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The growing power of online video, captured in… an online video

Apr07
by on April 7, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

It’s no secret that video is a powerful form of online content, but just how powerful? Shutterstock has collaborated with comScore to produce this video that showcases some of the key stats around the growth of online video consumption. For example, 190 million Americans (61 percent of the total population) watched an average of 397 online videos in the month of January 2014, and 36 percent of those videos (or about 143 per person) were advertisements. Staying with the US, one-in-12 videos was watched via mobile in 2012, the ratio had shifted to one-in-six just a year later.  You can watch the…

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ASCIIcam: The geekiest selfie tool ever?

Apr07
by on April 7, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables

This selfie thing is getting all too common, why not take a different approach? ASCIIcam is a fun site that takes your photo using characters from the ASCII coding scheme. First spotted by PSFK, ASCIIcam’s settings allow you to tweak the image to make it ‘brighter’ or ‘dimmer’, but this is for desktop devices only. Here’s one (of many) images that I made earlier — can you guess what I’m doing here? Sometimes the images can very clear — like this one of TNW’s social media director Matt Navarra: We noticed a few similar sites, in case you want to shop around for…

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Day Flow for iPhone is a simple time-tracker that helps you visualize your efficiency

Apr07
by on April 7, 2014 at 11:48 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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While there’s no shortage of general productivity tools in the App Store, Day Flow has thrown its hat into the time-management ring with a nice little iPhone app to help track what you do with your days. Here’s how it works. Things kick off with a single figure on the homescreen – the number of hours remaining in your day. You then select a category to allocate your current activity to, though it’s worth noting here that you’ll probably want to edit these.     Indeed, within Settings, you can change all the tags to suit what you do, and also…

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Startupbootcamp Berlin to focus on smart transport and energy, with US program to follow

Apr07
by on April 7, 2014 at 10:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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European accelerator Startupbootcamp has today announced that its Berlin-based program will focus on startups working in the areas of smart energy and transportation in the future, and that a new US-based program looking at the same topics will also be established next year. The company said that it’s the first time that a major European organisation has launched a new accelerator in the US and that the “cross-continental program” will focus on the “connected and efficient mobility of people and goods”. The San Francisco-based accelerator is scheduled to launch in early 2015. The ten most promising startups from the applications…

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Hate Comic Sans? Maybe you’ll find Comic Neue more appealing

Apr07
by on April 7, 2014 at 9:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, fonts, Insider

For those who can’t stand the sight of Comic Sans, say hello to Comic Neue. Developed by Craig Rozynski, an Australian graphic designer in Japan, Comic Neue is a new take on the oft-criticized Comic Sans font. “The squashed, wonky and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular,” a description for the new font states. You can now download Comic Neue on its site, free for a limited time. Rozynski has noted though on Twitter that he isn’t sure if he wants to start selling Comic Neue…

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