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Facebook Has Developed a New Way to Connect More People to the Internet

Facebook has this week outlined an update to its Free Basics internet connection initiative, through which the company is working to connect the other 50% of the global population that, right now, cannot access the web. The new project is called Discover, a process which enables users to access an expanded range of internet services via the platform, as opposed to the previously limited subset of web tools and sites made available via the first iteration of the Free Basics offering. Facebook launched the initial Free Basics platform back in 2015, an expansion of its internet.org initiative. The idea of Free Basics is that it enables people in regions with limited connectivity to access the internet, with a collection of partner websites selected by Facebook contributing to the limited-data service. This enables Facebook to facilitate more web connection, which aligns with its broader mission to ‘connect the world’, while also likely adding more users for Facebook’s audience over time. One… Read More »Facebook Has Developed a New Way to Connect More People to the Internet

Facebook Has Launched Another Teen Focused App, This Time to Make Memes

Facebook Has Launched Another Teen Focused App, This Time to Make Memes For pretty much its entire history, Facebook has been afraid of losing touch with the kids. Well, maybe not since its inception, as it came to prominence by superseding former youth champ MySpace. But likely because of how it overtook MySpace as the cool place to be, Facebook knows that it too can be trumped by the next big app, if such an option manages to gain significant traction among younger users. And that’s a fate that Facebook is desperate to avoid. Enter Facebook’s latest attempt to stay cool with younger folk  These screenshots are from a new app called Whale, which is now available to Canadian users via a company called NPE Team LLC. NPE – which stands for ‘New Product Experimentation’ – is actually part of Facebook’s experimental app division, which is headed by former Vine GM Jason Toff. Whale is the latest app from NPE,… Read More »Facebook Has Launched Another Teen Focused App, This Time to Make Memes