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Google has started manually reviewing apps before making them publicly available, a move to weed out programs that don’t meet the company’s standards. Importantly, Google said it has been able to add manual components to the review process without developers even noticing a slowdown. The company still relies mostly on automated testing for its app…
Ben Rubin, the cofounder of the streaming social video app Meerkat, had just arrived at SXSW in Austin, Texas, started handing out bright yellow T-shirts, and was enjoying his app’s massive buzz when he got the call. It was from Twitter: They wanted to let him know that Meerkat’s access to the Twitter graph was…
Whisper shut down its news division after <em>The</em> <em>Guardian’s</em> misreported story, leaving four people unemployed. Photo: Shutterstock Back in October, The Guardian published a juicy multipart feature on Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing app that the paper said was harvesting private data without users’ consent. The series of stories alleged that Whisper tracked “anonymous” users and that it…
Begin: WordPress Article Content If the rise of anonymous apps has proven anything, it’s that humans can be ugly creatures when the social pressures that keep our baser natures in check are removed, and we’re allowed to share our darker sentiments and thoughts – sometimes, for nothing more than the cheap thrill of knowing they’ve caused others outrage. Case…
February 21, 2015 Weather: An Immediate, Personalized Form Of Breaking News We Can All Learn From It’s snowing in DC. I’m not going to write a long note today, but if you get a chance today, take a look at the Capital Weather Gang Twitter feed. You’ll notice that most of the information is crowdsourced from…
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com By Nolan Feeney, TIME Scribd, an e-book and audiobook subscription service that has been likened to a “Netflix NFLX for books,” is now expanding to comic books. Subscribers will have access to more than 10,000 comic books, in addition to…
The best virtual plant-growing app seed capital can buy? (Ice Water Games) Soon, all you’ll need to enjoy the exciting experience of watching plants grow is an app. At least, that appears to be the idea behind Viridi, a project in development from Ice Water Games. The developer describes Viridi as “a meditative potted plant app”…
I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted everyone for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something, offhand, while…
Pushbullet isn’t new, but since I installed it maybe a year ago, it has sneakily gotten a lot better, especially for Android phones. And as I used to it to text from my browser for the umpteenth time yesterday, it struck me how great it’s really become. So maybe you’ve heard already but let me…