December 6, 2022

Gizmodo: Twitter Notifications Keep Breaking in Wake of Elon Musk’s Mass Layoffs

Gizmodo: Twitter Notifications Keep Breaking in Wake of Elon Musk’s Mass Layoffs. “Have you gone to your notifications tab on Twitter, only to see nothing there? You’re not alone. Users have increasingly reported broken notifications in recent days. And while Twitter didn’t respond to questions about why, it’s hard not to see a possible correlation with the mass layoffs of software engineers instigated by new owner Elon Musk, who took over the social media company in late October.”

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August 12, 2022

The Verge: We live in notification hell

The Verge: We live in notification hell. “The apps never shut up. They’re hungry for engagement. They want you to know that your favorite items are on sale, that you haven’t practiced your Spanish today, that your delivery driver is five stops away, that your child at daycare just had a blowout — all day, all at once. Welcome to a place we all live, a place called notification hell.”

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April 16, 2022

The Verge: Google’s Little Signals concepts show what ‘ambient’ notifications could look like

The Verge: Google’s Little Signals concepts show what ‘ambient’ notifications could look like. “Google has shown off a ‘design study’ in ambient computing, with a series of objects that can subtly deliver notifications through taps, gentle breezes, and shifting shadows (shout out to Verge alumn Dieter Bohn for tweeting this to our attention). The company calls the experiment Little Signals and says it’s exploring ‘calm computing,’ or ways of keeping you in the loop without having your phone blare a notification chime and light up a screen.”

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September 4, 2021

ABC News: As flood alerts lit up phones, did ‘warning fatigue’ set in?

ABC News: As flood alerts lit up phones, did ‘warning fatigue’ set in?. “Experts call it ‘warning fatigue,’ and no one can be sure what role it might have played in a tragedy that killed scores of people across the Northeast, including more than two dozen in New Jersey and at least 11 in New York City — many drowning in their basement apartments or in cars trapped in submerged roadways. The weather service acknowledged that in the past, alerts were being pushed out too often. There’s been lots of handwringing over how to get more people to heed warnings.”

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July 6, 2021

Mashable: How to set up Notification Summary in iOS 15

Mashable: How to set up Notification Summary in iOS 15. “If you get a million app notifications a day, and have become numb to the important ones, iOS 15’s Notification Summary feature is about to be your new best friend. Notification Summary will let you zero in on what you might call your ‘important-but-overwhelming-due-to-constant-pestering’ apps, and receive a summary report of their notifications for you to review at a time of your own choosing.”

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October 20, 2020

Mass. Using New Tool in COVID Fight: Phone Alerts for High-Risk Communities (NBC News)

NBC News: Mass. Using New Tool in COVID Fight: Phone Alerts for High-Risk Communities. “People who live in or near some Massachusetts communities at high risk for COVID-19 transmission were getting alerts on their phones Monday afternoon reminding them about coronavirus safety rules. It’s the first time a Wireless Emergency Alert is being sent about the coronavirus in Massachusetts, a Massachusetts COVID-19 Command Center spokesman said.”

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February 4, 2020

California Secretary of State: Where’s My Ballot? New Tool Launched to Help Voters Track the Status of their Vote-by-Mail Ballots

California Secretary of State: Where’s My Ballot? New Tool Launched to Help Voters Track the Status of their Vote-by-Mail Ballots. “The California Secretary of State’s office has launched the new ‘Where’s My Ballot?’ tool. Voters can now sign-up…to receive automated notifications about their vote-by-mail ballots by email, text (SMS), or voice call.”

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January 23, 2020

Neowin: This free app lets you bring back Google Play update notifications

Neowin: This free app lets you bring back Google Play update notifications. “In a bid to reduce the unnecessary notification clutter, the Google Play app no longer shows notifications after app updates have been installed. While this may not be a considerable factor for many users, it is expected that some people would still prefer to be notified after the successful installation of apps on their phones. Reddit user u/farmerbb decided to take the matter into his hands and wrote an app to restore Google Play’s missing app update notifications.”

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April 2, 2019

Firefox: Firefox Could Block Website Notification Requests By Default

Ubergizmo: Firefox Could Block Website Notification Requests By Default. “A lot of websites ask for permission to send you notifications and most of you may ignore them. You never seem to run out of websites that show similar notifications and it can be a nuisance. This is something that Mozilla has noticed as well. It’s now experimenting with blocking website notification requests by default in a Firefox Nightly browser build. The notification requests will be blocked automatically until the user takes certain actions on the website.”

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