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Google Experiences Rare, Widespread Outage via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google experienced a rare, widespread outage on August 9. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. The post Google Experiences Rare, Widespread Outage appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
LinkedIn Lets You Add Clickable Links To Photo Posts via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that allows users to add external links to photos shared in posts. The post LinkedIn Lets You Add Clickable Links To Photo Posts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
How Google Pros & Cons Update Impacts Product Review Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Update to structured data makes product review sites eligible for the new Pro & Con enhancement in Google Search. The post How Google Pros & Cons Update Impacts Product Review Sites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Stealth Addresses? Vitalik Buterin Wants to Let NFT Owners Go Anon
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin wants to implement stealth addresses for ERC-721 tokens — or Ethereum’s current token standard for NFTs, according to a Monday tweet. With the implementation of this feature, users can transfer, mint, and burn NFTs with relative anonymity, as described in the ethresear.ch page Buterin linked in his initial tweet. Anton Wahrstätter — researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Distributed Ledgers and Token Economy (WU), who also researches at the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics — wrote the research behind Buterin’s tweet. In turn, Wahrstätter drew inspiration for his proposed stealth addresses from a January blog post […]
Moonbirds Just Made All Their NFTs Public Domain
In a major change for the popular NFT project, Kevin Rose, founder of Moonbirds, announced on Twitter that both Moonbirds and Oddities will move to a CC0 license. 1/GM. Today, we’re announcing that @moonbirds and @oddities_xyz are moving to the CC0 public license. We believe this move honors and respects the values of the internet and web3 and starts a new and important phase of the project. … — KΞVIN R◎SE (🪹,) (@kevinrose) August 4, 2022 CC0, otherwise known as Creative Commons, simply means “no rights reserved” on intellectual property. It’s a form of copyright that allows creators to waive […]
Instagram Is Expanding NFT Support to 100 Countries
Following test runs earlier this year in select markets, Instagram is expanding its NFT support to 100 additional countries across “Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas,” according to a Thursday blog post. Thanks to the image-sharing platform’s status as a Meta-owned entity, this move could bolster the tech giant’s hopes of broadening its authority in the NFT industry. This is Instagram’s latest move toward serving users as an NFT marketplace, and it’s only a matter of time before Facebook follows suit should Meta’s NFT roadmap for its various properties come to fruition. View this post on Instagram A […]
DuckDuckGo Now Says It Will Block Microsoft Trackers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
DuckDuckGo responds to recent criticism saying the third-party tracking scripts it blocks will now include scripts from Microsoft. The post DuckDuckGo Now Says It Will Block Microsoft Trackers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Exclusive: Major League Soccer Signs Bored Ape NFT as an Athlete
Major League Soccer — the US’ official soccer league (or “football league” if you’re in any other part of the world) — just announced a notable new signing: Striker, a Bored Ape NFT. The news was just announced in an exclusive release shared with nft now. The one-of-a-kind signing was conducted by a division of Get Engaged called ge3. Through the deal, the team hopes to tap into the growing interest the sports world has taken in NFTs over the past few years. Before Striker got packaged into a virtual athlete, he was simply known as Bored Ape #6045. Get […]
WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 Offers Greater Editing Flexibility via @sejournal, @martinibuster
WordPress released Gutenberg 13.8, offering welcome incremental improvements to design options and accessibility The post WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 Offers Greater Editing Flexibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Updates Search Snippets For Product Review Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updates search results for product review pages by listing an item’s pros and cons in the search snippet. The post Google Updates Search Snippets For Product Review Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal.