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Video: Sergie Magdalin of Webflow explains his acceptance into Y Combinator

Mar23
by on March 23, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Videos, webflow, Y Combinator

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This is the first episode in a video series profiling startups and their founders. In our pilot, host Julian Shapiro (@Shapiro) interviews Sergie Magdalin, co-founder and creative director of site building tool Webflow.  WebFlow is a design tool for visual professionals who want to build responsive websites without having to learn reams of code. Since its launch in 2013, it has been used by design teams from the likes of IBM, GroupOn, Ideo, MTV and HP, along with more than 10,000 other users. Part of that growth came down to WebFlow gaining a place on the prestigious Y Combinator start-up incubator in Silicon…

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Adobe is contributing to Microsoft’s Spartan browser

Mar23
by on March 23, 2015 at 10:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft announced today that Adobe is contributing to Project Spartan in Windows 10, bringing improvements in the areas of layout, typography, motion and graphic design. Adobe’s Web Platform Team provided its first contribution in the latest build of Windows 10, supplying a feature for CSS gradient midpoints. It allows developers to choose a location between color stops of a CSS gradient and is specified in the CSS images draft. It also provided full support for blend modes, so that they now support normal, multiply, screen, overlay, darken, lighten, color-dodge, color-burn, hard-light, soft-light, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, color and luminosity, just like other…

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Hands-on with Instagram’s new Layout for iOS, an easy, on-the-go collage app

Mar23
by on March 23, 2015 at 8:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Instagram has released a brand new collage app — Layout — that lets you use your iPhone to combine up to nine photos in a single shot. In a way, the real question is not why Instagram has now launched a collage app, but why it took the company so long. One reason could be that there are so many great iOS collage apps out there — like Fuzel Collage (free) and Diptic ($.99) — that another one from the king of mobile photography might just provoke a “meh” from the community. As it stands, Instagram took the time to construct an easy,…

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Twitch accounts were compromised, passwords for all users reset

Mar23
by on March 23, 2015 at 7:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Uh oh, game streaming service Twitch has posted a short notice to its blog warning that there “may have been” some unauthorized access to some Twitch user information. It says that affected users will be contacted directly with additional details. We got the email being sent out to those users which says that a wide variety of information, including usernames, birthdate and home address, “may” have been accessed in the attack: We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your Twitch username and associated email address, your…

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Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline

Mar23
by on March 23, 2015 at 7:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It seems like everyone wants to shove autoplaying videos in your face and now Twitter wants to join the ranks of Facebook and Instagram in the fight for your eyeballs. According to Advertising Age, Twitter is now testing video advertisements that automatically play in your feed. The test applies to promoted video ads and hopes to see if users are more likely to watch videos if they play without a tap. It’s fairly obvious that the answer will be an overwhelming ‘yup’ to that question, since a moving thing in your timeline is going to attract your attention fairly easily.…

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