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Huffington Post and Jill Abramson Teaming Up?

       The Huffington Post, journalist Steven Brill and former executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson are in talks about starting a new journalism website. 

Useful Apps for A Freelance Journalist

Freelance journalists have the luxury of working from home. Working from home can have a downside; with distractions all around it's hard to keep your focus. 

Drone Ace : The New Drone App

If you are like me, obessed with drones and how they are affecting the new age of journalism then this exiciting new app will interest you as well ! 

 

DRONE ACE is a brand new and happening application that allows journalist to control their drones using their favoritie device- their phones !  

Drone Ace 2.0 has been voted the higest rating cellular application that allows user to control drones. This app offers video recording, picture taking, flight animation, LED light control and has the most customizable features of any drone applicatiopn ever made. This app has been called the most customizable drone control center by drone-apps.com. 

 

 

The tweet stated by Ezra Zygmuntowicz expessed his opinion about the drone ace App in comparision to drone's oem (original equipment manafactuer) app.   The oem that comes default with the drone is the Drone "FreeFlight" application that could be used onany cellular device.  

Drone-apps.com features webpage that contains all these videos about the new and cool drone Ace app. One of the coolest features of the Drone Ace app is the free flight feature and was premiered on the  2.0 version of the application. 

Below is a video of how to successfully navigate and control your drone using the new Drone Ace.

    

 

Revolutionary application like this one are helping to change how we use drones and that is helping us in better understanding the world.

 

 

 

 

Global Media News Webcast #10: November 20, 2014

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• Google Camera: An Android Photo App for Journalism?
• Upshot:  Journalism by the Numbers from the New York Times
• Reuters' TV App: News Video for the Youth Market?
• Covering ISIS through Social Media?
• Instagram: More Popular with Journalists
• Is MySpace still a Thing?
• FaceBook For Work?  Is LinkedIn Scaring Facebook?
• YikYak on Campus:  Are Anonymous Social Media a Problem?
• Aspiring Journalist: Can You Turn your Social Media Skills into a Career?
• YouTube's New Music Key:  Are We Going to Pay for It?

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SnapCash

Snapchat unveiled Snapcash on Monday, a new payments feature that allows users to send and receive money from friends through the app’s private messaging service, CEO Evan Spiegel told Re/code. The new tool is powered by payments company Square, which operates its own similar service called Square Cash that allows people to send and receive money through its Cash app or email. 

This new system of money seems rather simple for Snapchat users but this is something entirely new for Snapchat heading down a road theyve never been before.

(recode.net)

 

As Snapchat’s partner, Square will be responsible for storing all user bank and debit card information, Spiegel says, meaning none of the personal financial information from Snapchat users will reside on Snapchat servers. When a user signs up for Snapcash, they’ll be creating a Square Cash account at the same time and agreeing to Square’s terms of service, according to Square spokesperson.

This can be viewed as a risk for Snapchat users, because you don't know if you can trust Snapchat or Square with your money. Although Snapchat servers will not  be in charge of the money aspect they still have had a bad reputation in the past with having pictures leaked, now they are handling your money? You can see my concern with this system. 

Snapchat is trying to make this appealing, they have already sent users a video for the launch of Snapcash that may be flashy but doesn't seem very detailed, and does not really elaborate on what their users must agree to in order to use the app. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwjxBmMszQ

Michael Kors is Converting Likes Into Sales On Instagram

    In regards to fashion media, it is not a surprise to see Michael Kors at the top of the list. According to Quartz "the designer has 16 million fans on Facebook, and 2.4 million on Twitter. On Instagram—where he has 3.1 million fans—he just made moves to convert his “likes” to actual sales."

     Michael Kors plans on converting his "likes" on his Instagram page into actual sales. How he plans on doing this? Its quite simply and brilliant, according to Quartz "as of today, fans of the brand can sign up for a program called #InstaKors. Once registered, followers who click to like a photo carrying the #InstaKors hashtag on the designer’s Instagram account will receive an email with a direct link to buy the featured products."

    This is closest thing to a buy button Instagram has seen when it comes to marketing and advertising products on their social media platform. While most of Kors competition such as Gucci and Luis Vuitton is still struggling with online sales. Kors decided to use his social media fan base to his advantage by utilizing apps such as Instagram to reach another healthily growing audience: mobile. It is going to be interesting to see how #InstaKors plays out and if this will ultimately lead to Instagram creating a buy button?

Now You Can Send Money Through Snapchat

    Snapchat used to be a platform to send naked pictures but this popular messaging application has came very far from that. You can now link your Snapchat to your bank account and you are now able to send money to your Snapchat friends. 

What is "Facebook at Work"?

Facebook is now working on completely extending their network?! So the rumors say.

They’re calling it “Facebook at work” where companies will have the opportunity to work through Facebook to communicate within the their business with there colleagues. This Network is going to be very similar to the current network that we’re already used to, it will still have the regular newsfeed, groups and messaging capability, but according to Mashable.com. It will also include collaborative tools for work on shared documents.

"Facebook at work" will be completely separated from personal accounts and strictly for work, not for personal use. Although Facebook has not yet spoke out to the public about this new project, it has been spread throughout the media and has a lot of journalists and the public speaking about it. Some of the companies this network would be competing with are Google, Microsoft, Linkedin, Box, etc.

At the moment it’s hard to tell whether Facebook will succeed in this project since there are so many other programs already that do what they are supposed to be planning on. We would just have to wait and see the outcome! I'm sure many are excited. 

Peg it with Newspeg!

Do you ever see so many news stories and wish you could save them all to read for later? Well with Newspeg, you can do all that.