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Uber adds turn-by-turn navigation to its driver app, and destination entry to its passenger app

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by on August 13, 2014 at 2:27 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Uber might be locked in a heated battle with Lyft, but that isn’t going to stop the company from improving and refining its own services. Today, Uber announced two simple, but fundamental changes that will affect its rider and driver apps. The first is the ability for customers to give their destination before they’re picked up by a driver. Before passengers could look up a location for a fare quote, but now you can also alert the driver ahead of time. On the flipside, Uber is adding turn-by-turn directions to its driver app. So rather than switching to another service such…

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How to illuminate your brand’s vision: tips from a top agency

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by on August 13, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

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This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Behind every brand — and every design — is a story. It takes the right kind of designer to bring these behind-the-scenes visions to life. Enter Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger, partners at the South Carolina-based brand strategy and design firm, Motto. In 2003, the duo started a local design shop with just $250 and a few computers. They were in their mid-twenties and hungry to build a company based on purpose and value. Soon after, their ‘Motto’ caught on — growing from a modest $25,000 in first-year…

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Spotify links up with BandPage to allow musicians to sell merchandise and exclusives directly to fans

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by on August 13, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Streaming music service Spotify has today announced a deal with BandPage that will allow artists to sell their music directly to listeners via the platform. Announced today, the move may well be designed to help alleviate criticisms over the royalty rates musicians are paid when someone listens to their music on Spotify. Indeed, the company says that the new option will offer musicians additional “meaningful revenue opportunities” by allowing them to sell directly through BandPage. In addition to allowing artists to sell standard merchandise like t-shirts, they can also now offer tickets to secret shows or other exclusive content to their…

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Amazon launches Live App Testing, a developer tool for distributing Android and Fire apps to select testers

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by on August 13, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google, Insider, Mobile

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Amazon today launched a new mobile developer tool called Live App Testing. In short, it allows you to distribute your apps in the Amazon Appstore to a pre-defined set of testers for the purpose of gathering feedback, improving quality, increasing stability and generally optimizing the experience before you push your app live for everyone to download. Live App Testing creates a version of your app that is only distributed to select testers, which are invited by manually adding email addresses. Testers receive an invite via email with instructions to download the test app and begin testing against Amazon’s production environment…

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Younity’s personal cloud service adds Instagram support for easier #TBT sharing

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by on August 13, 2014 at 1:00 pm
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While the focus of Instagram is — well, instant — the app does allow you to reach back into your photo archives to post older pictures to its service, as long as those photos reside on your phone. If the photo you want to post is somewhere else, say on your laptop hard drive or an external hard drive attached to your desktop computer, it takes a multi-step song and dance to get it posted on Instagram. But Throwback Thursday just got easier with Entangled Media’s Younity, a free personal cloud service that now lets you publish photos stored on your hard drive directly to…

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