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Soverin is an email service that promises not to sell your data

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by on May 7, 2015 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re a user of the Gmail or Outlook free email services, you’re likely at least a little aware that Google and Microsoft are using information from your inbox to target the ads you see. Soverin, a new startup based in Amsterdam, has launched an email service that promises to keep your data private and not sell your information for ads. The service, which starts at €29 per year and is hosted out of data centers in the Netherlands, offers 25GB of storage and works with almost any email client you might already be using– including on iOS and Android — thanks…

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Massive Flickr overhaul coordinates new search, navigation, uploading and mobile app updates

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by on May 7, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Yahoo has overhauled its Flickr photo app — for the Web, mobile and desktop — debuting an intelligent search tool, bulk uploader and a raft of new features coordinated with its mobile apps that promise to make it easier to locate, organize and share photos and videos across devices. This trans-platform upgrade, which started rolling out last night with Flickr’s iOS and Android apps, was announced today in a blog post. The main impetus behind this wholesale redesign is Flickr’s massive storage capacity: Flickr offers all users a free terabyte of storage for photos and videos. While plenty of space is great,…

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LinkedIn now provides detailed analytics for your posts

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by on May 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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LinkedIn’s publishing platform is getting a feature that was sorely missing: post analytics. The feature shows detailed information on how widely read your posts are and provides data about the people who read them, like which industries they work in, where the most traffic came from, top job titles and more The feature is rolling out right now, but you can try your luck and see if it’s available for you already here. ➤ LinkedIn unveils Analytics for publishing on LinkedIn [LinkedIn]

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Stan Lee wants to turn YouTube into a superhero factory to match Marvel

May07
by on May 7, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Marvel, Pow! Entertainment, Spaces, Stan Lee, youtube

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While Avengers: Age of Ultron is still rocking the box office, Marvel’s elder statesman and cameo king Stan Lee – who co-created Spider-man, The Hulk, Iron Man and The Avengers – has unveiled a plan to produce new superheroes with YouTube Spaces, the company’s studio program. The video service and Lee’s POW! Entertainment are running a series of events, starting this week, which will bring YouTube creators into facilities in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, New York and São Paulo to develop new concepts. They’ll be able to use specially created sets, including a secret lair, a science lab and a weapons locker, to film their ideas as…

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Watch now: A new approach to building a knowledge economy

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by on May 7, 2015 at 3:36 pm
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The dream of the internet is making universal access to all knowledge. How can that be achieved? Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, wants to enable universal access to knowledge by collecting physical books. While libraries are throwing away their books in large quantities, the Internet Archive collects them and digitalize 1,500 books a day. It’s also collecting CDs of music available online and even television content, by recording American TV news. We’ve just added Brewster Kahle’s talk from the TNW Europe Conference 2014 to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for free. Brewster…

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