Facebook is preparing its latest push into online media with a new standalone app called Notify that is scheduled to launch soon, with content from dozens of media publishers including Mashable, The Washington Post, Billboard, CNN and CBS. Financial Times notes that the app is moving forward after positive feedback from publishers about Facebook’s Instant Articles product. Apple has also shown interest in the sector with September’s launch of its new News aggregator app. Twitter recently rolled out Moments, a feed for mobile users to explore the top news of the moment. Meanwhile, despite suspending its own Snap Channel last month, Snapchat still has Discover partners like Comedy Central and Vice backing it, along with its own news division. Competition is only going to heat up from here.
Growing an audience and retaining customers for any app or website can be very challenging. To keep your users engaged, you need rich and unique content that tells a compelling story. Whether it’s breaking news, first-person perspectives of major events, or play-by-play reactions to sports, the best stories start with Tweets. With hundreds of millions of new Tweets every day, there are lots of potential stories to tell. Today at Flight, we introduced an ecosystem of tools that all work together to help you seamlessly find, organize, and publish those stories on your apps and websites. You’ve already seen this ecosystem in action: we use it to publish Moments on Twitter. And you may already be using some of the individual tools we’re talking about, such as TweetDeck and Curator. Today we announced a new Collections API that turns multiple Tweets into a single story with a single Collection ID,...
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There it is! The app and the website Blab.im, where four people can video chat simultaneously. The audience can watch live, comment and instantly switch places with video chatters. Read this blog post to learn how you can strengthen your social media identity via blab. To participle as a video chatter in one of the squares — which I can’t help thinking looks like a 21st century Brady Bunch panel (translation = very fun) — you sign in with your Twitter credentials. Afterwards, when someone clicks on your name in Blab, they see the handle and bio you’ve already entered on your Twitter bio. When a new video chatter attempts to join the four-person chat, the creator of a Blab can choose to accept or deny entry. And as the video chat plays out, the moderator can let the live chat disappear into the ether when it’s over, or hit...
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Today in the morning Instagram announced launching a new iOS app from Instagram – Layout, that lets you easily combine multiple photos into a single image and create a collage. Five hours and more than 5,000 anxious comments later the Layout App is available in Apple’s App Store. It was a big tension when more than 5.000 Instagram followers were trying to download it but could not find it in the App Store. But finally it is here! I’ve just got it and made a beautiful collage above in it! Fast and easy!!! As you choose photos from your camera roll, they automatically show you previews of custom layouts. You’ll find a Faces option that shows you all of your photos that feature people. From there, you have total artistic control. Drag and drop photos to rearrange them, pinch to zoom or pull the sides of each photo to adjust its size. Then flip and rotate...
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Om je een rijkere communicatie-ervaring te geven kan je WhatsApp nu benaderen via je telefoon en je computer. WhatsApp Web is een computergebaseerde uitbreiding van WhatsApp op je telefoon. De berichten die je verzendt en ontvangt zijn volledig gesynchroniseerd tussen je telefoon en computer, zodat je deze op beide apparaten kunt zien. Elke actie die je uitvoert op je telefoon zal ook doorgevoerd worden op WhatsApp Web en omgekeerd. WhatsApp Web is momenteel alleen beschikbaar voor Android-,Windows Phone, Nokia S60-, BlackBerry– en BB10-telefoons. WhatsApp Web is geen tweede account. Wanneer je WhatsApp op je telefoon en computer gebruikt heb je simpelweg vanaf beide apparaten toegang tot hetzelfde account. Voor het gebruik van WhatsApp Web zijn er een aantal minimale vereisten: Je moet een actief WhatsApp-account op je telefoon hebben. Je moet een stabiele internetverbinding op je telefoon en computer hebben. Je moet Google Chrome als internetbrowser gebruiken. Klik hier om...
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De Bijenkorf kiest voor digitale communicatie met zijn klanten Klanten ontvangen informatie voortaan digitaal (De Bijenkorf Magazine bestaat niet meer) Nieuwe features in de Bijenkorf App: digitale kassabon en productscanner. Forse investeringen in verdere ontwikkeling van digitale media en de multichannelstrategie om persoonlijker te kunnen communiceren. Nieuwe features de Bijenkorf App: onder andere digitale kassabon en productscanner De Bijenkorf App, met zo’n 500.000 downloads, is een belangrijk middel in de digitale communicatie van de Bijenkorf. Naast inspiratie en een directe shopmogelijkheid op deBijenkorf.nl, biedt de App persoonlijke service voor Members zoals vouchers, een actueel overzicht van zijn of haar gespaarde punten en sinds kort ook digitale kassabonnen van de aankopen in de Bijenkorf. Handig voor de administratie of het eventueel retourneren van aankopen. Hoe werkt de digitale kassabon? Als u de Memberpagina’s heeft geactiveerd, krijgt u direct inzicht in de laatste twintig aankopen. Iedere kassabon bevat een QR code welke...
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Between iOS 8 and a new lineup of tablets from Apple, iPad users got some big updates in 2014. Of course, major hardware and software updates also means a slew of new and better-than-ever apps. With all-new ways to tell stories, shoot and edit photos and create documents, iPad users can get more done than ever before. Check out this list, below, to see the apps that made the top picks od D2D Digital Team, and, if you are an iPhone user too, be sure to check out our list of top iPhone apps. 1. Adobe Voice Adobe introduced a slew of new mobile apps aimed ay creative pros this year. On the tablet side, Adobe Voice stands out as it doesn’t rely on the company’s Creative Cloud platform. The free storytelling app provides an easy way to create customized animated videos without complicated video-editing software Start with a preset...
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Between iOS 8 and the iPhone 6, 2014 may have been one of the best years yet for iPhone users. But killer updates from Apple aside, there was no shortage of great new apps this year. From killer new productivity apps, to some of the most addicting games to ever land on the iPhone, you’d be forgiven for not being able to choose the best new offerings. Luckily, D2D Digital done the hard part for you. Check out our list, below, to see which apps made our cut of top picks of the year and see how they compare to your favorites. 1.Acorns We all know investing properly is crucial for long term financial success but getting started can the most overwhelming and difficult part. Acorns takes the friction out of the process by investing the change left over from your everyday purchases into a portfolio managed by a financial professional....
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