Meerkat leaves beta with version 1.0
Live video-stream app Meerkat graduated to a stable build this morning with its version 1.0 release, after a very short beta period. The premise of the app is simple. It allows you to live stream video from your phone to all your Twitter followers at once with one simple step.
Simply press “Stream” and your live stream is instantly shared and shows up on your followers’ Twitter feeds. If your followers have the app, they get a push notification, allowing them to watch the stream live, comment and interact with it via the app. The rules of Meerkat are pretty simple and they are as follows.
- Everything that happens on Meerkat happens on Twitter.
- Streams will be pushed to followers in real time via push notifications.
- People can only watch it live. There are no reruns.
- You can save your streams to your phone, but Meerkat will never keep them.
- Watchers can retweet any stream to their followers in real time.
- Everyone can watch on web.
- Be kind.
It’s really that simple. So if you’re using the app, be mindful of what you’re live-streaming. We have a QR and download link below. Enjoy!
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Meerkat leaves beta with version 1.0
Live video-stream app Meerkat graduated to a stable build this morning with its version 1.0 release, after a very short beta period. The premise of the app is simple. It allows you to live stream video from your phone to all your Twitter followers at once with one simple step.
Simply press “Stream” and your live stream is instantly shared and shows up on your followers’ Twitter feeds. If your followers have the app, they get a push notification, allowing them to watch the stream live, comment and interact with it via the app. The rules of Meerkat are pretty simple and they are as follows.
- Everything that happens on Meerkat happens on Twitter.
- Streams will be pushed to followers in real time via push notifications.
- People can only watch it live. There are no reruns.
- You can save your streams to your phone, but Meerkat will never keep them.
- Watchers can retweet any stream to their followers in real time.
- Everyone can watch on web.
- Be kind.
It’s really that simple. So if you’re using the app, be mindful of what you’re live-streaming. We have a QR and download link below. Enjoy!
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Browsing Twitter and Instagram in VR? Yup, it’s a thing
I know, you bought yourself a VR rig and never want to take it off. It’s the future, that’s natural! And with something like the Gear VR’s passthrough camera you don’t even need to remove the headset to do menial “real-world” chores like going to the bathroom, grabbing another Mountain Dew out of the fridge or some Doritos out of the cupboard. But what if you wanted to check your Twitter feed or see how many new likes that Instagram photo of hitting your activity goal on your Apple Watch got while avoiding meatspace? Have no fear folks, because with a new app called Swerve you’ll be able to do that without removing your Android VR system. The app puts Twitter into a 3D space and as VR Focus notes, you can peruse searches, mentions and hashtags too — apparently all in a cloud-filled skybox. Perfect.
The free app only handles the microblogging service for now, but Facebook’s photo network is coming “soon.” Hopefully that’s ready for Swerve’s launch sometime later this month (you can sign up for early access right now) and just in time for peak crossfit photo season. It only supports the likes of Google Cardboard for now, but hopefully Gear VR support’s being considered as well. You know, so we’ll never have to let actual reality get in the way of our virtual experiences again.
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Wearables, Software, Mobile
Via: VR Focus
Source: Swerve VR
Domino’s accepting hashtags and pizza emojis for orders
Ordering pizza once involved a telephone or an internet connection. Remember those days? Of course not! We have evolved. Domino’s, the pizza chain that supports smartwatches, wants customers to be able to order through Twitter. Simply have an online profile housed on the Domino’s site and enable the Easy Order option. Then use ‘#EasyOrder’ along with the pizza chain’s handle after jotting down an order.
Since Twitter limits the amount of characters in a Tweet, Domino’s has an alternative. The pizza emoji.
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Tweet a pizza emoji and Domino’s will send you a real one
Ordering your go-to Domino’s pizza just got a little easier — yes, even more so than using your XBox One or Pebble smartwatch. The restaurant chain announced Tuesday that its customers will soon be able to order their preferred pie with nary more than a tweet and an emoji. No, seriously. First you’ll need to have an online Domino’s Pizza Profile and designate an “Easy Order” pizza. Next, add your Twitter handle to your account and simply tweet #EasyOrder to @Dominos. Or, if that’s too many keystrokes for you liking, simply insert the pizza emoji into your tweet instead. Either way, you’ll soon get a direct message confirming the order and a piping-hot pizza shortly thereafter. You can give #EasyOrder a whirl today, though unfortunately the emoji method won’t to be available until next Wednesday, May 20th.
🍕🍕’🍕 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 🍕🍕🍕🍕. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 🍕🍕🍕.
– Domino’s Pizza (@dominos) May 12, 2015
Periscope no longer requires Twitter for sign ups
Periscope used to require Twitter integration, because the livestreaming app’s kinda, sorta owned by the social network. Yes, we did mean to say “used to,” because its latest version gives you the power to choose between a Twitter account and a phone number to sign up. You’ll still get user recommendations based on your Follow list if you register via Twitter, but that’s pretty much the only difference between the two. The new Periscope also allows you to swap profile pictures with snapshots in your Camera Roll and makes replying to comments during broadcast a one-tap affair. Finally, if you install the refreshed app from iTunes, know that every strike of your banhammer will be announced on the comments section. Periscope says that adds an “important layer of transparency and accountability” and could even make those with God complex think twice before hitting block.
Update: A reader got in touch and pointed out that Periscope’s new log-in system could be one of the first implementations of Twitter’s Digits. It’s a tool included in the company’s mobile development kit called Fabric launched in 2014, and it allows devs to add a “sign up with phone number” option to their apps. [Thanks, Bastian!]
Filed under: Misc
Source: Periscope (Medium)
Periscope will find live video streams near you
Sure, Twitter’s Periscope app will tell you which of your friends are streaming, but what if you want to find out who’s broadcasting the local baseball game? You won’t have that problem for much longer. Periscope chief Kayvon Beykpour has revealed that the app will soon get a way to find streams in a given area. It won’t be so precise that you can creep on others, but it could be helpful for following protests and other unfolding events without having to get a link from someone else. Beykpour suggests that the map-based browsing is coming soon, so you shouldn’t have to wait long before Periscope is as good at helping you discover streams as it is for watching them.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile
Source: TechCrunch
Meerkat breaks up with Twitter, jumps into bed with Facebook instead
If your social media startup uses Twitter as a link to the people, then you run the risk of getting your lifeline cut off should you get too popular. After all, Twitter tried to crowd Instagram out with Twitter Video, Picture Sharing and Vine, and the social network is now trying to supplant Meerkat with Periscope. It’s one of the reasons that, in its most recent update, Meerkat has broken its close association with the site, making a Twitter account entirely optional.
Even better, is that users can now post their live video streams to Facebook, and you’ll also be able to find users who are in your phone book. It’s previously been quite an issue, since Twitter cut off Meerkat’s access to the social graph, making finding your friends that little bit harder. The updated Meerkat is available in the App Store (or, you know, on your phone), and we can presume these features will also hit the Android beta at some point in the future, too.
[Image Credit: Getty]
Filed under: Internet, Facebook
Via: Venturebeat
Source: Meerkat (Medium)
Google+ opens a Twitter account
Yeah, we don’t really get it either.
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Source: @GooglePlus (Twitter)
Meerkat (Beta) finally comes to Android, available now in Google Play
Meerkat announced a couple of week ago that their live streaming app would be coming to Android in beta form soon, and that day is here. The beta version of the app is in the Play Store now for your downloading pleasure.
We were thinking that this would be released as an invite only, but it appears anyone can download it. Now obviously this app won’t be free of bugs since it’s in beta form, so your feedback is important. You can do this by swiping the screen (within the app) with two fingers, which will connect you to the Meerkat team.
Now just in case you aren’t familiar with Meerkat, it is a live video streaming app. Anything you film will go live to your Twitter followers. It has been on iOS for a while now, and was quite popular until Periscope crashed the party. However, Meerkat will get another boost with a lot of Android users since Periscope is iOS only for the time being.
Meerkat did post some rules on their app page……
- Everything that happens on Meerkat happens on Twitter.
- Streams will be pushed to followers in real time via push notifications.
- People can only watch it live. There are no reruns.
- You can save your streams to your phone, but Meerkat will never keep them.
- Watchers can retweet any stream to their followers in real time.
- Everyone can watch on web.
- Be kind.
Download link is below after a few screenshots.
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