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Tumblr Tuesday on a Wednesday: Because this guy was busy texting Hillary Clinton
thenextweb.com
Welcome to our twenty-ninth Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a new blog. Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more inspiring text...
Google aids accessibility with ChromeVox reader, better YouTube captions and more
www.engadget.com
Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year's CSUN accessibility conference and they're keen to talk up their latest efforts. For the visually impaired, there's now a beta version of a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (demo'd after the break), plus improved shortcuts and screen reader support...
TED-Ed YouTube channel launched: educating the world one video at a time
www.theverge.com
The non-profit foundation behind the enlightening TED conferences has launched a YouTube education channel called TED-Ed. Consisting of animated videos less than 10 minutes long, the channel is an "invitation to teachers around the world to submit their best lessons." After an entry has been accepted, staff will work...
Friendsheet Makes Your Friends' Facebook Photos Look Like Pinterest
www.readwriteweb.com
When Mark Zuckerberg likes a page on Facebook, people take notice. Within hours of Zuckerberg publicly liking Friendsheet on his Facebook profile Tuesday night, several blog posts about the site had popped up. But assertions that Friendsheet turns Facebook into Pinterest are a bit of a stretch. Sponsor Friendsheet...
YouTube details new closed captioning accessibility features
thenextweb.com
YouTube has announced new updates to its captioning service, which makes videos more accessible to the hearing impaired by displaying subtitles for dialogue. Automatic captioning, which was launched in English in March 2010 and expanded to Japanese in July 2011, has been expanded to support Korean. Meanwhile, searching for videos...
The Cloud Can Never Be Personal Enough
www.readwriteweb.com
Facebook says its Timeline "tells the story of who you are." That's lofty wording. It assumes that you share "who you are" on Facebook. It also assumes you share enough of yourself to make Facebook Timeline "the" definitive "story" about you. Similarly, Path version 2 calls itself a "journal." While...
Paper: New iPad app that draws on simplicity
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http://vimeo.com/37254322 Paper, a beautiful new ‘free’ drawing and cataloging app [iTunes] with minimalist UI. The business model might not be to everyone’s liking. In app purchases -$2 for each new brush seems kind of steep at first blush. But with such a well done app, it might just take off....
DreamWorks Animation-Incubated Ptch Helps Users Make Beautiful, Shareable Videos
techcrunch.com
With mobile video being all the rage, multiple startups have emerged to make it easier to shoot and share videos with friends. Following on this trends a small team within DreamWorks Animation has assembled to create an app called Ptch with a unique value proposition: Users create interesting, shareable videos...
DreamWorks Incubates a Mobile Video Editing App Called PTCH
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A team spun off from the studio behind “Shrek” and “Madagascar” wants to make the next Instagram. DreamWorks Animation is incubating a new social photo and video app called PTCH, which is being independently built by DreamWorks CTO Ed Leonard and a small team he’s put together from inside and...
A Day In The Life Of Alexis Ohanian, Hero Of The Internet
www.businessinsider.com
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, and sold it to Conde Nast. Now he has a new publishing venture, Breadpig, and he's turned into chief evangelist of the Internet. When the SOPA/PIPA debates were raging, Ohanian was one of the must public voices fighting against the legislation. As one of the busiest,...
Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook appears to be testing a layout for Open Graph app stories that is similar in design to Pinterest, with boxes for individual items that allow Likes, comments and other app-specific actions. The change makes app stories even more prominent in News Feed. Developers could benefit from the larger...
Netflix Gets Serious About Closed Captioning
techcrunch.com
Netflix now provides content with captions or subtitles for more than 80 percent of the hours streamed in the U.S. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that 80+ percent of Netflix’s streaming content has captions, but that of all the hours of streaming content watched in the U.S., over 80...
Meet 9GAG, the Community Comedy Site That's Growing Like Crazy
allthingsd.com
Message board communities, with their endless creativity and mob mentalities, are kind of a mysterious phenomenon within the business of technology. For instance, how did Reddit emerge and thrive over time? How could Digg have grown without alienating its community? Should the world be scared of 4chan? Can I Can...
Evernote launches Evernote Food on Android, continuing its cross-platform push
thenextweb.com
Following the successful release of Evernote Hello for Android, the Evernote team is back to launch Evernote Food for Android today, the much desired foodie app that was previously only available to iOS users. Users on both platforms can now capture, remember and share all their food experiences in Evernote’s elegantly designed UI. More specifically,...
Shell hit with Twitter hoax, campaign spoof
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With Shell under scrutiny following news that one of its drilling ships in Alaska's Dutch Harbor lost its mooring earlier this week, an old campaign spoofing the oil company has been reborn. The campaign skewers Shell's "Let's Go" ad campaign by adding captions such as "Birds are like sponges...for oil!...
Mark Zuckerberg Is A Fan Of This Pinterest Clone
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Mark Zuckerberg recently "liked" a new application, Friendsheet, says All Facebook's Jackie Cohen. Zuckerberg may be looking at Pinterest as a way to improve its social photo sharing experience, especially on mobile devices. Friendsheet turns Facebook photos into a Pinterest-like grid. It was created two months ago by Zachary...
Sprint launches LTE in clusters; promises 6-8 Mbps speeds
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As promised Sprint launched its new LTE network this weekend, but it went beyond the five cities it designated earlier this month. In addition to turning up its 4G service in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio, Sprint went live in 10 cities and communities in the surrounding...
Need An iOS Developer? 21-Year-Old’s App Tops AppStore, and Now He’s Looking to Join a Startup
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Within literally four minutes of posting the video above about 21-year-old app developer Cody Kolodziejzyk, I received six Facebook messages from CEOs looking to recruit him. The recent graduate of Duke University co-created “I’d Cap That,” a photo sharing app which allows users to add captions to their photos....
Tim Cook meets John Boehner
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In Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Source: Speaker's Blog FORTUNE -- Since the photo was posted on the Speaker of the House's website with no details beyond the date, and it's not known what he and the CEO of Apple (AAPL) discussed, we'll let our readers write their own...
YouTube captions mature for television-viewing audiences
venturebeat.com
Because everyone in the world should be privy to the pleasures of “Friday” (we gotta get down on Friday, after all), YouTube is making the prized machinations of its filmmakers more universally accessible by way of enhanced captions. YouTube has been hard at a work on video caption features...
Fake Science: Fun with false factoids
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"Top zoologists concede that the penguin would be more widespread if it guarded its eggs instead of its bow tie," reports Fake Science, a repository of old science illustrations with new captions. [Read more]...
Evernote Food brings meal sharing to Android
www.theverge.com
Last year Evernote launched two new apps for the iPhone and today Android users are finally caught up — first the introduction app Hello came to the platform, and now so has Evernote Food. The Android version appears to be largely the same as its iOS counterpart: you can...
YouTube improves closed captioning, adds news languages and formats
www.theverge.com
YouTube has added a pile of improvements to the closed captioning service it launched in 2006. Automatic captions use speech recognition to build captions from the audio track, and are now available in Japanese and Korean in addition to English. To test it, we let YouTube listen to a...
Michelle Obama joins Pinterest
www.theverge.com
First Lady Michelle Obama joined Pinterest today, and already has more than 5,000 followers on the site. She has used the service to pin photos from Father's Day, her wedding, and other events around the White House. All of Michelle's pins and captions are signed "-mo," but the account...
Voicepic: Add audio captions to your favorite photos
www.geekwire.com
A few screen grabs from the new Voicepic app A picture may often be worth a thousand words. But for those instances when images alone can’t tell the story, there’s Voicepic. That’s the name of a new photo sharing app from Bellevue’s UIEvolution which allows users to easily add 5-second...
DreamWorks Wants to Be 'a Technology Company,' Starting With an Instagram for Videos
betabeat.com
If Hollywood is going to get into the app game, we’d much rather it be an animation powerhouse like DreamWorks than, say, CAA and its tech-lite celebrity clientele. After nine months of stealth mode, DWA Investments, a separate company incubated and funded exclusively by DreamWorks, is releasing its first...
Snark.ly: A Battle Of Wits For Internet Glory
pandodaily.com
Do you fancy yourself as some sort of Internet funny man? Does every comment you leave explode into a dazzling spectacle of upvotes? Are you the last standing disciple of online jocosity, raised in the ancient writings of Maddox and Seanbaby? Prove it. Snark.ly wants to be a community...
YouTube and Google Play sign Paramount Pictures licensing agreement to add 500 new movie titles
9to5google.com
YouTube announced a new licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures today that will bring 500 new rentable movie titles to its video-sharing platform and Google Play. “With the addition of Paramount, we now have five of the six major studios and over ten independent movie studios offering nearly 9,000 movies for...
YouTube now auto-fixes shaky and dark videos with new editing tool
9to5google.com
Editing videos with YouTube just got much easier. The video-sharing website launched YouTube Video Editor last year, but now its latest editing tool allows YouTube to fix videos for users by automatically correcting stabilization and lighting issues… “Sometimes videos suffer from symptoms like “shaky-camera-itis” or “augmented-darkness-levels” that keep viewers...
Emerging free iOS apps: Mega Run, Snapseed and Gun Building II
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This week’s free iOS charts are lead by the one-two team of Mega Run – Redford’s Adventure and Snapseed, both of which take No. 1 and No. 2 on the free iPhone and free iPad charts. Get Set Game’s Mega Run is a cute and well-produced 2D sidescroller. Billed...
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