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Steller is a beautiful visual storytelling app, similar to Storehouse, but for your iPhone instead

Mar13
by on March 13, 2014 at 5:58 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Early this year, Apple’s former user experience evangelist and UI designer Mark Kawano launched an iPad storytelling app Storehouse. Now a new app has surfaced that has pretty much the same concept as Storehouse, but is available instead for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Steller is a free storytelling app developed by Mombo Labs, which lets you create photo and video stories with an emphasis on design. It has been in beta for several months but has just launched on Apple’s App Store today in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The brother and sister design team behind the app, Brian McAniff and Karen Poole, set out on a mobile-first…

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‘Wonder’ wants to take on YouTube with a new ad-free video platform for exclusive lifestyle content

Mar13
by on March 13, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Wonder PL, otherwise known as simply ‘Wonder’, is a new platform for hosting lifestyle-oriented video content that wants to take on Vimeo and YouTube at their own game. Launched today by Sofia Fenichell, founder of Rockpack, the platform has already attracted $1.4 million from investors including Universal Music Group (UMG), Qualcomm Ventures, Alex Creighton (Co-Founder and President of Vice Media), Pascal Cagni (formerly CEO of Apple, EMEA) and Russell Platt (Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Forum Partners). It’s not just cash either. Ahead of launch Wonder lined up content partners in the form of Space NK, The National Film Board of Canada, Universal Music…

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