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Crowd-powered transit app Moovit debuts Lyft integration pilot program in select cities [Update: feature now available in all cities covered by Lyft]

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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The transit-planning app Moovit is teaming up with get-a-ride-in-a-stranger’s-car service Lyft to help users get where they need to go in a timely fashion. The update available for iOS and Android adds the ability to request a Lyft pickup to Moovit’s planning a trip feature. The integration gives travelers an additional option when getting around. The Lyft integration pilot program starts in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Moovit CEO, Nir Erez says that new cities could come online soon based on what happens in the launch cities, “We want to start with select cities to be more focused and to measure the impact of…

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Everything EA announced during its E3 2014 press conference

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Continuing our coverage of E3 2014, here’s everything that EA announced at its annual press conference on Monday. Star Wars: Battlefront EA gave attendees a look at “early in-game footage” for Star Wars: Battlefront, before promising more details in “spring 2015″ A short mini-documentary showed how developer DICE has been examining the original Lucasfilm assets and locations from the Star Wars movies to maintain authenticity in its next video game. It’s too soon to make any real comment on the game, but it shows EA is at least interested in preserving the heart of the Star Wars franchise. Dragon Age: Inquisition Dragon Age: Inquisition is…

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Secret introduces Dens, a private network feature for your work and school

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 7:21 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Secret has announced an invite-only beta for its newest on-the-down-low feature, Dens. The latest addition to the app creates a company or school-wide private network of Secret postings. When an organization creates a Den, anyone within that company or school can create posts that are viewable only to the members of that organization. It’s like having your own Secret club house. The Den posts have the name of your organization in the lower-left hand corner where the location or friend indicator currently resides. Secret says that the Den posts are not shareable outside of the app. But, of course a screenshot is all you…

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Instagram will introduce ads in the UK, Canada and Australia ‘later this year’

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Instagram has announced plans to incorporate ads in its photo feed “later this year” to subscribers in the UK, Canada and Australia. On the heels what what it considers a successful advertising debut last fall, the photo shooting, filtering, and sharing service, which launched in 2010 and was acquired by Facebook in 2012, rolled out ads in the US last November. “…since introducing ads last November, we’ve worked with a handful of top brands to draw creative inspiration from the community and create ads that were engaging and felt natural in people’s feeds,” Instagram said in its blog. “So far, our…

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How to turn a paywall into a cash windfall

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Aye Moah is the Chief of Product and co-founder of Baydin, an email productivity company. A few weeks after releasing Boomerang for Gmail to the world, we started receiving inquiries from our users asking how they could donate some money or “tip us” in appreciation of our hard work. We also heard from users who insisted they wouldn’t rely on a free tool as part of their email workflow — after all, free tools disappear all the time!  Around the same time, our investors and our company accountant started asking us how we planned on feeding ourselves. Putting two and two together,…

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