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Twitter launches Promoted Video ads in beta, only charging advertisers when a user hits play

Aug12

by Sindy Cator on August 12, 2014 at 4:08 pm

Twitter today introduced Promoted Video ads in beta. The company is offering advertisers a new Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model, which means they only get charged when a user starts playing the video ad in question. The beta launch expands on the company’s Twitter Amplify program, giving brands a new set of video tools for uploading and distributing video on Twitter. They can also measure the reach and effectiveness of their content with new video analytics, including completion percentage and a breakout of organic versus paid video views. Promoted Video ads follows the Twitter Video Card tests the…

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Google Classroom, an education platform for teachers, opens to all Apps for Education users

Aug12

by Sindy Cator on August 12, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google

After releasing a preview in May, Google is making its free Classroom tool available for anyone with a Google Apps for Education account. Classroom offers a single dashboard and unified system for Google’s other services, such as Docs, Drive and Gmail, so that teachers can easily deliver classroom materials and assignments with their students. Lecturers can create new classes and manually add students, or share a unique code so that relevant learners can add quickly add themselves. Likewise, assignments can be set up at any time from the Google Apps dashboard, with all the necessary information (assignment name and synopsis,…

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Skype for modern Windows now lets you edit and remove messages, gets improvements to video messages

Aug12

by Sindy Cator on August 12, 2014 at 3:19 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile

Skype today updated its modern Windows app (read: Metro version) with the ability to edit messages and improvements to video messages. You can download the new release now directly from the Windows Store. Here’s the Skype 3.1 for modern Windows changelog: Having second thoughts? Edit or delete messages you just sent. Get notifications and improved accessibility for video messages. To edit or remove a message, just tap or right click it to highlight the text, and then select “edit message” or “remove message” as needed. You can remove multiple lines in sequence. Microsoft didn’t offer much detail for the second…

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Siri’s creators working on a new, human-like virtual assistant

Aug12

by Sindy Cator on August 12, 2014 at 3:13 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The original creators of Siri are working on a new artificial intelligence system called Viv that they hope will be able to handle more complicated requests than Apple’s or Google’s smart assistants. Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham, the founders of Viv Labs, reckon Viv’s unique selling point is that it can analyze different nouns in a sentence to come up with a useful answer. Current virtual assistants wouldn’t be able recognize a question like, for example: “On my way to my brother’s house, I need to pick up some cheap wine that goes well with lasagne,” cites Wired….

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