Coronavirus quarantines are hurting local businesses, but Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger wants to help them keep revenue rolling in. Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn this week launched SaveOurFaves, a directory of Bay Area restaurants selling gift certificates to offset lost income amidst “shelter in place” orders across
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Dating may be proving next to impossible for many during this era of mass social distancing, but Tinder’s hoping to leverage an existing feature to help bring people closer together. Virtually, at least. The dating app is waving fees for Passport, a feature designed to let premium
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Wondering how to advertise successfully on Facebook? Want to avoid wasting money and time when you test your Facebook ads? To explore how to create Facebook ads that work for all budgets, I interview Tara Zirker on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Tara is a Facebook ads
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/successful-facebook-ads-on-a-small-budget/" align="left"]Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat’s most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn’t already cloned. Instagram has prototyped an unreleased ephemeral text messaging feature that clears the chat thread whenever you leave it, a Facebook spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. That could make users
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/instagram-prototypes-snapchat-style-disappearing-text-messages/" align="left"]Facebook today officially rolled out its sweeping desktop redesign that offers dark mode, tabbed home screen and a cleaner profile. Facebook tells TechCrunch that “starting today, the majority of people on Facebook will have access to the new desktop design,” which it announced at last year’s F8
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebook-now-lets-most-users-opt-in-to-dark-mode-desktop-redesign/" align="left"]The big social networks take steps to ensure that they’re providing accurate information for public health, Charter refuses to allow employees to work from home and Microsoft Teams sees a big spike in popularity. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 19, 2020. 1. Facebook will put a
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You don’t have to go far to find someone online downplaying the severity of a global pandemic that’s shut down entire economies and ground everyday life to a halt. Knowing that, Twitter will take extra steps to remove tweets that put people at risk of contracting the
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In an effort to disseminate trustworthy health information on COVID-19, Facebook will roll out its own coronavirus information center, a central hub on the vast social network where the company will collect information from sources like the CDC and WHO. “We’re going to be putting it at
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebook-will-put-a-new-coronavirus-info-center-on-top-of-the-news-feed/" align="left"]You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in touch while staying productive are forced to juggle tabs. Meanwhile, call participants often look and sound far
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/around-is-the-new-floating-head-video-chat-multitasking-app/" align="left"]When Slack first launched in 2013, the product was quickly embraced by developers, and the early product reflected that. To get at advanced tools, you used a slash (/) command, but the company recognizes that as it moves deeper into the enterprise, it needed to simplify the
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