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Hands on with YouTube Music Key Beta: Is it worth subscribing?

Nov20
by on November 20, 2014 at 7:35 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Product Reviews

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Here it is at last. YouTube’s much-mooted subscription music package, Music Key, has gone live in beta in UK, US, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Finland and Ireland. For the first six months, it’s going to be invite-only, with Google Play Music subscribers and heavy consumers of YouTube music videos getting priority access. Here’s how it works. First of all, YouTube Music Key doesn’t need a new app or a different URL to access – it simply adds extra features to your regular YouTube experience. The aim is to allow YouTube to act as a jukebox. That’s something many people have done for…

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Redecorating? Choose from up to 50 million Flickr Creative Commons photos for your walls

Nov20
by on November 20, 2014 at 7:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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If you’re really intent on taking those push-pinned (or even framed museum) posters off the wall and replacing them with something more original, Flickr is here to help — yet again. Last month, Flickr unveiled its Wall Art marketplace to help turn your personal photostream into gallery prints suitable for decorating the old homestead. However, should you still have empty walls to cover — or remain in a snit of indecision — Flickr is offering additional assistance in the form of about 50 million new images to choose from. Today, in addition to your own photos, you can select among more than 50 million…

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Google unveils Contributor, a subscription service that lets you remove ads

Nov20
by on November 20, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today Google is launching a new tool for publishers that run Google Ads: Contributor. The crowdfunding service lets users pay sites they frequently visit in order to hide ads. The new service will launch with only 10 partners to start, among them Imgur, Mashable, and the Onion. When users visit the Contributor website, they’ll see a list of publishers to which they can choose to donate $1, $2 or $3 dollars monthly. Given the extents some people will go to to remove ads, Contributor makes sense. Some will surely continue to use AdBlock or alternatives, but others will be happy paying a small…

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5 mistakes we all make with product feedback

Nov20
by on November 20, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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Des Traynor is the co-founder of Intercom, the easiest way for Web and mobile businesses to understand and communicate with their customers. This post originally appeared on InsideIntercom.   It rarely makes sense to take feedback from all users and it never makes sense to get it all at once. At the outset of a new project, or especially if you’ve recently taken over a product, it’s tempting to survey all your users to appraise where things are. It’s usually a mistake. In fact, there are five common mistakes that we see over and over. We use Intercom to make getting feedback simple, and…

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Google shares technical details on how its new Inbox email service works

Nov20
by on November 20, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google

Email is a giant unending slog of messages that tests the will of all humans that come in contact with its horrors. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies are trying to solve the email infinity crisis. Inbox, Google’s latest offering, is one method and now the company is sharing how the whole system works. Before you dive into Google’s post about Inbox, be warned that it is incredibly technical and really directed to developers. Even Google’s Engineering Director, Garrick Toubassi notes that, “the following post has much more technical mumbo-jumbo than our normal fare.” The main takeaway is that Google…

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