Facebook Launches M, a Siri-Like Personal Assistant for Messenger

Today Facebook announced its beginning a very small roll out of a digital assistant service that will live within Messenger. The service, called M, is capable of completing tasks and finding information upon request. Facebook’s M calls to mind Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, but what sets M apart is how...

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Instagram Landscape and Portrait Mode Are Here! Third-Party Apps No Longer Needed

Instagram just introduced one of its most significant changes in recent memory — landscape and portrait modes for photos and videos. In addition to the traditional square photos, Instagram now natively allows the ability to post media in portrait and landscape orientations. This means you can post your photos and...

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SEJ Wrap-Up: Top 10 Review Sites You Need to Monitor and Could Google Sway the Election?

Online reviews have become an essential part of running any type of business in 2015. While traditionally an afterthought, monitoring online reviews is now a necessity, says SEJ contributor Jason Hawkins. Your first step, however, is to determine where you can find these reviews so you can monitor them. In this week’s...

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Instagram Improves Direct Messaging With Threaded Convos and Enhanced Emojis

Instagram has announced a set of improvements to its direct messaging feature, which included threaded conversations and enhanced emojis Instagram Direct has garnered 85 million monthly users since launching in 2013, but the service was never on par with direct messaging offered by competitors like Facebook, Snapchat,...

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Supercharge Your Citation Campaigns using CitationTracker

This post was sponsored by BrightLocal.com.Auditing and cleaning up local directory listings is critical to performing well in local search.In fact, 55% of local experts say accurate citations are ‘critical’ to local search ranking.However, the actual process of finding and fixing your local listings is tricky, time-consuming,...

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