Francis Bea
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Francis got his first taste of the tech industry in a failed attempt at a startup during his time as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Never leaving his love for tech behind, he briefly dabbled in tech PR but switched over to contributing for Digital Trends. He covers all things social media and the next generation of emerging tech startups, as well as mobile apps that can’t be missed .
Articles
Social Media
Turns out ‘delete’ doesn’t quite mean the same thing to Facebook as it does to you
Deleting something on Facebook doesn't exactly mean that the content has been "deleted" as some users have discovered.
Social Media
Facebook’s Graph Search flaw exposes names with phone numbers
Facebook claims that phone numbers on Facebook are public, but scraping these numbers ironically merits getting chased by Facebook's lawyers.
Social Media
On the day of Google Reader’s death, Bloglovin adds new social features to fill out its RSS service
With Google Reader gone, plenty of RSS readers are filling in the void. Bloglovin' is one of them with brand new social and content discovery features.
Social Media
This week in Snapchat privacy issues, turns out iOS 7 kills the app’s screenshot notification
Once iOS 7 rolls out to iOS users, Snapchat is in for a PR nightmare since iOS 7 doesn't support screen shot notifications.
Web
Yahoo News gets redesigned into a personalized news reader – will it make you care?
Yahoo News gets more than a face lift. CEO Marissa Mayer has transformed Yahoo News' humble news content platform into a personalized reader.
Social Media
This is how Snapchat plans on making money
Snapchat is $60 million richer in financing, but the company is finally fleshing out a monetization strategy that includes in-app purchases and native ads.
Social Media
Introducing the new Fiverr: Goodbye $5 max charge, hello professional profiles
Fiverr unveiled version 2.0, with a brand new gig discovery dashboard and a new tier-based seller account. But don't worry, not everything about the site is going whole-hog professional on us.
Social Media
With Instagram video out, Twitter is on the attack to sign up new Vine users
Twitter isn't sitting still now that Instagram video is available. Twitter is pulling out all the stops to retain and sign up new users - even via email.
Social Media
This is how to turn off Instagram’s pesky video auto-play
Turn off the autoplaying videos on Instagram with this quick fix.
Social Media
Quickmeme gets blacklisted from Reddit for trying to game the system
Quickmeme has been banned from Reddit after one of its CEOs was found abusing his moderator position in /r/AnimalAdvice.
Social Media
There’s a really good reason Instagram videos are 15 seconds long
Instagram now offers video recording, but there's a good financial reason that its videos can be recorded for up to 15 seconds.
Social Media
The Smile Store brings a new market into the vast industry of Instagram printing
Instagram has little market penetration in India, but Vipul Arora is betting on Instagram's future with The Smile Store, an Instagram photo printing service.