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Vine for Android gets advanced editing tools and the option to import videos

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by on September 26, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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After launching an improved camera experience and advanced editing tools for its iOS app, Vine is giving its Android version the same treatment. The biggest addition by far is the option to import videos. Similar to Instagram, this means users can shoot and edit videos with other, perhaps more sophisticated apps before bringing them in for the final upload. From the camera screen, just press the upward arrow icon in the bottom left-hand corner. Clips can be previewed in Vine’s square-crop format and trimmed to six seconds or less. If you still have time remaining, you can import additional videos and…

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HotelTonight confirms it’s moving from same-day bookings to 7 days in advance

Sep26
by on September 26, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Curated last-minute hotel booking service HotelTonight has been building out its brand over the past few years, becoming the go-to mobile service for same-day hotel bookings. HotelTonight has hitherto let you reserve same-day hotel rooms from 9am on the day for up to 70 percent below the standard price. That’s all about to change though. While whispers of its intentions began to surface earlier this week, the San Francisco-based company has now confirmed to The Next Web that it plans to open bookings up to 7 days in advance. We first covered the startup back in early 2011 when it launched…

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WEB: A touching documentary about One Laptop Per Child and the spread of the Internet

Sep26
by on September 26, 2014 at 5:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

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In keeping with this year’s Social Media Week theme of “Reimagining Human Connectivity,” filmmaker Michael Kleiman has released WEB, a documentary that takes a close look at the One Laptop Per Child rollout in Peru while examining the larger social implications the Internet will have as it spreads to new populations around the world. The micro and macro threads that WEB follows make it a fascinating film. Interviews with academics, technologists and entrepreneurs tackle the subject on an intellectual level, while watching the excitement of the children as they start using their laptops adds a vital emotional dimension. WEB has been making…

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Teaching the Web: The lasting impact of Mozilla’s Maker Party campaign

Sep26
by on September 26, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Investigations

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Children scatter across the hall in all directions, as if someone had suddenly dropped a bag of marbles from a great height. The energy in the room is palpable as jubilant classmates pull on each other’s sleeves and chatter incessantly about their favorite activities. Long tables with battle-hardened laptops flank the sides of the room, as tireless volunteers offer advice and support to the curious minds pecking away at keyboards. It’s the middle of July and the temperature outside is sweltering. I’m already perspiring by the time I make myself known, but all of the students remain undeterred in their quest…

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Slack makes its first acquisition, as it looks to introduce real-time collaborative document-editing

Sep26
by on September 26, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Flickr co-founder Steward Butterfield launched his latest startup Slack out of beta back in February, with a view towards helping its users collaborate in the workplace. And today it has announced its first acquisition, snapping up a two-person ‘bootstrapped’ team called Spaces. A buzz has been reverberating around Slack in recent months, particularly in the wake of its $43 million raise back in April. With the Spaces team on board, Slack is ramping up its efforts as it looks to take on the big guns of Google and Microsoft. Indeed, Spaces had been working on a tool to enable co-workers…

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