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Facebook Officially Launches The Mobile Like Button
With much of the web moving inside native mobile apps, Facebook needed a way to get content from inside them into its walled garden. So after previewing it at f8 in April, Facebook today officially launched the mobile Like button … Continue reading
Metaio Launches The First Augmented Reality Plugin For Adobe InDesign
We first showed you Metaio’s Creator platform for easy integration of Augmented Reality into magazines, way back in 2011. The software, makes it easy for print designers to select imagery in their layouts and turn those images into AR markers … Continue reading
Navdy Raises $6.5M For Its In-Car Heads-Up Display Platform
Hardware startup Navdy has raised a $6.5 million seed funding round for its connected car tech, which focuses on the heads-up display it created. The company had closed the funding officially before it ever began its pre-order campaign, which has … Continue reading
Personalized News-Reading App Pipes Now Smartly Summarizes Articles, Without The Help Of Editors
A personalized news reading app, Pipes, is now offering summaries of news stories to save mobile readers time while trying to catch up on-the-go. This is a big shift for the app, which launched earlier this year to offer a … Continue reading
Locqus Launches To Equip Plumbers And Handymen With Technology
So you run a little plumbing company. You have a couple of plumbers. They’re good guys. You get a call for a job, and assign it to Jim who has car trouble but doesn’t phone back to the office to … Continue reading
Google Wants Mr. YouTube To Go To Washington (Or Vice Versa)
Google is hoping to encourage legislators, lawmakers, elected representatives and others under the general category of nation-runners to use YouTube to spread their messages and speak to their constituencies and citizens. The company just launched YouTube for Government, a destination … Continue reading
Social Media Engagement Startup Insightpool Raises $4M
Insightpool, a startup that helps companies identify and connect with their target audience online, is announcing that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding. At first, the concept might seem similar to other services that identify valuable social … Continue reading
Translator Keyboard For iOS Makes Writing Foreign Missives A Breeze
The Translator Keyboard for iOS 8 can translate what you’ve typed into one of 44 other languages — all without having to leave the keyboard interface. Read More
Roku Now Offers Screen Mirroring For Android And Windows 8.1 Users
Roku announced this morning it’s rolling out screen mirroring functionality in beta for “a select number” of Windows 8.1 and Android devices. The feature will allow these users to quickly mirror content on their devices to the big screen, including … Continue reading
Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less
Google’s Scott Jenson, an interaction and UX designer who left the company previously, only to return to the Chrome team last November, has revealed a project underway called The Physical Web at the company to provide “interaction on demand” so … Continue reading