| Slide.ly Is Bringing Back The Mashup With Its Social Slideshow Service - Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:20 +0000 |
 The lowly photo slideshow is not dead yet, or at least that's the hope of the team at Tel Aviv-based EasyHi, which is debuting its new product Slide.ly today, backed by $1 million in seed funding. The company aims to pick up where Slide.com (acquired by Google in 2010) left off. It's building a slideshow creation tool for the new age, using sources like Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Pickplz, and Picasa, as well as Google Images, photos from your friends or those from your computer. You then mix that content with music from SoundCloud and YouTube and add - you guessed it - Instagram-like effects.Although there's no space on Facebook to "embed" your glorious creation permanently, as Slide.com's shows were once pinned on dizzy MySpace pages, the resulting slideshows can be shared to your Facebook TimeLine or page, tweeted or emailed. |
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| Shortform Launches Bookmarklet And Facebook Open Graph For Seamless Video Curation And Sharing - Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:05 +0000 |
 Video curation platform Shortform is launching a few new features that will make it easier for its video jockeys (VJs) to curate and share content with friends and followers. The hope is that by introducing a browser bookmarklet, as well as implementing Facebook Open Graph, the startup will be able to continue its hockey stick-like growth in video minutes consumed.Shortform is introducing a bookmarklet for adding videos to their channels. The bookmarklet will work with all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer), making it easier for VJs to instantly update their playlists without having to open a new tab, copy and paste the URL, etc. In addition to adding videos to their channels, the bookmarklet will also find all videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and CollegeHumor that are on a given page so that users can choose between them. |
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| The Facebook Stats Game: Brazil Has The Highest Active Reach; Bangkok Tops The List Of Cities - Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:04 +0000 |
 Facebook says that it generated half of its revenues outside of the U.S. and Canada in the first quarter of 2012, and some numbers out today underscore just how extensive its reach is in different markets, with active usage in some countries outstripping that of Facebook in its home market.According to figures from Nielsen -- some of the latest numbers to come out in the battery of data that is being fired out in the final day before Facebook goes public -- Brazil has the highest active reach of Internet consumers using the social network from home/work computers. Some 38.1 million Brazilians visited Facebook during March 2012, equivalent to 76.7 percent of all people who were of those who were active online that month from home and work computers in the market.When you take into account people accessing Facebook from other sources like tablets and mobiles, Nielsen says New Zealand has the highest active reach, with nearly 80 percent of all consumers accessing Facebook in one format or another. |
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