| Google Introduces One Pass, a Micropayment Service for Publishers Although there have been rumors of Google's new micropayment system for publishers for some, the timing of this morning's news couldn't be better. Following Apple's announcement yesterday that it was rolling out its new subscription service, a move that seems to have sparked debate, if not panic among publishers and developers, Google has responded today with a new option for publishers, one that seems to offer far better terms, control, and pricing. Google has just introduced Google One Pass, a service that will let publishers set their own prices and terms for their online content.
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MapQuest Launches Android App with OpenStreetMap and Turn-By-Turn Navigation One of the superior apps on the Android phone has long been Google Maps, with its turn-by-turn and voice-guided navigation missing from the iPhone version. So on the surface, MapQuest has a difficult sell to Android users with the launch of its free app today. The MapQuest app also offers the turn-by-turn capabilities and takes advantage of Android's speech capabilities to offer a voice guide as well. The benefits of MapQuest over Google Maps comes from the former's use of OpenStreetMap (OSM), making the mapping app usable outside the U.S. and adding to it some user-submitted data.
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Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories Memorial site and service 1000Memories.com announces today that it has closed a $2.5 million Series A round of funding. The startup's list of investors is an impressive one, including Greylock Partners, Paul Buchheit, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Caterina Fake, Mike Maples, Chris Sacca, among others. 1000Memories is a website where friends and family can come together to remember someone who has passed. 1000Memories aims to create a permanent online place where people can come, share their stories, and remember the lives of their loved ones.
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A Round-Up of Reactions: Apple's Greedy, Anti-Competitive, Evil, Brilliant Announcement Apple this morning announced a new subscription service for all publishers of content-based apps. It's the same one we saw with recently-released iPad app "The Daily," but it's the previously untold details that are getting people riled up. And riled up they are. Like most things Apple does, today's announcement has caused waves of reactions from publishers, bloggers and mainstream media alike. From "Greedy" to "Brilliant, Brazen or Batsh*t Crazy" to "Anti-Competitive", Apple has been called a lot of things today and we're here to round up the backlash.
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CNN Announces iReport Awards for Participatory Journalism If you're a TV actor, you have the Emmy Awards. If you're a journalist, you have the Pulitzer Prize. But if you're a citizen reporter, what do you have? Nothing, until now. CNN announced today that it was launching the CNN iReport Awards "to honor the best examples of participatory journalism in 2010."
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TechDygest Summarizes Top Stories on Your Phone The free iPhone app for TechDygest has hit the iTunes app store and could be a good way for you to quickly catch up on technology news on the go. The app is similar to web aggregator Techmeme but with some additional features that really add to the user experience. For each news story, TechDygest aggregates coverage from multiple news sources, then offers up a paragraph from each source and links out to the originals. You can generally get a good high-level overview of the news items by looking at the headlines and reading the excerpted paragraphs. You can also get a feel for the tone of the various articles covering the story and pick which one to read based on that.
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OKGo's Latest: GPS iPhone Art There are some bands and artists that just seem to get the Web. They push out viral videos and digital art projects like it's their job. (These days, it is their job.) OK Go is one of those bands. OK Go, as we previously wrote, are "among the masters of the YouTube platform." Now the band has taken it a step further with a project that uses an iPhone app to track a user's GPS coordinates in real-time and plot them out on a map. The band has asked its fans to "be part of [its] global GPS art project" by using the app, taking pictures and video, and submitting it for compilation into "one big celebratory video."
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TweetLouder is a Fast Easy Way to Track Your Favorite Bands Tweetlouder is a new service that uses your Twitter account and your music listening history to connect you with Twitter and concert updates from all your favorite musicians in just a few clicks. It's a project of concert tracking startup SonicLiving. It was first demonstrated as a proof of concept at Twitter's developer conference, Chirp. I've been syncing my music listening history from Rdio and Spotify to Last.fm lately, so it was really easy to click click click and boom - there's the official Twitter accounts of all the bands I've been playing on those services. You can also sync with iTunes or Pandora. After I followed the bands it discovered on Twitter, I put them in a Twitter List, which I can now visit whenever I want to see some music updates. Cool. Thanks, Tweetlouder.
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Protesters Use Google Moderator to Brainstorm Egypt's Future Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who had an important role in Egypt's recent uprising, has used a product of his company to help sketch out the direction of the country's future. Ghonim has started a Google Moderator page for Egypt. Entitled, "Egypt 2.0, what does we need? What are our dreams?!" the page has 35,000 users so far. Together, they have listed more than 45,300 ideas.
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#Feb14: In Bahrain, Day of Rage Enters Second Day The "Day of Rage" washed over the Gulf nation of Bahrain yesterday. It has not abated. With two people killed by the police even those who weren't big supporters are starting to feel the original protesters' rage. Fadhel Ali Almatrook was killed by a short-range shotgun blast by a police officer. The other's name and situation are not yet known, but Bahrain's leader, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, apologized for "the death of our two sons."
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