Amazon first made it easy to create custom skills last year with its Alexa Skill Blueprints program, and it’s taking those custom responses and allowing them to be published in the store for everyone to download and use. There are currently more than 80,000 existing Alexa skills in the store, but todays announcement means the store will be growing significantly with user-generated custom skills. Amazon is primarily aiming this new functionality at content creators, businesses, brands, and other organizations. Publications, local sports teams, YouTubers, and others will all be able to broadcast their latest updates by simply adding a recorded audio feed URL to a blueprint skill directly and then publishing it on the store. complete article Full Article
an Rise and Fall of RSS By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:04:10 -0500 About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development. complete article Full Article
an With Social Media Disinformation, What — and Who — Should We Be Afraid Of? By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:05:50 -0500 As social medias influence over politics and elections has risen, so too has our collective anxiety about it. Over the last three years in particular, the use of megaplatforms like Facebook and Twitter as vectors for misinformation has been the subject of congressional hearings and not a few columns on the websites of some of our finer magazines. And as we gear up for elections in 2019 — and, assuming we make it through this year, in 2020 — the anxiety is gearing up, too. On Monday, in anticipation of the European Parliamentary elections in May, the Mozilla Foundation, an influential internet-advocacy non-profit, released an open letter to Facebook, co-signed by 32 civil rights and transparency groups, demanding that the social network implement measures designed to increase transparency, facilitate research, and combat misinformation. complete article Full Article
an What Is RSS, and How Can I Benefit From Using It? By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:13:53 -0500 In many ways, content on the internet is beautifully linked together and accessible, but despite the interconnectivity of it all we still frequently find ourselves visiting this site, then that site, then another site, all in an effort to check for updates and get the content we want. Thats not particular efficient and theres a much better way to go about it. complete article Full Article
an News about Volcanoes & Earthquakes as RSS feeds By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:09:38 -0400 Get updates about volcanoes & earthquakes as RSS feeds Full Article
an The Future of Education: How Cities Can Leverage Community Assets, Social Networks, and Personal Passions in Extending Their Learning Systems Beyond the Classroom By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:11:11 -0400 Schools can not do it all. We have known this for a long time, yet we often seem to deny this reality in policy and action. For decades we have piled expectations onto our schools, asking them to develop scholars, citizens, and workers and to provide for the academic, nutritional, social, and developmental needs of children. Schools, as critics are quick to point out, invariably fall short of these expectations. complete article Full Article
an 48 Social Media Goals and Metrics to Measure the Success of Your Strategy By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 8 May 2019 15:36:01 -0400 Are you looking for ways to measure the success of your social media marketing efforts? Want to know if your social media campaigns are worth your time and effort? The team from Social Success Marketing share the metrics you can, and should, track in this infographic. complete article Full Article
an RSS is Better than Twitter By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 13 May 2019 10:59:10 -0400 There is a good reason people call Twitter the hell website. Cynicism, egos, unprovoked hostility, unchecked propaganda, sexism, bigotry, and outright hate—Twitter is as full of it as virtually anywhere online, and worse, it is unbearably nonstop. The design of the place feels uniquely unhealthy due in large part to its speed and unrelenting stream. Opening up TweetDeck, the Twitter-owned client favored by maniacs like me thanks to its real-time updating feature, can seem like stepping into an oncoming tidal wave and getting swept out to sea. Before too long, you feel exhausted and ready to give up. RSS Is Better than Twitter Full Article
an 5 Tips for Managing a Social Media Crisis By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 22 May 2019 11:09:51 -0400 Turn on the news, scroll through Twitter or chat with a friend these days, and you are likely to hear about yet another brand or individual suffering yet another social media-induced crisis of some kind. It seems that every day, every hour, theres some other social media disaster. Does this mean that brands are suddenly behaving more poorly, or is this the state of how we live now? complete article Full Article
an Why Your Brand Needs to Invest in Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 27 May 2019 11:13:58 -0400 There is no questioning the influence of social media in modern society, and our broader interactive process. But still, many businesses remain unsure whether it's right for them, whether they actually need to have a social media presence. To be fair, it may not be for everyone - if, for example, you sell products aimed specifically at an older sector of the market, it could be that you would be wasting your time posting to a Facebook Page that no one's likely to read. complete article Full Article
an Google Began its Shutdown of Google+ the Beginning of April By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 29 May 2019 16:25:43 -0400 Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its Google+ social network platform, bringing an end to the company’s attempt to directly compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. complete article Full Article
an RSS Is Better Than Twitter By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 16:30:13 -0400 There is a good reason people call Twitter the hell website. Cynicism, egos, unprovoked hostility, unchecked propaganda, sexism, bigotry, and outright hate—Twitter is as full of it as virtually anywhere online, and worse, its unbearably nonstop. The design of the place feels uniquely unhealthy due in large part to its speed and unrelenting stream. Opening up TweetDeck, the Twitter-owned client favored by maniacs like me thanks to its real-time updating feature, can seem like stepping into an oncoming tidal wave and getting swept out to sea. Before too long, you feel exhausted and ready to give up. complete article Full Article
an Socrates ancient philosophy shows why moral posturing on social media is so annoying By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:33:01 -0400 Social media offers the chance to carefully curate a public image and, while some choose to broadcast their professional success or vacations, others are keen to make a show of their moral worth. complete article Full Article
an The Rules Of Social Media Just Changed. By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:38:20 -0400 Businesses have spent years diligently amassing followings and figuring out the best way to connect with users. complete article Full Article
an Pinterest is distancing itself from social networks as it goes public By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:42:17 -0400 As it prepares to go public under the ticker PINS after filing its S-1 to the Securities Exchange Commission today (March 22), Pinterest said it would rather not be seen as a place like Facebook or Twitter. The cold shoulder makes sense: Sites that algorithmically serve up content—Facebook, YouTube, Google, Instagram, and Twitter—remain under fire for their inability to moderate the environments on their own platforms. complete article Full Article
an Fiery Feeds Adds iCloud Accounts, Three-Pane iPad View, New Customization Tools, and More By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:33:36 -0400 Fiery Feeds Adds iCloud Accounts, Three-Pane iPad View, New Customization Tools, and More.. Fiery Feeds, the modern, flexible RSS client for iOS, was updated today with a variety of new features that take the app to new heights: enabling iCloud-based accounts for RSS and Read Later so you don’t need third-party services, adding a three-pane layout on iPad, offering new, configurable methods for navigation, and a lot more. There is something for everyone, from users who may be new to RSS to Fiery Feeds veterans who will appreciate the additional power offered here. complete article Full Article
an The Rise and Demise of RSS By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:39:09 -0400 About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development. complete article Full Article
an Apple, Luminary, Spotify, and the podcast wars to come By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:40:09 -0400 The podcast wars are coming. complete article Full Article
an Create RSS Feeds to Follow Instagram and Twitter Users Without an Account By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:42:38 -0400 Wish you could follow a couple of Twitter or Instagram users, without setting up an account? Create an RSS feed for them. RSS Hub is an open source project that creates RSS feeds from a wide variety of websites, including social media pages. You can install this on your own server, but it is not necessary for most users. complete article Full Article
an 9 Key Steps in Implementing an Effective Social Media Strategy By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 11:44:42 -0400 One of the biggest challenges in implementing an effective social media marketing strategy is time. When I ask people about their social media strategy for their business, I often get responses like: complete article Full Article
an We Keep Forgetting That We Did Not Want Democratic Social Media By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 11:48:21 -0400 Perhaps the most remarkable but little-remembered story of Facebooks rise to social behemoth is that from 2009 to 2012 it was actually a democracy. Facebook’s users could vocalize the issues affecting them the most and issues that attracted sufficient number of users could actually be placed to a formal vote, with the results legally binding on Facebook itself. While the reality was slightly less utopian, with limits on the kinds of issues that could be brought to a vote, the process was overall a genuine form of democratic representation by Facebook’s users in the sites governance. Complete Article Full Article
an Can Indie Social Media Save Us By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:57:32 -0400 In the summer of 2016, I gave a talk at a small tedx conference in northern Virginia. I began by admitting that I have never had a social-media account; I then outlined arguments for why other people should consider eliminating social media from their lives. The event organizers uploaded the video of my talk to YouTube, where it languished for a few months. Then, for unknowable reasons, it entered the viral slipstream. It was shared repeatedly on Facebook and Instagram and, eventually, viewed more than five million times. I was both pleased and chagrined by the irony of the fact that my anti-social-media talk had found such a large audience on social media. completed article Full Article
an Facebook is doubling down on AI to clean up the social network By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:22:58 -0400 On Monday, Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, tested my ability to tell the difference between broccoli and marijuana. He showed me two pictures of green blobs and asked if they depicted the cruciferous vegetable or the mind-altering plant. I guessed both were cannabis; I was wrong. One, apparently, was an image of tempura broccoli. Unlike me, Facebooks content-filtering artificial intelligence technology can now determine which image is of food, and which is of marijuana, according to Schroepfer. complete article Full Article
an How Social Media Users Have—and Have Not—Responded to Privacy Concerns By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:25:06 -0400 The Facebook Cambridge Analytica revelations changed the way people in the US think about online privacy. And it should come as no surprise that many have grown wary over the mishandling of personal information. Nearly a year later, a majority of US internet users said that Facebook sharing data with Cambridge Analytica raised some level of concern over how their information is used online, per survey findings from text message marketing company SlickText. complete article Full Article
an Social Media Died When It Stopped Being Social And Became Just About Making Money By www.rss-specifications.com Published On :: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 12:28:55 -0400 The way young people use social networks is changing rapidly, partly in response to networks that threaten to take over their lives, that they see as fake, the opposite of social. A while back, it looked like they were abandoning Facebook because it had been taken over by the old folks, but it now turns out they’re just leaving anyway, and not just Facebook, but the whole social media concept. complete article Full Article
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