News and Editorial

Believe it or not, when the biggest social media and messaging provider goes down there can be a winner. Clearly, it's not their users since critical services are offline. But when that outage lasts more than a...

A major outage has impacted Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp overnight for Australian users. The impact to users was that messages weren't sending, feeds weren't loading and access to some features simply broke. If you check out some...

Smart glasses are an interesting concept that, for the most part, haven't exactly taken off. Google's Glass, while cool, has largely remained a niche product used in enterprise with no consumer-oriented product ever really taking off. Snap Inc's Spectacles...

Since the furore around changes in the data-sharing arrangement with Facebook, WhatsApp has been scrambling to maintain its market. As part of this, the company has been adding features (often that other platforms already have) to the app...

The team over at WhatsApp Beta Info had a chat with WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart recently. During the conversation, Cathcart discussed a number of issues facing the platform currently, particularly privacy. During the conversation, the question was posed about...

Social media can be a harsh mistress, particularly if you're in the influencing realm. So much so that not enough likes can have an effect on your income or even mental health. Finally, the big players --...

When the messaging war began, who knew we would end up with over a dozen viable options? The issue that most people face is that not everyone you want to message is on a single platform. So you're...

If there was ever any doubt that Facebook has a stranglehold on the messaging market, they've hit 5 billion installs on another messaging app. Following -- Facebook-owned -- WhatsApp hitting the marker in January 2020, Messenger has also...

Social media can be a wonderful, entertaining thing, or it can be cesspool of misinformation perpetuated by laziness. Thankfully last year, Twitter started prompting users to read articles before re-tweeting, now Facebook is ready to follow that example. https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1391816265891778560 The...

Since the announcement that WhatsApp was changing their privacy policy and sharing more data with Facebook, there's been quite the buzz. This has resulted in a lot of concern about user privacy and a fairly significant exodus of...

Last year we saw the move from Facebook to allow users to export their photos, now this is being taken a step further. The expansion of the data export tool now includes users posts and notes. The...

If you were up in the small hours this morning, you may have noticed that messaging on Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger -- as well as other Facebook services -- were down. The outage also seems to have affected Instagram,...

Facebook Messenger has announced that it is bringing a new way to experience the arts virtually, with a new initiative that features a collaboration with Melbourne-based artist and illustrator, Karan Singh. The collaboration is the first for Facebook Australia partnering...

Not even a week after abruptly removing all Australian news (and plenty of Australian non-news) content from its website, Facebook has changed its mind, and will bring Australian content back to its platform. The announcement came this evening via Australia's...

Facebook has decided to show the Australian Government its resolve by removing Australian news content from Facebook across the globe yesterday, and it's certainly made news (ironically). Rather than pay news media for sharing their content - its debatable...