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Facebook launches optional Nearby Friends feature for Android and iOS

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile

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Facebook today launched Nearby Friends, a new option in the company’s main app for Android and iOS rolling out “over the coming weeks” in the US. The feature lets you see which friends are close to you, assuming that both you and the other party have enabled the functionality first. Before we dig in, it’s important to note where in the Facebook app you can access Nearby Friends. You’ll have to tap the “More” icon in the bottom-right corner, and hit “Nearby Friends” located just above “Nearby Places.” If you have already turned the feature on, you can also access…

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Dropbox acquires photo storage startup Loom, service to shut down on May 16

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Cloud photo storage service Loom announced today that it has been acquired by Dropbox. Loom is no longer accepting new users, and existing customers can keep using Loom until May 16. The firm will offer an option to export data over to Dropbox. Dropbox announced Carousel, its own photo storage app that was similar to Loom, last week. Loom users that switch to Carousel will receive the an equivalent allotment of data from Dropbox, with paid users receiving free upgraded storage for a year. If you’d rather not have your Loom data head over to Dropbox (because, you know, reasons),…

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Optimizely launches platform for testing and tweaking your native iOS apps

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

Optimizely, a website optimization platform, has launched a beta of its iOS testing tools, which allow technical and non-technical users to optimize native apps for Apple devices. The mobile A/B app testing platform allows developers to make changes to the UI and update content in real-time, and then push those changes to the app without needing to wait for App Store review, the company said. Additionally, for more heavy duty updates, such as the addition of completely new features, the platform can be used to gradually test and roll out the new features to just a few users, rather than rolling…

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Jessica Lawrence: Connecting New York’s startup scene and building better company culture

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Good quality social and networking scenes are key to any growing startup ecosystem. Just ask Jessica Lawrence, executive director of organization behind the long-running New York Tech Meetup. In fact we did ask her, in advance of her session on ‘Building Better Companies’ at The Next Web Europe Conference next week in Amsterdam. Lawrence moved to New York City after a stint running a division of the Girl Scouts in southern California. “It was a wonderful non-profit organization in a lot of ways, but it wasn’t a very supportive place to work, it wasn’t very innovative” she says. After working…

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Nitrous.IO launches a ‘Hack’ button to help developers test open source codes with one click

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Nitrous.IO, a 500 Startups-backed backend development platform, prides itself on helping software developers save time by cutting out the repetitive parts of creating development environments and automating them. The company lets developers who build Web applications using Ruby, Node.js, Python, and Go programming languages take advantage of its platform to create a testing environment. Now it is actively bringing this ease of access to code repositories, tutorials and open source apps such as Github via a ‘Hack’ button. This means anyone who creates code can now let developers test it immediately by embedding this button on their blog, tutorial or…

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