Readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips.
– The Atlantic magazine reporter Alexis Madrigal, in a story called “The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’”
Lauren Goode in Product News on March 30 at 8:29 am PT
A new app that sifts through old photos. Yes, you really wore that.
Lauren Goode in Reviews on March 26 at 6:00 am PT
If you’re looking for a better email experience from the iPhone, these apps will help.
Lauren Goode in Social on March 22 at 9:16 am PT
Facebook photos can now be viewed in high-res, full-screen mode. Eek!
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 19, 2011 at 7:39 am PT
Animoto, a New York-based slide-show service that makes awesomesauce out of pictures and video clips, has launched an iPhone app.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 8, 2011 at 9:42 am PT
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-roma-mamaa! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Where’s your slick product?
Drake Martinet in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 8:36 pm PT
Image2Play, which demoed today at
AsiaD, attempts to bring images taken from movies back to life by reconnecting them with the movies from which they originate — all in your Web browser.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
1000Memories, the social media site for friends and family to memorialize loved ones who’ve passed away, is disclosing today it has raised $3 million worth of funding.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
In an interview, Microsoft phone unit President Andy Lees walks through the changes that Redmond plans to make to bolster Windows Phone 7.
Improvements coming later this year include Twitter integration, a better browser and the ability to do more things at once.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT
Path, the
personal media-sharing app, has
raised $8.65 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Digital Garage Japan. The company said today it had facilitated the sharing of “over 2 million moments,” a.k.a. iPhone photos and short videos. Path is expanding ever so slightly to allow users to email pictures from within its iOS app, which makes sense since many people’s close friends and family don’t all have iPhones.
