Today we learn that Disney has a new person in his staff, and not just any! the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsay, also known simply as @jack , has joined the company, according to a press release of the brand. The great entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square payment system, adds a new string to his bow. He integrates indeed the board of Disney.
First tweet ever posted on Twitter, March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsay
This very exclusive club, where Steve Jobs has long served, therefore a small room for Jack Dorsey whose position of “independent director” takes “effective immediately.”
Dorsay tweets after: ““I only hope we don’t lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.”—Walt Disney”
Thus, the man joined the board of Disney retained his seat in Twitter, and is also still at the head of his other company, Square. His new appointment is effective immediately and Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, clearly indicates that Dorsay role will be to improve the ” use of the latest technologies and platforms to reach more people and improve our relationships with our customers”. He does not leave his chosen field and will help Disney to develop in the field of social networks.
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Humor should be restricted to a certain class of people and handled with care. Especially on social networks. The last to be made in the cost is the communication manager of a large U.S. media group, fired after tweeted a racist joke.
Do you remember that American animator, crazy about hunting who sparked controversy by publishing on social networks photos representing her hunting trophies. Two world petitions had been launched against her.
Today is another American who is talking about her. Up there a few days, Justice Sacco was responsible communication of InterActiveCorp (IAC), a large group of American media (The Daily Beast, Excite, Vimeo).
Friday, December 20, before taking the plane to Cape Town in South Africa where she went on a family vacation (she is the daughter of a South African mining magnate), she tweet this message from the Heathrow airport (which will make some people say that her phone may have been hacked)
« Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white! »
She cuts her phone and left for a flight of 11 hours, far from imagining what her tweet is being caused. Despite his 200 followers, her tweet goes around the world, prompting strong reactions, not to say a digital lynching. Realizing that she is in flight and therefore unable to look at her notifications. A trending hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet and parody account @LOLJustineSacco quickly appeared on Twitter after Sacco sent the tweet. The Buzzfeed website stands a compilation of her most tendentious tweets. A fake Facebook account under her name was also created, where a post links to http://www.justinesacco.com, which brings up a donation page against AIDS for Aid for Africa.
A trending hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet and parody account @LOLJustineSacco quickly appeared on Twitter after Sacco sent the tweet. A fake Facebook account under her name was also created, where a post links to http://www.justinesacco.com, which brings up a donation page for Aid for Africa.
Upon arrival in South Africa, the young woman taking the measure of the ongoing controversy. She deletes the tweet in question and finally her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts shortly after. Unfortunately for her, things have gone too far and seem irreversible because meanwhile the direction of IAC issued a statement in which they severely distance their employee, (InterActive Corp issued a statement on Saturday distancing itself from the tweet and saying the employee was fired.) accoring to the NYT about her tweet “offensive and hurtful” that “do not reflect values and points of view” of IAC adding that there is “no excuse for hate speech that were made and we unequivocally condemn.” However, they hope that this will not give rise to the conviction of a person who has always been” decent”. However, later, any reference to Justice Sacco will be deleted from the site and its dismissal announced by the company on Saturday afternoon.
InterActive Corp issued a statement to ABC News Saturday distancing itself from the tweet and saying the employee was fired.
“There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally,” the InterActive Corp statement said. “We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core.”
On Sunday, the young woman tries public apology in a statement transcribed by ABC News:
“Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of South Africa, who I have offended due to a needless and careless tweet,” Sacco said. “There is an AIDS crisis taking place in this country, that we read about in America, but do not live with or face on a continuous basis. Unfortunately, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed firsthand.
“For being insensitive to this crisis — which does not discriminate by race, gender or sexual orientation, but which terrifies us all uniformly — and to the millions of people living with the virus, I am ashamed.
“This is my father’s country, and I was born here. I cherish my ties to South Africa and my frequent visits, but I am in anguish knowing that my remarks have caused pain to so many people here; my family, friends and fellow South Africans. I am very sorry for the pain I caused.”
These days of digital fury have puzzled numbers of users and observers, including Slate , questioning the role of social networks that are at the pinnacle of certain persons for unknown reasons and engage others to condemnation and court popular.
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It’s shopping week for Marissa Mayer the CEO of Yahoo!. After offered Tumblr earlier this week, the big boss of Yahoo acquires another company to reinforce its troops.
Today, is the platform of online gaming PlayerScale which was bought by the Sunnyvale firm.
PlayerScale is a Multi-platform with 150 million players. With 4000 games, PlayerScale is an important asset for Yahoo, which will strengthen its online games section and try to compete with giants like Facebook.
Jesper Jensen, the boss PlayerScale reassures users saying that nothing will change. We can imagine, eventually, a full integration of the company’s services into those of Yahoo.
Meanwhile, this is the 13th acquisition of Yahoo since the arrival of Marissa Mayer as CEO of the firm.
With more than 200 million users worldwide, Viber’s also taking this day to announce what it is referring to as the biggest update to the service yet.
Viber has just been outed for Windows and Mac PC’s, bringing the popular cross-platform VoIP service to desktops.
If you’re looking for an alternative to Skype, Viber now gives users the ability to place calls not only to other mobile users, but also to desktops.
For starters, the Viber for Android and iOS applications have both been on the receiving end of a pretty meaningful refresh, following the recent introduction of VoIP calling on older versions of BlackBerry OS. An all-new desktop app will, as of today, also be available to Viber users on a Mac or PC (Linux coming soon, we’re told), packing in most of the features the service is well-known for but in a less-mobile form.
Setting up Viber Desktop uses the same process that the popular mobile app uses, with your mobile number being used as your unique user ID. Your contacts who have Viber are automatically added from your contact list, and are seamlessly synced between your mobile and desktop versions.
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The new desktop version coincides with version 3.0 of the popular platform, which adds significant updates to the mobile (Android, iOS, and BlackBerry) versions of the app, but also include video messages, enhanced photo support, a new voice engine, and support for some 20 languages overall.
VIBER RELEASES DESKTOP VERSION – YOU’LL WANT TO SIT DOWN FOR THIS
Leading Free Messaging And VoIP Platform Unveils Windows And Mac Versions With Video Calls; Launches Version 3.0 Of Its Platform, Completely Redesigns Viber for Android, Supports Eight Additional Languages And Announces It Has 200 Million Users
LONDON – May 7, 2013, Viber, the leading mobile communications platform offering free messaging and HD-quality phone calls, announces today the release of Viber Desktop for PC and Mac. The new versions seamlessly integrate with existing mobile versions of the app and provide the same super-simple setup process that uses your phone number as your ID.
The company also announced today that it has over 200 million users across the various platforms that it supports.
Viber has revolutionized free messaging and VoIP on mobile with its popular app for leading platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and others. Now with the release of Viber Desktop, users have one easy-to-use and always available solution for free messages and calls.
One of the strengths of Viber is its easy activation process. The company has replicated the same process with Viber Desktop. As soon as you enter your mobile number and a confirmation code which is sent to your mobile Viber app, you are ready to go! All of your mobile Viber contacts are instantly and continuously synced from your mobile Viber to Viber Desktop.
Viber Desktop and the latest versions of the Viber app were designed from the ground up for individuals using Viber on multiple devices, so you can always use the app that’s right for you, whether at home, in school, at the office, or on the go. Viber offers far more flexibility than any similar product. Some of the key combined features include:
Seamlessly transfer calls between Viber Desktop and the Viber app with one click or tap
Received and Sent messages are shown on all devices, but will only “beep” on the device you are currently using
Messages and conversations you delete from one device will be removed from all devices
On top of this, Viber Desktop is Viber’s first application to offer video calls. With this new beta feature, users can now make desktop-to-desktop video calls to other Viber users.
“People spend a substantial amount of time on their smartphones,” said Talmon Marco, CEO of Viber. “However, a lot of that usage takes place at home or in the office, where they have laptops or desktops close by. With Viber Desktop you always get to use the most convenient device. You can seamlessly switch devices while messaging and even transfer calls between your mobile and desktop.”
The release of Viber Desktop is part of the roll out of Viber 3.0, the next major version of the platform. The 3.0 release includes major updates to both the Android and iOS versions of the app, as well as a new version for BlackBerry that ensures voice calling as well as compatibility with Viber Desktop.
Viber for Android now features a completely redesigned “Holo” interface as well as numerous Android specific optimizations.
Both the Android and iOS versions were not only designed to ensure seamless communication with the new desktop version but also include a host of new features.
Key highlights of the new versions include:
Video messages
New stickers
Last online status
Enhanced photo experience
Performance improvements
New voice engine
Android version security fix
On top of this, Viber now speaks your language, with support for eight new languages and 20 languages overall. Supported languages include (new in Bold): Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
About Viber:
Viber is developed by Viber Media, a pioneering mobile messaging and VoIP company. Viber lets everyone in the world connect. Freely. Viber users can send free text messages, photo messages, share locations anywhere in the world, and make free, HD-quality calls on iPhone®, Android,™ Windows Phone, Blackberry®, Windows®, Mac, Symbian, Nokia S40 and Bada devices over 3G/4G or WiFi connections. With more than 200 million users in 193 countries, Viber is constantly innovating by introducing new platforms and adding fun new features including stickers and emoticons.
Facebook Home is a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone. We all want to share and connect.
“That’s how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships.”
But today, phones are built around tasks and apps. To see what’s happening with your friends, you pull out your phone and navigate through a series of separate apps.
“We asked ourselves if sharing and connecting are what matter most, what would your phone be like if it put your friends first? ”
The answer is Home. Home isn’t a phone or operating system, and it’s also more than just an app. Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps. Cover feed :
From the moment you wake up your phone you become immersed in cover feed. Cover feed replaces the lock screen and home screen. It’s a window into what’s happening with your friends – friends finishing a bike race, your family sharing a meal or an article about your favorite sports team. These are the beautiful, immersive experiences that you get through Home.
You might have missed these updates before, but now they’re a central part of the Home experience. Since Home is both your lock screen and home screen, the content comes right to you. You can flip through to see more stories, and double tap to like what you see.
Cover feed is for those in-between moments like waiting in line at the grocery store or between classes when you want to see what’s going on in your world.
Chat heads :
With chat heads you can keep chatting with friends even when you’re using other apps. When friends send you messages, a chat head appears with your friend’s face, so you see exactly who you’re chatting with. Messages reach you no matter what you’re doing – whether you’re checking email, browsing the web, or listening to music.
You can move chat heads around and respond to messages. And since SMS is integrated into Facebook Messenger for Android, chat heads include Facebook messages as well as texts. Notifications :
Cover feed is great for seeing everything going on in the world. But when something happens that’s more important and directed at you, like a friend posting on your timeline, you’ll receive notifications with their profile pictures.
To open notifications, just tap them. And if you don’t want to deal with them right now, you can just swipe to hide them and keep flipping through cover feed until you want them back.
Apps :
It’s as easy to get to your apps in Home as it is on any other phone. Swipe up to see your favorite apps in the launcher. There’s also a screen containing all of your apps, and you can drag your favorite apps to the launcher.
Facebook Home works on Android devices such as : the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung GALAXY S III and Samsung GALAXY Note II. Home will also work on the HTC One and Samsung GALAXY S4, and on more devices in the coming months.
Facebook Home will be available as a free download from the Google Play Store starting April 12 in the US. And will initially be available for download in other countries shortly after that.
Home will also be available pre-installed on phones through the Facebook Home Program. HTC and AT&T are the first companies working together to deliver a phone with Home. It’s called the HTC First and it goes on sale April 12. You can download Home for free from the Play Store starting April 12, or purchase a phone with Home pre-installed. The first phone to come with Home is the HTC First, which goes on sale in the U.S. on April 12.
“We designed Home to be the next version of Facebook. But we also wanted to do something more. We wanted to reimagine the way we all use computing devices to make us more connected and bring us closer to the people we care about.”
HTC and Facebook have just announced officially the First an Android device, a new smartphone that puts Facebook influence front and center and comes exclusively on AT&T’s network. Despite its name, the First isn’t the first device that Facebook and HTC have partnered on it – back in 2011, HTC released the ChaCha, Status, and Salsa, all of which had special Facebook integration. But the HTC First have more than just it’s moniker, it comes with Facebook’s new Home launcher out of the box, offering a much richer Facebook experience than the earlier efforts.
The HTC First will come in four colors: red, light blue, white, and black. It has a very minimal design, and the overall shape is a generic rounded rectangle.
Side specs the HTC First :
4.3-inch Super LCD display (1280 x 720).
Below the display there are three capacitive buttons.
Cameras on the front and back. 5-megapixel unit with an f/2.0, 28mm lens, while the front camera is a 1.6-megapixel sensor.
Powered by a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.4GHz Paired with 1GB of RAM.
It also has 16GB of internal storage.
2,000mAh battery.
The First supports AT&T’s 4G LTE network and will be available April 12th for $99.99.
Interested customers will be able to pre-order it starting today. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the device will also be released on Orange and EE in Europe, though a release date was not provided.
We’ve all heard plenty of rumors about today’s event, but now it’s finally time to learn exactly what Zuckerberg & Co. have in store for us. Join us for our live coverage of the Facebook event!
Unlike yesterday’s image however, today’s images reveal the Facebook device’s Facebook Home UI of its Android OS.
The photos of the device reveal a minimalist UI with full-screen imagery, and stock Android icons. The app drawer on the other hand, reveals buttons for instant access to Facebook status updates, photo uploads, and location check-ins.
The HTC First with Facebook Home will set todat at 1PM Eastern Time (US Time). Be sure to tune in for the full scoop on both the device and its UI.
While we still have no idea about the Facebook related Android event announcement, an alleged photo of the Facebook-centric called HTC First leaked out. The smartphone will all but certainly make an appearance this coming Thursday, on April 4 during a press event hosted by the social networking giant.
The leaked press photo reveals the front of the upcoming device and a three-button configuration below its display. Curiously, there are no logos whatsoever present on the device’s front.
The rumored specs of the HTC First include a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus CPU, a gig of RAM, 4.3″ 720p display, and a 5MP camera. The OS is expected to be Android 4.1.2 with HTC Sense 4.5 and, of course, deep Facebook integration.
Facebook sent out invitations for an announcement next week, next Thursday April 4th. Carrying the slogan [Come see our new home on Android], the press invite gives more than a subtle hint that Google’s mobile OS will play a leading role.
A likely product to be revealed at the San Francisco Bay Area event is a previously rumored, Facebook phone running Android. HTC is the social networking giant’s likely partner in the venture, as the companies have already worked closely together in the past. Well, what’s this about? A major revamp of Facebook’s Android app? An Android-based Facebook phone.
Whatever it is, we’ll obviously be there to liveblog the announcement in great detail, so be sure to tune in at 1PM ET (10AM PT). to find out all about Facebook’s announcement.
