On Sunday evening, World Wrestling Entertainment presented WrestleMania 29 to a global viewing audience that helped make the event the biggest social media success in company history. With dozens of WWE-related terms trending globally over the curse of the evening on Twitter (not to mention millions of related tweets, Facebook posts, and social media comments) [...]
WWE Sees Social Media Success with WrestleMania 29
Monday, April 8, 2013
WWE Sees Social Media Success with WrestleMania 29
Mozilla Working On Web Payments API for Firefox Mobile OS
Mozilla is gearing up to show off something new in the world of Firefox. Get ready for navigator.mozPay(), an API that makes possible secure payment capabilities inside Web-based applications designed for the HTML5-based Firefox OS mobile OS. navigator.mozPay() is a JavaScript API inspired by google.payments.inapp.buy but modified for things like multiple payment providers and carrier [...]
Mozilla Working On Web Payments API for Firefox Mobile OS
The Ultimate 2013 Summer Playlist, According to Reddit
Reddit user franciskawalski proposed a challenge late Sunday night to the r/Music page: “Let’s make a 2013 summer playlist.”
Within eight hours the challenge, which generated more than 500 comments and song suggestions, was accomplished
Redditor lindLess compiled the 140 most highly voted songs into a Spotify playlist. Give it a listen for yourself below (it may look like there are only 17 tracks, but scroll down within the embed and you’ll be able to access all 140.)
Artists range from Otis Redding to The Strokes to Fatboy Slim to Fleetwood Mac. At time of writing, the playlist had more than 1,000 followers. Read more…
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The Ultimate 2013 Summer Playlist, According to Reddit
Sony to show 4K UltraHD at MIPTV
As part of its 50th anniversary theme of Screening the Future, MIPTV has partnered with Sony Corporation to present what will be the next game-changing innovation in television's evolution, ultra-high-definition. MIPTV will take place in Cannes, 8-11 April 2013.
Sony to show 4K UltraHD at MIPTV
Motorola to demonstrate real-time HD HEVC encoding and decoding at NABShow
At the 2013 NAB Show, Motorola will continue its history of innovation with its first ever real-time HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) encoding and decoding demonstration at its exhibit space, booth # SU2017.
Motorola to demonstrate real-time HD HEVC encoding and decoding at NABShow
What Our Favorite Celebrities Can Teach Us About Managing Brands Online
Marketers can learn a lot from monitoring celebrity social channels We can watch to see how each celebrity brings their brand to life, the content they share, how they connect with their fans and even take note how they activate new social channels.
What Our Favorite Celebrities Can Teach Us About Managing Brands Online
ViXS announces world's first 10-bit UltraHD 4K and HEVC transcoder chip
ViXS Systems has announced its XCode Pro 350, the world's first silicon solution for transcoding 10-bit HEVC content to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, enabling the media industry to save bandwidth for distributing existing content formats as well as the next-generation Ultra HD at 4K resolution.
ViXS announces world's first 10-bit UltraHD 4K and HEVC transcoder chip
LinkMe Displays Texts, Social-Media Alerts on Your Wrist
Move over, Apple and Samsung. While two of tech's biggest companies are reportedly developing smart watches, LinkMe has already gotten a head start
LinkMe is a Bluetooth-enabled device that lets users view incoming text messages or social-media alerts on their wrist. They send a message with their smartphone via an app, which in turn, will be displayed on LinkMe
"It's that simple — in meetings, in class or when you have your hands full, you'll be able to receive the messages that matter to you most," according to the device's Kickstarter page
Users can also customize notifications, choosing a set of characters that LinkMe will display to denote a particular person or situation, its creators said. Currently, each prototype has 125 LEDs in its display. Read more...
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Penguin 2.0 Forewarning: The Google Perspective on Links
If you’ve been building bad links, you need to start getting in front of it now. Google has warned that a major update is coming. Start getting your business on a sound long-term footing now by building unimpeachable links and eliminating bad ones.
Penguin 2.0 Forewarning: The Google Perspective on Links
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Facebook Home, a YOLO Controversy and Other Top Comments
There was a lot of speculation over what Facebook’s big announcement would be this past Thursday. While many predicted a Facebook phone, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network planned to release an Android launcher called Facebook Home that will come pre-installed on the new HTC First smartphone. While the majority of our readers were disappointed with the news, some said they were excited for the immersive social network integration. Will you use the new Facebook Android launcher? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Facebook Home, a YOLO Controversy and Other Top Comments
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