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Facebook adds more auto-playing videos to the News Feed, starts showing view counts

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 4:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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Facebook is increasing its focus on video content after it announced that it will introduce play counts which show how many times a specific video has been watched on the service. The feature is due to come to users this week, and is coupled with news that more auto-playing videos will appear in your News Feed. The social network says that video views on its site grew by more than 50 percent between May and July this year, with more than 65 percent of content consumed from mobile devices. With that in mind, Facebook is testing a new feature on mobile…

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Adobe freshens its Creative Cloud video suite interface and expands the focus on streamlined workflows

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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With Adobe’s subscription-based Creative Cloud, upgrades to the company’s pro-level video editing and collaboration tools is a continual process rather than a yearly splash. So it’s no surprise that Adobe employs major broadcast industry events like IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) to showcase the most recent updates to the 2014 versions of Premiere Pro and its associated video editing, motion graphics and collaboration software. This year’s IBC, which takes place from September 11-16 in Amsterdam, will see a host of new features and performance upgrades to Premiere Pro, After Effects, Prelude, SpeedGrade, Media Encoder and Audition as well as to the Adobe Story and Adobe Anywhere…

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Microsoft fully revamps its MSN portal, Bing mobile apps to be rebranded MSN too

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Microsoft has fully overhauled its MSN portal to make it more deeply integrated with its other services. Alongside this, it will also be introducing a rebrand of its Bing mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android. Announced today, the beta portal brings a much cleaner design with the aim of making it more useful for users; it also brings with it deeper integration of Microsoft services, touch optimization and a responsive design that resizes according to screen/device size. News (and other content – videos, how-tos, features etc.) won’t be produced in-house anymore, instead, Microsoft has more than 1,000 partners on board to deliver content on a range…

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The complete guide to Twitter cards: How to choose, set up, measure them and more

Sep07
by on September 7, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Here’s a riddle: When is a tweet more than a tweet? We’re all pretty familiar with Twitter’s 140 characters—and of course, a photo is always an eye-catching addition. But what if your Twitter audience could sign up for your email list without ever leaving Twitter, or directly download your new app straight from a tweet? What if a photo and article summary could travel alongside every post of your content? And what if you could do all of this for free, right now? Twitter cards offer all this potential and more. In this post, we’ll…

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100 entrepreneurs walk into a dark forest…

Sep07
by on September 7, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Boris, Entrepreneur

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Taking risk is an important part of being an entrepreneur. We all know and respect that. But there’s a difference between acceptable and calculated risk and just blindly putting everything on red. What works in one situation, for a particular team, in a particular industry, might not work for you. This seems to be lost on a lot of people, who take successful entrepreneurs and try to emulate them. I heard Daniel Ropers, the CEO of Bol.com explain this very well. He told an audience that it’s like sending 100 entrepreneurs into a pitch black forest with the objective of…

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