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Yahoo acquires video streaming startup RayV

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by on July 11, 2014 at 7:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Yahoo has acquired mobile video streaming firm RayV to bolster its Cloud Platforms and Services team. Word of the deal first leaked back in May. While RayV has been fairly quiet about its technology, the company’s product is a “full end-to-end solution that enables improved high quality streaming for our online and mobile video content partners.” Yahoo intends to use RayV to strengthen its existing video infrastructure. Yahoo has been pouring resources into its Yahoo Screen online video efforts with a focus on offering exclusive content. The company recently agreed to bring back the cult show Community for a sixth season. The Community reboot will likely…

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Privatize lets you tweet links that only people you mention can open

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by on July 11, 2014 at 7:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

Have you ever wanted to tweet private links to multiple people on Twitter? If so, you should give the new Privatize Web tool a try. To get started, simply use the service to paste in a link and compose a tweet that @mentions the people you want to have access to it. If someone else clicks on the link, they’ll be redirected to the Privatize homepage. I couldn’t find any documentation on what kind of security Privatize uses, so you should probably hold off on tweeting any super sensitive links for now, but this is a neat trick to add semi-private functionality on top…

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7 key ingredients for a powerful Twitter bio

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by on July 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Neil Patel is the co-founder of KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg. This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Your online reputation is your reputation. And it better be good. The way you describe yourself on Twitter has everything to do with how people perceive you online. So how the heck do you do it right? In this post, we’ll go over the seven key ingredients of a powerful Twitter bio–whether you’re a novice or a social media pro. But before we get into that, let’s first discuss the challenges of creating a Twitter bio. Seven challenges to creating a Twitter bio It’s a little bit challenging when it comes to a Twitter…

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Apple takes developers behind the scenes with new Swift blog

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by on July 11, 2014 at 7:06 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

When Apple announced the Swift programming language I heard audible gasps of joy from developers sitting behind me at the WWDC keynote. So for the developers excited about its new language, Apple has launched its own Swift Blog. Concerning its new portal for developers, in its first post Apple states: This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the latest news and hints to turn you into a productive Swift programmer. In addition to welcoming developers to the new blog, there’s also a post about…

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Bing apps for Windows Phone 8.1 getting single sign-on and flight tracking, everyone else has to wait

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by on July 11, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft announced today that it was updating its Bing apps with new features for users of the developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1. Everyone else will have to wait. The biggest update is single sign-on. You’ll no longer have to sign in to each Bing app individually. You sign in once and your account is added to each Bing app you choose installed on your phone. For the foodies out there, the updated Food & Drink app is receiving cooking tutorial videos from the Rouxbe Cooking School, how-tos from famous chefs like Wolfgang Puck, Jacques Pepin and Vikas Khanna, and…

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