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Twitter launches group DMs, plus video capture and sharing

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by on January 27, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter has finally added group direct messages (DMs) to its service. If you use the service as a way to privately communicate with friends, family and random celebrities, you will soon be able to communicate with more than one person (or brand) at a time. Rolling out over the next few days to all users, the group DM feature will allow users to add multiple contacts to a group chat. You can start a group chat with any of your followers, but those individuals don’t have to follow each other to participate in your chat. You’ll receive a notification when you’ve…

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Pay what you want for this iOS designer bundle

Jan27
by on January 27, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

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If there’s one thing the world’s most popular mobile apps have in common, it’s that they look great. Designing the perfect interface takes time and requires skill and practice – and our latest bundle includes everything you need to shape a beautiful iOS app. Pay what you want for four top-notch courses to learn to design apps from start to finish, as well as three packs of high-quality assets ranging from wireframes to icons to UI kits to device mockups. With this bundle, you can build a solid foundation of design knowledge with courses that you can watch and learn…

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Twitter introduces post code targeted ads in time for the UK general election

Jan27
by on January 27, 2015 at 11:05 am
Posted In: ads, Around the Web, geotagging, geotargeting, post codes, Product Launches, targeting

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Twitter has introduced an even more focused form of geo-targeted ads in time for the UK’s general election in May. Advertisers are now able to direct their tweets at users in specific postcodes. With the prospect of an extremely tight election on the cards, political campaigners will welcome the ability to target specific groups in marginal constituencies and swing seats. Twitter advertisers in the UK were already able to focus their campaigns on specific regional areas, such as the East Midlands, the North West and South East England, as well as metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Liverpool-Manchester, London and Glasgow. Twitter…

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Meet Vivaldi, a new browser from the former CEO of Opera

Jan27
by on January 27, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing its newest browser, Project Spartan, we’ve got another brand new contender in the browser wars: Vivaldi. The new browser, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, is still in its early days, but offers a number of features that loyal Opera users may remember. It sports mouse gestures for browsing and the familiar “speed dial” interface that shows your favorite tabs on the new tab page. Vivaldi also has some new tricks up its sleeves. Multiple tabs can be combined into one for easy browsing of related sites. For example, if you were doing…

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