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The Narrative Clip wearable camera gets a desktop app

Nov21
by on November 21, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

The Narrative Clip, the tiny wearable camera that captures a snapshot of your life every 30 seconds, used to lack a way to browse your photos on a desktop computer. No longer – the iOS and Android apps have been joined by a Web app for desktop browsers. This makes exploring your ‘moments’ that little bit more convenient. Meanwhile, the mobile apps now have a ‘Jump to Date’ feature that makes managing a large collection of moments that little bit easier. For some reason that feature isn’t yet available in the Web app, but it’s good to see Narrative continue to develop…

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Should your e-commerce brand market on emerging social networks?

Nov21
by on November 21, 2014 at 8:36 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Joey Kotkins is the CMO and co-founder of Inside Social. This is an excerpt from Inside Social’s e-book on ecommerce social-selling best practices – a study of 100 top brands. We all know social networks are not to dismissed when it comes to modern day marketing, but should your brand even bother with emerging networks like Wanelo, Polyvore, Instagram or Snapchat? With a seemingly endless amount of social networks and new ones popping up all the time, it can be hard to determine which ones are worth the time and energy. Emerging social platforms have great potential for e-commerce brands. They’re…

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The EU is reportedly planning to call for Google Search to be broken off from the rest of the company

Nov21
by on November 21, 2014 at 7:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Google’s rocky relationship with European government looks like it could be getting rockier. The European Parliament’s new draft motion spotted by the Financial Times is looking to break Google’s search engine away from the company’s other services. Google’s search engine has traditionally been met with controversy in Europe but this would be a major blow the company. The EU is considering the move as a measure to remedy Google’s dominance in the field – the argument is that Google search highlights its own products over competitors, damaging competitors’ profits. The document is being backed by the parliaments two largest factions, the…

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Productivity advice I learned from people smarter than me

Nov21
by on November 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of The Obstacle Is The Way, the founder of Brass Check Marketing and gives monthly book recommendations to 30,000 people here. Like all people, I’d like to think I am a productive person. If I am, however, it’s because I’ve been ruthlessly efficient at one thing: stealing secrets and methods from people a lot smarter than me. In my career, I’ve had the fortune of coming in contact with bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, executives and creative people. Some I didn’t meet, but I found their thoughts in book form. Whether they knew it…

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Square reveals plans to support Apple Pay in 2015

Nov21
by on November 21, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Square recently announced plans to support chip-based credit cards with new hardware as it expands globally, but it seems the company isn’t ignoring alternative payment methods, such as Apple Pay. In an interview with CNN, Square founder Jack Dorsey said his company plans to begin accepting Apple’s new transaction standard at some point in 2015. He doesn’t specify whether this will be through the upcoming chip-card readers or additional new hardware, however. Although EMV-based chip cards use similar technology to the NFC of Apple Pay, it doesn’t seem Square’s recently announced hardware directly supports the latter. There’s no word on whether Square also intends…

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