The mobile video-sharing field just got a little more crowded. Of course there's Vine and Instagram's new video feature and Rounds more for video chat. But now there's MixBit from the creators of YouTube. It's "all about mixing and editing video," the New York Times reports. The app and the site (MixBit.com) are "aimed at making it easy to clip and stitch together snippets of video. Simple tools … [Read more...] about New MixBit app for video-sharing & remixing
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Children’s library-on-a-tablet
In 2007 and '08, we took our kids, then 10 and 16, around the world, and we certainly could've used this technology and media then! Kids can bring along hundreds of books that take up no more space than a Kindle (introduced after we left on our 10-month trip August 2007) or the iPad, which debuted in 2010. A downside, though, might be parents having to ask kids what they're doing on their tablets … [Read more...] about Children’s library-on-a-tablet
Snapchat’s SnapKidz: All snap, no chat
It's an interesting experiment: The creators of Snapchat, the social app for sharing photos that disappear in seconds, have just introduced SnapKidz, a non-social photo app for kids under 13 with Apple mobile devices (it's not yet available for Android). So, true to its name, it's basically the snap without the chat. It's also the ephemeral photo-sharing app without the ephemeral part. Kids' … [Read more...] about Snapchat’s SnapKidz: All snap, no chat
Instagram adds video
Facebook's little photo-sharing app just became a video-sharing app too. Whether they're using Apple or Android phones, Instagram's 130 million users can now simply pick whether that image they want to capture is better static or in motion, then click on either the little camera or videocam icon (see the left-hand screenshot below). If they go with video, they can capture up to 15 seconds (no … [Read more...] about Instagram adds video
Video viewing increasingly ‘mobilized’
If it ever really did, screen size no longer has anything to do with the length of a video people will watch. "Smaller screens aren’t deterring people from watching more videos on their tablets and mobile phones," TheNextWeb.com reports. People of all ages are now doing more than half their "long-form video" viewing on these mobile devices, according to data from mobile video research firm Ooyala. … [Read more...] about Video viewing increasingly ‘mobilized’