Posted on 13 June 2012
Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina display definitely pushes the idea of what a modern screen should look like forward, but it also means developers will have to adapt their apps to these high resolutions to make sure their apps don’t look bad. During its announcement earlier this week, Apple said that both Adobe and Autodesk were already working Retina-optimized versions of their products (though both now say that it will still be a while before their software will be ready). It looks like Google will be a bit faster.
Tags: already-renders, apple, apps, chrome, developers, products, should-look, their-products, these-machines, until-it-shines
Posted on 13 June 2012
Kleiner Perkins today filed its official legal response to the gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that one of its partners, Ellen Pao, filed against the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm last month.
Tags: doerr-speaks, gender, kleiner, kleiner-perkins, lawsuit, legal-response, News, numbers, partner-john, plaintiff, posts-regarding, silicon-valley
Posted on 13 June 2012
SoundCloud just revealed itself as an expanded tweets partner . SoundCloud’s HTML5 widget will show up in tweets that contain a SoundCloud url. This means that Twitter cards will display a summary of SoundCloud sounds right inside a tweet allowing anyone to follow both the Soundcloud platform and any Soundcloud content creator directly within the expanded Tweet
Tags: announced-today, Breaking News, content-creator, expanded, expanded-tweets, Facebook, News, publisher, soundcloud, startups, twitter, Video
Posted on 13 June 2012
At this week’s WWDC, Apple introduced a new application called “Passbook,” meant to function as an organizer for all your passes.
Tags: airport, apple, cards, demo, mind, mobile wallet, mobile-payments, News, phone
Posted on 13 June 2012
Facebook is testing a new advertising system that will allow third-party platforms to place retargeting ads on Facebook after users visit external websites marked with cookies, according to TechCrunch . The program, called Facebook Exchange, could bring a large influx of new inventory to the social network and give Facebook the intent-based targeting data it previously lacked
Tags: across-the-web, advertising, api, Facebook, facebook-exchange, Mobile, monetization, News, person, social, user
Posted on 13 June 2012
Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads related to their web browsing when they return to Facebook. This retargeting option could be a huge money maker for Facebook as it will allow for more relevant direct advertising — for example a travel site could serve ads about a flight to Hawaii to someone who almost bought a flight on their site. Advertisers might pay big premiums for highly-accurate targeting.
Tags: browse-the-site, deny-the-social, Facebook, facebook-exchange, hawaii, Mobile, retargeting, social, user
Posted on 13 June 2012
On the Twitter blog today , the company announced a new way that users will be able to get access to an expanded array of content from partners. The latest new innovation, Expanded Tweets, will let users check out content directly from certain partners, without having to leave its web site. News partners like the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC’s Breaking News, San Francisco Chronicle, Der Speigel, and TIME will now let users see more content directly within their Tweets, without having to click through to their websites.
Tags: Breaking News, capability, expanded-tweets, Facebook, image, News, publisher, time, tweet, tweet-partners, tweets, Video, wwe
Posted on 13 June 2012
So very much data. And what to do with all of it? San Francisco’s Flurry has its mobile analytics in 190,000 apps on Android and iOS.
Tags: activision, apps, apps-on-android, draper-fisher, Facebook, flurry, games, gaming, jurvetson, performance, publisher, publishing, Video
Posted on 13 June 2012
Microsoft threw some of us for a loop when they launched the Metro-fied My Xbox Live app for iOS late last year , as it was the first time Xbox Live support had officially made it to any mobile platform aside from Windows Phone. Now, iOS is no longer alone in that respect — Android users can finally join in the fun, though that fun is currently limited to poking around their Xbox Live profiles, sending messages to friends, and decking out their avatar in silly digital clothing
Tags: ability, buttons-aligned, exclusive-new, Facebook, gadgets, jesus-diaz, Mobile, officially-made, silly-digital, windows, xbox, xboxes
Posted on 13 June 2012
As part of a continued effort to increase engagement across the site, Facebook has begun emailing some page owners who have not visited or made posts to their pages a while.
Tags: across-the-site, best-practices, Facebook, insights-on-how, more-insights, page-owners, timeline, update-or-photo, video-or-pdf, visited-or-made