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- Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website
- Review: Samsung Galaxy S
- Is Punch Google's Swing At Microsoft Publisher?
| Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website | Top |
| A new option has just appeared in Twitter’s “Settings” menu called “Twitter Media.” This appears to indicate that inline image and video sharing is making its way to Twitter.com shortly. The option appears on my account, but checking the box does nothing so far. [update below] If this is indeed the case, Twitter is once again emulating some of the functionality third-party sites are building on top of Twitter. For example, one of Brizzly’s main selling points right now is the ability to show photos and videos inline in your tweet stream (though, to be fair, they go beyond that with other features and have Facebook integration too). We’ve reached out to Twitter for clarification on this feature. But, again, the wording seems to speak for itself: By default, you’ll only see images and videos shared by people you’re following, and reveal those by people you’re not. Check this box to see media from everyone on Twitter It’s worth noting that the “everyone” feature is not checked by default, meaning it’s opt-in, rather than opt-out. Obviously, that’s smart. I’m going to assume this means that if you opt-in, you’ll be able to see media from people you don’t follow who get retweeted or when you do a search. Otherwise, it may just be “revealed” that media is attached to that tweet. I can’t imagine Twitter would insert all the media shared on Twitter into your actual stream, that would be ridiculous. Or maybe opting in to this feature will give you a new sidebar menu to see media shared by everyone on Twitter. Update from Twitter: We’re constantly exploring features and settings. What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps. Update 2 : And the setting has just vanished from my account. Can’t imagine why :) CrunchBase Information Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Review: Samsung Galaxy S | Top |
| Samsung’s take on the large-format Android phone, the Galaxy S (with variants the AT&T Captivate, T-Mobile Vibrant, Verizon Fascinate, and Sprint Epic 4G) is going right up against the Droid X and Incredible, the EVO 4G, and of course the iPhone 4. Its features include lots of internal storage, a slim and sexy build, and Samsung’s vaunted 4″ AMOLED display. While it’s held back by a number of interface issues (which will be of different importance to different users), the Galaxy S line is a powerful and attractive one. Should you buy? Wait for 2.2? Wait for Galaxy S II? Read on for our full review. Continue reading… | |
| Is Punch Google's Swing At Microsoft Publisher? | Top |
| There’s a new mystery on the web today. In an otherwise boring video about “ Google Lookup in Google Docs ,” the search giant appears to have inadvertently revealed a new Google Docs product called “Punch.” So what on Earth is it? The blog Google Operating System (which spotted the feature) has its guess: “ Maybe Google Punch is a free-form document that lets you combine data from other documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms .” ReadWriteWeb expands on that a bit for a similar guess: “ Perhaps a Punch is a mix of functions and content intended for collaboration, more than for posting publishing like Google Pages is .” Both sound plausible, but we have another guess. Look at the icon for Punch. If you can’t see it in the blurry video, check out a higher resolution of it here on Google Doc’s servers (yes, it’s very real). As you can see, it’s some sort of screen in the background with a star-within-a-red-circle logo in the foreground. On that screen appears to be a humanoid figure holding something in its one hand closest to the logo. Or perhaps it’s punching something with that hand — hard to tell. Anyway, that icon most closely resembles the icon for Google Presentation, Google’s office presentation creation tool. This makes it seem as if whatever Punch is, it’s meant to be either used with Google Presentation, or it’s a tool meant to create things to be shown off in a similar way to Presentation documents. Could it be some sort of tool used for Presentation titles? Would that really necessitate its own tool? And what’s with the star? Another guess might be some sort of animation tool, but Google already has a Drawing tool in Docs, so we can likely rule that out. The key may be the humanoid figure on the screen in the icon. Google Presentation does not have such a figure in its icon. This might once again point to a more visual element of the tool. One thing we do know is that for as much as Google Docs has been catching up with Microsoft Office, they still don’t offer one tool that Office does: Microsoft Publisher . Sure, it’s smaller tool, but it’s still a part of the Office package. What is it? It’s sort of like Microsoft Word, but the emphasis is more on the visual side of document creation. “ Create visually compelling publications that are sure to impress, ” the official site reads. Wikipedia also notes that it’s “ a program mostly used for designing brochures, labels, calendars, greeting cards, business cards, newsletter, and postcards .” You can do some of that with Google Docs’ templates now, but there’s no simple app to do all of it. Does Google need such a tool? Who knows. But if they want to destroy Office, they’re going to need to attack it on all fronts, and that means creating a “Publisher-killer” too. Is that what Google Punch is? Maybe. Or maybe that’s also a big swing as a miss. CrunchBase Information Google Docs Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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