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Revealed: Spotify had no idea how much you’d hate its new logo color

Jul20

by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

Spotify quietly changed the tone of its green last month and it drove people insane, wondering if they were imagining it or if something was wrong with their phones. The company’s lead designer, Tobias van Schneider, wrote in his personal email newsletter today what happened when the company changed the color and how it didn’t realize what had gone wrong at first. The color of the Spotify icon gives me anxiety THEY DONT LOOK ANYTHING ALIKE pic.twitter.com/VpUMHyp9ds — Victoria Marie A-A (@vmaayeee) June 15, 2015 Schneider wrote: What sounds like a small change ended up in a relatively huge tweet storm…

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Evernote boss Phil Libin sheds the CEO role (as well as his beard)

Jul20

by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2015 at 5:49 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Evernote CEO Phil Libin is stepping down. His replacement is Chris O’Neill, who most recently ran Google X’s business arm. Libin will remain executive chairman, but says O’Neill will lead a new, aggressive charge that will likely see Evernote go public. In explaining his stepping away from the CEO role, Libin said he never wanted to be steering the ship as it went public. I’ve always said that I wouldn’t be the company’s last CEO. And I realized years ago that I didn’t want to be the CEO when the company went public. I realized I wasn’t passionate about being the…

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Meerkat Map uses app’s API to show streams around the world

Jul20

by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2015 at 5:27 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

If you’re a fan of streaming app Meerkat, then you know it’s a little hard to look at where in the world other people are streaming. That has now changed with the Meerkat Map, a global view that shows you where people are streaming, so you can hop in and peek at a world different from yours. The app, which is hosted on Github, takes advantage of Meerkat’s API, which the company released in May. It’s very similar to the Global List already available in Meerkat’s competitor, Periscope: it groups streams in aggregate, so you can see from a zoomed out…

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Instagram finally brings its search functionality to the Web

Jul20

by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2015 at 5:15 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Let’s face it, Instagram’s hub on the Web has traditionally kind of sucked. Thankfully, that’s finally starting to change. Recently, Instagram introduced a much easier-on-the-eyes design and started storing high-res images, and today it’s finally allowing you to search for images. You can now look up anything from hashtags, locations and usernames right from the desktop. Tags and locations are getting their own pages too, so you can see the most popular related images. The update is rolling out to everyone today. While it’s weird that it even took so long for the relatively basic functionality to be available…

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Pebble Time available in Best Buy from today

Jul20

by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

If you’ve been hanging out for a Pebble Time, now’s your chance. From today, the smartwatch is available for purchase from Best Buy and starting on August 17 in Target stores across the US. Pebble Time features an e-ink display, 7-day battery life and water resistance up to 30 meters. It raised over $20 million during its Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, breaking the record for fastest funded crowdfunding campaign on the service. If you head into a Best Buy today or Target from August 17, you should be able to buy one in black, white or red on the spot. Of course, if you prefer not…