IT総合 Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, blogs, and more, will launch in ‘early 2025’
A new app called Tapestry promising to unify social media, news, and RSS in one place, is nearing completion. Designed b...
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IT総合 IT総合 Instagram Threads adds ‘Use Media’ feature for resharing photos and videos
Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the origin...
IT総合 App downloads decline 2.3% in 2024, but consumer spending grows to $127B
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of cons...
IT総合 Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit
Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (aka the open social web), w...
IT総合 YouTube will now let creators opt in to third-party AI training
YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train thei...
IT総合 Temu is the most-downloaded app on the U.S. App Store in 2024
Chinese shopping app Temu was once again the most downloaded free app in the U.S., according to a list of top apps and g...
IT総合 Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment
Now with 25 million users, Bluesky is facing a test that will determine whether or not its platform will still be seen a...
IT総合 Tumblr launches its interest-focused Communities out of beta
A year after initial tests began, the web blogging site Tumblr, now owned by WordPress.com parent Automattic, is launchi...
IT総合 United and Air Canada can now use Apple AirTags to track lost luggage
Arriving in time for holiday travel and potentially lost luggage, a new feature that allows Apple AirTag owners to share...
IT総合 Pentagon says mystery drones over New Jersey are ‘not US military,’ not likely foreign
In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying ...
IT総合 Pentagon doesn’t know where mystery drones over New Jersey come from
In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying ...
IT総合 Video app Kino, from maker of Halide, is Apple’s iPhone app of the year
ChatGPT may currently be the No. 1 app on the iPhone App Store in the U.S., but it’s not Apple’s iPhone app ...
IT総合 HarperCollins CEO touts Spotify’s audiobooks entry, AI’s impact on publishing
The future of audiobooks and AI’s impact on the publishing industry were points of discussion for HarperCollins, w...
IT総合 Phhhoto’s antitrust claim against Meta is heading back to the courts
A U.S. appeals court has overturned a decision in an antitrust lawsuit against Meta, which was filed in in late 2021 by ...
IT総合 FTC distributes $72M to Fortnite customers tricked into making unwanted purchases
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced that it’s sending the first round of payments to consumers t...
IT総合 Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup
Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to dev...
IT総合 Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps
A change to Meta’s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Inst...
IT総合 Google Photos launches a ‘2024 Recap’ for a look back at this year’s memories
Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews f...
IT総合 Holiday app Festivitas puts Xmas lights on your Mac
Getting into the holiday spirit but still stuck at work? A cute new macOS called Festivitas can help you decorate your M...
IT総合 Meta eases up on issuing strikes for Facebook users and Instagram creators
Days after Meta admitted that it’s been over-moderating its content, with mistakes impacting creators, the company...
IT総合 Spotify users are disappointed by an underwhelming Wrapped this year
After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer’s personalized year-in-revie...
IT総合 Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM
Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual p...
IT総合 Celeb greetings app Cameo pivots to creators
Celeb greetings app Cameo is pivoting to creators with a new product called CameoX. The company became a pandemic hit, a...
IT総合 Threads takes on Bluesky with more advanced search
Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads is gaining an improved search interface, the company announced on Monday. Th...
IT総合 GoBlue’s new app lets you track your Bluesky stats
A new app called GoBlue has launched to help those looking to track their following on Bluesky, the Twitter-like social ...
IT総合 Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is ...
IT総合 Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X’s blue checks
The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in...
IT総合 Spotify debuts marketing tools and insights for audiobook authors
Spotify on Tuesday introduced a new set of tools for authors and publishers distributing their audiobooks on its platfor...
IT総合 Sill’s new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks
Want to keep up with what everyone’s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, bu...
IT総合 Apple again snubs AI in its ‘iPhone App of the Year’ finalists
On Monday, Apple’s list of finalists for its coveted “iPhone App of the Year” award once again reveals...