YouTube last night launched a service that converts existing uploaded videos to 3D. READ MORE
If you’ve ever wanted to edit video that you’ve shot but either haven’t had the time or the ability to do it, there’s a fun new automated service that just launched. Magisto is an Israel-based start-up that will take your unedited footage, run it through its sophisticated computer vision technology to pick out the best scenes, stabilize your images, remove excess “noise” and add smart effects and transitions that interact with the content in the video. READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session three: Entertain Us. READ MORE
You shoot that marketing video, embed it into your website, and click “update.” Don’t you wish you know how many people actually went to the video? Enter Vidyard. The start-up has designed a service that operates much like YouTube, but allows clients to view the analytics behind the embedded videos. Vidyard officially launched and will graduate from the prestigious Y Combinator incubator later this week. READ MORE
If you haven’t figured out why you keep hearing about Google+, there’s good reason the newest social network is hanging on. Defining “what’s the big deal,” after polling Google+ users, Mashable Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore wrote a piece for CNN in which he comes up with “10 Things it Does Better:” READ MORE
Google has begun launching a new badge program for celebrities, public figures, and others who have been added to many circles, to verify their identities on Google+. READ MORE
The National Music Publishers Association, which represents songwriters and music publishers, has reached a settlement with YouTube after four years of litigation. Songwriters and music publishers will begin to receive royalties when their work appears on YouTube as a result of the settlement. READ MORE
If you’re not a heavy Google Docs user you probably aren’t familiar with how the service has evolved in the two years it’s been out of beta and how you could be putting the free Web-based office suite to use for your business. If that description fits you, you’re in luck. Howard Wen, writing for Computerworld, recently wrote a thorough review of Google Docs features and functions. READ MORE
GlobalMeet, which was launched in February and already has more than 20,000 people using its Web conferencing service, now has new pricing, features and a mobile app available at the iTunes store. With plans that start at $29 a month, GlobalMeet can be used for Web and audio meetings with no software downloads for meeting guests and a “connect me” feature that calls participants automatically without using dial-in numbers and passcodes. READ MORE
If you’ve been promoting your business Facebook page and Twitter account you’re not alone. Companies increasingly are running online ads that focus less on pitching their products and more on highlighting their social accounts, writes Andrew Adam Newman for the New York Times. READ MORE
