[Translate] Yahoo!’s $30 million purchase of the IPhone app Summly, created by 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, has royally pissed off the hacker wing of the tech community, and that’s putting it mildly. Summly is the now closed down IPhone app that provides a summary of online news for you. It’s very much like the app I found when I went to get Summly on my iPhone: clipped. Clipped.me provides the same summaries, but there’s no information on it (We’ll deal with that, later). To understand the collective...
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[Translate] Kidz Gear, the company ran by Lauren and Jack Petersen, who I talked to over dinner at Fleur at CES, Las Vegas, last week… Has a new announcement. Here’s the press release: Kidz Gear www.GearForKidz.com, the award-winning Grown-up Performance, Built for Kids! brand, announced today that KidzControl™ Volume Limited Headphones for Kids has won the 2013 Learning Magazine’s Teachers’ Choice Award for Excellence in Classroom Products. Learning Magazine recognized the Kidz Gear KidzControl™ Volume...
[Translate] Jessica Northey, a noted Social Media Pioneer and friend of this blogger (thanks to Tonya Hall of The Tonya Hall Radio Show) is producing an exciting live stream country music show for Sony and as part of CES 2013 Las Vegas and The New Media Expo. And Zennie62 will be there live with Tout.com as Zennie62Media coverage sponsor. Called #CMchat TWANGOUT, the show features Country Music performers Phoenix Stone, Larry Bagby, Dylan Taylor, and Gwen Sebastian, all live streaming from the legendary PBR Rock Bar & Grill...
[Translate] Warning: YouTube is taking away video views from YouTube Partners where either staff or the algorithm determines, rightly or wrongly, that your video views were in some way enhanced. This is fact, and Dan Sabbagh of the Guardian UK, one of my favorite news site, got this one a bit wrong. To start, the website SocialBlade.com, which tracks stats for YouTube channels like Zennie62 produced another set of stats for the “Bottom 500″ showing an alarming drop in YouTube video views for Universal Music Group and...
[Translate] YouTube has created YouTube Capture and perhaps as an answer to Tout.com, Viddy, Social Cam, and other smartphone-based camcorder devices. Whatever the case, it’s an easy to use app, but does have some challenges. First, what this blogger likes about the app is its simplicity of use. Second, it’s available only on the iPhone and was obviously designed to fit well within the iPhone’s “ease of use” design ethic – it looks like it could have been developed by Apple. Third, it does...
[Translate] Tout.com, the 15-second video cross between Twitter and YouTube, is enjoying a very rapid growth phase fueled by its partnership with WWE Entertainment, the producers of the wildly popular wrestling shows and television programs. WWE put $5 million of the current total of $15 million invested in Tout and uses it to help fans directly connect with its vast universe of stars. Indeed, Tout’s growth of up to 150 million Tout updates and at a rate of 20 percent to 30 percent per month has caught the attention of CNBC,...
[Translate] YouTube’s latest update is the most hated change in the seven-year history of the video-sharing website. The design change, which focuses on smaller fonts, and a mix of subscribers versus partner videos in the timelines of viewers, and other small changes like putting the video title at the bottom of the video and not the top of it as before,...
[Translate] CESJust in time for CES 2013 (and Zennie62 will be in Las Vegas for CES International) Wide Angle Software http://www.wideanglesoftware.com, a leading developer of media management and back-up software, announced today the new TouchCopy 12, the essential back-up, protection, and recovery software for iPods, iPhones and iPads. TouchCopy keeps your...
[Translate] GoSmart, the leading maker of Stylus devices, has a new product press release that is posted here, below. I expect to see them at CES Las Vegas. And on that note, Zennie62 blog has been credentialed to cover the 2013 International CES from January 8th to the 12th. GoSmart, Inc. www.justgosmart.com announced today the “GoSmart Freedom Stylus”...
[Translate] PeopleBrowsr, the company behind such products as Kred, is fighting for its life after Twitter, it’s main source of data that drives its business, suddenly (sighting the end of a one-year contract) elected to do an about face and try to turn off access to its “firehose” of tweet-based information that PeopleBrowsr spent $1 million...
[Translate] The 2012 London Olympics is history, but not so much that we can’t look back and gain a better understanding of who was tops in social media during the event. An infographic developed by Banyan Branch.com provides what just may be the definitive breakdown of social media stars at the UK presentation of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stars were...
[Translate] Mobile iphone app developers are acknowledged to earn money making use of their skills so we can name three ways they might do so. Here, we’re going to go through the 3 methods which they used in to make money from their expertise. If you are attracted to finding out how to develop mobile programs, this specific conversation might be of a number...
