Title: Daily Weigh-Ins Keep Dieters on Track
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Created: 6/19/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Snapchat is teaming up with The Daily Mail and the world’s largest ad agency to launch a native advertising firm
Jun23
on June 23, 2015
at 6:52 am
Snapchat is partnering with British tabloid The Daily Mail and WPP, the world’s largest ad agency, to launch a native advertising firm.
The new outfit, named Truffle Pig, was announced today at the Cannes Lions festival. It will first launch in the US and won’t be restricted to working only with WPP’s clients or with The Daily Mail as a sole media partner.
Early start as Daily Mail, SnapChat & WPP announce new native ad / content agency called Truffle Pig #canneslions pic.twitter.com/iRwwlShNue
— Arif Durrani (@DurraniMix) June 23, 2015
Jon Steinberg, chief executive of Daily Mail North America, says:
We are going to totally evolve the way media planning and creative is done. I don’t think we will be the only ones to do this. I think of it like Google with Android and the Nexus range of products. We are not the only ones going to do this, but we wanted to be the first.
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➤ Daily Mail, WPP and Snapchat to launch native advertising agency [The Guardian]
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Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has announced that its second flagship phone, slated for release later this year, will have a USB-C port.
USB-C has many benefits over existing USB standards. It handles up to 100W of power (enough to charge laptops like the new Apple MacBook), video, and data at up to 10Gbps. Best of all, it’s reversible so you don’t have to worry about plugging it right side up.
OnePlus says it’s made improvements to the open USB Type C standard that will be exclusive to the brand, but is tight-lipped about what those are. It’s also working on an adapter to make its USB-C port backwards compatible with existing cables.
➤ OnePlus 2 – The First Flagship with USB Type C [OnePlus Forums]
Image credit: Maurizio Pesce
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Microsoft has updated its Skype Qik ephemeral messaging app on iOS with support for captions, music and photos.
Taking cues from rival app Snapchat, Qik now lets you add captions to your videos, that are displayed as an overlay on top of your clip.
You can also add music to your video message by selecting a track from your iTunes library. At present, Qik doesn’t let you choose a snippet of a song for your video — it plays your chosen track from the beginning.
The app now lets you send photos too. You can select a bunch from your camera roll and send them together as a slide show.
Microsoft hasn’t announced if or when Qik’s Android and Windows Phone apps will get these new features.
➤ Skype Qik [Android | iOS | Windows Phone via AppAdvice]
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Amazon, CoreOS, Docker, Google, Microsoft and others team up to create an open container standard
Jun23
on June 23, 2015
at 5:17 am
Tech giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and 17 other heavyweights are working together to create a common container specification for deploying apps.
The Open Container Project is being housed under the Linux Foundation and aims to establish common vendor-neutral standards for software containers, so developers can run their apps in any runtime, be it Docker, CoreOS’s Rocket or others like Apcera’s Kurma.
Docker and CoreOS have been at loggerheads for some time now, after the two organizations went their separate ways last November and the latter began developing its own runtime solution.
Now, Docker is donating its popular container format and runtime to the standard, opening them up to further development by an all-star coalition of companies that includes Apcera, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat and VMware.
The OCP is expected to be completed within three months, migrating code and publishing a draft specification building on Docker’s technology.
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