“Equally impressive are Facebook’s usage numbers: The social network attracted 1.23 billion daily active users in December on average, including 1.15 billion mobile daily actives, with the latter being up 23% year-over-year. And 1.74 billion of Facebook’s 1.86 billion monthly active users were on mobile devices for at least some of their visits.”
Their effort to use that link in a Facebook ad — which would make it possible for people who don’t follow the museum to see it — was thwarted by Facebook robots that determined that the story, headlined “Bronze Dildos and Jade Butt Plugs Show Life and Death in Ancient China,” was unfit for the … Continue reading “San Francisco Asian Art Museum Facebook Link Taken Down For Being Too Racy”
Facebook’s aim is to seed content for the new video tab in its mobile app, to make it more of a destination for users to spend time watching video content. The effort is similar to its program under which it has paid celebrities and media companies, including BuzzFeed, CNN and the New York Times, to … Continue reading “Hollywood Is Getting Even More Crowded. Facebook To Begin Producing Video”
Every big tech company is trying to spread artificial intelligence throughout every step of its business, but it’s hard to find people who can work well with AI: “Everyday coders won’t do. Deep neural networking is a very different way of building computer services.”
Zuckerberg says that despite the company’s firing of human news managers and the fake news problem – he says 99 percent of news shares are from real sources – Facebook is not the problem: “I believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.”
In today’s media climate, Oscar Wilde was right: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Which means that famous people who want to remain famous must constantly create new content of some sort to talk about. That means a lot of chances for fallible human beings to make mistakes.
On Tuesday, October 4, “the Australian Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet of Russia, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and The San Francisco Ballet will broadcast for four hours each.”
“On Sunday, I attended my funeral. It was a short ceremony, held in a small auditorium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The pastor who led it made note of my professional accomplishments. He also cited my habit of eating straight out of the bulk bins at Sprouts.”
Someone had to say it: “I have hit upon many that are either plagued by technical malfunctions, feel contrived, drone on too long, ignore audience questions or are simply boring, by I imagine most anyone’s standards. Too many don’t live up to the journalistic quality one typically associates with The New York Times.”
As she was predicting that, in five years, the social networking behemoth would probably be “video, video, video,” Facebook exec Nicola Mendelsohn said last week that video “conveys so much more information in a much quicker period.” As Michael Hiltzik explains, “This is, of course, exactly wrong.”
