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Twitter is making it easier to report abuse on its service

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 9:52 pm
Posted In: Abuse, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo knows that the service has a problem with harassment. Today it announced that it was rolling out new policies and procedures to help combat the horrible behavior that sometimes mars the Twitter experience. These updates include allowing bystanders report abuse, an update to its in-product reporting feature and building a larger staff to handle the uptick in abusive reports. “Overall, we now review five times as many user reports as we did previously, and we have tripled the size of the support team focused on handling abuse reports,” said Twitter VP of user services, Tina Bhatnagar in a…

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Twenty20 emerges from beta with a fresh take on stock photography

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 9:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Had it with artificial, old-fashioned, stagey royalty-free images that literally scream, stock photo? An alternative kind of agency, which uses personal mobile photos from a range of enthusiasts and professionals, today launched out of beta promising to lend a more natural and less overtly slick look to marketing, advertising and editorial content. Twenty20, a crowdsourced commercial image catalog, specifically targets the mobile, Instagram-centric, social networking sensibility of contemporary companies and encourages the use of personal mobile photography for visual campaigns. But that’s not to say Twenty20 ignores the pros: The site’s mobile photographers offer a range of professional experience spanning pros, amateurs and even celebrities like skateboarder Tony…

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Anyone can sign up for iWork on iCloud without an Apple device… for real this time

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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A couple of weeks ago, we noticed Apple’s beta iCloud site was allowing anyone to sign up for the company’s productivity suite on the Web – no Apple device required. If you tried to sign up via the standard iCloud site, however, you’d be presented with an error. No longer: anyone can sign up for access to Pages, Numbers and Keynotes, officially. As with before, you simply need to follow the prompt to create an Apple ID if you don’t already have one and follow the steps. If you already have an account but don’t own an Apple device, you’ll be…

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Google will begin ranking mobile-friendly sites higher starting April 21

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Big changes to Google’s search algorithms are coming: beginning April 21, the company will increase the ranking of sites that are mobile-friendly and surface app results much higher. The company says that the change will have a “significant impact” on all mobile searches in all languages worldwide, but as a result Google says that users will find higher quality results. Along with this change, Google will start to use more information from indexed apps as a factor when ranking search results for users that are signed-in and have the app installed. These changes are great news for mobile users as it…

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Verizon trolls today’s Net Neutrality ruling by responding in Morse code

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Net Neutrality won today, thanks to a 3-2 vote by the FCC. Yay! But not everyone is happy. In just about the most innovative thing the company has ever done, Verizon put out a press release in Morse code, copied here for your pleasure: – — -.. .- -.– .—-. …   -.. . -.-. .. … .. — -.   -… -.–   – …. .   ..-. -.-. -.-.   – —   . -. -.-. ..- — -… . .-.   -… .-. — .- -.. -… .- -. -..   .. -. – . .-. -. . –   … . .-. …- .. -.-. .…

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