Last year Mevo Cam made it easy to stream quality video directly to Facebook Live and Periscope. In Australia, it was around $625—but was limited to 720p via iPhone or iPad. Now, Mevo has moved to the next phase, with a bunch of upgrades on the way for resolution, platform compatibility, and service integration. Ripper resolutions […]
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GoPro has returned to what it knows best – cameras. The company has announced the forthcoming release of a camera capable of capturing spherical video for VR. Early word, specs Announced in a press release on the company’s website, there’s a good chance that the GoPro Fusion will be the next big thing in consumer
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Facebook has slowly but steadily been moving into the Augmented and Virtual Reality space. Now that commitment has increased with the launch of the Camera Effects platform. Virtual Likes Facebook made the announcement as the recent F8 developer conference. The platform will let third-party developers create augmented reality filters that can be viewed through the Facebook
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Cabana is a social video viewing app. What does that mean exactly? Tumblr seems to know – they bought Cabana when it was in development and have now brought it to market. Chat, watch Cabana lets users simultaneously stream YouTube and connect via video chat with up to five others. It seems like a competent
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Long-time darling of the home and cake decorating set, Pinterest has announced plans that seem intent to take it off the social network track – at least at first glance. Who likes likes? ‘Likes’ are officially gone from Pinterest. As single-click feedback mechanisms, likes, hearts and thumbs-up are associated with social media. Pinterest has declared
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Popular Pays is a networking platform that allows brands to discover influencers, and vice versa. It’s starting to generate buzz as more money rolls in to back its bold business objectives. Leveraging pop Popular Pays is a platform positioned as an intermediary for influencer marketing. It facilitates transactional contact between brands and well-connected social media
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Google has unveiled its dedicated URL submission feature within Search Console, allowing updated URLs to show directly in search results. Google's new service With the addition of Google’s new service, users can submit URLs straight to the Google index, but that’s not the final step. Google does not guarantee the addition of all submitted URLs
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Twitter now lets brands create “custom hearts”, letting users show their appreciation for Periscope live videos. NBC Universal among first to test new icon Film promotions have proven an excellent testing ground for users to show their appreciation for content, encouraging fans to generate higher approval ratings. Brands won’t have carte blanche to design just
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Ever-eager to keep up with the likes of trendier upstarts, Microsoft has taken a tilt at a fun photos app. It’s hardly a Snapchat or Facebook challenger, but it’ll amuse some folks and could even catch on. Age old algos reframed Called Sprinkles, Microsoft’s new app brings some familiar MS features to the mobile device
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Google Photos now comes with a software-based stabilisation function. It’s basically an in-app feature that corrects the shaky-cam effect all too common with video shot on mobile. Results in action A neat little video by ‘GTX 1070 Gaming’ shows the effectiveness of the new feature. Check out the side-by-side comparison on YouTube. It shows the
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