Showing posts with label messaging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label messaging. Show all posts
Sunday, August 13, 2017
YouTube adds in app video sharing and messaging feature
YouTube adds in app video sharing and messaging feature
After being in test for over an year, YouTube is finally getting its in-app messaging feature. It had a soft launch in Canada earlier this year, and is now rolling out globally to all users.
With the messaging feature you can share your favorite videos with your friends and family directly within the app, instead of copy-and-paste the video link and then sharing on other chat apps. Users can also reply to the videos using text, links to other video and emojis.
Apart from sharing video, you can even chat with your friends, invite others to the conversation or create your own groups (up to 30 participants), just like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
The purpose of the new messaging feature is to keep discussion of videos within the YouTube platform to increase user engagement , rather than sharing in sites like Twitter and Facebook.
The messaging feature can be found on a brand new tab called "Shared" (near Home, Trending, Subscriptions and Library tabs) in the YouTube mobile app. You can select the friends you want to share the videos from the phone�s contacts. Currently the feature is only available for YouTube mobile app, and not for the desktop version.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Facebook pulls back Slingshot messaging app
Facebook recently launched its Snapchat-rivalling Slingshot app, before swiftly pulling it.
Facebook has been working on a video messaging app that matches the ephemeral tone of the hugely popular Snapchat.
Slingshot will apparently allow users to quickly send short video messages and photos to friends, the contents of which will then expire after a single view. You can also annotate these messages with text and other scribblings.
The app appears to be pretty much ready to roll, as someone at Facebook recently pushed the button for it to be set live on the App Store in a handful of countries.
However, the Slingshot app was pulled by Facebook shortly thereafter. A Facebook representative told The Verge that Slingshot’s publishing had been an accident.
"Earlier today, we accidentally released a version of Slingshot, a new app were working on," reads the statement. "With Slingshot, youll be able to share everyday moments with lots of people at once. Itll be ready soon and were excited for you to try it out."
According to the associated report, there’s one notable difference between Slingshot and Snapchat. Before you can access a message in Facebook’s effort, you have to send a message back to the sender. It’s a pretty obvious attempt to get users active on this new service.
Another noteworthy feature is the ability to hit a React button when viewing a message, which will instantly capture and send your reaction.
Facebook has had its eye on replicating the Snapchat formula for some time now. Not only did it fail with an earlier attempt in Poke, but it was claimed last year that the social network giant had attempted to purchase Snapchat itself for $3 billion.
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Facebook has been working on a video messaging app that matches the ephemeral tone of the hugely popular Snapchat.
Slingshot will apparently allow users to quickly send short video messages and photos to friends, the contents of which will then expire after a single view. You can also annotate these messages with text and other scribblings.
The app appears to be pretty much ready to roll, as someone at Facebook recently pushed the button for it to be set live on the App Store in a handful of countries.
However, the Slingshot app was pulled by Facebook shortly thereafter. A Facebook representative told The Verge that Slingshot’s publishing had been an accident.
"Earlier today, we accidentally released a version of Slingshot, a new app were working on," reads the statement. "With Slingshot, youll be able to share everyday moments with lots of people at once. Itll be ready soon and were excited for you to try it out."
According to the associated report, there’s one notable difference between Slingshot and Snapchat. Before you can access a message in Facebook’s effort, you have to send a message back to the sender. It’s a pretty obvious attempt to get users active on this new service.
Another noteworthy feature is the ability to hit a React button when viewing a message, which will instantly capture and send your reaction.
Facebook has had its eye on replicating the Snapchat formula for some time now. Not only did it fail with an earlier attempt in Poke, but it was claimed last year that the social network giant had attempted to purchase Snapchat itself for $3 billion.
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