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YouTube is killing off Channel owners’ inboxes in favor of a cleaner, new messaging system

Jun25
by on June 25, 2014 at 5:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, youtube

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YouTube is once again changing communications on its video site, after it announced plans to retire Channel owners’ inboxes and introduce a new messaging system to reduce spam and general clutter. The company upset some channel owners by relocating their inboxes to a less than obvious place in the dashboard, following the introduction of Google+-powered comments last year. Now it is doing away with them altogether. As an initial step, inboxes will become read-only, with no ability to send or receive new messages. After that, they will be removed entirely. The company says content with inboxes will remain in tact for “the next few…

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Media reports and pulled app changelog all but confirm imminent Android TV launch at Google I/O

Jun25
by on June 25, 2014 at 4:59 am
Posted In: android tv, Around the Web, Google

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It’s the night before Google I/O, and the Wall Street Journal has added on to the piling rumors that the company will launch an Android TV at its developer conference. Several media outlets have already reported on the Android TV’s release date. Gigaom reported in late May that the product will be seen at Google I/O, which followed a glimpse of the Android TV platform back in April that The Verge showed off. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s Android TV will carry another company’s brand but will run on Google’s software designed to play movies, games and other content…

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LG opens its webOS smart TV platform to app developers

Jun25
by on June 25, 2014 at 4:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, lg

LG is out to persuade developers of the merits of webOS smart TVs after it released an SDK for the platform, announced at CES in January this year, which enables third-party apps to be built for it. The Korean company, which bought the webOS patents and source code from HP in 2013, says the SDK (which also has a website of resources) supports Windows, Mac and Linux environments and works with a range of standard coding technologies. The smart TV space is increasingly competitive, but LG says it picked webOS “because of its history and origins as a developer-friendly platform.” We are fans…

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