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Giphy lands in your inbox so you can use reaction GIFs in every email

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by on May 11, 2015 at 3:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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The best thing on the internet is now inside the worst thing on the internet: Giphy has come to your email inbox. With the new Giphy for Gmail Chrome extension, you can drop a GIF right into any email. The extension adds a button at the bottom of Gmail’s compose window that allows you to search all of Giphy without leaving your email. Now I can finally reply to PR people using snarky GIFs without any extra effort! ➤ Giphy for Gmail [Chrome Web store] Read Next: You can watch GIFs of entire movies thanks to this subreddit

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The peeing Android has forced Google to freeze its map-editing tool

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by on May 11, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Remember that Google Maps prank from a couple of weeks ago that made it look like an Android bot was peeing on the Apple logo in Pakistan? Well, it turns out that’s not the only instance of users misusing Google’s editing tool, Map Maker. Things have got so bad that the company has been forced to temporarily shut it down to combat a surge in false edits. If you visit Map Maker’s homepage now, you’ll be greeted with a pop-up letting you know it will be unavailable starting May 12. Clicking through on the Learn More button leads you to…

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People really don’t care about Periscope (or Meerkat for that matter)

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by on May 11, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Posted In: app store, Apps, Around the Web, ios, Meerkat, Opinion, Periscope

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If you look at the top 10 apps on iOS in the US, you won’t see Periscope. Scan through the top 100 apps on iOS and you still won’t find it. You need to dive down to number 162 before the heavily hyped live streaming app pops into view. Its rival, Meerkat, isn’t even in the top 500 and though it beat Periscope to Android, it’s still not in the top 500 apps on the Google Play store either. Looking at the data from social media search engine Topsy reveals that both apps have seen a significant decline in mentions since a spike…

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Here’s how to rename practically everything on your Mac and iPhone with emoji

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Over the weekend, I was a little bored and started cramming emoji into weird places on my Mac and iPhone. The results? Emoji works in some surprising places, without any hassle. Here’s how to hack emoji into every corner of your Mac and iPhone, but a word of warning first: some of this could cause your computer to break, so be sure to have a backup. The emoji username The quintessential emoji hack: replace your username with an emoji. It’ll appear all through your system, including in your title bar if you wish and doesn’t have any dire consequences in my testing so…

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The rise of the messaging economy

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, messaging, SMS

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In just a few short years, text-based communications have become a staple for companies ranging from enterprise giants to startups and independent app developers. Brand-to-customer interactions that were once limited to in-person interactions, phone calls, and mail are now taking place over multiple social networks, emails, SMS, live chat, mobile push notifications, and more. It’s almost impossible to quantify the number of options that people have for communication. “Messaging seems so obvious, but when you think about trends over the past decade, the explosion of messaging really represents a paradigm shift,” says Rob LoCascio, CEO and founder at customer intelligence…

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