Month: August 2021

Instagram kicked off on-platform campaign “Who We Become Is Yours to Make,” featuring creators calling for optimism, progress and reinvention and cautioning that after a challenging year due to the pandemic, “None of us is going back to the way things were.” Photographer Bella Newman captured “culture-defining creators” in a series of portraits inspired by…

Twitter’s subscription offering, Twitter Blue, added a “View in Reader Mode” button to threads being viewed by users. The social network said in a tweet that the change was made “for easy tapping and more reading,” adding that it was spurred by conversations with some subscribers. ???? Reader Mode update alert! A “View in Reader…

Ever dreamed of having your own workspace somewhere between the Italian loafers and the French perfume at your local luxury store? That may be a possibility now that Saks owner Hudson’s Bay is planning to convert space within the luxury banner’s current and former locations into offices, according to a report in The Wall Street…

Delivery service DoorDash returns with another community lens, this time exploring the historic Chicano/Latin-American neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. Offering a ground-level and intimate perspective of the thriving community, the mini-documentary “Somos Boyle Heights” allows these residents to tell their stories unhindered by any marketing push, with an interactive component encouraging others to…

Twitter unveiled some design tweaks Wednesday with the aim of making its platform “more accessible, unique and focused on you and what you’re talking about.” The Chirp font the social network initially discussed in January is now being rolled out. Twitter’s color palette was updated to be more high contrast and less blue, which the…

The first day of school is always a mix of emotions–excitement to see friends and classmates after a long summer away, combined with nerves for entering a new grade or a new school. This year, these emotions are multiplied as many students return to classrooms for the first time in a year and a half….

The pillars of Facebook’s response to enhanced privacy options that Apple introduced with its iOS 14.5 operating system in April have been “personalized advertising” and “protecting small businesses,” and the social network went into detail Wednesday on how it plans to continue providing personalized experiences despite Apple’s moves and similar changes from Google scheduled to…