After firing an employee who posted an essay about how little Yelp pays her, the company comes up with a clever, but unhelpful, solution.
After posting a heartbreaking open letter to Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman about how impossible it was to live on her paltry wages, a Yelp employee named Talia Jane was fired.
Anyone can now make Snapchat a more official part of their special events.
The company is rolling out a new "on-demand" geofilter that allows people and businesses to pay for custom filters, which will temporarily appear within the app. Though Snapchat has offered sponsored geofilters for some time, on-demand filters will cover much smaller geographic areas and will cost significantly less, with prices ranging from $5 to several thousand dollars. (You can use the company's new online tool to experiment with prices and locations.)
Geofilters are the in-app illustrations typically tied to specific physical locations that you can overlay onto your snaps. While a large number of Snapchat's geofilters have always been user-generated, the company's guidelines prevented businesses from creating filters until now. The new filters also allow people to create specialized filters for private events like birthday parties or weddings, which wouldn't have worked within the previous guidelines. Read more...
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Snapchat has had the option for people to submit custom geofilters for a while, but until now theyve been restricted to public places and neighbourhoods. Now, anyone with $5 to spare and no self-respect can get in on the action.
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Facebook has created a Social VR team to help figure out how best to help people use the technology to connect with each other.
Facebook wants the world to know that it's all in on virtual reality.
Not long ago Jane Clementi was simply a mom of three sons, a part-time nurse and an active member of her Ridgewood, New Jersey, church.
On Sept. 22, 2010, the life she knew and loved broke apart.
Just before 9 p.m., her 18-year-old son Tyler Clementi went to the George Washington Bridge, a 4,700-foot span of steel and concrete connecting New York City and New Jersey, and updated his Facebook status: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."
Thousands of young people die by suicide each year, but Tyler's story became one of the few to capture the world's attention Read more...
Swedish developer and nerd dad supreme, Peter Fjallstrom recently published a list of all the ways his family uses Slack, the integrated messaging system that claims to end email. Fjallstrom uses code hacks to ping his children's locations and add items to his family's online grocery order.
But you don't have to be a hacker to make Slack work for your family. Here are 10 easy ways parents can use Slack.
1. Calendar coordination
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Slack integrates easily with Google Calendar making it easy to view and schedule events for the whole family. You can use Slack shortcuts to add reminders Read more...
