Oct 24
Vine rolled out an app update today with two new features designed to help users shoot better video. According to the company’s blog post, Vine added features it’s calling Sessions and Time Travel — which are tools to save posts …
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Oct 09
Windows Phone 8 Vine App Leaked?
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It was sometime earlier this week when there was an update released for the official Twitter app on the Windows Phone 8 platform, which brought along with it a bunch of features. It seems that we might have received more than what we bargained for, as it has been speculated that Twitter could very well have unveiled something extra that it wanted to keep under wraps originally – and we are referring to an official Vine video clip app for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 OS.
In Twitter’s blog post, there was an image that pointed to a Vine Live title in the Windows Phone 8 render, and I suppose this “mistake” was discovered in the nick of time, since Twitter did take steps to rectify that by removing the image from the blog post, but the Internet has a memory now, with a quick search of Google’s web search cache pointing out to the existence of such an image. Not only that, a similar image has also made an appearance over on Windows Phone Store Twitter pages that are in other countries. I suppose this means that the official Vine app for Windows Phone 8 is ready to rock and roll, and all we need to do now is wait for an official announcement for things to move along officially.
Windows Phone 8 Vine App Leaked? original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 24
Line is all about stickers. Or adorable mascots. Or stickers of said adorable mascots. But this time around, it’s looking to tap into that rich Vine vein of short video-clip sharing. Initially on iOS (but Android will get the feature soon), you can now craft a 4-10 second short, with the ability to add your own choice of music in the background. The Snap Movie (that’s what Line’s calling it) will then play, on loop, forever, on your own timeline within the app. The update also expands users’ photo and video-sharing capacity too and you can now make up to 100 albums (each housing 100 photos). If you’re not exactly sure how those mini-videos are going to work, Line’s been kind enough to offer up a free tutorial — and check out a Line-sanctioned video example after the break.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Via: TNW
Source: Line
Sep 18
Even if you don’t feel like coughing up the cash for either the iPhone 5c or iPhone 5s, those eligible for an update (that’s if you own an iPhone 4 or up, or an iPad 2 onward) can at least console themselves with iOS 7, which debuts today. Gone is the skeuomorphic design of the Forstall era, and in its place is a flatter interface that promises an entirely new experience for iOS devotees. As such, developers everywhere have been scrambling to get their apps redesigned to match the new mobile OS out of Cupertino. While we can’t possibly cover every update, we’ve compiled a quick list after the break of the more substantial app revamps that have come our way.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Apple
Source: Evernote, Flipboard, Foursquare, Shazam, Vimeo, Mailbox, Twitter, OpenTable, Simplenote, about.me
Sep 13
You could say that every Vine is a six-second short film but Airbnb stitched together a hundred Vines to tell one story. Yes, there are some jump cuts and stop motion involved. Yes, there is an inspirational soundtrack. And yes, it’s actually pretty good.
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Aug 27
Brace yourself to see every elementary-level experiment to ever hit a science fair. Earlier this month, GE held a competition asking people to pack as much science as possible into six second vines, and this is a compilation of the best ones.
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Aug 26
It seems that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has run into a bunch of issues, which would mean folks who wanted to spend the rest of today checking things out on Instagram or Vine in a leisurely manner would have had a rather rocky road to walk. Both services were apparently offline for more than an hour, and Instagram was the first between the two to acknowledge its issues on Twitter, while Vine was not too far behind – in less than an hour later, Vine too, reported that they had run into a brick wall themselves.
You could say that the “first flood” of tweets complaining about both services’ downtime begun at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, and needless to say, it only increased in intensity as users realized that they were unable to share photos of their food or carefully directed short videos (or some really crazy videos, it doesn’t matter). It seems that other services which also rely on AWS, namely Netflix, IFTTT, Heroku and Airbnb too, have run into similar outage issues earlier today. Instagram and Vine have already gotten their act together since, and it seems that the Netflix outage, too, is on its way to recovery, but IFTTT’s website still remains out of commission. Apparently, Amazon’s north Virginia data center seemed to be the cause of the problem, but it seems that these issues have been locked down and have been worked out already.
AWS Server Issues Affect Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 21
Vine proved you can do a lot with six seconds of video, and thanks to its latest Android update you can do even more. Version 1.3.4 brings a couple of usability fixes to help the world see your valiant attempts at short-form comedy, including @ mentions in posts and comments and autocompletion for hashtags. The changelog notes “other bugs fixes and improvements” too, but the takeaway here is that the Google version is just about on par with the iOS one. Now, could you please hurry along and make one of those rad stop-motion clips for us? Thanks.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Via: Vine (Twitter)
Source: Google Play
Aug 20
Twitter’s Vine video sharing service has just achieved yet another notable milestone – they managed to hit the fabled 40 million registered users mark, definitely an achievement worth trumpeting about, considering how the number of registered users it had earlier this year in June (just a couple of months or so ago) stood at a relatively paltry 13 million. Of course, statistics can be massaged and interpreted in various manners, but that is not to detract away from this 40 million accomplishment for the Vine team, as it has been speculated that the huge surge in registered users had something to do with an Android-powered version of the app.
Not only that, you can have a gazillion registered users, but how many of them are actually active? That is the question to ask if you want to know the actual popularity level of a particular service. Earlier in June, MarketingLand check out Topsy analytics, where they noted that the number of Vine shares dropped by a dramatic amount on June 20th, which happened to be the same day that Instagram rolled out their rival video service. It seems that Instagram is still leading the pack today, where it has approximately half a dozen more “tweets” per day compared to Vine, although one also ought to take into consideration that Instagram does offer photo sharing services in addition to video.
Vine Achieves 40 Million Registered Users Milestone original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 20
Vine has grown quickly since Twitter snapped it up, with any user of the microblogging site likely coming across one of the six-second videos on a regular basis. That rate of growth has been perhaps more rapid than realized, with Vine announcing today that it has reached – and exceeded – 40 million users, a […]
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