VEVO is launching its standalone music video platform and free apps in Brazil, Music Week reports. Following the launch, Brazilian users will be able to watch 50,000 HD music videos without going through VEVO’s YouTube syndication. As VEVO points out on its official blog, it also means that VEVO is now localized in Portuguese across...
Daily Archives: August 14, 2012
Flip video cofounder launches learning platform Knowmia
Ariel Braunstein knows a little something about video. He cofounded Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip video camera, which landed in the hands of millions of consumers before Cisco (the company’s owner since 2009) shut it down last year. So it’s not too surprising that his latest venture revolves around the creation and...
Use Apple’s iCloud to store the App Store’s free weekly promotions for later
Apple’s App of the Week deal keeps a steady stream of free software coming through the App Store for us iOS users. On weeks when the app isn’t immediately relevant, just download and delete it and you can always come back to it through iCloud’s Purchased apps tab. Redditor TreyF posted this particular lifehack...
Official Olympics numbers: online engagement was mostly mobile
Now that the Olympic Games is over, Alex Balfour, the Cricinfo co-founder who has spent the last six years as head of London 2012 new media, has compiled these slideshow stats summarising engagement through with the local organising committee’s 77 digital products. We have already reported strong mobile figures from the BBC (a third...
Angry Birds maker Rovio hires former EA exec Oskar Burman to head new Stockholm games studio
Rovio, the Finnish company behind the hit game franchise Angry Birds and the recently released Amazing Alex, has appointed Oskar Burman, formerly the head of EA’s Easy Studios, as the new general manager of its Stockholm office. Burman notes on his Twitter feed that the new Stockholm studio is actually opening its doors today....
Flash is for everyone, says storage startup Skyera
Stealthy startup Skyera is dropping the veil Tuesday to start talking up new solid-state storage systems it vows can deliver an eye-popping $3-per-GB price for “native” storage — that is before compression and de-duplication. Solid-state, or “flash”, storage is hot, hot, hot, hot. A few proof points: Pure Storage just netted $40 million in...
App.net ends crowdfunding campaign with $803,000 from 12,315 backers
Subscription-based Twitter alternative App.net has surpassed its funding target by more than $300,000 after the service, founded by Mixed Media Lab CEO Dalton Caldwell, closed its self-imposed funding period having raised $803,000 from 12,315 backers. The service, which Caldwell and his team are still in the process of building, was conceived in response to growing concerns around...
Understanding App.net: It’s Microblogging As a Service
App.net has so far raised nearly $800,000 in membership fees with the promise that it will be a non-commercial, user and developer-friendly version of Twitter. It’s off to a good start, with early adopters enthusiastically kicking the tires of App.net’s alpha service and (perhaps more importantly) its API. But there is still a lot...