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iMessage is down for some users

Nov17
by on November 17, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Twitter is buzzing with news that iMessage is down for some users. The outage seems unrelated to Apple’s update to iOS 8 today. I currently can not send an iMessage message via OS X and on the ¡Phone, it reverts to text messaging to send messages that have failed to send. Neither of our test iPhones that are unable to use iMessage have updated to iOS 8.1.1. My iMessage is tripping — Barb'Breee ✨ (@_ProBarb) November 17, 2014 Apple’s support page for online services currently notes that iMessage is working. Update 11:45am PT: Apple’s support page for services notes an…

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Meet Super, Biz Stone’s new app for sharing random thoughts with photos

Nov17
by on November 17, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Super, a new app by Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, for sharing your thoughts about anything has launched on iOS and Android today. The app allows you to create and share images mashed up with stylized text for sharing with the world. The app allows you to create and share images and video mashed up with stylized text. Creating a new Super post gives you a template “sentence starter” word for your thought on the top left, like “we should” or “I love” before an area for typing your thought. On the lower right, you can add a further message, attribution or quip….

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Squarespace acquires Brace.io to bolster its developer tools

Nov17
by on November 17, 2014 at 5:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

In a blog post today, Squarespace announced it had acquired Brace.io, a website creation startup powered by cloud tools like Dropbox and Amazon Web Services. Squarespace is known for its ease of use, so it hopes Brace.io’s technology can help empower developer customization while maintaining the platform’s accessibility. In fact, some of the projects on Squarespace’s roadmap had already been built by Brace. If you’re a Brace user, the company notes on its own post that all Brace sites will be disabled after January 19. Paying customers will be offered a full year of Squarespace’s unlimited plan as compensation. Meanwhile, Brace’s developer tools will be…

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Kevin Rose’s Tiiny app updated with user profiles, replies and videos no longer expire

Nov17
by on November 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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When the Tiiny video app initially launched, one of its main features was that the videos would disappear after 24 hours. For version 2.0, the developers at North Technologies threw out the ephemeral nature of the posted videos as it evolves the app based on user feedback. Updated today, in addition to videos that no longer expire, the Tiiny app for iOS now has user profiles and you can reply to videos with you own video. The profiles cull information from Twitter and can be edited to suit as needed. The profiles show the amount of followers you have and those you follow….

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Heap lets you track users’ interactions with your iOS apps really easily

Nov17
by on November 17, 2014 at 4:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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Earlier this year we brought you news of the Heap Analytics Event Visualizer, a tool that allows anyone within a company to start tracking any kind of website interaction via an easy-to-use interface. Now Heap is opening up the same capability for iOS apps. As Heap’s video below shows, setting up tracking for anything from screenviews to taps, gestures and beyond is a straightforward affair. As with Heap’s Web product, the service tracks every possible event from the moment it’s activated. This means that if you set up a new event to track, you’ll immediately be able to see historical…

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