“Tik-a-Tok-a-Who?”, wasAdele’s responseto her management’s suggestion to promote her music to younger audiences on Tiktok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance. “If everyone’s making music for the TikTok, who’s making music for my generation?”, she asked. Adele might resist, but the platform has nonetheless been popularising and promotingher song Easy on me, with creators using it in almost one million videos in the first month after its release, making it viral on the app alone....

If you haven’t caught the news by now, February 14th is that day when people the world over do the unthinkable in the name of love. If you’re one of those who hasn’t yet found your love, a new site would like to try to help. Like Me Date Meis a site that is based off of the Facebook Open Graph. You simply login with Facebook, then you can edit your profile to give a bit more information about yourself....

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has announced details of a new video-on-demand (VOD)Top Gear Facebook application, which allows users to watch full-length episodes from within Facebook. The global broadcaster has teamed up withSoftwind Studio, a London-based social media studio that specializes in creating interactive social apps, to launch theappwhich requires users to pay with Facebook credits to rent the clips. First up, you have to ‘Like’ the Top Gear Facebook page, and then you’re given the option of using Facebook credits to gain access to videos which will be available to watch for a 48-hour period within Facebook....

Friends! Have you heard the news? Musician Lil Uzi Vert is trying to buy a planet? Named WASP-127 b, this is a gas giant exoplanet that’s 1.4 times larger than renowned Big Boy, Jupiter. The world was first alerted to this news by another musician, Grimes: Apparently@LILUZIVERTowns this planet – just a heads uphttps://t.co/rcyQ2ts7Hj — Grimes (@Grimezsz)July 22, 2021 Now, I’m not going into depth about the veracity of this statement....

Lime and What3words team up to clean up abandoned escooters Integration Last week Lime announced a partnership with transit mapping appCitymapperto allow users to easily locate Lime’s e-bikes and scooters in 21 major cities around the world, including London, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, Manchester, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Austin, Washington DC, St Louis, Sydney, Lisbon, Brussels, Madrid, Stockholm, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Vienna. While users will be able to find Lime’s vehicles within the app, they will still need to switch over to the Lime app to rent a device, and switch back to Citymapper or another navigation app to find the most bike-friendly route....