YouTube Makes Video Creating Easier With iOS App

YouTube Capture is a new iOS app that allows users to film videos and then instantly share them on the web and various social media platforms.

The app will make it simpler for users to upload videos from their iPhone onto the video sharing website. Features of the app include the ability to edit videos, colour correction and stabilisation.
Free background music is also available from YouTube to add to videos as well as the ability to write a caption. Users are also reminded to rotate their phone to avoid vertical videos.
There is currently no Android version of the YouTube Capture app and the company has not yet said when one will become available.

The current iOS app for YouTube is for viewing purposes only but with an iPhone or iPad, users can already film videos and upload them onto the video sharing website.
The introduction of the new app comes after Apple had removed YouTube from being a standard app on iOS devices. The social platform then released an updated version of the app which featured a better selection of videos.






The app is set to be unveiled Monday afternoon.
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LinkedIn Presents “The Biggest Ideas Of 2013”

A selection of influential “thought leaders” have published essays on LinkedIn predicting the most significant developments to occur in 2013.

In October, LinkedIn began a feature allowing users to follow “influencers”: leading figures from the business and political world. The feature proved to be a great success, with Virgin founder Richard Branson passing the 1 million followers mark earlier this month.
In the run up to new year, LinkedIn has published articles written by some of these “thought leaders”, “chosen”, wrote Francesca Levy on the LinkedIn blog, “for their experience and smart perspectives.”

“We decided to harness that wisdom by polling the thought leaders, and the results were impressive. Industry heavyweights in finance, medicine, education, nonprofit, media and more replied enthusiastically to this challenge: What one issue, innovation or event will change the world in 2013? What’s the “big idea” you’ll be betting on?”

Among those chosen was the aforementioned Richard Branson, who wrote a controversial piece about the 40 year war on drugs. Branson described the work of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a movement that he is part of, in pushing for lighter sentences for drug-related offences and a focus on compassion for those addicted.



Inevitably, one essay was about the future of 3D printing, written by Inge Geerdens, a Belgian entrepeneur. She described the numerous opportunities that 3D printing could provide, but also hinted at a possible negative consequence: the speed and ease of 3D printing could make it very difficult to regulate, for example, the Wiki Weapons Project have already succeeded in partially printing a working assault rifle.

Other highlights included an informative essay about the importance of stress reduction by Adrianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, as well as ex-dragon James Khan’s “Why Young People Will Save The Economy”, a positive outlook on the future of finance.

Which is your favourite essay from the “Thought Leaders”? Who do you most disagree with?”
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Twitter Releases Photo Filters

A week after Instagram disabled full photo sharing on their mobile app, Twitter have released a photo filter service of their own.

Last week, Twitter users noticed that Instragram photos were being cropped on their Twitter feed. In a statement explaining the change, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told Mashable that Instagram had supported Twitter cards before because at the time they had a “minimal web presence”, but actually found the update “really confusing”.
“We’ve since launched several improvements to our website that allow users to directly engage with Instagram content through likes, comments, hashtags,” explained Systrom, “and now we believe the best experience is for us to link back to where the content lives."

After Instagram disabled the photo sharing service, Twitter had to act quickly to release their own in-app image editing software. They announced three days ago that they would hopefully have a photo filter available by the holidays, but managed to release something yesterday with the support of Aviary, an image-editing API firm.


“Starting today,” says Senior Designer Coleen Baik on the Twitter blog, “you’ll be able to edit and refine your photos, right from Twitter.” The photo filtering service is easily accessible from the tweet composition screen.

The app is not as versatile as it was with Instagram, but still has a few nifty features:

• Users can crop their photo or change it from landscape to portrait.
• Photos can be instantly enhanced at the touch of a button.
• There are several photo filters, including Warm, Vignette, Black & White and Vintage.

The Twitter photo filter is not yet available to all users, but should become so over the next few days.
Instagram, meanwhile, have just released their own update.



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