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Animoto Launches App for Easy iPhone Slideshows

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.

No Launch Date in Sight for Polaroid’s Lady Gaga Goggles

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?

Image2Play Connects Images to the Videos They Came From (Demo at AsiaD)

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.

1000Memories Funded by Greylock, Angels

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.

Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later this Year

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.

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Path Raises $8.65M From Kleiner, Index

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.

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Bing Image Search Now Starts With Snapshot

Voices in News on January 24, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

Regular users of Bing’s image search might have been momentarily disoriented on their first visit this week. Today, Microsoft introduced a spruced-up landing page with a tiled display of pictures representing 20 recent top searches. Microsoft bills the change as “a fresh way to enter the image search experience,” and fans of serendipity should also enjoy the occasional entertaining juxtapositions, like Sacha Baron Cohen next to a Goliath birdeater.

The Atlantic Pretties Up With Photos

Peter Kafka in Media on January 18, 2011 at 6:02 am PT

Hard to believe it took this long to become a trend, but there you go: Another Web publisher embraces beautiful, screen-hogging photos. Sort of like TV….

Hate Ads? You'll Love This Site. Love Ads? You Too.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 14, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

A site for people who love to complain about ads. That’s most of you, right? It’s created by an ad guy, of course.

Eye-Fi Aims to Teach Memory Cards Another New Trick

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 4, 2011 at 6:10 am PT

Eye-Fi is trying to get the cellphone and digital camera to end their rivalry and instead work together to share photos. A new “direct mode,” due later this year, will allow cameras with one of the company’s memory cards to share photos with smartphones.

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