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- The dreaded ‘P’ word: Five tips to make your pivot successful
- Father-son developers create service that offers different languages in a single video
- Whatsapp returns to the Windows Phone store after fixing technical problem
- Twitter.com says goodbye to Helvetica Neue and hello to Gotham
- Microsoft launches Files for Windows Phone 8.1, a file management app with search, sharing, and SD card support
- Google Search for Android gets global app indexing, content is no longer limited to just English
- Google’s new EU-mandated link removal form attracts over 12,000 requests in the first day
- Google reportedly to show off Android TV platform with online media and gaming focus at Google I/O
- Google Stars extension for Chrome leaks: Hands on
- Keeping watch: How Pebble uses Keen IO’s analytics to track how you use your smartwatch
| The dreaded ‘P’ word: Five tips to make your pivot successful Posted: 31 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Eddy Lu is the co-founder and CEO of Superb (formerly Grubwithus), a mobile app that helps people collect, share and experience must-try places with their friends. For many founders, "pivot" is a dirty word. It hints at uncertainty, even failure. But with three out of four startups flopping, we founders shouldn't shy away from the word. We shouldn't be afraid to acknowledge that change can be good; change gained from experience can benefit companies and users. With our initial concept, Grubwithus, our mission was to help users meet new people and make real world connections while dining at some of the hottest... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Father-son developers create service that offers different languages in a single video Posted: 30 May 2014 05:53 PM PDT  There's always been a certain je ne sais quoi about going to a foreign film. First, it absolutely confirms that you know how to read (kidding). But second, it implies that you can read between lines of dialog you don't understand, and which are often minimally translated, to get the heart of a story. The father-son creators of an upcoming service called Alugha — still in beta — don't think you should have to work that hard to enjoy a video just because it's not filmed in your language. The pair is working to facilitate the native-language translation of movies, available... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Whatsapp returns to the Windows Phone store after fixing technical problem Posted: 30 May 2014 05:23 PM PDT After roughly two weeks away, the Whatsapp Windows Phone app has returned to the Windows Store after a joint effort from Microsoft and Whatsapp. Whatsapp originally pulled the app because of unspecified "technical issues," though it has since come out that the problem appeared to be with how notifications were handled in the latest version of Windows Phone. ➤ Whatsapp for Windows Phone Thumbnail credit: abulhussain / Flickr This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Twitter.com says goodbye to Helvetica Neue and hello to Gotham Posted: 30 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT If the Web view of Twitter looks a bit different today, it's not just you. Twitter announced today a switch from the Helvetica Neue font to Hoefler & Co's Gotham. The change is certainly noticeable, but still not much of a departure. After all, people have been calling Gotham the new Helvetica for years now. Starting today, we're rolling out a new font on http://t.co/zDdcbPwclU, moving from Helvetica Neue to Gotham. — Twitter Support (@Support) May 30, 2014 Let us know what you think of the new look in the comments below. Thumbanil credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 May 2014 01:47 PM PDT Following an announcement on Reddit at the start of the month, Microsoft today released the much-anticipated Files app for Windows Phone 8.1, finally bringing a file management system to the mobile OS. You can download it now directly from the Windows Phone Store. The free app includes the following functionality: Access files stored on your phone and SD card. Browse, search and launch files. Easily share one file or multiple files. Create folders to organize your files. Copy, move, rename and delete files. Microsoft says the official file manager app "makes it easy and intuitive to manage your files on... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google Search for Android gets global app indexing, content is no longer limited to just English Posted: 30 May 2014 01:22 PM PDT Google today released an important update that ensures app indexing in Google Search for Android works for all content, not just English. The company has also translated its developer guidelines into eight additional languages: Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. We contacted Google to ask if app indexing now works in these languages, or what exactly "more languages" refers to, since the company's announcement isn't clear. Google told TNW that the feature is now available globally, but currently will only show content from the apps that the company has manually included. Google today added the... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google’s new EU-mandated link removal form attracts over 12,000 requests in the first day Posted: 30 May 2014 01:16 PM PDT  Google received more than 12,000 requests from individuals looking to remove search results from the European versions of its search engine hours after publishing a court-mandated online form on Friday, Reuters reports. The form complies with European Data Protection Law's "right to be forgotten" by providing a way for people to have outdated and irrelevant online information pulled. Earlier this month, Google lost a lawsuit brought by a man seeking to have links to decade-old debt proceedings removed from the search engine. A Google spokesperson told Reuters that the ruling requires the company to make "difficult judgements" with the information. Google's... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google reportedly to show off Android TV platform with online media and gaming focus at Google I/O Posted: 30 May 2014 12:42 PM PDT We already caught a glimpse of Google's rumored Android TV platform back in April, but a new report from Gigaom claims that the company will launch the product at its Google I/O developer conference in June. As you'd expect, Android TV is believed to have a focus on streaming online media like Netflix and Hulu and gaming, similar to Amazon's FireTV set-top box. The major innovation for the new platform is said to be a card-based interface, code-named Pano, that can drop users straight into playing content without having to navigate through an app. It's not clear how Chromecast will fit... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google Stars extension for Chrome leaks: Hands on Posted: 30 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT  We've known for a while now that Google is testing a new favoriting service called Google Stars, aimed at helping users save, share, and organize Web content. This is largely due to multiple leaks, detailing features as well as showing off the interface in a video and screenshots. Today, Google+ user Florian Kiersch, who has done the majority of the digging behind the service, has leaked the Google Stars extension for Google Chrome. Kiersch spotted the extension on the Chrome Web Store before Google pulled it, and apparently downloaded it to share with the German site Caschys. That blog in... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Keeping watch: How Pebble uses Keen IO’s analytics to track how you use your smartwatch Posted: 30 May 2014 11:25 AM PDT  When smartwatch maker Pebble wanted to track ecommerce activity on its site, it turned to custom analytics platform Keen IO. Now, Pebble has tapped the company to also gather data on customer usage of its devices and apps. Keen IO got started 2 1/2 years ago by a group of developers who were tired of building in-house analytics infrastructure. Their goal was to make a platform so flexible that nobody would have to do it themselves ever again. The service allows customers to collect an unlimited amount of data for any type of event and then makes that available in... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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