Fresh tortillas, without the effort.
Most people reading this do not make their own tortillas. As delicious as these hot circles of carbs may be when eaten fresh, they require old world labor to make—you soak the tough kernels of maize in lime overnight, before leveraging your own body weight over the volcanic rock of a metate to ground away the indigestible bits. Only with this finished masa in hand can you press the mix at just the right pressure to grill up the perfect, bendable tortilla.
Facebook Messenger threads are about to get a lot more musical.
Facebook added a new Spotify integration to its messaging platform, the company announced Wednesday. The new feature allows people to share playlists and songs with friends inside of conversations on Messenger.
The integration doesn't allow you to actually play Spotify music inside of Messenger, at least not yet, but it does allow you to share tracks, playlists and artists within message threads. You can add Spotify tracks to messages from the "..." menu and selecting it from the list of apps. Read more...
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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
Blogs & Blogging
Business Issues
Content Marketing
Conversion Optimization
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Display & Contextual Advertising
Domaining
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
General Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
Reputation Management
Social Media
Video
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
Business Issues
Content Marketing
Conversion Optimization
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Domaining
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
General Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
Social Media
Video
Shortly after rolling out its Live video streaming feature globally, Facebook is altering its News Feed algorithm to make sure live videos appear higher in the stream.
The company said so in a blog post Tuesday, saying the adjustment will be done to account for the increasing popularity of live videos.
SEE ALSO: Facebook Live video is coming to Android
According to Facebook, people spend three times longer watching videos when they're live compared to videos that are no longer live.
"Now that more and more people are watching Live videos, we are considering Live Videos as a new content type – different from normal videos – and learning how to rank them for people in News Feed. As a first step, we are making a small update to News Feed so that Facebook Live videos are more likely to appear higher in News Feed when those videos are actually live, compared to after they are no longer live," the post says. Read more...
Summer gear from the legendary Finnish design house is coming soon to your local Target.
Today, Target announced that it will expand its ever-popular designer collaborations to include Helsinki-based brand Marimekko. The Spring collection, which will launch later this month, will include furniture, outdoor décor, and clothing for women and girls—all featuring Marimekko's trademark bold, cheerful prints.
