Dining concierge Reserve now has Messenger-like ‘Conversation View’

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Restaurant-booking app Reserve today announced a new feature that will natively display your conversations with its concierge team on the app. Previously, when you made book requests on Reserve, you would get updates via SMS or booking confirmation notifications. Now, if you have specific requests, changes or simply want recommendations, you can chat with the concierge team and restaurant partners within the app. The tool is similar to Facebook Messenger Business, which allows users to talk to companies about their products, prices, availability, and eventually make purchases or track shipment. Reserve is hoping that with Conversation View, users will better see notifications and respond promptly,…

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You can now pay Snapchat to replay snaps that have disappeared

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Snapchat, the ephemeral app that’s super hip with the teens these days, has released a new update to its iOS and Android apps that will put a little more money in the company’s pocket. The company announced the details in a blog post. First, the company has introduced Lenses, specifically designed to help bring a little bit more pizazz to the seemingly endless parade of Snapchat selfies. Users can access Lenses when they flip to the front camera and press their face on the screen. They can be tried before the snap is taken, interchangeable like filters in Instagram. Additionally, the…

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Skype just made GIFs better by adding credits

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Skype’s latest feature, called Mojis, is a new option that allows you to send quick clips of popular movies and TV shows to friends… with a twist. The new Mojis will immediately make you think of GIFs — they basically serve the same purpose — but they’re really very short videos created exclusively for the service from popular content. A new option that appears in the emoticon menu within Skype that allows you to send Moji to friends. Right now it’s broken up into categories for individual TV shows and movies — during a demo I saw Top Gear, Kermit…

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On Android? Like running? Spotify just got better for you

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When Spotify got a big redesign back in May, one of the coolest new features was Spotify Running, a tool that selected music to match your running tempo. That feature has so far been limited to iOS users, but now the company is bringing the experience to Android as well. Once you start up Spotify Running, you simply need to jog for a couple of seconds to allow Spotify to get a sense of your pace via your phone’s motion sensors. The app will then pick a song out of its library whose beats per minute matches your steps per…

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CyberLink updates its Director suite of multimedia consumer apps for Windows

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Adobe has Creative Cloud, its cross-platform suite of apps specifically targeted to creative pros. But what’s out there for weekend photographers and videographers on the Windows platform? While there is no shortage of photo, audio and video apps for Windows, CyberLink’s PowerDirector multimedia series caters to the enthusiast crowd that prefers, like Adobe users, to have all their tools interoperable. It also doesn’t hurt if they come at an affordable price. Today, the company has launched brand new versions of its Director multimedia editing software, including PowerDirector 14, AudioDirector 6, ColorDirector 4 and PhotoDirector 7. All are sold separately as standalone products,…

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Square now lets you tweet political donations

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Square has teamed up with Twitter to let you easily send cash donations to US presidential and local campaigns that you support. Once a candidate has signed up for Square’s new program, they can then tweet a unique URL called a Cashtag to request donations from their followers. Candidates can sign up to Square’s program and tweet actionable requests for donations The tweet includes a button that donors can click to initiate a payment using their debit card and FEC-required information. Twitter’s head of political advertising sales Jenna Golden said, “We want people to have the opportunity to utilize this…

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Facebook is going to make it hard to avoid your annoying friends’ terrible parties

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Facebook already added read receipts to Messenger making it hard to avoid boring people who somehow still clutter your ‘friends’ list, now it wants to make Events just as tedious. According to The Daily Dot, Events read receipts will give hosts the ability to see who has opened their invites and checked updates on an event page. They’ll be visible on mobile and desktop. This is what Facebook’s new friendship destruction device (event read receipts) looks like http://pic.twitter.com/Nv1IZfnCJ6 — Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) September 14, 2015 A Facebook spokesperson told the Daily Dot: “We’re piloting the ability for private event hosts and guests to know…

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Opera’s desktop browser now syncs your passwords across computers

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The latest version of Opera’s desktop browser packs a number of new features, including password sync across your computers. The browser will now let you sync your login details for all the sites you’ve signed up with and make them available on any Opera browser you’re signed into. With that, its syncing capabilities that previously supported bookmarks, tabs and browser settings are now on par with Chrome and Firefox. In addition to syncing your bookmarks and tabs, Opera can now sync your passwords too It’s also introducing animated themes that loops short video clips on the backgrounds of new tabs.…

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Twitter for the Web is down

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Twitter is having some technical difficulties – its Web portal is down for many users, including several of us here at The Next Web. If you try to access Twitter.comhttp://Twitter.com via a browser, you’ll get generic an error message noting something is wrong and that Twitter is working on a fix. However, mobile apps and Tweetdeck appear to be working fine, as do other parts of Twitter’s website, such as its Support Center. We’re contacting Twitter for more information and will update this post when we hear back.








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