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Facebook is blowing away Google in referral traffic for BuzzFeed and its network of sites.
It gave this chart to Peter Kafka at Re/Code. Last year, Facebook really separated itself from Google in terms of traffic.
BuzzFeed is all about targeting Facebook, so naturally its going to get more traffic from Facebook. Still, the gap here is stunning.
Apple didn't do a Super Bowl ad, as some had suggested it might, but today it debuted a video designed to capture the spotlight all its own. The spot, which is a little over a minute long, is shot entirely on iPhone devices during one 24 hour period, by 15 camera crews. It was then edited on Macs back in LA, paring down over 70 hours of video into the final spot you see above.
The point? To demonstrate that you can do in one day using Apple's iPhone devices what it once took months and millions of dollars' worth of equipment to create. It also captures tons of people doing lots of creative things with Apple products, including building fully articulate robotic prosthetics controlled by an iPod touch, to a symphonic performance analyzed and monitored using an iMac.
The spot was edited by Angus Wall, a Hollywood editor who worked on Fight Club, Zodiac, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network to name a few, and longtime Apple ad man Lee Clow served as creative director. Clow, who was behind the famous '1984′ Super Bowl ad spot that borrowed themes from -- For more information read the original article here.
Pebble started shipping its new Pebble Steel hardware last week, but until today, the version of the companion app available to the general public didn't contain any of the version 2.0 goodness that granted access to the Pebble appstore. The new appstore is being billed as the “first open platform for sharing apps optimized for wearables” by Pebble, and as of today, it's available to the general Pebble-wearing public, so long as you've got an iOS device.
The Pebble appstore works with any Pebble running OS version 2.0, which you'll be prompted to install on your device when you download and install the updated Pebble app. You'll also get a completely new interface for managing your Pebble and the new apps you can install on it from within the software. As you can see in our review, the update introduces an app and watchface management tray that lets you see what's already on your Pebble (each smartwatch supports a maximum of 8 third-party apps and faces).
Pebble's new appstore features apps updated to work with SDK 2.0, and is divided into either apps or watchfaces, with subdivisions within each. The apps section features categories, including fitness apps and remotes, -- For more information read the original article here.
For the past couple years, Facebook has trained its mobile efforts on capturing various facets of social interaction. The social network has compartmentalized and optimized features (Messenger), mimicked the experiences of popular communication apps (Poke), and even tried a pseudo-OS (the still-remarkably-alive Facebook Home). But the company's latest effort, Paper, takes a hard left away from social interaction and into content curation — and that's not the most exciting thing it does.
Paper, created by a small group of developers, strips away nearly all vestiges of Facebook in both design and function. And, in doing so, it actually makes Facebook tolerable.
Lacking the social network's signature blue coloring and traditional layouts, Paper's series of cards feels more like Flipboard or Pocket than anything else. It's clearly trained on news, and its backbone of human curators means that quality filters in to the app's handful of categories. Users can pick and choose what they want to see, and receive both news stories and updates from relevant voices in the space. While scrolling through the “Tech” section, for example, I saw articles from The Verge and CNET as well as page updates from our own Om Malik. It's -- For more information read the original article here.
the nostalgic 'toy' car is completely drivable, reaching speeds up to 70mph.
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