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Vimeo Brings New Apps to Android, Windows Phone and iPad
The Android and Windows Phone apps include the following features:
- Upload raw or edited footage in HD or SD
- Pause/Resume videos
- Replace existing videos
- Edit tags, titles, descriptions and privacy information
- Share via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress, email or SMS
- Download your Vimeo videos to your Camera roll
- Watch videos from the Vimeo Inbox and Watch Later queue
- Access stats
The Android version of the app is available in the Android Market and in the Amazon App Store and is compatible with all Android devices running Android 2.3 and higher. This means that devices like the Kindle Fire can get in on the fun.
The Windows Phone version of the app is available in the Windows Phone Marketplace and works with any Windows Phone device running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
The new iPad-optimized version of the app offers a tablet-optimized view of browsing and discovering video. It also brings over the popular video editing functionality of the iPhone app to the bigger screen iOS device.
In the past 18 months, Vimeo has increasingly focused on streamlining its offerings to provide a consistent user experience across devices and platforms. Vimeo was one of the first major video services to embrace HTML5 and it started targeting the connected device. Vimeo’s Roku app continues to be one of our favorites and we expect the company will continue to target connected devices and platforms.
Let us know your thoughts on the new Vimeo mobile apps in the comments.
(Via Mashable!)
Facebook Launches Business Cards Service
Social network’s users can now create personalized Facebook Cards based on images and posts from their profile’s timeline
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The Sims Creator Is Going To Turn Real Life Into A Game
Will Wright unveils HiveMind, a new reality game that incorporates user’s experience and information from social networks and devices to create the game play.
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Asian Social Media Users Create; Western Users Consume
Asian Social Media Users Create; Western Users Consume [STUDY]:
Social media users in metropolitan China and India are much more apt to be “creators” on the platforms than their Western counterparts, according to a new report.
Forrester Research polled about 100,000 consumers in Asia, Latin America and North America in the second and third quarters of 2011, and the results show that people in emerging markets are often enthusiastic adopters of social media. Among those who have Internet access, 93% report using social media once or more a month vs. 49% in the seven European countries in the study — the U.K., France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Italy.
Consumers in emerging markets also tend to be creators, according to the report. In fact, 80% of Indians and 76% of Chinese fit that description, which Forrester defines as someone who publishes a blog or a website, uploads video and/or music and/or writes and posts stories once or more a month. In the U.S., the figure is 24% while in Europe it was 23%.
Reineke Reitsma, vp and research director at Forrester, says the differences are less attributable to differences in national character than respondents’ age and relative positions on the adoption curve. Overall, the Chinese and Indian people polled were younger than their U.S and European counterparts. (They were also urban — all of them were based in major cities.)
But age is only part of the equation: “In China, Brazil, even Spain instead of using email or IM people immediately go to social networking,” says Reitsma.
In comparison, consumers in mature markets such as the U.S. and Europe are using social media less for communicating than for finding and processing information. About 70% of consumers in the U.S. and Canada are deemed “spectators” in the study, meaning that they merely consume social content. About one third of people in those regions are “critics” who respond to existing social content.
One country that emerges as distinctly different in the survey is Japan, which indexes lower on social media usage than everyone else. Just 28% of Japanese visit a social networking site once or more a month and only 13% visit Facebook. Reitsma says that Japanese consumers prefer anonymity, which is why Twitter and mixi are more popular.
What do you think? Are you a creator or a consumer of social media content? Sound off in the comments.
(Via Mashable!)
Like most things that are being shared via the new trend of web and mobile-based collaborative consumption — apartments, cars, tools — parking spots have long been shared via a site like Craigslist. But as more consumers become comfortable with the idea of connecting with a stranger to rent out their stuff, more sites have emerged solely focused on connecting parking spot and driveway owners with parkers.
The latest to come to the U.S. is Park At My House, which has been mostly in the U.K. for several years, but on Wednesday is officially launching in the U.S., starting with New York, Washington D.C., and Boston. The site offers home and business owners way to put their parking spots and driveways up for rent to prospective parkers, and the site says it has earned its home owner parking spot renters a collective $5 million.
Park At My House is backed by BMW’s venture firm, the investing arm of the car company, which is focused on financing mobile apps and mobile technology. BMW only launched the $100 million fund last year and has also invested in mobile app MyCityWay.
Park Circa is another a small project looking to create a network around parking spots and people renting out their drive ways, and it appears to be mostly in the Bay Area right now. Park Circa says on its website that it launched at the beginning of January 2011 and has been organically growing out the site, but is looking for more driveway owners to join in.
It seems like in the U.S. people still largely turn to Craigslist for this market, and if you check out San Francisco and parking you can find loads of spots. But parking spots seem like something that could be readily shared via an easy to use mobile app and web site. And sites like Airbnb have been able to break out with apartment vacation rentals — once the dominant domain of Craigslist — and Airbnb is now moving steadily into sublets, which is more Craigslist fodder.
I like the idea of sharing parking spots because it’s a more efficient way to share and rent out resources. Why not make money off of the parking spot asset and use the spaces already available, instead of encouraging more parking lot developers to build?
These types of web and mobile tools will be needed to share resources and better manage transportation as our populations boom from 7 billion in the world, to 9 billion in the world, with much of that growth happening in cities.
(Via GigaOM)
Burberry Uses Video Walls in Toronto Boutiques
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An advertising campaign created for McDonald’s in Sweden allowed pedestrians to play ping-pong on a giant screen in a Stockholm town square.
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Windows Phone Marketplace Passes 50,000 Apps
The key quote here is this one,”The platform hit 50,000 apps sooner than all platforms except iOS, in just 14 months, the report notes. It took Android 19 months to reach that mark.”
It seems like only yesterday that the Windows Phone Marketplace hit 40,000 apps — actually, it was Nov. 17 — and now Microsoft’s mobile app store has just passed 50,000, according to All About Windows Phone.
Microsoft currently gives an official count of “more than 35,000″ apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace, a company spokesperson told Mashable. In the past, Microsoft has said that it doesn’t count extremely simple apps such as wallpapers or multiple versions (i.e. a paid game that also provides a “lite” version) as individual apps, which may explain the large discrepancy between the official number and the estimate.
In either case, it’s a fraction of the number of apps in Apple’s App Store or the Android Market (about 600,000 and 500,000 apps, respectively). However, even though the number isn’t large by app-store standards, the Windows Phone Marketplace is growing rapidly. The platform hit 50,000 apps sooner than all platforms except iOS, in just 14 months, the report notes. It took Android 19 months to reach that mark.
Microsoft’s app store passed the milestone sooner than the site predicted, and it’s seen a strong uptick in the number of apps submitted and approved in the past few weeks. The number of apps is growing at a rate of 265 items per day (see the graph below).
All About Windows Phone chalks up the platform’s growth spurt to the increased availability of Windows Phones (the number of countries recently went up from 16 to 35) and the highly anticipated release of Nokia’s Windows Phones, such as the Lumina 710 in the U.S. However, those events had been anticipated for a while, and it doesn’t fully explain the sudden interest from developers, which isn’t directly related to the spread of the platform.
It’s possible the release of the developer preview of Windows 8 may have been a factor. Since both Windows Phone and Windows 8 share the Metro user interface, more than a few Windows 8 developers who had never created apps in Metro may have been persuaded to give Windows Phone a try.
Even though the Windows Phone Marketplace is taking off, Microsoft faces many challenges before its mobile platform will seriously challenge Apple’s or Google’s. Charlie Kindel, the former general manager of Windows Phone’s developer experience, theorizes that Microsoft doesn’t curry favor among carriers and manufacturers the same way Apple and Android have, and the whole platform suffers, even though, as Kindel says, it provides a superior experience in many ways.
At least developers seem to be finally warming up to the platform. Are you a Windows Phone developer or customer? Why do you favor it? And if you’re not a fan, why not? Let us know in the comments.
(Via Mashable!)
Starbucks China Now Automatically Checks You In Through New Mobile Campaign
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