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Five months after acquisition, Square open-sources Viewfinder server, Android and iOS apps

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by on May 5, 2014 at 4:08 pm
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Square today announced it is open-sourcing everything behind the photo-sharing tool Viewfinder on GitHub. All 250,000 lines of code have been released, covering Viewfinder server, as well as its Android and iOS apps. Square engineer Peter Mattis explains, the open-sourcing move is a last hurrah: We’re releasing this code in the hopes that it can be of utility to others, either as an archaeological resource or as the basis for other exciting efforts. Our days are now filled with other priorities, so we won’t be able to provide support or bug fixes for this code. And while the code is…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Lists

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Many of us step away from the keyboard over the weekend. As we enter the height of spring, it’s a good chance to experience the great outdoors and catch up with friends, family and loved ones. If closed your laptop or powered down your desktop PC, we’ve gathered all of the most important news and features that you’ve missed over the last few days. Make a cup of coffee, ignore your inbox for a few minutes and bring yourself back up to speed with our handy guide. News from TNW over the weekend Wikipedia tweaks mobile design to put emphasis…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Lists

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Many of us step away from the keyboard over the weekend. As we enter the height of spring, it’s a good chance to experience the great outdoors and catch up with friends, family and loved ones. If closed your laptop or powered down your desktop PC, we’ve gathered all of the most important news and features that you’ve missed over the last few days. Make a cup of coffee, ignore your inbox for a few minutes and bring yourself back up to speed with our handy guide. News from TNW over the weekend Wikipedia tweaks mobile design to put emphasis…

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The best tools, tricks, and strategies to create successful social video content

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, Roundups, Social Media

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Video content is staging a takeover of the Internet. By 2017, Cisco projects that video will account for 69 percent of all Web traffic. The majority of that traffic will come from non-PC devices, including tenfold increases in smartphone and tablet usage. To capitalize on those numbers, you must craft authentic, concise video content. For consumers to see this content, you must optimize video for social sharing. Here are some pointers to help you and your brand do that well.   Create a strategy Tricks: Video annotations On social, you never know which piece of content will reel in new followers or…

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Y Combinator’s Startup School hits the road for the first time, starting with New York and London

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 2:33 pm
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Startup accelerator program Y Combinator (YC) is taking its renowned Startup School on the road, kicking off with New York on June 18, and London (‘Startup School Europe’) on July 26. Startup School is a free, one-day event that lets budding entrepreneurs learn what starting a company is all about, with some of the tech industry’s finest revealing how they got started, things that went wrong, and more. Last year’s event was live-streamed for the first time, and included big names such as Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. A generous soul actually wrote up key notes from each talk and published…

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