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Flipboard becomes a federated app with support for ActivityPub

TechCrunch

Instagram Threads isn’t the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps, with its newly added support for the networking protocol ActivityPub. Today, the social magazine app Flipboard is announcing it has also now integrated with ActityPub.

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The Dark Side Of Social Media: How Social Media Can Negatively Affect Our Lives?

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Social media has been in existence for longer than one can imagine. The need to connect the computers over a network for sharing information inadvertently gave rise to humans needing to communicate with each other discreetly, and hence, the earliest forms […]. As a matter of fact, it had its genesis with the advent of computers.

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What’s going on with Twitter and Elon Musk?

CEO Insider

On May 13th, 2022 became known that Elon Musk “freezes” the acquisition of the social network due to pending details concerning the number of fake accounts existing on […]. appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. The post What’s going on with Twitter and Elon Musk?

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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

TechCrunch

Tipser’s technology enables consumers to purchase products natively from sites like online publications, mobile marketplaces, price comparison sites, social media platforms or search engines. The company is led by Marcus Jacobsson, co-founder and CEO, who started the company in 2012 with Axel Wolrath and Jonas Sjöstedt.

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Decentralized identity startup Spruce wants to help users control their sign-in data

TechCrunch

Keeping control over one’s own identity on the internet often requires a substantial sacrifice of convenience, so plenty of users have accepted the status quo of social media platforms being able to access and share their data freely, sometimes even in nefarious ways.

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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

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Leadership that is social in approach when it comes to building communities, enabling engagement and participating in knowledge flows across the network (both inside the organization through corporate social tools as well as external social media). 3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5

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