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Flipboard will introduce videos ads in September with Chanel as an initial partner

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by on August 14, 2014 at 4:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Social reading service Flipboard is the latest US social network to go down the route of video advertising, following the path of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others. Speaking Read Write’s ReadWriteMix event, Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue announced that the company will introduce the ad format from next month. Fashion brand Chanel is confirmed as an initial advertiser, as former TNW reporter Ken Yeung and others at the event noted on Twitter. Video ads will be rolled out on Flipboard starting in September. First advertiser is Chanel. More video added in the future. #readwritemix — Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung) August 14,…

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CyberLink’s YouCam Makeup app puts a virtual makeup kit inside your phone

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by on August 13, 2014 at 11:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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There are plenty of apps out there to help your selfies look more flattering. And while some can be dismissed as superficial, software like PortraitPro, FaceTune and a host of others are popular because they come in handy for various types of emergency interventions — like when you have to send a quick snap to a business associate or family member and you don’t have time to make it look good. CyberLink, makers of the PhotoDirector suite of editing tools, has just released YouCam Makeup, a free specialty app for iPhone and Android that lets women glamorize full-on face portraits without having to invest in or…

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Humblebrag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries

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by on August 13, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Give yourself a pat on the back, Internet. Oxford Dictionaries has given in and added ridiculous modern words like humblebrag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO to a quarterly update of its official online dictionary. Now you can SMH at all those neckbeards binge-watching Game of Thrones, because FML. I’m very sorry that’s now an actual sentence. Thankfully, these words haven’t showed up in the Oxford English Dictionary, so it’s not part of the “definitive record” just yet. This latest addition not all millennial hijinks, though. You’ll also find a few somewhat reasonable tech words in this batch, like cord cutting, hyper connected, Deep…

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Humblebrag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries

Aug13
by on August 13, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Give yourself a pat on the back, Internet. Oxford Dictionaries has given in and added ridiculous modern words like humblebrag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO to a quarterly update of its official online dictionary. Now you can SMH at all those neckbeards binge-watching Game of Thrones, because FML. I’m very sorry that’s now an actual sentence. Thankfully, these words haven’t showed up in the Oxford English Dictionary, so it’s not part of the “definitive record” just yet. This latest addition not all millennial hijinks, though. You’ll also find a few somewhat reasonable tech words in this batch, like cord cutting, hyper connected, Deep…

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Twitter for mobile now alerts verified accounts when they follow each other because they’re ever so special

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by on August 13, 2014 at 10:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Being verified on Twitter is like being allowed beyond the velvet rope at a fancy virtual nightclub. You really want it, then once you’re inside, your first reaction is usually, “this is it?” Well for the special snowflakes that have been blessed by the blue checkmark of Twitter (full disclosure, I’m verified on Twitter), the social network has introduced two new mobile features for you. First, on iOS and Android you can be notified whenever another verified account follows you. Which is actually helpful for accounts with large numbers of followers (like a celebrity) that want to be made aware when someone…

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