?The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.? Evan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month. Snapchat?is #12 on the free iOS photo app charts in the U.S. and?just scored some mainstream media attention in The New York Times.?Plus, we hear that Snapchat has also impressed Facebook’s internal product leadership and even Zuck himself. Why? Snapchat is a photo-sharing app that changes privacy norms in a very novel way. The free app allows users to send others photos and control how long receivers can see them. These photos last for up to 10 seconds, before they disappear forever. ?It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet everyone decided everything should stick around forever,? Spiegel said. ?I think our application makes?communication a lot more human and natural.”
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Airbnb had a fairly good 2011 despite a few troubles, and as it goes into 2012 the accommodations-finding web service is expanding its mobile outreach, starting with an Android app.
The service formerly was only available online and on Apple?s iOS platform, where it has had an app available for about a year. But in expanding to Android, as TechCrunch reports, Airbnb has reworked its entire mobile experience with an eye toward reaching more customers and providing more services. While the iPhone app has been popular, seeing some 500,000 downloads and around 125,000 active users of the social service, Airbnb says its biggest complaint has been the lack of an Android app.
Airbnb is technically a travel app, although it doesn?t help facilitate flights or car rentals like others in the category. Instead, Airbnb focuses on helping users find accommodations when they arrive, and it does so through a bit of social networking. It?s a ?community marketplace,? meaning users log-in to both offer accommodations and to find and book them. That allows Airbnb to show off places to stay that have some pretty reasonable prices, and it also touts the ability to book your accommodations day-of through the app or website.
In making the jump to Android, which the company notes enjoys some 48 percent of the smartphone market worldwide, Airbnb hopes to expand to become more of a global service. Already the app covers more than 19,000 cities in 192 countries, and it?s expecting its user base to double with the expansion to Android with compatibility for more than 100 devices and in five different languages.
The Android app offers users a lot of quick and easy functions, as well. It?s possible to make reservations, decline reservations, message users and post about properties and accommodations on offer through the app, set prices and keep track of guests. Airbnb has also reworked its web app for mobile as well ? so even if you don?t have the Android native app, you can still use your smartphone or tablet to make use of a host of features through a mobile web browser.
Airbnb saw some success and some failures in 2011, with a bit of a PR debacle that resulted after a guest trashed the home of someone using the service to supply accommodations. But after the initial struggle by the customer to get help from Airbnb?s side, the issue was resolved and the company has strengthened its efforts both in terms of safety and support. Airbnb has had time to learn from its mistakes and to make its entire service better before jumping to Android, and users should benefit from the time spent learning the ropes on iOS before expanding to the larger user base on Google?s platform. And it sounds like there are even more updates in the pipe that will continue to expand Airbnb?s service.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Turning 60 and celebrating 25 years as a solo performer, Sting has done what no other musician has done before — he made an “appumentary” for the iPad.
The Apple Inc app is the first to capture an artist’s body of work, performances, interviews and biographical memorabilia and put it on an electronic tablet.
The Sting 25 app is free from the App Store on iPad.
“It’s the first of a kind,” the singer said at the Apple Store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Monday night.
“Today is my digital re-birth. The app is a model for future delivery of music,” he said, before playing his haunting song “Fragile,” which he dedicated to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last month.
“I’m sorry he’s not here, since he shaped all our futures,” Sting said of the man who revolutionized how people listen to music, through the iPod.
The British-born bassist and composer for the rock band The Police launched a solo career a quarter-century ago, and the Sting 25 app coincides with a new box set, “Sting:25 Years.”
“This app encompasses my entire solo career. It’s a scrapbook for the digital age,” he said.
“I felt like an archeologist in a way, going through years and years of material, excavating these pieces of history, to put together the box set.
“We initially considered some sort of documentary, but the idea developed into something much more compelling and dynamic,” he said.
Described as “an appumentary” by Apple, the app explores Sting’s solo career, including his musical influences and environmental activism. There are photos, handwritten lyrics and journal entries, interviews and even 360-degree images of his instruments, including his battered old bass guitar.
There is also concert footage, including from his 60th birthday celebration last month in New York, with performances by Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and a dynamic duet with Lady Gaga of “King of Pain.”
“This appumentary harnesses the display and multi-touch capabilities of iPad to tell a much richer story than you could using a single medium,” said Justin Wilkes, the app’s executive producer.
“The narrative behind Sting’s journey as a songwriter and a solo artist is as layered as this app, which is why he was the perfect subject to collaborate with for this new approach to storytelling.”
(Reporting by Steve James; editing by Chris Michaud and Jill Serjeant)
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With all the Google TV news the past few days, we wanted to let you guys know about Redux. Back at Google I/O Redux was featured by Google as something Google TV was all about — quality content you can view right in your living room via Google TV. Their HTML 5 app has been in the GTV spotlight (Google's app picks for the Google TV platform) for a while, and to be ready for the Honeycomb rollout, they already have their Android app ready in the Market. That's cool — Redux is ready for you, but what exactly is Redux? hit the break to find out, and get information where you can check it out right now.
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