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Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter

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by on July 11, 2014 at 2:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places: on the Digg homepage, as real-time email alerts, and as mobile notifications from its iOS app (no news on the Android app). For now, Digg Deeper will show content based on who you follow on Twitter: after you log in, it will comb through your timeline to isolate the links your friends are discussing the most. The company does plan, however, to add “other social sources” in a time…

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A month at Y Combinator: What it’s like after you’ve been accepted

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by on July 11, 2014 at 2:32 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Mathilde Collin is the CEO and co-founder of Frontapp. About six weeks ago, I was sitting in front of my computer waiting for one email. Not just any email. The email. We had just flown from Paris to Mountain View for our 10-minute interview at the Y Combinator and it was now over. All we had left to do was wait. Finally, a couple of hours after the interview, the news finally arrived. We were accepted. The email was so short, but it instantly changed all that we were about to do with our company in the following months. Since that…

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Working for the weeknd: GoPro filmmakers capture major musical moment

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by on July 11, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Doug Levy is a staff copywriter and editor for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Late last year, Abel Tesfaye, better known to his many fans as The Weeknd, performed a sold-out concert at London’s massive O2 Arena. It was a major milestone for the space-age R&B star, and an event the folks at GoPro decided would be the perfect showcase for their Hero 3+ Black Edition camera. Available in a Music Bundle with specially designed mounts for musicians, the camera is a great accessory for performers—and the GoPro crew was armed with…

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YouTube partners with SiriusXM satellite radio for an hour-long weekly music show featuring trending songs

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by on July 11, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

YouTube today is launching an hour-long weekly show on SiriusXM’s Hits 1 channel featuring songs that are trending on the video-sharing site. The SiriusXM Hits 1 team will select songs based on the view counts established artists get over recent weeks, as well as percentage growth in views emerging artists see. Called the YouTube 15, the show will air Fridays at 6:00 and 9:00 PM EST, Saturdays at 2:00 PM EST and Sundays at 8:00 EST, as well as on-demand via SiriusXM.com. Jenna Marbles, a YouTube personality with over 13 million subscribers, has been tapped to run through each week’s…

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ClassDo is a Google Helpouts on steroids that’s optimized for emerging markets

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by on July 11, 2014 at 11:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider

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Late last year, Google launched Helpouts, which brought the idea of allowing people to receive instant help through live video feeds into the limelight. But the concept behind Helpouts has existed for some time, with one startup quietly building up a business based on the same premise since 2010. ClassDo is a Tokyo-based online education startup that connects people via one-on-one lessons conducted through live video. It operates in 90 countries where users can list their knowledge online and have students sign up for their classes. What’s interesting is that the service isn’t limited to countries with fast internet connections — it…

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