A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy … Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online , @ricmac@mastodon.social...
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more
they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy. Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyo...
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... Kali Hays / @kalihays...
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to , @waxy@xoxo.zone , @juergen_huber...
A look at ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social network protocol finalized in 2018 that is gaining prominence powering Twitter alternatives like Mastodon
@pierce from the Verge explains that ActivityPub is not just about Mastodon but a method to connect the larger social web. … Johannes Ernst / @J12t@social.coop : “... there's a growing set of people w...