Facebook Unveils Passkeys: Simplifying Sign-Ins for Small Businesses https://smallbiztrends.com/facebook-unveils-passkeys-simplifying-sign-ins-for-small-businesses/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SmallBusinessNews #FacebookNews

My daily #podcast - On today's episode of Chaos Theory, we explore the wild world of phone resale, a new study on Facebook news, the latest research on American fitness habits, a defendant's decision in the January 6th Capitol riot, notable holdouts at the D.E.I. retreat, and the latest from President Trump. Don't miss it! #ChaosTheory #PhoneResale #FacebookNews #Fitness #January6th #DEI #Trump

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/chaostheorynewsbyai/episodes/January-24--2025-e2ttvnr

Facebook's "Poke" feature comes back into the spotlight after years of languishing in the shadows.

#FacebookNews #SocialMediaNews https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebook-is-bringing-back-the-poke-feature/ar-BB1kiDil

Facebook's "Poke" feature comes back into the spotlight after years of languishing in the shadows.

#FacebookNews #SocialMediaNews
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebook-is-bringing-back-the-poke-feature/ar-BB1kiDil

Facebook-Instagram News Update Today live: Facebook-Instagram will now hit your pocket, Meta's big decision
https://newswatchindia.com/facebook-instagram-will-now.../
#facebooknews #facebooknewstoday #facebooknewsfeed #instagramnews #instagramnewsupdate #socialnetworking #instagramnewstoday

I have only two days this upcoming workweek that aren’t blocked off completely, Monday and Thursday. Tuesday I’ll be working the Virginia primary election (hard to believe it’s been almost four years since my first long day as a poll worker), Wednesday I’m covering the  ACA Connects telecom-industry conference, and Friday I fly to Austin for SXSW.

In addition to the stories below, I wrote a bonus post for Patreon readers recapping some of the more interesting things I saw at MWC.

2/26/2024: Google Brings Gemini to Messages App in AI-Flavored Android Feature Drop, PCMag

The first story I filed from Barcelona is one that I could have written from home–Google PR gave me an embargoed copy of the announcement of these new features. But I did appreciate being able to try them out in person at Google’s MWC exhibit during a press breakfast Monday morning.

2/25/2024: 2 Wheels, 3 Cameras, One 5G Radio: Orbic Debuts Connected E-Bike at MWC, PCMag

Writing about a 5G-connected e-bike was not in any of my MWC plans, but the nice thing about large tech events like this is that they can serve up surprises that justify making your way to an exhibitor’s corner of the show floor.

2/28/2024: Cyber diplomacy for the next era of connectivity, Compiler Pop-Up Series: The Barcelona Edition

I moderated this panel discussion between a trio of diplomats–Steve Lang, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for international and communications policy, Vassiliki Gogou, a cybersecurity expert with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, and Maite Arcos, director general of the ESYS Foundation–at an event hosted by Compiler. That’s a new non-profit tech-policy publication supported by the Hewlett Foundation and founded by Mike Farrell, a longtime information-security journalist.

2/28/2024: NTT Docomo ‘Feel Tech Animal’ Exhibit Had Me Walking a Virtual Dog, PCMag

This virtual-reality demo was another thing not in my MWC plans until another attendee suggested I check it out.

2/29/2024: Bluesky Adds Hashtag Support, Better Account Portability Than Mastodon, PCMag

I saw the news about this on my way to the airport in Barcelona early Thursday morning, pitched a post about it in PCMag’s Slack workspace, and got a go-ahead from my editor before I’d cleared security in BCN. Then I wrote the post during my layover in Zurich.

2/29/2024: At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities, Light Reading

The interviews for this piece happened Monday, but I didn’t finish writing it until Tuesday and then my overworked editor, also at MWC, needed a little more time to get this published. And then we had to correct it because I didn’t look close enough at the transcription of the interview provided by Google’s Live Transcribe app to notice that I’d jotted down a different number for the capacity of AST’s NextGen satellites in the notes I took on my laptop.

3/1/2024: Facebook Finds New Way to Unfriend Publishers by Nixing News Tab, PCMag

Writing this post became a little more fun when I realized that Facebook had not only gotten rid of the option to put the News tab among the basic shortcuts in its iPhone and iPad app, it had also left up old documentation that directs users to a nonexistent part of the settings interfaces on those apps.

3/1/2024: Ep 96 SmartTechCheck Podcast MWC, Qualcomm FastConnect 7900, Apple kills car project, SCOTUS, Mark Vena

I shared my impressions of MWC at my industry-analyst friend’s podcast in which we also discussed such recent tech plot twists as Apple closing down its car project and the Supreme Court taking up what strike me as flagrantly unconstitutional Florida and Texas laws that would compel social platforms to publish speech that they might find repulsive.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/03/03/weekly-output-android-feature-drop-5g-connected-e-bike-infosec-diplomacy-feel-tech-animal-demo-bluesky-supports-hashtags-att-and-ast-spacemobile-facebook-to-nix-news-tab-mark-vena-pod/

#AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #ATT #Barcelona #BCN #Bluesky #cybersecurity #eBikes #FacebookNews #hashtags #infosec #MarkVena #MobileWorldCongress #MWC #NTN #satelliteToPhone #virtualReality #wireless

kress: "Gehörst du jetzt zur dunklen Seite?": Jesper Doub über seine Zeit bei der Facebook-Mutter Meta

Der frühere Geschäftsführer der Spiegel-Gruppe verließ den Facebook-Konzern Meta im vergangenen Jahr. Im kress pro-Interview sagt Jesper Doub, warum es mit Facebook News nichts wurde - und was er derzeit macht. 
"Gehörst du jetzt zur dunklen Seite?": Jesper Doub über seine Zeit bei der Facebook-Mutter Meta

Move Fast and Ban Things
https://netopia.eu/move-fast-and-ban-things/ #TechRegulation #Digitalmarketsact #Digitalservicesact #DSM #FacebookNews #GoogleNews #onlinesafetybill / #NewPost via
@NetopiaEU

📰 Meta beendet die Bereitstellung von Facebook News in Deutschland, um sich auf andere Inhalte und Funktionen zu konzentrieren. #SocialMediaMarketing #FacebookNews https://onlinemarketing.de/cases/meta-streicht-facebook-news-deutschland

Facebook Dropping Facebook News in France, UK, and Germany

Facebook has announced that Facebook News will be going by the wayside in 4 European countries, throwing another wrench into link taxes.

One of the concepts pushed by link tax supporters around the wo

https://www.freezenet.ca/facebook-dropping-facebook-news-in-france-uk-and-germany/

#Copyright #International #BillC18 #Canada #Europe #Facebook #FacebookNews #France #Germany #LinkTax #Meta #NewsLinks #OnlineNewsAct #UK

#FacebookNews wird im Dezember in #Deutschland eingestellt: https://derchotv.de/2023/09/05/meta-beendet-facebook-news-in-deutschland/

Best. Facebook. Ad. Ever.
#FoundOnFacebook #FacebookNews

#FacebookNews #Facebook
#humourdemmrde #loveit

Eine Bezahlung für die Verwertung von journalistischen Inhalten muss selbstverständlich sein.
Wir werden sehr genau beobachten, ob die Kooperation der Verlage mit #FacebookNews am Ende zu Lasten der Journalistinnen und #Journalisten geht.
https://kress.de/news/detail/beitrag/147414-genau-in-die-vertraege-schauen-was-der-springer-facebook-deal-fuer-die-verlage-bedeutet.html