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Facebook is currently down for many users around the world [Update: It’s back]

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by on August 1, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook currently seems to be inaccessible for many people according to a barrage of tweets and posts to other social media sites. The problems first seemed to start just before 17:00 BST (midday Eastern Time), and naturally, people wasted no time in taking to Twitter. Uptime monitoring services like Downrightnow.com and downforeveryoneorjustme are also showing likely service trouble. How long will it last? Who knows, but we’ve asked the company for an update on the situation. An outage as widespread as this seems to rarely go on too long. Some users are also reporting that Instagram is inaccessible, but it seems to be…

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Facebook is currently down for many users around the world

Aug01
by on August 1, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Facebook currently seems to be inaccessible for many people according to a barrage of tweets and posts to other social media sites. The problems first seemed to start just before 17:00 BST (midday Eastern Time), and naturally, people wasted no time in taking to Twitter. Uptime monitoring services like Downrightnow.com and downforeveryoneorjustme are also showing likely service trouble. How long will it last? Who knows, but we’ve asked the company for an update on the situation. An outage as widespread as this seems to rarely go on too long. Some users are also reporting that Instagram is inaccessible, but it seems to be…

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Setting the stage: Killer user onboarding starts with a story

Aug01
by on August 1, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Samuel Hulick is a long time UX consultant with an intense focus on user onboarding. This article originally appeared on Inside Intercom. Want more people to adopt your product? Make sure you know what progress looks like in your user’s life, not just on their screen. Having a stellar user adoption rate is a beautiful thing. Converting users at a higher rate drives down your cost of user acquisition, which in turn stretches your marketing resources even further. It also increases the likelihood that people stick around longer, driving up average lifetime value, and letting you invest your product resources more strategically. The…

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Setting the stage: Killer user onboarding starts with a story

Aug01
by on August 1, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

guy top view laptop typing

Samuel Hulick is a long time UX consultant with an intense focus on user onboarding. This article originally appeared on Inside Intercom. Want more people to adopt your product? Make sure you know what progress looks like in your user’s life, not just on their screen. Having a stellar user adoption rate is a beautiful thing. Converting users at a higher rate drives down your cost of user acquisition, which in turn stretches your marketing resources even further. It also increases the likelihood that people stick around longer, driving up average lifetime value, and letting you invest your product resources more strategically. The…

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Glimpse completely overhauls its iOS app to help you meet more relevant people on Instagram

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by on August 1, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Instagram Changes Terms Of Service, Stirs Anger Among Users

Glimpse, an app which uses your Instagram photos to help you meet other users, has fully overhauled its iPhone app to make it easier to get a conversation started. First launched in February, the team went back to the drawing board and started again from the ground-up for the second iteration. The result is what the company describes as “like people watching from your phone”. It works by looking at the metadata of your photos (geolocation and hashtags) and then attempts to put you in contact with people who have similar interests or have been to the same places. There’s also been…

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