Thu. 07/01 – Instagram Is “No Longer A Photo-Sharing App”

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

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Instagram and TikTok are on a collision course. Instagram wants to be more like TikTok, while TikTok hopes to move the goalposts first. Amazon wants Lina Khan to recuse herself. Big tech is not only taking over advertising, it’s consolidating it. And anyone can get their hands on Starlink next month, but not everyone might want to. Sponsors: Masterworks.io promocode RIDE Cybereason.com Links: Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC) TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge) Federal judge puts Florida 'deplatforming' law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News) Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg) Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input) The EU’s 'vaccine passport' and what it means for travel (BBC) Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette) Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC) Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you'll want it (Input) SpaceX's Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, July 1st, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Instagram and Tik-Toc are on a collision course.
0:12.0	Instagram wants to be more like TikTok
0:14.0	hope to move the goalposts first.
0:16.0	Amazon wants Lena Kontre recues herself.
0:19.0	Big Tech is not only taking over advertising,
0:22.0	it's consolidating it, and anyone can get their hands on Starlink
0:25.5	starting next month, but not everyone might want to. Here's what you miss today in the world
0:30.5	of tech. Facebook's head of Instagram says users will soon start seeing full screen videos in their
0:39.0	feeds recommended by algorithms.
0:42.4	Adam Mostari said Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calling out
0:46.5	Tik-Tok and YouTube specifically as competitors and said
0:50.3	Instagram is, quote, no longer a photo sharing app end quote quoting
0:55.5	cambic. We're also going to be experimenting with how do we embrace video more
1:00.1	broadly full screen immersive, mobile first video,
1:04.4	MacSare said in a video posted on Wednesday, you'll see us do a number of things
1:08.8	or experiment with a number of things in this space over the coming months,
1:12.0	end quote. Specifically, Macare said Instagram has plans to show users full screen videos in their
1:17.5	feeds.
1:18.5	This includes videos it recommends to users, including those from accounts they do not already follow.
1:24.2	Users will start to see Instagram's experiments with these changes over the coming months, he said.
1:28.4	We're no longer a photo sharing app or a square photo sharing app, Moseri said.
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