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FIR #131: Snapchat’s Egg Hunt, Facebook Privacy, SpaceX Satellites… and a Smorgasbord of Segments

April 2, 2018 by Dan York Leave a Comment

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With Shel away with a family matter, Dan York stepped in to host this week’s episode, with Gini Dietrich contributing a segment on crisis communications. Topics included:

  • Snapchat launches a “Pokemon Go”-style augmented reality Easter Egg Hunt
  • Facebook makes some changes to improve user privacy (also here and here)
    • Also EFF on opting of Facebook platform sharing – and Mozilla’s Facebook Container Extension.
  • On the need for more transparency in social media
  • Doc Searls weighs in on all the tracking of media websites – and the impending GDPR
    • Plus two opinions about the GDPR in Wired and the New York Times
  • Why “POSSE” is important
  • Is it time for a RSS revival?
  • Mozilla’s 20th anniversary – and an effective use of a Twitter Moment
  • SpaceX just got approval to launch 4,000+ satellites to provide Internet access
  • Gini Dietrich talked about crisis communications and the latest news out of Michigan State (also here and here)
  • LinkedIn allows video in your company page newsfeed
  • Print isn’t dead yet – people are launching small, indy food magazines
  • New DNS tools from CloudFlare
  • Something to read: Collaboration and the creation of a new journalism commons

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

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About Dan York

Dan York focuses on explaining the changes going on all around us within communication technology and practices. In addition to producing FIR on Technology, Dan is a long-time contributor to The Hobson & Holtz Report. Full bio

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