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Pinterest’s new Chrome extension adds hovering ‘Pin It’ buttons for photos and right-click to pin

Feb19
by on February 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates, Social Media

If you’re an avid Pinterest, user you’ll want to take note of the upgraded ‘Pin It’ button that was released for the Chrome browser today.

Now, when you hover over an image you’ll see the familiar ‘Pin It’ icon appear in the top left-hand corner. Select it and you’ll see a pop-up window that lets you save it to any of your Pinterest boards with a custom description. If the image is contained within a blog post or article, you’ll also get the URL in the pin description, making it a little easier to share its origins on Pinterest.

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If these prove to be a bit of a nusiance, you still have the option of turning them off, however. The updated button for Chrome also introduces a right-click to pin feature, which should suit those who would rather forgo the roll-over icon.

While the new Pin It button is exclusvely for Chrome users, Pinterest says it’ll be available on other browsers soon.

➤ Pin It button for Chrome (Via Blog Post)

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Heap Analytics: Now anyone in your company can track any interaction with your website

Feb19
by on February 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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Heap Analytics, a startup with a clever approach to tracking interactions on websites and in iOS apps, is today rolling out a new feature that makes it easy for anyone to harness this power, no matter how non-technical they may be.

Once installed, Heap Analytics records every single interaction that occurs on your website or in your app – every page load, button click, form submission and the like. Then when you decide you want to start tracking, say, how many people are clicking a particular button, you can set it up and immediately see historical data as well as fresh information as it comes in.

Until now, you needed to have some technical knowledge and access to your website’s back-end to set up tracking for specific events, but the new Event Visualizer is designed to let anyone in the company do it via a simple point-and-click interface.

The startup’s video explains it well, demonstrating how Dropbox could use the feature to track drop-offs in the user sign-up flow:

Heap Analytics co-founder Matin Movassate says that the idea for the service came from his experiences as a product manager at Facebook. “Any time we needed new metrics, we’d go through an annoying feedback loop: 1) find an engineer; 2) get engineer to write logging code (begrudgingly, since they have better things to build); 3) wait until next release cycle for the code to ship; 4) wait a few more days for data to trickle in; 5) have a data analyst fetch the data and prepare a report.”

That personal frustration translated into a much wider gap in the analytics market. “We found that non-technical folks were increasingly dependent on analytics to make decisions,” says Movassate. “Marketers need to measure engagement across traffic sources, product managers need to quantify feature use, salespeople need to identify promising leads. But they were constantly bottlenecked on engineers to manually instrument and target the right events for them.”

The new Event Visualiser is a slick solution to a real problem.

➤ Heap Analytics

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Heap Analytics: Now anyone in your company can track any interaction with your website

Feb19
by on February 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

Heap 520x245 Heap Analytics: Now anyone in your company can track any interaction with your website

Heap Analytics, a startup with a clever approach to tracking interactions on websites and in iOS apps, is today rolling out a new feature that makes it easy for anyone to harness this power, no matter how non-technical they may be.

Once installed, Heap Analytics records every single interaction that occurs on your website or in your app – every page load, button click, form submission and the like. Then when you decide you want to start tracking, say, how many people are clicking a particular button, you can set it up and immediately see historical data as well as fresh information as it comes in.

Until now, you needed to have some technical knowledge and access to your website’s back-end to set up tracking for specific events, but the new Event Visualizer is designed to let anyone in the company do it via a simple point-and-click interface.

The startup’s video explains it well, demonstrating how Dropbox could use the feature to track drop-offs in the user sign-up flow:

Heap Analytics co-founder Matin Movasette says that the idea for the service came from his experiences as a product manager at Facebook. “Any time we needed new metrics, we’d go through an annoying feedback loop: 1) find an engineer; 2) get engineer to write logging code (begrudgingly, since they have better things to build); 3) wait until next release cycle for the code to ship; 4) wait a few more days for data to trickle in; 5) have a data analyst fetch the data and prepare a report.”

That personal frustration translated into a much wider gap in the analytics market. “We found that non-technical folks were increasingly dependent on analytics to make decisions,” says Movasette. “Marketers need to measure engagement across traffic sources, product managers need to quantify feature use, salespeople need to identify promising leads. But they were constantly bottlenecked on engineers to manually instrument and target the right events for them.”

The new Event Visualiser is a slick solution to a real problem.

➤ Heap Analytics

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Octonius for iOS unified file browser now supports Box too

Feb19
by on February 19, 2014 at 5:54 pm
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Octonius 220x418 Octonius for iOS unified file browser now supports Box too The Octonius iOS file browser app that lets you manage Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote files now includes integration with Box’s cloud storage service.

As well as adding Box file support, the update also adds the option to share a link to a URL for any individual file or collection of files.

It’s a minor update overall, but one that will please power-users of any of the aforementioned services, and as we noted when we first looked at Octonius, it’s an app worth keeping an eye on.

➤ Octonius [App Store]

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Octonius for iOS unified file browser now supports Box too

Feb19
by on February 19, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Octonius 220x418 Octonius for iOS unified file browser now supports Box too The Octonius iOS file browser app that lets you manage Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote files now includes integration with Box’s cloud storage service.

As well as adding Box file support, the update also adds the option to share a link to a URL for any individual file or collection of files.

It’s a minor update overall, but one that will please power-users of any of the aforementioned services, and as we noted when we first looked at Octonius, it’s an app worth keeping an eye on.

➤ Octonius [App Store]

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