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Yo marks its first birthday with 'biggest update yet' 1
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“Free” Shows Which Friends Are Available To Hang Out 1
June 11th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSick of lonely nights at home browsing feeds? Free tells you which friends are…free…and let’s you ask if anyone wants to meet up without making you look desperate. Launching today on iOS, Free lets you announce plans or that you’re flexible, and group chat to organize your congregation. It’s like a green dot online status indicator for your real-life availability.Free…
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Messaging App Jott Is Blowing Up Among Junior High And High Schoolers 0
June 8th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsJott, a messaging app that works without a data plan or WiFi connection, has caught on among junior high and high school students, according to co-founder Jared Allgood. He says the app more than doubled to half a million active users in March, up from 150,000 active users previous.Allgood told TechCrunch that the app continues to gain momentum, adding 15,000 to 20,000 users a day.
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The most awesome new apps you might have missed this week 5
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Periscope’s new map view helps you find broadcasters by location 1
June 5th at 9:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe iOS version of Periscope, Twitter's livestreaming app, received an update yesterday that brought with it a new map view. The new view lets users browse streams from specific locations around the world, selecting live broadcasts from different areas by zooming in on countries, cities, and towns. Streamers will see their broadcasts appear automatically on the map view if they enable location data sharing in the app....
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Facebook Messenger Ditches Constant Mapping To Lay Groundwork For More Location Features 0
June 4th at 11:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFacebook is removing the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location will no longer be a “second class citizen”, Messenger Head Of Product Stan Chudnovsky tells me. Instead, Messenger has big plans for GPS features, saying “What we’re launching is the foundation…
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After Facebook Acqui-Hired Branch Media In 2014, Founders Shutter Branch (And Potluck) 0
June 3rd at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAnother day, another acqui-hired shutdown, albeit a pretty long, drawn-out one. Branch Media, acquired by Facebook in January 2014, has shut down the two sites that it created, online “conversations” site Branch.com and its conceptual opposite, bite-sized news for “lurkers” in the form of Potluck.it.Former co-founder and CEO, Josh Miller, made the announcement…
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Re:quest Offers A Faster Way To Respond To Messages On Apple Watch And iPhone 0
June 3rd at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you’ve ever gotten stuck messaging friends back and forth just to get the answer to a simple question, a new iPhone and Apple Watch application called Re:quest wants to help. Designed to eliminate circular conversations that seem to go nowhere, Re:quest instead offers a simple way to send a friend a set of answers to a question you pose which they can choose from with just a tap.
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Spotify gains video, moods, and podcasts, Facebook Messenger rolls out video calls globally 1
May 20th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMusic service Spotify on Wednesday announced a slate of major changes -- including the addition of videos, podcasts, and mood-based playlists -- while Facebook officially expanded Messenger video calls worldwide.
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5 can't miss apps: Yallo, WifiMapper, 'Dead Eyes' and more 1
May 17th at 5:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes a zombie-themed puzzle game, an app to help you find free Wi-Fi hotspots and a new encrypted messaging app from BitTorrent.
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7 ways Apple Watch will transform how you date 0
May 15th at 3:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsNow you can get some loving right from your wrist. No, not that way.
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Facebook debuts fast-loading 'Instant Articles' exclusively on iPhone app 0
May 13th at 5:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFacebook on Wednesday launched "Instant Articles," a mobile-oriented platform through which publishers can have their stories hosted on Facebook servers and theoretically load as much as 10 times faster than a standard Web link.
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Now Periscope lets you sign up without a Twitter account 1
May 12th at 6:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsPeriscope's update lets you sign up for the service without the need of a Twitter account.
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You can now stream on Periscope without a Twitter account 1
May 12th at 6:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsA new update released today for Twitter's iOS-only livestreaming app, Periscope, means you no longer need a Twitter account to start broadcasting video through the service from your smartphone. While Twitter still recommends you sign up through a Twitter account so it can use your social graphs to find people to follow, new users can now sign up using their phone number instead. The update also makes it easier to reply to comments on live broadcasts, changes the app to show when a streamer blocks a...
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New York Times goes free in app update, Periscope moves beyond Twitter accounts 0
May 12th at 4:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a pair of iOS app updates on Monday, The New York Times dropped subscription fees for unlimited article access, while live-streaming video app Periscope added profile creation options for users who lack Twitter accounts.
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Tsu, the Tidal of social networks, pays you for posting 1
May 11th at 1:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsTired of making money for Facebook and Twitter? Tsu shares its revenue with users.
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Rewind’s New App Lets You Create Photo Timelines That Disappear After A Day 0
May 8th at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSpotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to give you and your friends a way to look back on your most recently shared photos and posts, which you can do quickly by sliding your finger to scroll through Rewind’s “timeline” feature. But the twist…
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The creator of The Sims launches a scrapbook app that's like PowerPoint with stickers 1
May 7th at 7:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsWill Wright, creator of The Sims and SimCity, launched a new iPhone app today, and it has nothing to do with taking care of vaguely autonomous animated people or building skyscrapers. The app, called Thred, lets users create and customize mobile scrapbooks, or "threds," and share them with friends....
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iOS-exclusive Periscope torpedoed Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV sales, promoter says 0
May 5th at 7:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsEven after shattering pay-per-view records, at least one person involved in the "fight of the century" believes it could have been even bigger without the availability of illegal video streams through Twitter's iOS-exclusive Periscope app.
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Swarm 2.3 Feels Like The Old Foursquare, Looks Way Better 1
May 4th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFoursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company’s social check-in app, that brings far more of the delightful gamification of the old Foursquare back to the service. But today’s update is just a pre-amble to version 3.0, which will be released in the coming weeks, and will include Mayorships within the entire Swarm community, as well as a leaderboard between friends…
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Meerkat integrates address books, befriends Facebook after Twitter snub 0
May 4th at 6:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe live streaming video app starts reducing its Twitter dependency after losing access to the network's social graph.
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Meerkat adds Facebook support as it moves away from Twitter 1
May 4th at 12:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsMeerkat is distancing itself from Twitter. The live-streaming service now works with Facebook, thanks to an update to the iOS app released this weekend. That means that you can now publish Meerkat alerts directly to Facebook, and, more importantly, new users can sign in to Meerkat without a Twitter account â you can now use your Facebook login. The update also introduces address book scanning and matching, so you can instantly build a network of friends on the service just by letting the app take a...
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Tweetbot updates iOS app with new Twitter 'Quote Tweet' format 2
May 2nd at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular iOS Twitter client Tweetbot received a small update on Friday with access to Twitter's new "Quote Tweet" format, which embeds tweets in a new message instead of copying a block of text.
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Facebook Messenger adds free video calling to take on Skype 3
April 27th at 9:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsFacebook is rolling out video calling to Messenger today, letting users chat face to face with their friends by tapping a single button inside the app. The free feature, which works over both LTE and Wi-Fi, competes with similar products including Microsoft's Skype, Google Hangouts, and Apple's FaceTime. It's meant for the average user, but should also prove useful to Facebook as it continues developing its Facebook for Work service....
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Roundup: The best and most interesting third-party apps for your new Apple Watch 1
April 24th at 10:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsWith newly-delivered Apple Watch units now on the wrists of the lucky, users will undoubtedly be looking to try out the best launch-day apps for their latest purchase. AppleInsider offers a roundup of some prominent and essential launch-day apps, divided by category.