Software : Does Snapchat's new Replay option risk defeating the purpose? |
- Does Snapchat's new Replay option risk defeating the purpose?
- Google adds 'I'm Feeling Lucky Radio' to iOS app, takes fight to iTunes Radio
- Vine introducing web profiles, invites you sign up for a vanity URL today
| Does Snapchat's new Replay option risk defeating the purpose? Posted:  Messaging and photo-sharing app Snapchat made its name by facilitating the sharing of saucy shots that could be viewed once for a few seconds before, supposedly, disappearing into cyberspace forever. Now the $3.5 billion-valued company has somewhat undermined that premise somewhat by introducing a new Replay feature, allowing users to call up one photo or video a second time, before it self destructs. For some Snapchatters, who've used the application to send intimate messages (hey, don't look at us!), the new feature dramatically increases the risk of their photo or video reaching a larger audience. For example, the ability to call up the message for a second time, allows boastful (or mock-ful) girls or boys to show it off to their mates in the pub at a time of their convenience. Filters? Quelle Surprise!Beyond the controversial, audience threatening new Replay addition, Snapchat has also added filter options to photos. No surprise there. These so-called smart filters add information like temperature, time and, somewhat strangely, the speed at which the device was moving when the photo was snapped. Three more conventional filters have also been added. Users can now save their 7 'best friends' using Snapchat, allowing easier access to those conversations with greater haste, while a front-facing flash has already been added to aid those night time shots. Will the new Replay feature affect how you use the Snapchat app? Is the company ruining a good thing by compromising one-look-only part of the app? Let us know your thoughts below. |
| Google adds 'I'm Feeling Lucky Radio' to iOS app, takes fight to iTunes Radio Posted:  Google's perennial attempts to turn Google Play Music into a force against iTunes have been boosted by the arrival of 'I'm Feeling Lucky Radio' within the company's iOS app. The random radio feature comes to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch two months after it was rolled into the Android version, while an iOS 7-inspired UI has also been introduced. The feature, like its search engine forebear, allows users to access a selection of music the app thinks they will like, auto-generating a radio station based on previous listening habits. The app will automatically bring tunes from the users most listened-to genre. Big Thumbs Up!The revamped iOS app also offers access to auto-generated playlists (such as Thumbs Up) for the first time and All Access subscribers will also have the opportunity to search genres within the app. The new Google Play Music features come into competition with Apple's own iTunes Radio platform, which is yet to launch outside the United States. |
| Vine introducing web profiles, invites you sign up for a vanity URL today Posted:  Vine has announced it is graduating from the mobile-only appverse, with web profiles coming soon for all users. Previously the six-second video montages could only be viewed through the mobile app, through permalinks posted on Facebook and Twitter or shared via email. The Twitter-owned service is now inviting users to sign up for their personalised vanity URLs at the Vine.co website, which has, until now, been holding page for the iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps. The announcement follows Instagram's launch of web profiles last year, which allowed users to browse the full image and video libraries of folks they follow, just as they could on the mobile app. Uploads unlikelyThe Vine roll out is likely to follow a similar format with no capacity for users to upload their videos through the web portal itself. No word yet on when Vine will roll out the web profiles, but sometime early in the new year seems probable. |
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