Chance The Rapper turned to Facebook Live to release the premiere music video of “Same Drugs” off of his third mixtape Coloring Book. “Same Drugs” has Chance in studio filming the first part of his song while being accompanied by a puppet on the piano. The same puppet Chance used for his Magnificent World Coloring […]
[Review] Friended to Death
Do you ever have them nights where you’re sitting around, hanging with your boys Ben and Jerry, and question everything in your life? No? Oh yeah, me neither… Anyway, for those of you who may have, perhaps you thought about a lot of things, like “Why aren’t any of my friends texting me?” or “Should […]
[Interview] Sarah Smick and Ian Michaels (Friended to Death)
Friended to Death is a dark comedy that embraces the age old curiosity of who would show up at your funeral if you were to die. Although, this creation from Sarah Smick and Ian Michaels encompasses this question in a whole new light: What if you were to fake your death so you could find […]
Facebook To Acquire WhatsApp
Most of us can just go ahead and download the WhatsApp app for free, but Mark Zuckerberg instead choose to buy the company for a reported $16 billion. After acquiring Instagram for a $1 billion two years ago, this latest move shows that Facebook is trying to stay at the top of the social network […]
Facebook Releases New App: Facebook Paper
Back in the day, if you were on the go and wanted to know what was going on in the world, you simply picked up the newspaper. Nowadays, the majority of people simply get their news from a device that is never far from reach: their cell phone. Many go straight to the source, and […]
Ads In Your Instagram Feed
It was only a matter of time for Facebook to use its $1 billion acquisition of Instagram to generate income by selling ad space. Soon, when you’re scrolling through endless amounts of selfies and photos of people’s food, you’ll also see ads from various brands that you might not follow. I figure there will be […]
Facebook rolling out Graph Search today
The next step in Facebook’s evolution will be introduced today as the social network will begin rolling out its new “Graph Search” feature for US-based accounts. Backed by Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Graph Search is touted as being a much faster and more intricate search option for the site. Users can, for example, search “Photos […]
Facebook bites Twitter’s style, plans to implement hashtags
What bugs me more than anything is seeing people using hashtags on Facebook. For those who don’t know, hashtag links, most commonly and visibly utilized on Twitter, are a series of metadata tags that grouped together common tweets, posts, etc. Again, for the non-tweeters out there, somebody could write a tweet about the Blackhawks, then add […]