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Eyefi links up with IFTTT to manage photo publishing and sharing

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by on August 28, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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Eyefi, known for its popular Mobi wireless camera card and companion cloud sharing service, has announced official integration with IFTTT (If This Then That). Photography enthusiasts who use Eyefi services can tap into IFTTT as a quick way to wirelessly transfer and automatically sync new images to Eyefi’s Cloud storage, as well as trigger a host of customized, automated actions within IFTTT. Photographers can now connect with more than 125 channels to trigger actions for how and where their photos are published, shared and stored, and how they integrate with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and even Evernote. For example, an Eyefi recipe can be created so that…

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Google stops showing authorship in search results, will still include Google+ posts from friends and pages

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by on August 28, 2014 at 9:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google today stopped showing authorship in search results, meaning articles will no longer include a link to the Google+ profile of their author. The company says that it found the information isn’t as useful to its users as it hoped, and in some cases even distracts from the overall search results. The official Authorship in web-search support page merely states “Authorship markup is no longer supported in web search.” Those interested in adding markup to their websites are pointed to rich snippets and structured data. In June, Google removed authors’ Google+ profile pictures from search results. At the time, Google’s…

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Instagram is down [Update: It’s back!]

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by on August 28, 2014 at 8:14 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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At the height of #TBT (Throw Back Thursday), Instagram is down. The mobile app photo feeds are not refreshing and the desktop site is throwing a “500 Internal Server Error.” The company tweeted the following: Instagram is experiencing some technical issues. We’re aware and working on a fix. — Instagram (@instagram) August 28, 2014 We’ll keep refrshing the site and app until everything returns back to normal and we can once again post photos of ourselves as children. Plus, there’s a good chance meals all over the world will get cold as users keep trying to upload photos of their food…

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Apple updates HealthKit privacy rules to keep your health data out of the hands of advertisers

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by on August 28, 2014 at 6:37 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Ahead of the September 9 event, Apple has updated its HealthKit privacy policy for developers to keep user data out of the hands of advertisers and data brokers. The Financial Times reports that the company’s updated policy will stop third-party apps from using personal data collected while using the HealthKit platform for anything other than informing users of their health. Announced at WWDC as part of the upcoming iOS 8 launch, HealthKit is a central repository that collects data from all third-party health apps on a device that enable the collection. The information is parsed by HealthKit and presented via the…

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