Sina Launches WeMeet; A Rival to WeChat Mobile Messaging App


Sina originally made an investment in Hangzhou Kuyue Tech which paid off in the form of WeMeet. This newfangled app caters to the social messaging crowd. People may get the daily news and share...

China’s Internet Went Down by Largest Denial-of-Service Attack


The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued a report regarding the protection of Chinese websites. The Ministry of Information Technology and Industry both shifted into high gear by...

Twitter experiments with trending TV box on some users’ timelines

Twitter experiments with TV trending box

Twitter has already signaled its love of TV by negotiating deals for branded video, but it's not satisfied yet: the company has started limited testing of a timeline box for trending TV shows. The feature provides both the details of a given show as well as a list of associated Twitter accounts. Thankfully, the box isn't a permanent fixture; while it will appear on its own, users can close and scroll past the box to return to their personal feeds. The company isn't commenting on the test or the likelihood of a wider rollout, but the popularity of Twitter as a live TV companion suggests that the trending TV box could be here to stay.

Filed under: , ,

Comments

Source: TechCrunch, ASG (Twitter)

Hell freezes over: Sina Weibo now lets you post to Facebook

Image

For some strange reason, Sina Weibo's always required folks to log in to view some of its posts, but now there's more incentive for those who've yet to open a Weibo account. Announced yesterday, the website claims to be the first Chinese social networking platform to connect with Facebook -- the irony being the latter is still blocked in China, plus Tencent's WeChat already beat Weibo on this one.

Anyhow, both new and existing overseas users (including those from Taiwan and Hong Kong) can now register their Facebook accounts on Weibo, thus letting them post Weibo messages to the former simultaneously. Understandably, it doesn't work the other way round, but this should still somewhat help Weibo expand its user base of over 530 million.

As you can see in the above screenshots, this author took the new feature for a test drive and could only forward text-only Weibo posts to Facebook. That said, Sina's press release states that through Facebook's Graph API, Weibo users will eventually be able to also share images, videos, TV shows, music and mobile location to Zuckerberg World. For now, this Facebook integration is only available on the web client, but the Android and iOS clients will soon receive it as well. We've reached out to Sina to see what's up with the Windows Phone version, so stay tuned.

Filed under:

Comments

Via: The Next Web, Engadget Chinese

Source: Sina Digital (Chinese)

Twitter for Android update brings in-line replies, sharing through direct messages

Twitter for Android update brings inline replies, sharing through direct messages

Twitter fans on Android just got a pair of small features that could go a long way toward streamlining conversations. An update to the app now lets socialites reply directly from a tweet's detail page, skipping a minor but sometimes annoying step. The refresh also permits sharing tweets through direct messages -- you won't have to broadcast your intentions to the world. If time or privacy is of the essence, Twitter's Android upgrade is already live at the source link.

Filed under: , ,

Comments

Via: Twitter Mobile (Twitter)

Source: Google Play

Twitter for Android update brings in-line replies, sharing through direct messages

Twitter for Android update brings inline replies, sharing through direct messages

Twitter fans on Android just got a pair of small features that could go a long way toward streamlining conversations. An update to the app now lets socialites reply directly from a tweet's detail page, skipping a minor but sometimes annoying step. The refresh also permits sharing tweets through direct messages -- you won't have to broadcast your intentions to the world. If time or privacy is of the essence, Twitter's Android upgrade is already live at the source link.

Filed under: , ,

Comments

Via: Twitter Mobile (Twitter)

Source: Google Play

Twitter briefly showed which sites were embedding which tweets

Twitter briefly showed which sites were embedding which tweets

It's been possible for Twitter fans to embed posts and whole timelines for some time, but authors almost wouldn't know it when they aren't told that the sharing takes place. Users may not be in the dark for much longer -- F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen noticed this weekend that Twitter was briefly listing the sites embedding a given tweet. We've asked Twitter for more details, but the quick disappearance of the feature suggests that the company was conducting field tests. If the addition becomes permanent, it would be consistent with Twitter's desire to track major events -- we'd know just which tweets get the web community buzzing.

Filed under:

Comments

Via: The Verge

Source: Mikko Hypponen (Twitter)

Tumblr Brings Sponsored Posts to Web Dashboard


Tumblr has taken a forward step in term of advertisement on Thursday. The famous social media website has announced to bring sponsored posts on users desktop dashboard. Now users will see these...
    


Yahoo reportedly bids $800 million to acquire Hulu


Yahoo has recently acquired social blogging platform Tumblr, but as far as the Internet giant's ambition goes, it is not resting on its laurels yet. AllThingsD is reporting that Yahoo is bidding to...