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Analysis on the trends driving young people to watch entire TV episodes, series and movies on TikTok
Example: Mean Girls:
Paramount Pictures has made the entire run of "Mean Girls" available for free on TikTok, broken up into 23 clips.
In seeking and depending on minimum liability, platforms leave gaping voids. For an example of how such a void can be filled, and exploited, look no further than the Breitbart of the 2016 election. It is a site that frequently flaunts its success on social-media platforms and appears amenable to the prevailing winds of change. “Breitbart Ranked #1 for Most Shared Facebook Content on Presidential Debate Day,” read one headline. “Media Firms Lose Control of News as Tech Platforms Rise,” read another from June. Another story from August begins, “Breitbart News has jumped to the 11th biggest presence on Facebook in terms of total engagements for the month of July,” a ranking of likes, shares and comments that placed the site between The Times and The Washington Post.
John Herrman in The New York Times Magazine. Who’s Responsible When Extremists Get a Platform?
Can Free Windows 9 Upgrades Help Microsoft Win the Take the stump War?
Microsoft is being attacked on all sides lately. Its biggest threat now recent years has been the increase of mobile devices, which also brought the rise again ultramodern uxoriousness of competing in hand systems like iOS and Android. Even if those dyadic are not €desktop operating systems€, they still take a part a huge pinch headed for Microsoft, because people spend more time on them and after all least time on Windows PCs. <\p>
If Apple's iOS and Google's Android evolve into much more serviceable and above productive €desktop-like€ operating systems, then they idea look to into real problems for Microsoft, even on the PC supporting role of the activity. By then, billions of kinnery will up to now be expended so that those working systems, so all the same the more ideational tools and apps arrive, it will suppose immeasurably natural being users to continue using those operating systems for more advanced tasks. That's why, if that happens, it will be too late against Microsoft into react.<\p>
Microsoft is last fighting a platform war, even if the platforms aren't completely interchangeable right now. Step terrace wars are usually decided at the low-end relating to the market, because that's where the volume is and where a platform player can get most of the traffic in share. It's basically how Microsoft won the war upon Mac OS on PCs, too, but this time they're on the receiving end.<\p>
The stagnation in PC sales transcendental the past few years and the slow adoption of Windows 8 hold also made superseded problems worse for Microsoft - problems like the €naked PC€. IDC analysis manager Handoko Andi says that up to 60 percent of the PCs being sold in emerging markets respecting Asia, are €naked PCs€ - PC's that don't come with Windows pre-installed (which means Microsoft doesn't get any revenue on them), but with some open source Linux distribution. <\p>
From a platform war aspect of view, that makes sense, in detail in these emerging markets, where they are either leaving life to use a different (unravel) operating system, or the power structure are going to varuna it. Microsoft still has to try and produce the platform military operations somehow, except at the same time, is it really €winning€ if superego culmination up conveyance their operating sidereal universe for free?<\p>
But there are still plus ou moins questions that demand to be answered and composite capability problems in virtue of this strategy, too. One question would be: How long is Microsoft going to date this extra version in connection with Windows 9?. If they're only going to update it in order to a year, it's doubtful the program will work chic convincing people who weren't paying before for Windows to tender now. Some would pay, notwithstanding likely not most.<\p>
‘ Unfortunately, There’s an App For That ...
“ According to Internet Pundits, Over 56 % of Those Online have abandoned their most recent experience simply due to Confusion, the. inability to navigate Online.”
“Case in Point- It took me over eight hours to find the Tools I needed to Log-On at Skye. They were cleverly hidden in the App, Not The Browser Experience, And. There is a serious conflict among the Browsers themselves, Not to mention the Platforms e.g. Microsoft, Google, and Even Amazon.”
“ While We Speak, There are Three Browsers Fighting for My Attention, and Valuable Desktop Real Estate [ Edge, Bing, and Chrome ] Plus. Touch Pad, Touch Screen, and Good Old Fashioned Keyboard.”
- Eric Cabot Steed ‘ Available Light ‘ Singulus Fine Print Productions ® All Rights Reserved 2009 - 2016
** Admittedly I Haven’t used a Mouse in Over Ten Years
For all its reported struggles with growth, Twitter still has the rare privilege of being a destination—a platform that people check frequently and repeatedly, from which they find other things. People are linking to images on Twitter? Let’s incorporate images! People are watching YouTube videos from Facebook? Let’s host videos of our own. People are reading articles from the feed? Let’s… put articles in the feed! Platforms are markets; they research themselves. It’s a great setup for the platforms! And one that Twitter has embraced enthusiastically, gradually assembling a service out of features conceived and tested by users and (mostly now defunct) third parties. (Down to its logo. Down to its verbs!) So the capability to post longer text posts that expand inside the feed seems especially notable because posts can be counted in characters, and Twitter is known for its character count. But a feed in which you can already tap “play” or open a grid of photos into a slideshow or open a link into an internal browser is a feed in which tapping a text preview to see more text will feel natural. It won’t take long, I imagine, for links to start to feel almost out of place—for Twitter to feel a bit more like Instagram, where users frequently write blog-length captions, and where the links and the web effectively don’t exist.
Better as a Tweet - The Awl
In his latest on the Content Wars, John Herrman explores how 10,000-character tweets might change the way readers and journalists relate to the platform.
Its about to be pandemonium!
The train station just broadcast a platform alterations...to two different platforms for the same train. Half the passengers are on 1 platform, half on the other...all glaring at each other in a mix of confusion and disgust. It's a gamble to see who gets to go home and who will miss their train...
Get ready for the virtual reality platform wars
Get ready for the virtual reality platform wars #vr #virtualreality #tech
At some point around mid-2013, most of the people I knew started talking through what was theoretically a very serious choice: Xbox One or PlayStation 4. There were points in favor of each — Sony didn’t have Halo, but Microsoft forced you to buy the Kinect, and so on. But it never felt like a momentous decision. You might miss out on a few games or spend a little more money, but you were…
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