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Web video service Pluto.tv lands on connected televisions with an app for Amazon’s Fire TV

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 9:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Online video service Pluto.tv has released its first native set-top box app with the launch of an Amazon Fire TV version. Pluto.tv launched back in March with curated channels of continuous Web video content presented through a familiar TV guide-like interface. For instance, a top music program collects YouTube and Vevo music videos from the latest chart-toppers and then plays them as a single program. While the startup already supported Google’s Chromecast, this is the first time it has ventured into the connected TV space. Bringing Pluto.tv onto actual TV sets will pose an interesting challenge for the service. Much…

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Web video service Pluto.tv lands on connected televisions with an app for Amazon’s Fire TV

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 9:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Amazon-Fire-TV

Online video service Pluto.tv has released its first native set-top box app with the launch of an Amazon Fire TV version. Pluto.tv launched back in March with curated channels of continuous Web video content presented through a familiar TV guide-like interface. For instance, a top music program collects YouTube and Vevo music videos from the latest chart-toppers and then plays them as a single program. While the startup already supported Google’s Chromecast, this is the first time it has ventured into the connected TV space. Bringing Pluto.tv onto actual TV sets will pose an interesting challenge for the service. Much…

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Before you start your social media campaign, read this

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 8:06 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Social Media

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Rahul Varshneya is the co-creator of Foster.fm, a SaaS platform helping startups and small businesses grow their companies using social media. This is truly the big bad world. You try your best (or at least you feel you’re giving it your best shot), but you still don’t see results. On the other hand, you find that some with the least efforts get all the attention! I’m talking about the big bad world of social media. So much has been written about it over the years and yet entrepreneurs and startups struggle to get their foothold of these platforms.  There have been guidelines…

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Framebench’s Mail Markup tool makes it easy to annotate files from your Gmail inbox

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 7:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Design collaboration service Framebench has released a new Chrome extension that makes it easy to annotate files over Gmail without having to download them to your computer. Mail Markup taps the new Gmail API to add a “Review Attachment” option to files in your Gmail account. You can draw with a pencil, add arrows or shapes and leave numbered annotations on the document. Text comments will then be pasted into an email draft with the marked-up image. While the annotation options are fairly lightweight, they should be enough for most basic markup needs. If you and your coworkers email each other…

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Who needs Pac-Man when you’ve got FRACKMAN!? A Web game to raise awareness about fracking in the UK

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, UK

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The subject of ‘fracking’ – the process of injecting rock with a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals to extract gas and oil – is highly controversial and viewed by many as a short-term answer to the much bigger issue of dependence on fossil fuels. With a backlash against the process growing in the UK, some organizations are trying to urge people to think about the potential ramifications of the practice. However, grass-roots campaigns and causes often suffer from the same problem: people just glaze over and carry along with their life unperturbed until it’s too late. That’s why at Central…

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