TRUE TO ITS NAME, the word ephemerality—from the Greek ephēmeros, meaning "lasting only a day"—has crept into the modern technological lexicon, gaining traction as a buzzy catchphrase to describe a ...

On the internet, as with most of life, you can’t count on things lasting forever. Websites close down, servers get turned off, the wrong button gets hit and years of work is erased. But just as you ...

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been known to be pretty surreptitious when it comes to sharing secrets about how the company works, but today he provided a little more transparency around its mission ...

Summer Guthery and Francesca Sonara. Photo: Maria Baranova. Courtesy of times. Legacy seeking, Guthery and Sonara believe, is antithetical to experimentation, which is part of why times has a finite ...

My least favorite part of Snapchat is mistakenly opening a video Snap when I can’t hear it, like in a noisy public place or when my sound is off. Snapchat tried to address that today with an ...

Leading social media platforms are introducing features that allow users to share content that can only be viewed once. For example, consumers can set chats to be deleted immediately after being ...

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Kay Hsu urges brands and marketers to consider how shorter ads and disappearing stories can lead to mobile success. The advertising industry is changing and new mobile formats are emerging every day.

A study by John Bowers, Clare Stanton, and Jonathan Zittrain examined hyperlinks in New York Times articles from 1996 through mid-2019. “Linkrot and content drift at this scale across the New York ...