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Facebook Messenger for iOS gets more ways to chat, video sharing, faster photo sharing, better search, and more

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile, Social Media

Facebook today updated its Messenger app for iOS with a slew of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. Here’s the Facebook Messenger 5.0 for iOS changelog: More ways to message: Everything’s front and center, so it’s easier to send photos, voice messages and more. Video: Send videos from your phone’s camera roll and when people send you videos, play them right in the app. Instant photo sharing: Take a photo and send it in just one tap, without leaving the conversation. Shortcuts to stickers: When someone sends you a sticker, press and…

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Context design: How to anticipate users’ needs before they’re needed

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

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Ami Ben David is the co-founder of EverythingMe. A seasoned veteran with experience as a founder, an executive and a VC, Ami is in charge of EverythingMe’s marketing and strategy.  Everybody in tech is suddenly talking about context. In his TED interview, Larry Page talks about context as the future of computing; Marissa Mayer is rumored to be building a home grown contextual search engine; Twitter just acquired a contextual team; and Samsung is getting into the contextual game as well. There have been various attempts to define context, but I want to focus on contextual mobile product design. This is…

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Microsoft increases OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user, including for Office 365 ProPlus

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. This also affects all Office 365 ProPlus customers: they will now get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their subscription ($15.20 per user per month). The company also said “over the coming months” it will start helping organizations migrate data to OneDrive for Business. If you don’t currently subscribe to OneDrive for Business, or have it as part of your Office 365 subscription, you can take advantage of the company’s promotional pricing: $2.50 per user per month in all…

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Microsoft increases OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user, including for Office 365 ProPlus

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. This also affects all Office 365 ProPlus customers: they will now get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their subscription ($15.20 per user per month). The company also said “over the coming months” it will start helping organizations migrate data to OneDrive for Business. If you don’t currently subscribe to OneDrive for Business, or have it as part of your Office 365 subscription, you can take advantage of the company’s promotional pricing: $2.50 per user per month in all…

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Facebook open sources Pop for iOS, the extensible animation engine behind Paper

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 5:25 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Mobile

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Facebook today open sourced Pop, the engine behind Paper’s smooth animations and transitions, over on GitHub. Pop uses dynamic instead of traditional static animations to control the scrolling, bouncing, and unfolding effects in the social news app. Facebook software engineer Kimon Tsinteris, who co-founded Push Pop Press before joining the social networking company in August 2011, notes that iOS has always excelled at supporting static animations. “The Apple-provided Core Animation framework makes linear, ease-in, ease-out, and ease-in-ease-out animations simple to leverage,” he explains. Tsinteris adds, however, that his animation engine goes a level higher: “With Pop, we are able to…

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