That said, the crew at TechCrunch have found better luck, who describe the ability to easily navigate through a stream of news and photos with a quick tilt of the head.
EveryBlock.com pulls in government documents -- health inspections, building permits and crime reports -- as well as news articles and photos from sites such as Flickr to make news feeds with an extreme local focus.
Buzz, unveiled Tuesday, is a service based in Google's Gmail that lets you share status updates and links to other media, like videos, news stories and photos, with friends and colleagues.
Has live updates with news, photos and social commentary from the Games, plus integrates with Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare.
There's also a new screensaver called Daydream that offers up news, photos and other content when a device is docked or idle.
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Other sites host all its news, photos and videos, which means people like myself get to deal with the fallout of being linked from its Internet traffic-spewing homepage.
That certainly provides a goldmine of data to marketers, and it also creates some great aggregate content for regular web civilians who want to browse the most popular news, videos and photos on the web.
Second, the email-to-print concept clearly has the potential to drive new kinds of usage, both from business users and consumers who do things like print photos and news.
Other Orchard software allows record labels to publicize artist news, tour photos and other information.
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It provides a new Facebook-focused home screen that puts instant messages, news feed updates, and photos front and center on the smartphone home screen.
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On China's Internet, blogs, bulletin boards and news sites carry photos of automobiles jerry-rigged to run on railroad tracks ("shanzhai trains"), fluffy dogs trimmed and dyed to look like the national mascot ("shanzhai pandas") and models of the Beijing Olympic Games' National Stadium made out of sticks ("shanzhai Bird's Nest").
Paul thought a cookbook filled with family photos, news and their personal philosophy would fill the bill.
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Our PC became a base station for news, photos, songs and movies, as well as a manipulator of words and numbers.
Samsung is delivering with an Apple-esque approach, allowing users to get news, sports, weather and photos on their TVs through a series of simple widgets powered by Yahoo!
Photographs showing a young woman identified as Kekua in online tributes and news reports actually are photos from social media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua and does not have leukemia, according to Deadspin.
You see, almost 50 percent of the content in News Feed is now photos, and almost 30 percent of content comes from Pages.
Click on any show and you pull up related clips, photos, tweets, Web links, news, bios, on and on.
The design includes an emphasis on larger photos and images in the News Feed.
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This summer they have aggressively promoted bundles of mobile data services, including news updates, games and the ability to send still photos (but not live video).
What he and other critics may have missed is that a big part of the new bias in the News Feed is towards posts that contain large photos and videos.
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These pictures are not news photos, they are reflections of the journey and those he met along the way.
You could see Flickr photos, recent muggings, local news stories and home foreclosures on your street, viewed as a map, list or RSS feed.
Almost immediately, FB users globally (in dozens of languages) posted updates, videos, photos, news links, donation requests, and millions of prayers and notes of sympathy.
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The first tab that opens to the user is the general overview of the results, which includes the latest news and stories on Mr. Jackson, as well as a link to his official site and a number of photos.
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Message someone over the site and, depending on your privacy settings, he may be a click away from your photos and your entire profile, including news articles you have shared and pictures of that party you were at last night.
With the SuperNova whether at work or at play users can surf the web, check email, read the latest best seller, check out popular social media sites, catch up on the news or entertainment, look at family vacation photos, and more.
The University of Maryland archives has all the photos from the Baltimore News American, about one and a half million, and a one million piece postcard archive going back to the turn of the century.
Companies that have done it right, she says, include Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ), which invited Converse customers to send in video of themselves talking about their favorite experiences with its sneakers, and Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) Mazda unit, which requested photos and video clips from people that creatively show what the company's cars and "Zoom-Zoom" slogan mean to them.
Finally, for those of you whose engagement and reach increases when you publish photographs, you should appreciate the more vibrant look and feel of your published photos once they hit the News Feed.
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This week Goldman posted a batch of his photos on Reddit, the social news site where members create and run their own forums on topics of their choice and user clicks determine the popularity of posts.
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