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Pinterest teams up with brands.

May 20th, 2013 Posted in Apps, Content, Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms No Comments

Content sharing social network Pinterest has teamed up with brands using it’s service to provide more information on pinned products.

The site, which is known for it’s photo-sharing, has added a feature to its service that gives more information on pins instead of just linking the content to it’ source.

Brands such as eBay, Target, Sony and Netflix have all used this new feature by adding information such as product price and reviews. This upgrade to the site makes it easier for users to navigate through pins of interest, while allowing brands to advertise product information.

A new logo appears on pins that have been posted by brands. Pinterest have also launced a new feature on it’s mobile service that allows users to pin content from mobile apps.

Source: Mashable.

Google+ improves it’s stream, photos and Hangouts.

May 17th, 2013 Posted in Google, Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms, Social Tools No Comments

Google has announced 41 new features to it’s social network Google+, which will include developments to the stream, photos and Hangouts.

The social network now has 190 million active users according to Google and has developed cross-platform single sign-on for it’s desktop and mobile app. Users can also use hashtags, which are automatically added to posts, to follow different conversations.

The Google+ stream has been redesigned to focus on photos and videos. It has also added animated features such as sliding menus. The stream now appears in up to three columns depending on the screen.

The social network has introduced an automatic back up feature for photos taken on mobile devices with 15 GB available for users to store photos. Google+ also enhances the brightness, contrast, saturation, and focus of users photos, which can be undone by users.

Google has launched it’s Google Hangouts app that allows users to make free video calls. The app also has a stream for each conversation that users have.

Source: Tech News World.

Branded Vines shared 4 times more than Internet Videos.

May 16th, 2013 Posted in Apps, Online Video Ad, Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms, Social Tools, Twitter No Comments

Twitter’s Vine app is quickly becoming one of the most popular social tools for marketers to reach social audiences with unusual campaigns as five Vines are shared every second on Twitter.

New research  has revealed that Vine’s branded 6-second clips that loop are shared four times more often than branded internet videos. Brands from the media, fashion, sport, charity and music industry are all using Vine to share their campaigns on social media.

The research also found that 4% of the top 100 shared Vines compared to 1% of the top 100 shared viral online videos were made by brands.

Check out the brands using Vine here.

Source: Adweek.

Google launch Hangout app.

May 16th, 2013 Posted in Apps, Google, Mobile, Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms, Social Tools, Technology No Comments

Internet giant Google has launched it’s new Google Hangouts app that will enable users to have SMS style streamed chats across PC, tablet and mobile.

The face-recognition video messaging service was only available on app through the Google+ app. The service allows users to add up to 10 people to a chat, while sharing the screen.

The text stream feature of Google Hangouts also has video and photo sharing in it’s chat service. Chats are now integrated across all of Google’s platforms as chats in Google Hangout also appear in users Gmail window.

Photos that are shared in Google chats stay in the stream of the chat enabling users to find their photos quickly through chats they had with other users. Google Hangouts also allow users on the iPhone app to switch between video and chat.

Source: Mashable.

Canadian astronaut records Space Oddity from ISS.

May 13th, 2013 Posted in Content, Social Audio, Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms, Social Tools, Technology, Twitter No Comments

Canadian astronaut Commander Hadfield, who has become a huge success on social micro-blogging site Twitter, is set to return from the International Space Station.

Hadfield has gained over 770,000 followers on Twitter from posting images of different parts of the world from space on the social platform over his five months in charge of the ISS.

The astronaut has also posted what is thought to be the first ever music video recorded in space. Hadfield recorded a version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, while playing his guitar in the zero-gravity space station.

The video, which was mixed by Hadfield and the Canadian Space Agency, was tweeted by Cmdr Hadfield, before he left the ISS.

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Source: The Telegraph.

Meet the Experts behind Media Future 2013 #mfc13.

May 9th, 2013 Posted in Conferences, Course/Training, Media Future, Mediacontact.ie News No Comments

The Media Future Conference 2013 is bringing speakers from all over the globe to the Pavilion, Dun Laoighaire on May 14th. The conference incorporates talks from the leading thinkers in the international media industry who are at the top of their game and profession.

Speakers on the day will include;

1. Piers Jones (@Piersj) Group Product Manager at Guardian News & Media.

2. Shazna Nessa (@shazna) Former Deputy Managing Editor at Associated Press.

3. Markham Nolan (@markhamnolan) Managing Editor of Storyful.com.

4. David Hieatt (@DoLectures) co-founder of the Do Lectures and owner of Hiut Denim (@HiutDenim).

5. Mark Stencel (@markstencel) the Managing Editor for Digital News at the National Public Radio (NPR).

6. Nick Blunden (@nickblunden) the Global Digital Publisher for The Economist.

7. Roddy Doyle, winner of Booker Prize, co-founder of Fighting Words and author of ‘The Barrytown Triology’.

8. Alexander Reben (@ArEbEnTweet) kinetic engineer, interactive artist and robot designer.

9. Sarah McInerney (@SarahAMcInerney) political correspondent for the Sunday Times and author of ‘Where No-One Can Hear You Scream’.

10. Dearbhail McDonald (@DearbhailDibs) Legal Editor of the Irish Independent and an Eisenhower Fellow.

11. David Brophy, Principal Conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra.

12. Alison O’Connor (@alisonoconn) journalist, broadcaster, and commentator.

The aim of Media Future is to help people to understand, and learn, about all of the amazing changes that are happening in the media by painting a picture of the future for disciplines like journalism, advertising, marketing, public relations and technology.

For more information on the Media Future Conference follow us online through our website,Facebook and Twitter with #mfc13.

Group Product Manager at Guardian News & Media to speak at the Media Future Conference #MFC13.

May 9th, 2013 Posted in Conferences, Course/Training, Media Future, Mediacontact.ie News, Newspapers, Technology No Comments

Piers Jones (@Piersj) is Group Product Manger for the User Platform at the Guardian He is responsible for the digital development of registration and identity (including social sign on) and the Guardian’s open initiatives which invite participation from users. The user platform enables open journalism and powers its user data strategy.

Piers has been with GNM for 4 years, prior to which he spent 9 years at Reed Business Information in a variety of digital roles across community, data and classified products.For more information on the Media Future Conference follow us online through our website, Facebook and Twitter with #mfc13.

Viber reaches 200 million users.

May 8th, 2013 Posted in Apps, Mobile, Technology No Comments

Viber, the app that provides a free calls and text service for it’s users has announced that it is to develop a desktop service.

The Cyprus based company also announced that it now has 200 million active users, which is an increase of 60 million since 2012. The move will see Viber compete in the free internet phone services market with Skype.

Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, currently has over 600 million users. Viber’s desktop app is expected to feature video calls as well as regular calls and messages.

Viber have also announced that as part of Viber 3.0 it has added eight new languages to its service and upgrades to it’s mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Source: The Guardian.

Image: Viber.

Tweetdeck removes apps and Facebook support.

May 7th, 2013 Posted in Social Media, Social Network, Social Platforms, Social Tools, Technology, Twitter No Comments

Social platform management dashboard Tweetdeck has removed it’s feature that supports Facebook feeds.

The announcement, which was made in March, comes as the company also removes it’s mobile apps TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone from the app stores.

Tweetdeck is now focusing on it’s web and desktop apps after being bought by social platform Twitter it 2011. Facebook columns on the app can be removed by users or will be removed by the service automatically.

Tweetdeck is now no longer a social network aggregation tool but is just a service for Twitter users.

Source: Mashable.

The top 5 festival apps.

May 3rd, 2013 Posted in Apps, Course/Training, Mobile, Technology No Comments

The top music festivals in Ireland were launched last month and with a packed schedule if you’re an attendee you’ll want to have all the essentials in one place such as your smartphone.

Here is a list of the top 5 festival apps everyone going to a festival will need.

1:  Stow is the ultimate app for packing for a festival. The app allows users to make a packing check list to ensure that they have everything they need.

2: BlaBlaCar is a free app that makes travelling to festivals even easier. If users don’t want to get a bus the app highlights other people going to the festival for users to travel with based on what music they listen to.

3: 8mm Vintage Camera lets users create videos with features including dust and scratches, retro colors and flickering, which can be used when filming users favourite festival artists.

4: Find My Friends! Is a free app for users who need to locate their friends on a map, which at a festival is an ultimate requirement when attending different acts. The app locates selected friends on a map enabling users to find them.

5: Festival Ready is available for iPhone and Android and has a torch, weather updates, 3D navigation so users can find their tent and ticker messaging.

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Source: The Telegraph.

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