In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Zooshia is a web app that lets you create your won widget. If you are a website or blog owner you know that each social site has its own feed and if you want to share your Facebook feed from with your profile or Facebook page on you site. You will need to download the Facebook widget to get it to show and run on your site. The same thing would apply to Twitter and YouTube. With Zooshia you can add up to 10 different feeds from your Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. The service does not support other social sites and you will need to be content with these three. So you can combine up to 10 different feeds from these services and display all of them in one widget. The widget you create is not static and so if you have a large feed and a lot of conversation going on the widget keeps moving. The advantage of this is that people like widgets and a widget which keep updating attracts more eyeballs. The widget once created has a neat look and can be further formatted if you have a littl...