The new language of social media isn't made up of words; it's made up of pictures.
Everywhere you look on the social networks, posts with pictures get most of the attention and engagement.
Let's examine why images suddenly trump words on social sites and how this uber-trend will change your gadgets.
Why pictures rule
Blogging started out as public journaling. It was all about words.
One of the oldest blogs still in existence (and still one of the best) is Dave Winer's Scripting News blog. (If you visit the site, you can see that it's not exactly "visual.")
About 12 years ago, the number of good blogs on every topic started growing fast. Soon there was too much good stuff to keep up with. It was overwhelming to find and follow all of the interesting people. Read more...
Apple's App Store has accidentally whipped the covers off the new Twitter app for iPhone and revealed its features.
From the list of the updates, it promises to cram more videos and pictures into streams of tweets; curate related messages around special events; and bring in a more hyperactive notification system that warns when your favourite twits tweet too.
The good news is that performance and crash-fixing tweaks should improve what can be an unstable app. Read more...