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News-specs? CNN wants citizen journalists to contribute via Google Glass

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by on May 9, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

CNN’s iReport is probably about as mainstream a citizen journalist platform as you’ll find, giving budding hacks a genuine conduit for making it into the mainstream media. Indeed, CNN producers monitor the contributions, and if something is unique or compelling enough, well, you never know. Thus far, you’ve been able to post iReports through the Web or CNN mobile apps. But now, you’re also able to share photos and videos with CNN directly from Google Glass. Granted, that’s still a relatively small target market, but if  you are an active Google Glass Explorer and citizen hack, it’s an extra option…

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Leap Motion’s CEO wants its gesture control in cars, as a software upgrade to track hands nears

May09
by on May 9, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Gadgets, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Leap Motion was borne out of a “deep frustration” that the process of creating a 3D object on a high-tech platform, the computer, took up more time than molding something with clay or Play-Doh. “Computers are supposed to make us better and faster, but they make us slower,” company CEO Michael Buckwald told TNW at the sidelines of GMIC Beijing. “If you think about our keyboards and even touchscreens, they’re all binary… it’s such an incredibly elementary way of communicating to your computers,” he said. This is why Buckwald is keen to bring Leap Motion’s 3D gesture controller to other…

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This is what happens when stand-up comedy comes to a tech conference

May09
by on May 9, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables, Videos

We’ve shared many Vooza videos with you over the past couple of years, but co-founder and CEO ‘Matthew Stillman’ (AKA NYC-based comedy performer Matt Ruby) gave us a live version of his act at The Next Web Europe Conference last month. Here are the edited highlights. You’ll be pivoting romantically before you know it. Every week, Vooza – a video comic strip about the tech world – shares a new video with you lovely TNW readers. Sign up for Vooza’s email list to get exclusive access to more funny videos like this one.

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What it’s like to interview with Y Combinator

May09
by on May 9, 2014 at 1:42 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Alex Klein is the co-founder of YogaTrail. This post originally appeared on the YogaTrail blog. YogaTrail is a global yoga directory, created and maintained by a team that’s based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Since launching the site last summer, we’ve built decent traction, generated some revenue, and are just now reaching the point of “ramen profitability.” Things are going well – but living and working in Northern Thailand occasionally has us wondering if perhaps ‘Team YogaTrail’ is a little bit isolated. We think we would have much to gain by connecting with some mentors and learning things from veterans in the startup world….

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With A/x testing, Mailjet helps marketers compare up to 10 different versions of emails before sending

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by on May 9, 2014 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Hot on the heels of Mailjet‘s $3 million funding round back in March and the launch of its New York office, the French startup has introduced some key new features to its email management platform. In a nutshell, Mailjet helps companies send transactional and marketing emails backed with analytics to track and monitor campaigns accordingly. Now, it’s looking to move beyond A/B testing with a so-called ‘A/x testing’ tool, letting marketers cross-compare up to 10 versions of emails based on a range of variables, including subject line, send time, sender’s name, reply-to, and the content itself. The upshot of this…

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