Facebook’s new live streaming feature takes on Snapchat

Facebook is constantly experimenting and adding new features to keep users glued to the popular social media network. This Friday, Facebook has rolled out yet another new feature that allows you to watch live events sitting at home. The new service has made its debut with Chicago’s Lollapalooza music festival wherein live event feed is streamed and Facebook users in the US can watch curated photos, videos, public posts and updates published by users, artists and bands at the music festival.

The music festival is being made available on Place Tips, a feature launched by Facebook in January by which users can get information about their friend’s current location. The live streaming is however new. “This Place Tips Lollapalooza experience is just one of the many ways Facebook is trying to help people get the feel of an event when they’re not there,” a spokesperson from Facebook told wsj.

The new feature is a lot like Snapchat’s “Our Story” feature launched last summer by which people attending an event can post pictures and videos of the event into a live stream and users can tap into it from distant locations to watch them. Facebook says that live streaming from Lollapalooza is different from Snapchat’s feature as it also includes content posted by your friends who are attending the music festival.

Twitter is also planning to join the competition with live event coverage by the end of the year. Twitter’s new feature is called “Project Lightening” that will show up a new button to the users on their homepage by clicking which they will be able to see content from live events. Twitter’s Periscope app allows live video streaming from iPhone. Meerkat is another mobile app that allows users to stream live videos over Twitter to their followers.

Facebook says that Lollapalooza is just a test and it will continue to develop the feature for other applications in future.

Facebook’s new live streaming feature takes on Snapchat

Russian Internet Authority Sent Official Notice to Facebook, Twitter, Google

Russia has passed a number of laws in the past year. It is seen as nothing less than a censorship. On top of that, recently, Russian’s federal office which handles communications, mass media and information technology which basically handles everything from telecommunications and internet sector, Roskomnadzor, has sent official notice to Google, Twitter and Facebook.

The official notice requests the three big companies to comply with national legislation to provide information on Russian bloggers who have more than 3,000 readers each day as well as to close site which the Russia’s internet authority seen as “unsanctioned protests and unrest”. There is a legislation law which was passed last year which stated that bloggers with large leaderships are required to register with a government agency and have their identities verified. Another legislation which was also passed last year mentioned that the Russians prosecutors are allowed to block sites without a court order.

Google announced in the company’s transparency report which is published twice-per-year that the company has responded to 5% of the total of 134 information requests from the Russian government during the second half of the year of 2014. Twitter is reported that the company has rejected 108 requests whereas Facebook, on the other hand, has declined to comment on the two requests that the company received last year.

As the three companies use encryption protocols to prevent the Russian’s agency to block specific sites, the only option that they have is to block the sites entirely. Ampelonsky, Roskomnadzor’s spokesperson mentioned that the agency realized that the three companies were registered under U.S. jurisdiction, however, the three companies should demonstrated equal respect to national legislation and if they did not, then the agency would need to apply for sanctions. There is no further information what the sanctions will be.

Russian Internet Authority Sent Official Notice to Facebook, Twitter, Google

Twitter’s New Feature Highlights to Deliver New Notifications to Android

Twitter has released a new feature called Highlights which summarize the current trending topics on your account. Before this new feature is released, when you want to check what are the trending topics from the accounts you follow, you will need to open the Twitter apps, wait for it to load and then the trending topic will appear on the screen.

With the new Highlights feature, you do not have to do all that. Highlights will summarize the most important tweets and trending topics from the accounts that you follow in the form of push notification. Some of you might find notification will be quite intrusive as it will keep on delivering the topics nonstop. However, do not worry, since Highlights will deliver the synopsis twice a day.

Below are the steps on how to enable it on your Android:

1. Download here for the latest 5.56 Twitter version from Play Store.


2. Open the Twitter app and tap on overflow icon and the Settings menu will be opened.


3. Select an account and tap on Mobile notification by slide the slider to “on” position.


4. Check the box next to Highlights.

Do the above steps for all your Twitter accounts.  As Highlights only provide a summarize version of the trending topic, if you want to know the full story, you will need to tap on the notification and open the app. Highlights is currently released for Android only for testing purposes.

Twitter’s New Feature Highlights to Deliver New Notifications to Android

Only 14% of teens name Facebook as the top social network

Facebook is currently the most popular social network the world over but if you ask the teens, they may say differently. A recent survey by Investment Bank Piper Jaffray finds that Facebook is losing its charm among the teens while Instagram and Snapchat are fast growing in popularity.

The survey titled “Taking Stock With Teens” in which 6,200 teens with average age of 16 were surveyed, has found that only 14% of the US teenagers regarded Facebook as the “most important social network.” This was 23% last year and 33% in 2013 indicating that Facebook is fast losing popularity among the US teenagers.

So which social network is regarded by the teens as the best? Well, the Facebook owned Instagram was chosen as the top social network by 32% of the teens while 24% chose Twitter. Facebook with 14% came at third place closely followed by Snapchat with 13%.

Piper Jaffray releases this survey twice a year and it is closely watched on Wall Street. Companies use the findings to get an idea about teens’ spending pattern and brand preferences while investors use them for making their stock buying decisions.

Survey results released by Pew Research Center tell a different story. Their survey found Facebook to still be the top choice of teenagers with 71% teens aged between 13 and 17 using it. 52% of them used Instagram and 41% used Snapchat.

Only 14% of teens name Facebook as the top social network

Introducing Periscope – Twitter’s Own Live Video Broadcasting, Similar to Meerkat

Twitter has just bought Periscope a few weeks ago. Similar to Meerkat, Periscope is also a live video streaming app which allows the users to stream live video from your iPhone virtually regardless the physical location. On top of that, users are able to sign in to Periscope using your Twitter account.  Unfortunately, Periscope uses internet connection. By using the apps, users are able to track viewers, comments and even click on the “heart” icon if they like the video.

It is very easy to use Periscope. Periscope uses swipes and gestures to navigate throughout the screen and uses its features. It gives a more polished feel compared to Meerkat. On top of that, it is also easy to setup Periscope. After installation, there is a brief tutorial on how to use the apps then you will have the options to follow “Featured” users such as the magician David Blaine or Periscope engineers or the people that you have followed in your Twitter account.

The next screen will show the lists of current live broadcast with large, full-width images. During the live broadcast, the users will be able to comment and the broadcaster will be able to see the comments real-time. On top of that, the broadcaster can select the people icon to see all the viewers. The good thing is that no one can watch anonymously within the app itself.

These are a few of things that you can do on Periscope apps. It is available for free in Apps Store.

Introducing Periscope – Twitter’s Own Live Video Broadcasting, Similar to Meerkat

Periscope – New App from Twitter Which Allows You to do Live Video Stream from iPhone

Twitter has launched new app called Periscope which allows users to easily stream live video to your followers. Before Periscope was launched, there is only one app name Meerkat which does the similar things. However, a lot of Meerkat’s user complains that are a lot of links which are not working when they click on them.

Periscope has a lot of features and functions. One of them is the ability of transmitting your own live broadcasts over a platform, notify all your followers instantly whenever your feed goes live which then allow them to tune in, post comments or send hearts in real time. The “Replay” feature is the feature that sets Periscope apart from other apps. With this new feature, followers will be able to tune in to videos even though the broadcast has ended, complete with the ability to comment or like the uploaded videos. Unfortunately, this feature lasts for 24 hours only.

Furthermore, broadcasters will be able to share their live feeds with specific users by invitation only. You also able to share on Twitter by clicking the bird icon before you go live in order to share your video to the public. The app is also capable to suggest people you can follow on the network based on your Twitter network composition.

Periscope is free to download on App Store. However, the Android version of the app is currently a work in progress.

Periscope – New App from Twitter Which Allows You to do Live Video Stream from iPhone

Additional details about HTC One M9 camera sensor and SoC clock speed leaked

HTC’s new flagship One M9 which is going to be unveiled on March 1 at the MWC in Barcelona, has seen numerous leaks up till now. Just recently we saw its renders, specs and other details leaked. Now a new leak has emerged, this time from Twitter that gives some additional details about the HTC One M9 specs.

According to the leaks, the new HTC flagship is supposed to have an improved 20MP rear camera. Spigen’s HTC One M9 cases appearing for pre-order on Amazon also confirmed it. Now this new tip by Roland Quandt claims “filling in the blanks” for the said phone regarding its 20MP camera. According to him, the camera will feature f/2.2 aperture and 27.8 mm lens. This means that the camera might not be Sony’s 20MP snapper that has been used in smartphones such as Xperia Z3 and Meizu MX4, but may be of some other make.

 

filling in the blanks on the HTC One M9: 20 MP cam, f/2.2, 27,8 mm Lens… Android 5.0.2 with Sense 7. Snapdragon 810 4×2.0 GHz & 4×1.5 GHz

— Roland Quandt (@rquandt) February 23, 2015

 

Another leakster Ricciolo tipped PhoneArena that the camera sensor in One M9 is made by Toshiba which is another big surprise from HTC after the huge 5X jump in its camera compared to One M8. This reliable tippster claims that the size of the camera sensor is 1/2.4” which is a little smaller than Sony’s.

 

@phonearena the MAIN M9 sensor is NOT from SONY… is made by TOSHIBA and 1/2.4 (slightly smaller than the Z3 etc)!

— Ricciolo (@Ricciolo1) February 23, 2015

 

Roland Quandt has also confirmed that the HTC One M9 will be powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC. It will have 4 cortex-A57 cores clocked at 2GHz and 4 cortex-A53 clocked at 1.5GHz. The new HTC phone will run Android 5.0.2 with the company’s own Sense 7 UI on top.

Well, we will know for sure in a few days as the MWC 2015 is just round the corner.

 

Via PhoneArena

Additional details about HTC One M9 camera sensor and SoC clock speed leaked

Abuse Statements in Twitter Would be Even Harder in the Future

Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, has announced that he is going to make it difficult for abuser to post statements that is abusing other users in Twitter in the future. Furthermore, he added that he is going to take personal responsibility for the poor handling of abusing statements by Twitter during his tenure as CEO and pledged to do better in the future.

Costolo outlined a plan eventhough it is not in detail that he is going to make it easier to ban people from Twitter and ensure that abusive statements harder to aim directly to any users which can dominate their timelines.

The current reporting process of harassment or abuse in Twitter is that the users who received the abuse statements will have to report the abuse and the account is suspended. However, the owner of the suspended account can just open up a new account and repeat the whole process again. Costolo plans to reverse this process so that it is going to be difficult to be an abuser and makes it harder for the abusive statements to be posted on the platform.

Costolo said “The way I would frame it is people should have a right to speak freely on the platform, but you don’t necessarily have a right to have your mentions of me show up in my mentions timeline with whatever you choose to say, and your response is that I can call you whatever I want to call you. I think that’s one way to think about it. I generally have the right to speak freely on the platform, but I don’t have the right to have whatever nasty things I want to say about you show up in your mentions.

Abuse Statements in Twitter Would be Even Harder in the Future

Google and Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets on Google Search Results

Google and Twitter has reached an agreement which allows Google to access to Twitter’s data stream. Twitter is a microblogging site for about 284 million users. Prior to this agreement, Google had to crawl the Twitter’s site for information whereas after this agreement, the data is ready immediately.

From this agreement, tweets from Twitter will be visible for non Twitter user and thus generating more advertising revenue from wider internet users. On top of that, Twitter also provides data to Microsoft Corp’s Bing search service and Yahoo! Inc, hoping to draw in more users as the growth of Twitter is slowing down during the last few years.

Google and Twitter has similar deal from 2009 to 2011. However, Ali Rowghani, the Chief Operating Officer of Twitter during that period did not want to renew the agreement as to have more control to the Twitter’s content. However, it does not work according to plan.

Twitter stock increased 4.2 percent to $42.45 at 7:03am New York time, which increased 14 percent this year.

There is no advertising revenue from this Twitter and Google agreement. Twitter will receive data-licensing revenue which is total up to $41 million in the third quarter, up from $16 million on previous year.

Google and Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets on Google Search Results

A privacy flaw in Twitter enables third parties to read your direct messages and also send new ones

Many websites and mobile apps let you use your Twitter account to log in to them as it makes the registration process simple and easy. However, due to a privacy flaw in Twitter, these third parties can get access to your direct messages in Twitter.

A search marketing consultant Rishi Lakhani observed this flaw when he was using his Twitter account to sign up with Inbound, a digital marketers’ forum. At the time of login, he got a warning that Inbound will be able to read his direct messages.

Lakhani demonstrated this flaw to Business Insider on a Twitter account created by them. Although he did not have its password, he was able to alter the profile of the account and also receive and send direct messages.

Many websites or apps use the Twitter API (Application Program Interface) to create an auth. login so that the user doesn’t need to sign up separately. When a developer creates a ‘login’ with Twitter access, he has to allow one of the following three permissions to the website or app.

• Read Only


• Read Write


• Read Write DM

This can be seen in the screenshot below:

Now, if a developer chooses the third option for his site, he would be able to read direct messages of the user who logs in. This option may expose the user to “snooping and spamming.”

This is what the authorization screen will look like:

 

Twitter has over 284 million active users and thousands of companies allow login to their apps and websites through Twitter. As Lakhani says in his website:

“A clever spammer could use this tool to their advantage, as it allows some real control over an accounts actions. For example, by time noting user activity, it could be possible to use the account to tweet links for traffic etc when the user is least likely to be using the account, and then delete them. the same goes for DMs.”

A privacy flaw in Twitter enables third parties to read your direct messages and also send new ones

You’ll get Tweets from people you don’t follow, Twitter thinks you’ll enjoy them

Twitter has announced that some tweets from people you don’t follow will be included in your timeline in a bid to make your Twitter experience more relevant. Twitter has been experimenting and tweaking the timelines for some time now and based on this, the popular social network has decided to make it a standard feature for all accounts.

A couple of months back some users started getting tweets from people they didn’t follow because some person they followed had favourited them. Trevor O’Brien of Twitter says in his blog post, “There are times when you might miss out on Tweets we think you’d enjoy. To help you keep up with what’s happening, we’ve been testing ways to include these Tweets in your timeline — ones we think you’ll find interesting or entertaining.”

He further adds,”Testing indicated that most people enjoy seeing Tweets from accounts they may not follow, based on signals such as activity from accounts you do follow, the popularity of the Tweets, and how people in your network interact with them. These experiments now inform the timeline you see today.”

Twitter support writes,”You will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don’t follow. We select each Tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to make your home timeline even more relevant and interesting.”

Some people may not like this move from Twitter. In fact, many have already begun to express their displeasure at the change. Twitter’s own tweet about this move drew a lot of negative responses like:

“please no “,“ew stop that”, “please stop ruining your product”, “please don’t.” “Aka start getting used to forced Ads in your timeline.” “plz dont if I wanted their tweets I would follow them.”, “Where do I opt out of this, or anything close to this, FOREVER.” and many more.

Of course, it is possible that Tweeple may welcome this move once they get they used to it. What do you think about Twitter’s latest move?

We’re testing & exploring ways to include Tweets in your timeline we think you’ll find interesting or entertaining: https://t.co/K9zqg5nTg0

— Twitter (@twitter) October 17, 2014

You’ll get Tweets from people you don’t follow, Twitter thinks you’ll enjoy them

Twitter Shopping arrives with the new “Buy Now” button

Twitter’s Shopping integration finally turns out to be real deal as the social networking giant has launched a new “Buy Now” button that has surfaced in past few days. However, for the moment you will see only the button, pressing which might not take any action but the full implementation of this feature is expected to to appear soon along with Fancy. This is as such an unfinished feature at the moment and will appear of Twitter’s Mobile app but will help to buy for few legitimate products via tweets.

Back in May, Amazon had joined hands with Twitter where users could add products to their shopping cart directly via Tweets. Now this new feature with “Buy Now” could be brought here as well along with Fancy listings. Twitter has as such a good association with e-commerce applications and the social networking giant has recently hired a former CEO Nathan Hubbard to exclusively look after the company’s commerce ventures. We hope this new exciting new feature comes to actual practice sooner.

Twitter Shopping arrives with the new “Buy Now” button

Sony releases teaser for the "next big thing", could be the Xperia Z Ultra successor

Sony has posted a teaser on its Twitter account asking fans to look out for “next big thing” which hints that the Japanese giant is on the verge of releasing something new, something big. Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra is big with its 6.44-inch display, a slim and stylish ‘phablet’. There is speculation that the new upcoming device from Sony might be the successor to Xperia Z Ultra.

The teaser pic shows the side view of a slim Sony handset and a red dressed girl standing next to it. The focus is on the phone, while the girl’s image is blurred. The phone is quite big and its power, volume and camera buttons can be seen. Sony has posted the following comment along with the photo:

”Shh… do you want to know a secret? Stay tuned for the next big thing this season.”

The blurred image indicates that it is a “secret”, that it is not clearly known yet, but that the image will become clear soon, so “stay tuned”. The use of words “next big thing” suggests the teaser may well be for the successor to big Xperia Z Ultra. It might be called the Xperia Z2 Ultra or the Xperia Z Ultra 2. Some believe the teaser might be for Xperia Z3, but since the Xperia Z2 has been launched just a few months back, this seems a remote possibility.

Anyway, hopefully the secret will be out soon. Meanwhile, let us know what you think the teaser is about. The pic has generated a lot of interest and speculation for sure!

Sony releases teaser for the "next big thing", could be the Xperia Z Ultra successor

Time and Date announced for WWDC Keynote

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference otherwise referred to as WWDC, kicks off in but 2 weeks’ time and earlier of the event’s commencing, the fruit company has simply updated its official WWDC app for WWDC 2014. As you may expect, the full app has been given the quality iOS 7 makeover, emphasized throughout by a neat orange tint, and if you’re coming up with on heading right down to the event, it provides all of the knowledge you’ll want.

Last time around, Apple flung in quite few new options with apprise to the WWDC app for 2013; however the new edition 2.0 is basically unchanged apart from the said UI tweaks. It is, however, plenty a lot of pleasing on the attention due to these minor changes, and is currently additionally in-keeping with the remainder of the company’s mobile OS.

Speaking of that, iOS eight is predicted to be the most topic of language, and from what we’ve detected, there’s abundant to seem forward to. The star of the show, apparently, are going to be the Health book suite, which is able to enable users to count calories, monitor diet and alternative fitness and wellbeing-related aspects, however we’ve additionally spotted that there’ll be a individual iTunes Radio app, Shazam combination with Siri, and a bunch of alternative exciting additions and alterations. For a lot of information, see our feature-length post on what we all know up to now concerning iOS eight, that we’ve connected at the foot of this post.

OS X, for the meantime, also will get on the schedule, and like iOS seven last year, is about for a dramatic style overhaul which will see planate UI parts and cleaner, shriller lines. It’s predictable that we’ll see 1 or 2 different new options besides, and if something, we’re keener to examine what OS X 10.10 has future than its mobile counterpart.

Along with the discharge of the updated WWDC app, Apple additionally took the chance to verify that Apple’s huge keynote can occur at 10am at the Moscone Center on Mon, June 2nd, with Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook possible to create the massive announcements.

We’ll keep you rationalized on any WWDC-related information till that point, thus keep tuned!

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Time and Date announced for WWDC Keynote

Peel android app for trending T.V. conversations

It is a changing world; people are getting smart and even smarter in all way round. Therefore, things around them also need some kind of change or I must say things around us also need to get smart.

Human being have made and even making new inventions and innovations to make the life smarter. Peel is one of those smart appeals.

From old black and white televisions to brand new smart phones, innovation is everywhere. Well now, its time for our old granny days TV remote to change in to a new one or I should say into a smart one.

Peel Smart Remote App is one of its kind apps, which just walked in our life suddenly and made it easy for us to browse through channels in a very impressive way. Well all thanks goes to the Cofounder of Peel and CEO Thiru Arunachalam.

Peel Smart Remote app is smartly makes you to flip or browse through the content of Movies, TV shows and Sports.

All you have to do is just get it from Android Market free of cost and welcome to the new and smart world of Peel.

The app has been redesigned to find trending twitter conversations by using a patent-pending solution. It detects the trending twitter conversations about your favourite shows. The app has various functionalities, which can help users to tune into a T.V. channel by just clicking on a trending tweet.

Though one thing which got to break many other hearts is that it is only for Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 users by using IR port. Galaxy Tab plus 7.0 users can browse through the lists, along with this, can read the episode, mark as favorite, and even can share it via social networks with your loving ones.

Until now, Peel has around 60 million users and without any doubt, many more are getting ready to use it every minute.

Although, many others still are going to punch the buttons of there TV remote; still its way awesome to use it at home and feel like a smart pant. 

Peel android app for trending T.V. conversations

LG G3 to have a brushed metal finished back

The suspected image of LG G3 on social network by @evleaks revealed the brushed metal finished Android handset.Twitter based @evleaks is eminent in alleging accurate leaks.

The leaked image stating that LG G3 is not prone to fingerprints,corresponding to one of its predecessor’s shortcomings.The image doesnot resemble LG G3 with HTC One(M8) in terms of metal finishing.We are expecting a polycarbonate furnished handset with a special LG touch.

As reported from different sources, LG G3 will come with 5.5”QHD display,Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 3GB of RAM, 13MP rear camera with OIS+, 32GB of internal storage, microSD card slot and 3000 mAh battery.

LG will launch the G3 on May 27 at simultaneous launch events in London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Istanbul and Seoul.With just nineteen days away, we won’t have to wait for long to get the final confirmation on everything LG G3. As always, we will be bringing you all the details, so stay tuned.

LG G3 to have a brushed metal finished back