Apple picker Twitter will allow you to upload longer videos, Intagram has 500 million active users, Facebook will soon use elements from MSQRD, WhatsApp is celebrating success with calls, Microsoft has released applications SharePoint and Flow, and Tweetbot and Dropbox are coming to iOS with new functions. Read App Week 25 to learn more.
News from the world of applications
Twitter and Vine expand maximum video length to two minutes (21/6)
Vine is a social network whose identity is defined by six-second repeating videos. Twitter, the owner of Vine, has decided to change this a bit.
Vine, first to selected "leaders" and later to all users, will make available the ability to share videos of up to two minutes in length, but six-second clips will remain the standard. This means that Vine will display six-second repeating clips as you scroll. For those where their creators have taken a longer recording, there will be a "show more" button that will launch the new full screen mode. In it, a longer video will be played, and after it ends, the user will be offered other similar videos.
In conjunction with this, Twitter is also expanding the maximum video length to two minutes. A new "Engage" app was also introduced for Vineu users, aimed primarily at more frequent content creators. It will provide them with statistics regarding individual videos and the account as a whole.
Source: The Next Web
Instagram has 500 million monthly active users (June 21)
Although Instagram currently remains somewhat outside the mainstream of social services with its concept of still photos and short videos with photo effects, its popularity continues to grow. This week it announced that it has 500 million monthly and 300 million daily active users. 80% of them are located outside the US.
Instagram last shared its popularity statistics in September of last year, when it had 400 million monthly active users. So the growth of this social network is really fast and it will be interesting to see where it can stop.
Source: The Next Web
Facebook Live will soon be enriched with dynamic masks (23/6)
In March this year Facebook bought Masquerade, the company behind MSQRD. It did this with the intention of competing as best as possible with Snapchat and its animated dynamic effects that track objects in the image and apply animated elements to them. Facebook has now gradually started implementing MSQRD with very similar functionality into Facebook Live video broadcasts.
Facebook also announced that in the second half of the summer, broadcasting users will be able to invite other broadcasters to their stream, broadcasts will be able to be planned in advance, and the audience will thus be able to wait and chat at the beginning. These features will be made available to verified sites first, but the general public should see it soon after.
Source: The Verge
WhatsApp also celebrates success with voice calls (June 23)
Another Facebook service also announced its success in the past week. WhatsApp introduced voice calls in April last year and now averages 100 million calls per day. Since it has WhatsApp billion users, this number may not seem that high. But the much more established Skype has 300 million monthly users, so it's quite possible that it makes fewer calls per day than WhatsApp.
Source: The Next Web
New applications
Microsoft introduced two iOS applications, Flow and SharePoint
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In April this year, Microsoft introduced a new service called "Flow", which allows the creation of automated sets of actions connecting the capabilities of many different cloud services. For example, the user can create a "flow" that sends him the selected current weather forecast in an SMS message or another that, after saving a new document within Office 365, automatically uploads the file to SharePoint as well. Now Microsoft has introduced an iOS app to manage these automations. In it, you can view which actions are currently running or which have encountered a problem (and find out what the problem is). The application can also turn automations on and off, but not yet create and edit them.
Microsoft SharePoint is a service for working inside corporate networks and it is therefore mainly oriented towards the corporate sphere. SharePoint for iOS makes this service available on mobile devices. The app works with SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016 and allows you to switch between multiple accounts. It is used to access company websites, view their content sorted according to various criteria, collaborate and search.
Microsoft has also updated the app OneDrive and added support for SharePoint for iOS to it.
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Important update
Tweetbot comes with filters
Twitter client Tweetbot for iOS received an update this week that enriched it with a new feature called "Filters". Thanks to it, the user can set various filters and thus only browse tweets that meet the given criteria. You can filter based on keywords and whether tweets contain media, links, mentions, hashtags, quotes, retweets or replies. It is also possible to single out tweets only from people you follow. You can filter tweets that meet your criteria and see only them, or hide them and see all the others.
The user can access the new feature by tapping the funnel icon at the top of the screen, next to the search box. The nice thing is that you can filter anywhere across the application. On the other hand, the disadvantage is the fact that individual filters cannot be synchronized via iCloud for the time being. But let's hope that when the new product arrives on Mac, we will also see this function.
Dropbox has learned to scan documents, and wider sharing options have been added
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The official client for accessing cloud storage dropbox received some new features including a built-in document scanner. However, if you use automatic photo upload, you may not be completely happy with the update. To use this feature, it is now necessary to have the Dropbox desktop application installed or to be a Pro subscriber.
But let's get back to the news. An icon with a "+" symbol has been added to the bottom panel of the application, through which you can now access the built-in scanner. You can scan documents through a simple interface that does not lack edge detection or manual scan color settings. The resulting images can of course be easily saved to the cloud. But scanning is not the only innovation hidden under the icon. You can also initiate the creation of "office" documents directly in Dropbox, which will be automatically saved in Dropbox.
The Mac application has also received updates, which will now offer easier file sharing. If you now want to share content from Dropbox, it is enough to use the right mouse button in the Finder to access the wide sharing menu, where it is possible to distinguish whether the user will be able to edit the files or just view them. The possibility to comment on specific sections of documents was also added.
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