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Airbnb updates its mobile site with responsive design and larger images in search results

Dec18
by on December 18, 2014 at 4:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Airbnb today is rolling out an update to its mobile site, matching the mobile Web experience with its redesigned app and desktop site. The update is a move toward responsive design to accommodate users on various platforms while letting non-Airbnb users learn about the site without forcing them to download the app. Left: Old Airbnb Mobile Homepage, Right: New Airbnb Mobile Homepage Much like the revamped desktop site Airbnb launched this past July, the new mobile Web experience will feature full bleed images to make browsing listings more inviting. Users can also flip through the photos of the listing directly from the search…

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Line is buying Microsoft’s MixRadio music streaming service

Dec18
by on December 18, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Line, the popular messaging client, today announced it is acquiring Microsoft’s MixRadio music streaming service. The deal is expected to complete in early 2015. As part of the move, MixRadio will continue to work with Microsoft in order to maintain its personalized music experience on Lumia smartphones – now as a third-party service. Line notes in its press release “the MixRadio team firmly believes that Line is the optimal partner to support the company’s future expansion and development.” MixRadio was originally developed as a Nokia service, but had begun a spin-off process to become a standalone company after deep budget cuts…

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Deezer can now show you the lyrics as you listen to music

Dec18
by on December 18, 2014 at 2:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Streaming music service Deezer has added a new feature today that lets you read the lyrics along with songs as you listen to them. While this feature has been available in the past as an add-on to Spotify via the likes of TuneWiki (which shut down last year) and MusiXmatch, this is the first time we’re aware of a service building it in natively. It’s a move that makes sense. Every time I forget that it’s ‘A bronzed moth dies easily’, not ‘I bronze my thighs easily’ in the Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Removables’, there’s a button to press for instant…

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EyeEm now lets you share not just photos, but the way you edited them too

Dec18
by on December 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

EyeEm, the photo-sharing startup that has far outgrown the ‘Instagram clone’ tag to foster its own community of passionate photographers, is today launching a revamped edit flow that allows users to shares the secrets behind their latest masterpiece. The ‘Open Edit’ featureis being rolled out to users gradually, but you should start to see it on photographs in your feed from today. It allows you to see exactly what editswere applied to an image, and try them on your own photos too. Photo editing nerds can think of this as ‘social macros’. Additionally, the new update boasts additional filters. As with the most recent…

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TNW’s Apps of the Year: Reporter is an addictive way to track your personal habits

Dec18
by on December 18, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Posted In: Apps, apps2014, Around the Web, Product Reviews

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In our Apps of the Year series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for our favorite apps of 2014′.  Eight times per day, at differing times, my iPhone asks me to fill in a report about what I’m doing. Each time, I log my location, whether I’m working or not and who I’m with. Before I go to sleep, I tell it how many cups of coffee I’ve had that day, and when I wake up I tell it how well I slept. This isn’t part of some scary mass-data collection program, it’s Reporter, a $3.99 app that offers a way…

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