On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. work through the recent headlines — the good, the bad and the completely horrible — and offer a few tips for backing up personal content you’ve posted on social media. Because it’s not like any of those free services can be trusted to DO IT FOR YOU. Spin up PTJ 304 right here!
- Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video (CNN)
- Slack removes hate groups (The Official Slack Blog)
- Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Go Down. At the Same Time. (The New York Times)
- Facebook says it’s resolved outage issues and denies attack (CNN)
- Facebook’s Daylong Malfunction Is a Reminder of the Internet’s Fragility (The New York Times)
- Facebook product boss Chris Cox, and Whatsapp boss Chris Daniels are leaving (Recode)
- Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 (Boing Boing)
- Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016 (Guardian)
- Myspace, which still exists, accidentally deleted 12 years’ worth of music (Vox)
- Microsoft announces Xbox Live for any iOS or Android game (The Verge)
- Is there a limit to the number of devices I can link to my account? (Dropbox Help)
- Apple’s Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape (The New York Times)
- All-new iPad Air and iPad mini deliver dramatic power and capability (Apple)
- WWDC 2019 announced, registration and event details (9to5Mac)
- Leveling the Playing Field (Spotify)
- Addressing Spotify’s claims (Apple)
- Spotify’s EU antitrust complaint could be a serious threat to Apple (Ars Technica)
- Apple addresses Spotify’s claims, but not its demands (TechCrunch)
- Google killed 2.3 billion ‘bad ads’ in 2018, down 28% from 2017 (VentureBeat)
- Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Blog)
- The World Wide Web is 30 years old — and its inventor has a warning for us (NBC News)
Public Service Announcement: Protect Your Social Media Content
- How to Backup Social Media in 2019: Duplicating Your Second Life (Cloudwards)
- Social media backup (Acronis)
- iDrive Social Media Backup (iDrive)
- How do I download a copy of my information on Facebook? (Facebook Help)
- How do I access or review my data on Instagram? (Instagram)
- How to download your Twitter archive (Twitter Help)
- Download your data (Google)
- Google Takeout