Google Pixel, Home, Assistant: Alphabet's Bid For The Home
Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 160
BL and David discuss Facebook Marketplace’s algorithm fail; Twitter receiving bids this week; Google’s new Pixel phone and $79 Daydrream VR headset; Nazi hunting using VR; Malware in ads on Spotify; InstaBeckindale; Mochino’s controversial drug couture; Netflix Miranda Sings series stars Colleen Ballinger-Evans, #ThatMexicanThing and much, much more.
Worst Digital Cases
Facebook Marketplace Opens With Sex, Guns & Baby Hedgehogs for Sale
On Monday morning, Facebook introduced Marketplace, a new section on its mobile app that allowed its users to buy and sell things with their friends and strangers.
By Monday eveningillegal drugs, dogs, guns, sexual services and Baby hedgehogs had eluded Facebook’s algorithm.
- Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs
- Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
Thank you Facebook Marketplace for giving me the opportunity to buy babies or guns… pic.twitter.com/4g08zXkpmk
— Zack Neiner (@ZackNeiner) October 3, 2016
Capsule Couture
Moschino, a high-end Italian fashion line with a pill-popping motif is sparking outrage and a campaign by a Minneapolis drug counselor who wants Nordstrom to pull the controversial items from its stores.
- Moschino’s drug-themed clothing line sparks backlash in Twin Cities
- Boycott Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue & Moschino
- Mischino Capsule Collection
Spotify’s Playlist: Malware Ads
It seems Spotify is in for trouble as numerous music lovers are reporting that its freemium streaming service is pushing malware-infested ads to its users.
10 Songs About Being Sick
Best Digital Cases
Pixel
Google launched its first phone – Pixel – available for pre-order only from Verizon. It also launched Daydream, a $79 Virtual Reality headset that syncs to the phone. Perhaps VR will really come to the masses now.
Twitter To Be Sold This Week?
Salesforce may be the only suitor for Twitter left, after Disney and Alphabet have reportedly dropped out of the bidding.
#ItsOnUs Multi-Media Campaign Combats Campus Sexual Assault
The #ItsOnUs campaign combats campus sexual assault w/videos, a pledge, tools, events, celebrities & more.
Fiction Imitates Real Life On Netflix Series Haters Back Off
YouTube star Colleen Ballinger-Evans will star in her own Netflix series based on Miranda Sings, a character she created and through which she created a massive online following.
- Netflix’s latest series about becoming a YouTube superstar looks like a blast
- Netflix Orders Scripted Series ‘Haters Back Off’ Based on YouTube Star Miranda Sings
- Miranda Sings
- Haters Back Off
Donald Trump’s The Butt Of Many NSFW Online Jokes
MoveOn.org circulated NSFW jokes about Donald Trump and the NY Times featured parody of him as he became the butt of late night and water cooler jokes.
Virtual Reality Helps Convict Nazis
German prosecutors and police investigating the last living Nazi war criminals can now immerse themselves in a highly precise 3D model of Auschwitz and present it as evidence at trial.
The question: if you had to flee your country, what one piece of technology would you take with you?
Poignant BBC Media Action video – made to be watched on mobile – demonstrates what a refugee’s life is like during a desperate escape.
Virtual Escape From Nazi-Occupied France
Time’s VR app features the story of Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom, who was one of the 29 children who arrived in the United States aboard the Excambion, a ship carrying child refugees from Nazi-occupied France, who escaped via Portugal. The story is the subject of a documentary called Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, as well as an exclusive virtual reality companion piece, by LIFE VR.
- Holocaust Survivor Experiences Her Own Rescue in Virtual Reality
- TIME VR
- Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War
#ThatMexicanThing.com Connects To HillaryClinton.com
Within hours after VP Candidate and Trump running mate Mike Pence characterized Trump’s explosive rhetoric about Mexicans as “that Mexican thing” the term was trending as a hashtag on Twitter, and the website ThatMexicanThing.com was redirecting to a donations page on Hillary Clinton’s website.
InstaKate
Actress Kate Beckinsale has about the most awesomest Instagram account around.
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Shiny New Stuff
80s Text Graphic Generator
Create your own graphic mashup of Miami Vice and Tron.
Stranger Things Type Generator
Create your own Stranger Things-themed graphic.
Brain It On!
Deceptively challenging puzzles for your brain! Draw shapes to solve challenging physics puzzles. They’re not as easy as they look!
The Daily Numbers
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