@ShesAllWrite on Digital Marketing

Google liked it and they put a ring on it.
 

journo-geekery:

shaneguiter:

Web developer Will Smidlein managed to bypass the six-second upload limit on Vine today, inserting the entirety of Rick Astley’s immortal “Never Gonna Give You Up” into a post that was ultimately taken down by Twitter. “I think I broke Vine,” Smidlein tweeted, along with the full embed of the song. He previously tweeted that Twitter engineers had asked him to take the post down.

The first ever Rickroll on Vine occurred the same day that the app became available for Android. Smidlein, 16, declined to say in detail how he got around Vine’s upload limitations. But he’s not the first to do so: as noted by TechCrunch, in March, the blog OneSoneX described a technique that involves uploading from the camera roll of a jailbroken iPhone. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company said earlier today that Vine now has 13 million users.

Made my day.

techspotlight:

Google will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive online, the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue. The feature applies to email, social network Google Plus and other accounts. Users can choose to delete data after a set period of time, or pass it on to specific people. Internet users around the world have expressed concern about what happens to their data after their demise. “We hope that this new feature will enable you to plan your digital afterlife - in a way that protects your privacy and security - and make life easier for your loved ones after you’re gone,” Google said in a blogpost.

The 6-second time limit may seem…well…limiting in terms of brand use, but I can think of several clever uses for Vine. For example, a brand could tweet a series of 6-second Vine video clues as to the location of a prize. What are your thoughts?

This. Wins. The Internet. Today.

Unwieldy. I prefer the two-column layout.