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Instagram  users can now publish videos that last up to 60 seconds, before today it was only possible videos up to 15 seconds. This new feature extension, following the latest update on iOS and Android will be available to all users within the next coming months.  This new user feature occurs on the context where around two months ago, Instagram  had extended the video length capability for its advertisers up to one-minute long.  “ We want to bring you fun, flexible and creative ways to create and watch video on Instagram,” the company announced on a post . Following recent marketing studies it was found that the average duration of a top Facebook video is around 1.5 minutes. It then follows, that this new extended length on Instagram will also give creatives and influential users more freedom to communicate their message and affect their audience. This new update will also reinstate users ability to create a video using multiple clips from th...

Everyone is Familiar with Selfies, how about when friends take a photo of you using your own camera? The concept is called "Someone Elsie" It was launched today  Shootlr on the iOS and Android stores, a new app that works by giving away self control of a user selfies and sharing and passing the selfie concept to a user's friends control.  In other words, allowing photography decisions to be passed to a user's friends, where they can take a selfie of a user, using the user's own smartphone. In practice the app processes the concept in such a way, as to remind a user that it has been a while since you have seen a photo of your friend e.g. Sasha,  the interested user then sends send a photo request to Sasha. Then, a notification buzzes on Sasha’s phone; when she opens the app, a timer immediately starts its three-second countdown. At the end of the countdown it snaps her photo, then shares it with with the requested user. Below it can be seen the app promoti...

LinkedIn  has  announced a new tool FeatureFu  which is to become open source for all software developers.  The FeatureFu will help software developers to build machine learning models around statistical modeling and decision engines. This offer by  LinkedIn  which is based on its “ feature engineering ” so that is accessible to software developers from around the world.  In Machine Learning or sometimes refereed by some people as Artificial Intelligence , works by using detailed knowledge of the relevant data that users have at their disposal and then using that to build machine learning models. LinkedIn states that most large-scale recommendation systems tend to be managed by at least two teams: one that handles the offline modeling and one that takes care of the online feature -serving/model-scoring part of the system. “ Many large-scale recommendation systems are brittle and vulnerable. FeatureFu allows for creative and agile dev...

Standing on Giants Standing on Giants (SoG) an Integrated Community Management and Forum Platform Technology.  It was recently announced the release in the UK to the general business community of a versatile forum platform for businesses, originally created by Telefonica Digital  where the SOG has been successfully operating since 2012.  ¨ This major breakthrough means that brands outside of Telefonica and the telecom industry will be able to drive transformational changes by engaging with customers across their own forum portals ¨ says Aurelien Poma Head of Platform Architecture and Design at Standing on Giants. ¨We are really excited to pass on the success that we have experienced internally and now we want to help companies steer their own digital transformation by providing a robust infrastructure that will translate into an exponential growth of their customer base ¨ SoG ’s fully customizable platform easily integrates with other software systems and app...

Twitter has published a proprietary live-streaming video app for iOS  . This news comes in a context where a few weeks ago it was announced a similar service Meerkat at the SXSW . The new app called  Periscope works by allowing its users to live-stream from their smartphones to viewed publicly on-line. This new app is not a new idea, as there are already similar apps available, however in this case it appears to be trending topic as technology such as 4G allows for better capabilities and signal improvement responsiveness. In practice the way it works is that much in the same way as other apps that can live stream,  As soon as an event starts by a user by starting a broadcast it is followed by an optional alert that is published live on their twitter stream.  As expected, the live broadcast has the interactive capability for users to comment and send “hearts”. Another option available is the possibility to "lock" a broadcast so that it becomes private or ac...

The  announcement news  from Instagram  that it now has a new application called Layout ,  The new app Layout , offers new features for  Instagram users as they use their photos to build photo group collages. And subsequently be able to share to Instagram, Facebook , or any where else. These type of applications already exist and they are quite popular, however Instagram  now offers with this new app, features that are an improvement where compared to other apps such as  Pic Stitch , Pic Collage , InstaCollage , PhotoGrid , and these are just a few examples.  The way these apps offer features are all based on similar varieties of blank photo grids where users can customize with their own photos, optional text, stickers, frames and backgrounds. With the new app Layout, users can build collages by changing the order of the steps involved in the typical process of other apps. As a user selects its photos, Layout then presents previews of custom layo...

New App Gyroscope Tracks And Combines All Your Activities to Share Following on from the  AprilZero  app where their users can track everything based on their activities, there is now a new app named  Gyroscope , where not only you can track your activities, they can also be displayed and shared to the world, the data. The way Gyroscope works is that it creates a personal profile for each user based on various combined tracking apps which includes utilizing a user personal data such as weight, health, walked steps and shared locations tracked from each user. Foursquare provides user date from travel destinations, and  Instagram ,  Twitter  can provide data relating to a user activities, Furthermore, other apps such as fitness apps RunKeeper, Fitbit and Moves track can provide data from a user runs, Withings tracks a user weight and heart rate. As a result, the gathered combined data is then used to provide story about a user at any give...

Twitter Released An Organic Data Analysis for Advertisers, Twitter Card Publishers, and Verified Users. Following on the current data analytics offering that twitter already gives its advertisers which includes analysis on post impressions, replies, and link clicks, now there is also data displayed for organic or natural tweet posts. Organic or natural tweet posts are all non-promoted, paid for messages.  This latest addition to data analytics offering by twitter gives its users an improved dashboard where it can be seen a broader view of a user entire Twitter activity. This new addition and comprehensive view is relevant from an ad perspective as detailed on the latest  twitter blog post . The improved dashboard includes data analytics which details total tweet post impressions, total engagements and engagement rates for each tweet post, furthermore it aggregates data analytics from the previous month, permitting an easier time comparison for performance, results and ...

From a social media user experience it is not always about where your connections are at a location exactly, but in relative terms how close a user is to another, and that is the relevant factor.  Following recent years on providing a solution to always provide users exact coordinate check-ins in both Foursquare and Facebook platforms, the user experience is now trending away from this feature capability and focusing more on ambient proximity, which works by constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from your nearest connections contained in distance labelled groups.  The process of ambient proximity permits a user to learn if one their connections is near enough to meet up, without necessarily having the stalking capability of knowing exact locations historically on maps. This new approach could be much more appealing to the wider social media daily users. In this context,  Foursquare ’s new ambient proximity app Swarm was announced today  to b...

Vine now has a new look and functionality  announced  earlier for desktop users, which includes improvements on navigation and discovery features.  Furthermore, all of its video content is now accessible to anyone without the requirement to sign-in to view content. With these new improvements it also includes alongside a user profile streams, the display of a featured section which includes Editors Picks, cool playlists, and special featured videos. Users also have access to channels, trending tags, and a popular page, very much the same experience for app users of Vine. So from today Vine  provides visitors and users access to all of the best content it has on its platform, with an improvement setting of a TV mode, that works by playing videos sequentially automatically in full-screen mode. With this latest platform development it appears to be following the YouTube user experience, nevertheless with its user generated short videos based prima...

Social Media Stories Filtered by Friends Activity Now Open Nuzzel is a new social media friends stories service founded by the Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams. The new platform aggregator service the way it works is that unlike other services it does not use machine learning to populate its content, nor does it aggregate social friends news with human editors, rather Nuzzel simply filtered and publishes lists of stories that have been shared by friends including comments.  These filtered friends stories can be presented in a chronologically view list and also on the popularity of the stories based on sharing popularity. The content used on the aggregator friends stories to be displayed are based on the user Nuzzel account settings when connected to their twitter and facebook accounts. The way the stories are presented and configured is by a feed that is processed by popularity and interactivity on friends news, which are filtered to a user profile, thus making an a...

The Free App Foursquare  new feaure -  Foursquare Ads   The platform is now open up to advertisers of all sizes, with an audience of over 40 million users worldwide. This news follows on, since it opened the platform to a limited number of advertisers around nine months ago. Since then, in  July 2013 , it started a self-serve version of that platform to selected small businesses. From now on, any business regardless of its size can go to Foursquare ads dashboard and able to create custom promotions, based on how many people visit their business and subsequently the advertising charges by Foursquare will be based on this specific analysis metric. Also a new location for business advertising is situated on the home screen of the app, in the form of “recommendation cards that show up” when you log on to the app. This is not something new in digital marketing as many other less known small apps already use this technology to increase their revenue with smart...

Google  only friday  announced  more updates to its popular service  YouTube . It now follows, that many more users will soon be able to use the great capability of live streaming. The pre-requisite for YouTube users to use this capability is that their channel needs to be in a good standing and include a minimum number 100 channel subscribers. As a result, it is safe to assume that many more users (such us our channel YODspica ) are soon capable to live stream of which in our case it suits perfectly as we have a great event coming up in September that we would like to use this capability. It was  previously  announced by Google, that it was lowering the limit 1,000 subscribers in this context it appears that Google is reaching out to users which may not have popularity of many larger user channels but have the potential to create great content despite currently having at least 100 subscribers, but it shows that they already have a loyal audienc...

The popular social media platform  Twitter  is now testing a new feature in relation to its embedded tweet service. This service includes a list of links, seen below posted tweets, that relate to references of the tweet post overall reach.  This innovation arrives in a context where Twitter is constantly looking to become more interactive. However at the moment, this new feature is still at a limited test stage. The main innovative factor is that tweet posts  links related to popularity reach are linked directly to pages on websites and not necessarily to user tweeted posts. More information is available on  this blog post where it is stated that “ hundreds of variations of new features and designs. ”. As a result, providing twitter users the capability to have present lists of links which details the overall reach of a single popular tweet in a strategic vision in the medium of the internet outside of Twitter itself  will certainly ap...

Corporate users of Microsoft Yammer  are now able to see their influential scores via klout  which is available to everyone connect on the corporate network. They way Klout works is that it calculates an influential dynamic score result following a user activity on social media and the general internet usage. The scores include also topics of influence which can be noted on user Yammer profiles. Klout announced here in a blog post , furthermore Klout is working on a specific integration driven from data from Microsoft Yammer which will result on a new Klout user score based on user Microsoft Yammer activity score. Below is an example on how Klout will calculate a user specific score: Imagine your graphic designer is also a talented photographer and DJ (like Klout designer, Geoff Olegario!). Geoff handles most of our photography needs and serves as our resident DJ at Klout. We're guessing (hoping!) he enjoys these opportunities to flex his creat...

A new mobile app has launched called Instafeed , which allows users to custom build feeds based on their selective interests from the Instagram home page. Instafeed iOS app  is free download, that ties directly into Instagram and as a result it further reinforces Instagram API as a platform for developers to build extra custom features which in turn makes the platform even more popular. Instafeed app background originates from Appiphany , which is a year-old startup backed by Fahad Al Saud  a friend of Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom . This new mobile app  Instafeed available to download  is handy particularly for Instagram power users, where they may wish to filter and streamline the content that interests them the most or either to follow specific topics.  Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

YouTube Live following an announcement earlier today, is now open to a wider user producers on its platform, where users with at least 1000 subscribers will benefit from this new expansion on YouTube Live . YouTube Live  was first announced around two years ago, but was somewhat restrictive to many YouTube content producer users, rather available to just some large international events. This capability allows users to stream live video, as a result these users will no longer have to wait and wasting in some cases a considerable amount time uploading their videos. Furthermore, it is now possible for content producers to schedule live events and or launch unscheduled live video streams to be shared with both their subscribers and a wider internet audience. If you are a user looking to have this capability, in case you qualify with the requirement of at least 1000 subscribers and the accounts is in good standing, then simply navigate to the YouTube Account page to the “Enable” ...

The search engine  Bing  from Microsoft  now has a new social sidebar, which is capable to display the latest content from a user content stream of their Facebook friends including Twitter , Klout , Quora among others, where it was first announced here . This new Bing capability allows users to be able to like Facebook posts directly from the social sidebar and engage with the content stream by adding comments. Furthermore, a user can also see all of existing comments made on a post from just the sidebar. It is a more advanced extension to the existing interactive stream widgets already available from Facebook however does have a more capable extensive social media reach and platform options. With this new addition, it gives  Bing users a central streamlined location for essential fast social media engagement by having just a look and feel of an application, which does not have a full version of the websites rather an efficient management of browsing and ti...

Good news for Instagram users, as a new capability is now available called  Instagram photo tagging , and it follows on the popular feature already present on Facebook .  The new capability is now present on the new version of Instagram app available on  iOS and Android . The way it works is that users are able to tag photos of any person or brand, and as a result photos will display the tags under "Photos Of You” section of users profiles.  It is quite to similar in comparison to the way it works on Facebook, as it follows that users notifications are sent to anyone that is tagged where permissions are requested before publications show a user tag, as standard. Further details concerning privacy can be seen here on Instagram  Help Center . Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

On the occasion of the Twitter seventh birthday , it was announced further to its continued addition of new features , that users can have an archive of all their all time tweets including retweets in a choice of many more languages that the user published content on. The languages now supported include Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Urdu. The Archive option feature was first introduced , in December 2012, today it was stated by twitter: Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning. Once you have your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones. Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.