Grote kansen voor Eredivisieclubs op social media: wie tikt ‘m in?

Hoe staan de Nederlandse topclubs er eigenlijk voor op social media? Als we kijken naar de social fanbase staat Ajax op eenzame hoogte. Daarachter vindt een voortdurende nek-aan-nek race plaats om de tweede plek tussen Feyenoord en PSV. Maar waar blijft de rest van de Eredivisie?  Eredivisieclubs & social media: een onderzoek Welke Eredivisieclubs scoren goed op welk […]

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Social media: de cijfers van 2014 [infographic]

We zijn over de helft van het jaar 2014. Een mooi moment om de social media-balans op te maken. Wat is de stand van zaken? Is Facebook nog steeds het populairste netwerk? Of zien we een daling? En hoe staat het met opkomende platformen als Pinterest en Instagram? Je komt het te weten in deze […]

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Snapchat slaat 2,2 miljard euro overnamebod van Facebook af

[door Richard Otto] Snapchat heeft het 2,2 miljard euro overnamebod van Facebook. Snapchat is een social photo app dat vooral populair is onder tieners. Een doelgroep waar volgens diverse bronnen bij Facebook momenteel flink de klad in zit. Een overname zou daarom goed van pas komen. 

Al eerder zou Facebook reeds een bod van meer dan 40 miljoen euro hebben op Snapchat hebben uitgebracht. Ook

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Stanford Grad Files Lawsuit Claiming He Came Up With Snapchat, Snapchat Calls Lawsuit “Devoid Of Merit”

murphybrownspiegelIn what appears to be a cyclical recurrence of post-success litigation, Snapchat is being sued by a man from South Carolina named Frank Reginald Brown IV, who claims that he originally came up with the idea for the ephemeral picture messaging app.

The idea for Snapchat is simple, yet has been widely misunderstood by older generations: you take a picture or video of yourself (or something else if you choose), set a time limit, and send the picture off to a friend. The app will only let the user view the picture for the pre-set period of time, no more than ten seconds.

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Ten Days After Private Beta Launch, Snapchat Officially Brings Video To Android

snapandroidIt was just ten days ago that Snapchat launched a private beta version of its Android app, updated to include the video capture feature we’ve come to enjoy on iOS.

Today, however, the company has turned it around, making the Snapchat with video application officially available in theGoogle Play</a. Store. Co-founder Evan Spiegel mentioned to us earlier in the month that developing Snapchat for Android can be difficult, since Snapchat's video feature needs to be compatible across a number of different processors, screen sizes, etc.

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Not-So-Ephemeral Messaging: New SnapChat “Hack” Lets Users Save Photos Forever

Picture 5Even as SnapChat leaves tech reporters and people over 25 scratching their heads — is it the next Instagram, or a massive sexting conspiracy? — the app has succeeded in bringing ephemeral (or self-destructive, if you’re into the whole Mission Impossible thing) messaging to the mainstream. The app has been busy racking up a billion-plus “snaps,” is reportedly raising a huge round of funding, and Zuckerberg himself couldn’t wait to get involved in the coding and launch of Poke, Facebook’s newly-launched “SnapChat clone.”

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Facebook Graph Search Is Humorless, Creepy And Doomed To Disappoint

facebook graph searchFacebook’s newest feature Graph Search — a tool which lets users datamine their friends’ and strangers’ photos and interests — merely adds to the site’s stalkerish reputation. Sharing anything on Facebook now carries an even bigger risk of over-sharing, and should make users think long and hard about every little thing they contribute to its data banks.

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Gryphn Updates Secure SMS Platform To Better Compete With Facebook Poke, Snapchat

gryphnSnapchat and Facebook Poke have clearly validated the demand for ephemeral messaging, and perhaps even a desire for added security (whether it’s misguidedly through social networks or not). But SMS seems like the obvious choice for the most private of your messaging platforms, which is why Gryphn technology has launched its own self-destructing SMS platform for Android.

The new update to the app allows the encrypting of videos, messages and pictures locally on the device to ensure that no recipient can download them from the phone in any way. The update also makes it impossible to take a screenshot of any received photo or video.

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Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare

Screen Shot 2012-12-23 at 11.58.18 AMIt started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to now see over 50 million snaps per day today. In fact, Facebook launched a clone of the app just Friday.

It wasn’t until the company made its first milestone announcement, nine months after launch, that the media picked up the story. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton whipped out all this cute PEW research on sexting in adults and teens, and referenced “suggestive” marketing materials and even pointed out the app’s “mild sexual content or nudity” warning.

From that moment on, whether in milestone achievements, feature and expansion announcements, or stories about Facebook’s new Snapchat clone, Snapchat was branded a sexting app.

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