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You can’t be ‘addicted’ to social media — but it still sucks Social media use Too much social media can certainly be damaging. One major feature of social media is it allows users some control over how they present themselves to others. People can edit their online appearance and sometimes present themselves inaccurately while seeking validation from others. This can cause all kinds of harm. In a study in 2019, we found when female users looked at the platforms for around one and a half hours per day, this was related toan increased desire to be thin, a heightened awareness of how they think other people judge them and motivation to exercise for the purposes of losing weight....

This article was written by Scheherazade Zekri, Director of New Mobility Services atKeolisonThe Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professionals by signing up for theUrban Mobility Weekly newsletter. Read the original articlehereand follow them onLinkedinandTwitter. The Business of Mobility is an Urban Mobility Company series highlighting some of the most successful new businesses in the mobility sector....

We see this time and time again here at TNW. We’ll get a great pitch for a website or web app, the developer will be so excited for us to see their demo video, but the video sucks. There are two general problems with videos, and some other specific ones as well.Demo Duckseems to be an inexpensive, quality option for solving all of these. First off, most site owners have a habit of confusing the simplicity of their sites or apps....

Spotify has been going from strength to strength since itlaunchedstateside back in July, and since its deepintegration with Facebooklast month. Indeed, Spotify is now among one of the most recognizable digital brands – but it too was once a young startup. An email from Napster Co-founder Sean Parker to Spotify’s Daniel Ek has surfaced from a couple of years back, when the music streaming service was in its infancy. It starts:...

You influence recommendation algorithms just as much as they influence you — here’s how What we see is tailored for us An algorithm is a digital recipe: a list of rules for achieving an outcome, using a set of ingredients. Usually, for tech companies, that outcome is to make money by convincing us to buy something or keeping us scrolling in order to show us more advertisements. The ingredients used are the data we provide through our actions online – knowingly or otherwise....