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- Boinx gets in a party mood with PartySnapper Indiegogo campaign
- Dave Winer’s Happy Friends turns Twitter into a mailbox to keep up with your favorite feeds
- GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app
- The demise of Apple’s Aperture and iPhoto: What does it mean for you?
- 9 ways virtual reality will affect the startup scene
- Google Hangouts video calls no longer require a Chrome plugin
- Google+ wants to paint your face with your favorite World Cup team in the knockout round
- US government publishes its first ever NSA transparency report via Tumblr
- Facebook Home is quiet, but not quite dead
- Tencent pursues e-commerce with $736m investment in ‘China’s Craigslist’ 58.com
| Boinx gets in a party mood with PartySnapper Indiegogo campaign Posted: 27 Jun 2014 05:08 PM PDT  Boinx Software is already well known as a publisher of popular photo software like iStopPhoto, iStopMotion, PhotoMagico, and You Gotta See This. But now, it has turned to the Indiegogo crowd funded route to finance development of a crowd-sourced photo album app called PartySnapper. Think of PartySnapper as a social photo wall to which every guest can contribute their own shots to a central collection. PartySnapper has both a photo taking mode for guests and mode for the host. Whenever a guest takes a shot, it's wirelessly transmitted to the host's iPad or iPhone and then added to a slideshow that plays... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dave Winer’s Happy Friends turns Twitter into a mailbox to keep up with your favorite feeds Posted: 27 Jun 2014 04:35 PM PDT  The longer you use Twitter, the more people you add to your following list. Soon your feed is a mish-mash of friends, companies, publications and parody accounts. Somewhere in that river of information are the 10-12 people whose tweets you want to keep abreast of. That's where Dave Winer's new Happy Friends comes in. Happy Friends is a mailbox-like reader for organizing the feeds of your Twitter friends. You sign into your Twitter account on the Happy Friends site, add your favorite Twitter feeds via the Friends dropdown in the menu bar and those friends will appear in the white box. Double click... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app Posted: 27 Jun 2014 03:18 PM PDT  The "Internet of things," the "Connected Home," the "Smart Home," whatever you want to call it, it's just a fancy way of turning your stuff on and off with your smartphone. Now GE has introduced a cheaper way to stay on the couch and control your lights. The low-cost connected Link lightbulb from GE will set you back less than $15. The bulb is controlled by the Wink app (available for iOS and Android) from Quirky. In addition to switching lights on and off from anywhere (not just your couch), the app lets you schedule things like on/off times and brightness. Smart bulbs are nothing... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The demise of Apple’s Aperture and iPhoto: What does it mean for you? Posted: 27 Jun 2014 02:48 PM PDT  The shoe has finally dropped. Apple confirmed today that it's ditching Aperture, its photo management tool, and iPhoto, its consumer photo editing app, in favor of Photos, a brand new desktop and iOS duo slated for debut in 2015. It all makes sense. While Aperture has undergone some fairly high profile updates in recent years, iPhoto had stagnated badly. When the back-end databases of both apps were hitched together last year, it was a warning that something was on the horizon. But when? Apple works on its own timetable and was not in a hurry to move things forward publicly.... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 9 ways virtual reality will affect the startup scene Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:45 PM PDT  It sounds like science fiction, but virtual reality technology is taking off. Not even the sky's the limit for imagining what could be done with this technology. Just ask Google I/O 2014 attendees and their cardboard VR systems. With applications ranging across the board, the potential for startups to capitalize is huge. With this in mind, I asked 12 entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: Facebook recently acquired Oculus VR. Practically speaking, how do you think that virtual reality technology will affect the startup space in the next five years? Here are the responses: 1. Induce a VC Feeding Frenzy In 2007, Facebook began allowing third-party developers to... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google Hangouts video calls no longer require a Chrome plugin Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:38 PM PDT Google Hangouts video calls will soon be just a tad simpler in Chrome. In a Google+ post, software engineer Victoria Kirst announced that in Chrome you'll no longer need to download and install a plugin. "Just click to start the Hangout, allow Hangouts to use your camera and microphone, and you'll be good to go," she said. The update should be available now for users of the Chrome Dev and Canary channels; the public Chome release should follow "over the next few weeks," according to Kirst. It's a small improvement, but one that should make Hangouts just a little easier to use... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google+ wants to paint your face with your favorite World Cup team in the knockout round Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:13 PM PDT Wow, that soccer thing is still going? Well, ok then. As an American with almost zero knowledge about the most popular sport in the world, it can be a little hard to get excited. But the United States advanced to the next round, so I'm ready to support my country's team and Google+ has a fun way to do it. Beginning today you can upload a photo of yourself and up to four friends to Google+ and the service will paint your faces with any team in the knockout round. Just upload your photo and tag it with your team... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| US government publishes its first ever NSA transparency report via Tumblr Posted: 27 Jun 2014 11:46 AM PDT  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a document today giving some crucial insights into the National Security Agency's widespread surveillance operations in 2013. The transparency report, published via Tumblr, lists the number of National Security Letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders, and use of the FISA Business Records provision over the 12-month period. The report lists 1,767 FISA orders, 178 applications for business records – of which 423 "selectors" were queried under the NSA's telephony metadata program – and 19,212 National Security Letters. Richard Salgado, Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google, said the... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Facebook Home is quiet, but not quite dead Posted: 27 Jun 2014 11:18 AM PDT  According to an article from the New York Times, the original Facebook Home team responsible for the launcher software for Android devices has broken up. Facebook Home launched with huge plans to change the way you see the social network and then eventually just fizzled out. In fact a phone, the HTC First was launched as a Facebook phone and like the software, it didn't really catch on. However, while the original team has disbanded, that doesn't mean no one is working on the launcher or that it is dead. Facebook told TNW, "There is a team working on Home." The app... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tencent pursues e-commerce with $736m investment in ‘China’s Craigslist’ 58.com Posted: 27 Jun 2014 11:09 AM PDT  Chinese internet giant Tencent, best known for its messaging app WeChat, is further pursuing its e-commerce ambitions after announcing today that it is paying $736 million for a 19.9 percent stake in 58.com, commonly known as "China's Craigslist." The agreement will see 58.com's services being integrated into Tencent's networks including WeChat (China has a version known as Weixin) and social platform QQ. Giving a glimpse into how the partnership will look like, a press statement revealed that users can access social tools to find recommended merchants, and communicate not only with one another but also with retailers. This latest deal comes hot... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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