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Lucy Leiderman is the Director of Digital Strategy at Pilot PMR. Klout, the San Francisco based start up that measures your social influence, was acquired last week by Lithium Technologies in a deal that is supposedly meant to redefine both companies. Since its launch in 2008, Klout has apparently scored 500 million profiles and handles 50 billion API calls monthly, yet its day-to-day relevance remains a mystery for many. On the surface, users link available social profiles to Klout in order to be scored. While a possible humble brag, a Klout score doesn’t necessarily translate into something useful. In 2012,…
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If you thought those ‘miniature world’ photos were cool, this video will make you wish you had a bunch of GoPro cameras lying around to play with. Jonas Ginter, a German based photojournalist created a stunning 360° video using 6 GoPro cameras mounted on his bike. Jonas 3D-printed the mount, attached the cameras and went for a bike ride through a park. The results are incredible – a miniature world created in video for the first time. In a post to his blog (in German), Jonas says that he spent a little over a year trying various methods to make a video version…
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Plex, one of the best apps for media consumption on a large screen is coming to the Xbox One, after Microsoft announced support for universal applications at BUILD earlier this week. A user on the Plex forums under the name of ‘Tyson’ confirmed the news, saying that “Microsoft has approved the development of a Plex Client for Xbox One” and that the team “have been granted membership into ID@Xbox specifically for the development and eventual release of Plex for Xbox One.” The ID@Xbox program stands for “Independent Developers @ Xbox” and allows third party developers to build for the Xbox…
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Google is reportedly about to launch a renewed effort to become your TV hub with a new platform destined for set-top boxes called “Android TV.” Documents obtained by The Verge purportedly show a new interface that not only encourages streaming content providers to build their own apps for the new platform, but also to provide that content via the Play Store for rental or purchase. The platform appears to support both apps and games at launch and is preloaded with a number of Google’s core applications such as Hangouts, YouTube and Google+. Android TV marks a renewed effort to push…
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