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SmartNews, a top news-reading app in Japan, comes to the US

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by on October 1, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Social news-discovery service SmartNews has made its US debut with the release of localized iOS and Android apps. SmartNews first made a name for itself in its home country of Japan, where it has consistently ranked among the top five news apps on Google Play and the App Store. The company boasts over 5 million users there.                  On the surface, SmartNews feels like a pretty standard news app, but most of the innovations are under the hood. The app mines social media in order to track which articles are trending. Syncing your Twitter…

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Windows 10 Technical Preview is now available for download

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by on October 1, 2014 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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As promised, Microsoft today launched the Windows Insider Program, giving those interested an opportunity to try out Windows 10. You can download the Technical Preview now from here. The process is straightforward: Sign up for the Windows Insider Program. Read the system requirements. Click one of the Download links on this page to download a special file—it’s called an ISO file—that you can use to install the preview. When the download is complete, transfer the ISO file to installation media such as a DVD or USB flash drive. Double-tap or double-click setup.exe from the installation media, and then follow the…

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The Next Web is coming to Wall Street

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by on October 1, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, tnwusa, Voice

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The Next Web’s Europe Conference is renowned for its venue as much as it is for its speakers, startups and unrivalled production values. Since our first conference in 2006, we’ve been running one of Europe’s leading technology events from the Westergasfabriek – a venue famed for its awe-inspiring industrial beauty on the outskirts of Amsterdam: The Gashouder – the central hub of our European conference. Out of the ashes of Amsterdam’s gasworks, an icon of technology’s past if there ever was one, The Next Web has been bringing people together to discuss technology’s future for almost a decade. The venue has…

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Content marketing: How to surpass 90% of the field in 90 days

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by on October 1, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, Social Media

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Barry Feldman is a content marketing consultant, copywriter, social media advisor and more. This post originally appeared on his blog, Feldman Creative. Sorry. I’ve been toting this one around in my pack for a while now and haven’t yet shared it with you. Here you go, the most effective content marketing tip you can possibly ever hope to hear. Answer your prospects’ top 30 questions That’s it. Do it and enjoy the magic. I’ll expand on the idea ever-so-slightly… Your prospects aren’t going to buy your stuff until they get the answers they seek. Listen closely to the questions. Write them down. Then make each…

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14 of the best Android apps from September

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by on October 1, 2014 at 2:49 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, BestAndroidApps, Insider, Roundups

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From vertical video-killers to location-based tweeting, we covered a lot of ground with new Android apps in September. Here, we sift through the rubble to present you with our selection of the best Google Play newcomers from the past month. Horizon Horizon lets you shoot horizontal videos irrespective of how you hold your device. You can rotate the camera from vertical to horizontal and back again, and the aspect ratio remains the same. It’s all thanks to your device’s accelerometer, which auto-levels the video to ensure it remains constant. This naturally compromises the quality of the finished video, but it’s…

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