Microsoft Throws a Vine to Disaster Victims
Microsoft (MSFT) just started testing a new service, Vine, which is something like a Twitter for emergencies. It allows users to quickly notify neighbors when, say, a local river is about to flood or a...
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Jack Dorsey Still Has Pull at Twitter. Just Ask the Vine Guys.
Asa Mathat | AllThingsD.com Earlier this month Twitter bought Vine, a three-man video-sharing start-up that has yet to launch. Twitter may build its own video hosting system, so it’s possible Vine may...
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For Social Video Start-Up Threadlife, Shorter Is Better
The Valley still hasn’t cracked the secret to social video apps. And it isn’t for lack of trying. Since Facebook snapped up photo-sharing application Instagram for $750 million earlier this year, the...
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Vine, Twitter's Instagram for Video, Launching Soon -- At Apple's App Store
Yep, that was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo using video from Vine, the video-sharing startup he bought last fall, in a tweet he sent out today. And yes, that means Vine is ready to go. Perhaps as soon as...
View ArticleLike We Told You: Twitter's Vine Live in Apple's App Store
Vine, the video-sharing service that Twitter bought last year, is now live. Vine is supposed to be an “Instagram for video,” and links to Twitter but isn’t fully integrated into the service; for now,...
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Vine, Twitter's New Video-Sharing App, Gets Tangled Up on Launch Day
Updated at 1:10 PDT with additional information from Twitter. Sorry, Twitter — not every new product debut can go swimmingly. Vine, Twitter’s video sharing app which launched officially on Thursday...
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Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine, Twitter's New Video App
That was fast! Within hours of Twitter launching its Vine video-sharing application on Thursday, Facebook has cut off access to Vine’s “find people” feature, which lets used to let Vine users find...
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Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook's...
Yes, it’s possible to stay on top of the news entirely from within Twitter and Facebook … but it takes work. Following the right number of people (so as not to get overwhelmed) posting about a broad...
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Facebook's Platform Policy Explanation Only Raises More Questions
Facebook is hard to read. On the one hand, Mark Zuckerberg’s key line is, “making the world a more open and connected place.” And then we take a look back on the recent past and see a history of what...
View ArticleDays After Twitter's Vine Launch, Facebook Adds In-App Video Capture
Not more than a handful of days after Twitter launched its Vine video-sharing app, Facebook updated its main iOS application on Monday, adding the ability to capture and add video from inside the app....
View ArticleTwitter Acquires Mobile App Software Startup Crashlytics
Twitter has acquired Crashlytics, the company announced Monday, a crash reporting service that mobile apps use to gather data on software bugs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Though Twitter has...
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Twitter's Vine App Doesn't Have a Porn Problem. It Has a Porn Discovery Problem.
Twitter’s problem of the week isn’t that there’s porn on one of its services. It’s that the porn is a cinch to find. So, no, tweets haven’t become more lascivious than usual. Let me catch you up....
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BlackBerry, Hacking, Vine Porn and More: The AllThingsD Week in Review...
Happy Super Bowl weekend! In case you missed them and are bored waiting for the kickoff, here are the top 10 stories on AllThingsD from the week of 1/28: 1.) Twitter Hacked; 250,000 User Accounts...
View ArticleJon Stewart Solves Vine's Porn Problem
Remember Vine? Remember the Great Vine Porn Problem of Late January? Well, if it’s still bothering you, Jon Stewart has some advice. (Spoiler: It involves getting some perspective.) What’s that? You...
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Nudged by Apple, Twitter's Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine
We spent last week watching Vine, Twitter’s new video-sharing app, get raked over the coals in the public eye for its so-called “porn problem”: If you searched for certain suggestive hashtags on the...
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Qwiki Shuts Down Web Platform, Launches Social Mobile Video App
Mobile social video apps have been getting a lot of attention lately — if not for their porn problems, then for their sheer quantity. Now Qwiki’s getting in on the craze. If you’re not super familiar...
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Geek History, Facebook Glitches, the Surface Pro Reviewed and More: The...
Hello, and happy Read In the Bathtub Day! (AllThingsD takes no responsibility for any damage to your electronics caused by reading this post in the bathtub.) Here are our top 10 stories from the week...
View ArticleDay One at D: Dive Into Media 2013, in Pictures and Tweets
Greetings from Dana Point, Calif., where D: Dive Into Media 2013 is in full swing. We’ve been tweeting, Facebooking, Instagramming and Vining, and so have our wonderful attendees. Here’s what we (and...
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Vimeo Gets Its Own GIF App by Buying Echograph
Digital media question of the moment: What’s your GIF strategy? I don’t know why the digital hive mind has fixated on GIFs and GIF-like animations in the last year, and I don’t know how much longer...
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Albumatic Is a Photo-Sharing App With Vine Credentials, and You Might Use It
A new photo-sharing app? In 2013? Really? Yup, really. And if your memory goes back more than a few months, this will one will have multiple echoes from the past: Not only is Albumatic a new...
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