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Lift launches major overhaul, offering 1-on-1 coaching to help you achieve your goals

Dec17
by on December 17, 2014 at 2:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Lift, the habit-forming app that wants to help you create new habits, has released a major overhaul today that will help you achieve your “giant goals.” The new Lift now offers one-on-one personal coaching that connects users with real people to get results in addition to the app’s original crowd-sourced advice. Now, users can sign up for coaches who help them with their goals on a daily basis. Goals can be anything from fitness and workouts, to getting on top of emails regularly or writing daily. Coaches message those enrolled in their programs via the Lift app to check in, encourage…

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Lift launches major overhaul, offering 1-on-1 coaching to help you achieve your goals

Dec17
by on December 17, 2014 at 2:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Lift, the habit-forming app that wants to help you create new habits, has released a major overhaul today that will help you achieve your “giant goals.” The new Lift now offers one-on-one personal coaching that connects users with real people to get results in addition to the app’s original crowd-sourced advice. Now, users can sign up for coaches who help them with their goals on a daily basis. Goals can be anything from fitness and workouts, to getting on top of emails regularly or writing daily. Coaches message those enrolled in their programs via the Lift app to check in, encourage…

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Google is bringing its Songza-powered playlists to the UK

Dec17
by on December 17, 2014 at 12:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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While Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and the new YouTube Music Key get all the press,  the Google Music Play service is actually pretty cool and today, it just got a bit better for listeners in the UK. TechCrunch reports that the comapny is bringing its Songza concierge playlists to the UK. Google, which purchased Songza in July, launched the feature in the US in October. The feature lets you start typing activities like working out or relaxing, and a playlist will be generated for you. You listen to playlists based on time of day, mood and activity. Plus, there are also human-curated stations. Like all songs…

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Facebook launches sticker search to help express your true emotions

Dec17
by on December 17, 2014 at 12:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook might be still figuring out how to build a dislike button, but today it’s launched sticker search so you can find the best reaction for your conversation. Spotted by the Wall Street Journal, the new feature allows you to search for any emotion you’d like to find the best sticker reaction. When words escape you, stickers will be there for you. This might seem like a small feature — and it is fairly small — but with Facebook’s huge library of stickers, search will help some of the more obscure stickers will get more exposure. To search for stickers, simply jump…

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Don’t panic: Rdio mobile downloads are not going away

Dec17
by on December 17, 2014 at 12:26 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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One of the nice things about most streaming services is the ability to download songs and albums to your mobile device for when your out of range of a network, like on a plane, hiking in the wilderness or in any building in a large city. Today, it looked like Rdio might be taking that feature away. First noticed by Chris Messina (well probably noticed by others, but we saw his tweet first), the Rdio for Mac app was updated today with a curious release note: “Removed the Downloads window as Download functionality has been disabled.” For anyone that uses Rdio,…

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