Facebook is rolling out video calling to Messenger today, letting users chat face to face with their friends by tapping a single button inside the app. The free feature, which works over both LTE and Wi-Fi, competes with similar products including Microsoft's Skype, Google Hangouts, and Apple's FaceTime. It's meant for the average user, but should also prove useful to Facebook as it continues developing its Facebook for Work service....
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Facebook Messenger adds free video calling to take on Skype 3
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Beme is a social media app that wants to engineer authenticity 1
July 17th at 6:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAuthenticity is in short supply online, says video maker Casey Neistat, with social media forcing us to present over-stylized and over-perfect versions of ourselves to world. Neistat thinks he has the answer, though: he's built a new social media network named Beme (pronounced "beam") where users communicate with self-destructing videos recorded by placing their phones on their hearts. Well, that's not a necessity, but it's how Neistat demonstrates the iOS-only app, explaining that Beme uses the...
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Spice up your Skype video messages with a new collection of zany filters 0
October 28th at 8:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsAlong with some Halloween-friendly emoticons, there are several functional improvements to the latest version of Skype.
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SoundCloud Pulse, A Dedicated App For Music Creators, Arrives On iOS 0
February 23rd at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service’s dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market where apps tend to release on iOS first, Pulse first debuted on Android back in November. Like the Android version, the iOS app also aims to make it easier for users to upload their sounds and tracks, interact with fans, and track their performance…
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We put 5 popular couples apps to the test and they all failed 0
May 27th at 3:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsApp geniuses, hear our plea.
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Google's Allo gets Fantastic Beasts stickers, background themes, and emoji suggestions 0
November 16th at 9:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsGoogle's cross-platform chat app is continues to improve in its bid to lure users from other services.
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6 Free Apps to Organize a More Efficient Carpool 0
August 13th at 2:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsIt's difficult to think of logistics while you're on the beach or on summer vacation, but before you know it, the new school year will be here. Once you've purchased the...
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Top 10 iOS Apps of 2011 0
December 30th at 9:02pm / Mashable / 0 opinions2011 was a great year for iOS apps. The App Store officially passed the 500,000 app mark, and with iOS 5, developers are continuing to push the boundaries of what it means...
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Instant Messaging Service Imo.im Launches Real-Time Social Network 1
January 16th at 10:59am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsImo.im, which you probably know as the multi-platform free instant messaging product for the web and mobile devices is launching its own real-time social network today. For now, the network is only accessible online, but the company says it will soon integrate the new features into its mobile app lineup, which currently includes apps for the iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices.
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Finding the iPad’s 7 missing apps 0
March 20th at 12:13pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsIf you own an iPhone, you probably noticed there are a fewer apps installed on the new iPad than on your iPhone. Some of the missing apps are more obvious, like the Phone app. But others are oddly omitted, despite their utility on a tablet. …
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WhatsApp crosses billion messages a day 0
October 31st at 6:52pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAccording to a blog post from Messaging app WhatsApp, the company is now getting over one billion messages sent using its platform a day. The company had this to say:…
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Skype's iOS App Updates Add Photo Sharing, Reduce Battery Drain 0
August 21st at 1:50pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMicrosoft-owned Skype has today pushed new updates for its iOS apps on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, bringing new features which include the introduction of a long-awaited photo sharing feature,…
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Twimon, I Choose You: the Fun Twitter iPhone App That Rips Off Pokemon 0
January 19th at 9:20pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThis Twitter app is so bonkers, I don't even know where to begin. *deep breath* Ok, so it has MONSTERS and like POKEMON, your monsters ATTACK your followers' monsters and...oh god, I miss the days of Twitter SMS. The app itself is a free download, but you can pay for monster eggs inside the game for a buck each. It's your duty to raise your egg, nurturing it by tapping on it or tweeting. Once the monster pops out of the egg, it starts attacking areas within your location (via Google Maps, naturally),...
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Daily App Deals: Get Voice Brief for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
March 13th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Voice Brief (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now Free. Voice Brief for iOS reads aloud from your email, news feeds, socal networks, and more. It's a text to speech assistant with customizable sources and a music player style interface. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
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App.net gets its first iPhone client, AppNet Rhino 0
September 3rd at 7:35am / The Verge / 0 opinionsApp.net, a paid, developer-friendly Twitter competitor, now has a dedicated iOS application in the App Store. AppNet Rhino isn't the first client to support the fledgling social network — that privilege goes to Buffer — but it is the only iOS app so far built solely for app.net. Android users have had their own dedicated app, Hooha, for a few days now. Rhino is pretty basic so far, offering a choice of four tabs. The Timeline, Mentions, and Profile tabs will be familiar to users of most social...
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'Letterpress' for iOS: Tweetie creator emerges from year of silence with addictive word game 0
October 24th at 3:40pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAlmost one year ago Loren Brichter left Twitter, largely leaving the public eye "to figure out what's next." But before he left, he adapted his award-winning Tweetie to become Twitter for iPhone and Mac, and crafted the beloved Twitter for iPad. Brichter's user interface paradigms (like swipe-across menus and "pull-to-refresh") served as inspiration for popular apps like Path, and like Sparrow, which he advised until it was acquired by Google. "He has influenced the way apps are designed more than...
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Social Voting App Polar Has Had Over A Half Million Votes In Its First Eleven Days 2
December 6th at 12:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsHot-or-not is a site that most of us who have used the web are familiar with. Sit down at your desk, look at pictures and profiles of a bunch of people, and respond to them with an easy voting interaction. That type of service has been popular over the years, but with the surge of mobile coming fast and furious the past few years, there are opportunities to take it to the next level. Today, I…
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Facebook Messenger Now Allows You to Send Voice Messages 6
January 4th at 12:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Facebook Messenger application is getting an update for Android and iOS so that users can now send voice messages up to one-minute long to their friends. Just a few weeks after Facebook went after Snapchat with a clone app, it's modified Messenger to be a clone for Apple's iMessage....
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Tango updates its video calling apps with filters, avatars and read receipts 0
November 20th at 3:06pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTango, a free video call and chat service, has updated its mobile phone apps with a host of new features, including artistic filters and fully animated avatars....
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Yandex Plans to Withdraw Wonder Following Facebook Block 12
January 30th at 4:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsYandex plans to remove its recently-launched app Wonder from the App Store following Facebook’s block on its API access, implemented just hours after it debuted....
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Kickstarter App Brings Project Shopping to Mobile 4
February 14th at 10:06pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsCan't get enough of searching through all the innovative and quirky projects on Kickstarter? The company has launched its first mobile app.
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Social networking app Path introduces The Shop, text and voice messaging in update 0
March 7th at 5:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPath on Wednesday released version 3.0 of its iOS app, bringing one-to-one and group messaging as well as an in-app store called The Shop, which offers access to "stickers" and special photo filters.
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Now THIS is How to Write your Startup's Terms of Service 0
March 29th at 4:49pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAlmost all of us are guilty of not reading the terms of service when we sign up for online accounts – life’s just too short for all that difficult-to-parse legalese. There is a better way to write a Terms of Service though; witness the approach that recently-relaunched Twitter rival Heello has taken....
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Vine, The App That Eats Your Precious Memories 0
April 20th at 10:27am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsNo app has ever broken my heart quite like Vine, Twitter’s six-second animation maker. You capture a scene, then pocket your phone while you think of a witty way to describe. But when you open it a few minutes later or the app randomly crashes, it’s gone. That moment, that memory, deleted. I still love Vine, but I’ll never forgive it for the visions it stole from me.