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Instagram is ditching ‘swipe-up’ links in favor of stickers

Instagram is ditching the “swipe-up” link in Instagram Stories starting on August 30. The popular feature has historically allowed businesses and high-profile creators a way to direct thei

ClubLink offers a better Clubhouse link for sharing on social media

Although the popular audio chat platform Clubhouse today includes a way to share your upcoming hangouts and events across social media, the resulting link that displays is fairly boring. A new link-sh

Instagram will now let creators add URL links, tag friends, and create Boomerangs in Stories

Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting today the company will let creators add URL links to their stories t

Google aqui-hires deep search engine Kifi to enhance its Spaces group chat app

Google has made another small acquisition to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps. The search and Android giant has hired the team behind Kifi, a startup that was buildin

Dropbox Now Lets You Drag And Drop URLs To Share Webpages

Dropbox announced a pretty handy feature today that allows you to drag and drop URLs into Dropbox. Anyone with access to where you’ve dropped them can then open the web pages on any device. It&#

Bitly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down From The URL Shortening And Analytics Company

In a statement on its blog today, Bitly has announced that CEO Peter Stern has stepped down as CEO. The reason is that Stern is to “pursue other interests”; further details aren’t

Delicious Announces A New Design With A Focus On Community, Speed And Mobile

Just when you thought that the site Delicious was dead and gone, it's back...again. Since being acquired by AVOS, headed up by YouTube co-founders, the site has gone under a few revamps. It was <a hre

AVOS Acquires Link-Saving Service Trunk.ly

<a href="http://www.avos.com/">AVOS</a>, the startup behind the newly re-launched Delicious.com, has acquired the link-saving service <a href="http://trunk.ly/">Trunk.ly</a>, the company announced in

Today in Patent Trolls: Vuestar

The internet has a few kinds of links, but the most common are text and image links. For example, I can link this image of VueStar’s logo: To a website featuring stuff on a cat (luckily I’

CrouchGear @ CeBIT Day 2

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