Facebook Acquires Beluga. No Plans to Shut it Down.
As we all know, Facebook is notorious for acquiring companies simply for the talented folks that created them. This time, they’ve gone after the white whale of chat, Beluga. Since I heard about it, I’ve been using Beluga more and more for group messaging, so news of a Facebook acquisition concerned me. However, it seems [...]
Read MoreKik Provides Free Real-Time Texting Across Android, BlackBerry & iOS
Kik is a messaging application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. The service re-launched about two weeks ago and quickly jumped from 0 to 1,000,000 users: What an incredible couple of weeks. We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users, and at [...]
Read More12seconds Complete Redesign
I guess the 12seconds team felt that adding Twitter replies and DM’s to your feed wasn’t enough. They also didn’t think that upgrading the site to update in real-time was good enough. So, they have completely redesigned 12seconds.tv….all of it. The new layout is simpler, cleaner, and brings the focus back to the actual content. [...]
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