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It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its five million registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200 million+ monthly active users, and some 600 billion in and outbound messages – but Hike’s growth is impressive when you consider it’s only just over four months old. WhatsApp, of course, has…
Today at I/O, Google rebranded “Hangouts” as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts’ Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messenger. While it doesn’t support SMS yet, it could challenge Facebook Messaging and Apple’s iMessage.
For over a year, whispers from GigaOm, Droid Life and others signaled Google would undertake…
Today at I/O, Google rebranded “Hangouts” as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts’ Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messenger. While it doesn’t support SMS yet, it could challenge Facebook Messaging and Apple’s iMessage.
For over a year, whispers from GigaOm, Droid Life and others signaled Google would undertake…
Branding is important. It’s something that most businesses want but few do well enough considering the tools that we all have at our disposal through the internet in general and social media in particular. However, too many are starting to use social media as a branding tool only. The reality for local businesses is that it can and should be used to drive foot traffic and website visitors. Branding should be a secondary benefit, a side-effect of a proper promotional strategy.
Look at the…
Singer Justin Timberlake, who until this year hadn’t released new music since 2006, will release part two of his successful 20/20 Experience album on Sept. 30 — just six months after part one debuted
Timberlake made the unexpected announcement Sunday through photos posted on Instagram on Facebook. The picture on Instagram, which he joined on Grammy Sunday in February, quickly racked up nearly 50,000 views within the first hour it was uploaded.
The visual announcement continues…
If you stumble across across one of Khoa’s reality-defying stop-motion vines, the first thing you’ll ask is, “How in the world did he do that?”
Twitter launched Vine on Jan. 24. The next day, 23-year-old Khoa Phan created his first Vine, a simple five-shot video of a Keurig machine brewing a cup of coffee. This was the kind of thing most people were filming when Vine first launched — mundane videos of everyday occurrences. As is the case with Instagram, if users don’t think creatively,…
Twitter updated its app for iPhone and Android Wednesday, adding the ability to view Trends from around the world or focus on those in your backyard
Located in the Discover tab, the feature shows you what’s trending on Twitter as whole. You can also drill down to tailored trends within the app. They’re based on your location as well as who you follow on Twitter. The idea is that you’ll see trends specifically catered to your own personal interests.
With the update, replies to retweeted…
You’ve got the basics of computer maintenance down. Backup? Check. Software updates? Yep. But there are other tech tuneups you can perform to help get your computing life into shape. Take a break from spring-cleaning your house and follow these lesser-known, but vital, tips.
Are you sure your backup works? Don’t just take it on faith — test it out. If you use Time Machine for Mac, it’s easy: Click the Time Machine menu bar icon and hold down the Option key. “Verify…
In the not too far off future, you’ll be able to tweet with your eyes. Or at least that’s what it looks like
A new Twitter app for Google Glass — the search engine giant’s new high-tech specs — has been spotted in the wild, according to TechCrunch.
The publication caught wind of a Twitter user by name of Shivster Muddler who tweeted on Monday night of a picture of a lemon tree. But this wasn’t just any old image. The message, which said “just shared a photo #throughglass,” was uploaded via…
I was moderating a small panel at a conference about two and a half years ago that focused on Facebook fans. The two panelists represented the two different sides of Facebook promotion at the time: one focused on local quality fans and the other focused on bulk fans. After the debate, one might have called it a draw. That was over two years ago. Today, there’s really only one side that deserves any representation at all. Local businesses should focus solely on getting local fans, period….
