Twitter Developing New 'Buy' Button, Turning Itself Into Online Shopping Mall

    Twitter recently has begun developing a new "Buy" button which would make Twitter an online marketplace that would allow its users to do business through tweeting. Creating a social networking site that also is conducting business, easy as clicking on a tweet and hitting the buy button.

     According to Twitter a "small percentage" of users will start to see the "Buy" button in their tweets and they will continue to release slowly to more and more users as time goes on. This will be the first large scale social networking site that convert into a sort of e-commerce engine. Although Facebook has begun development with a "Buy" button no public version of it has been seen yet. I wonder how effective  it will be or if it will turn these social networking sites into pure ad-agencies. Businesses will clearly flock to it and we will be getting flooding with ads not only on our side bars around the body of our page but now also in the body as well. Doesn't that sounds fun?
   
     However, there will be countless benefits if local businesses can effectively use the program and make it even easier to simply buy everything you see in just a few clicks. Twitter stated in a blog post "in our building functionality into Twitter to make shopping from mobile devices convenient and easy, hopefully even fun." so at least twitter has good intentions for the change but hopefully it is seen that way by its users.

When you click Twitter's Buy button, you are asked to enter your payment and shipping information. Once this is confirmed the merchant will start getting your purchase ready for mailing. The key is that you will be able to do this in a couple taps once you complete your first purchase as your information will be stored on Twitter servers making purchases extremely simple.
Now it's just time to see how the users view this change and that is all that will matter in the end.
  





Sources: Wired

Instagram's New App, Hyperlapse Feels Like a $10,000 Video Setup in Your Hand

      The creators of Instagram are releasing their new app known as Hyperlapse  which is an app that enables the user to take video and turn it into tracking shots and fast, time-lapse videos almost to look as they were shot by a professional in a Michael Mann film which was previously only possible with a Steadicam. This will only be available to the iPhone at launch which was on August 26th, but they are working quickly to make it available for Android phones as well. As you can see in the video below Hyperlapse not only makes the video move quickly but also stabilizes the video to eliminate the jumpiness that can come from hand-held video.

                                       

   
     Hyperlapse is looking to become simply a video speed edit app with smoothing capabilities and will allow users creativity to run rampant with the ability to increase a videos speed up to 12x while making the video smooth as silk. A lot of people are asking why it has been released as a standalone app and not a new feature of Instagram and the answer is that Hyperlapse will not have all of the features of Instagram such as filters. Hyperlapse comes with ony filter and that is a speed filter which allows you to alter the videos from 1x to 12x and once that is set you can quickly upload the video to Facebook or Instagram.

   

     Upon opening the app you will see that the first page is simply a video recorder with a record button and when the video is finished you simply test the different speeds that are available and when you are finished the app quickly renders the video and can enable the user to fit up to a 12 minute video into 1 minute.

     The reason that this kind of technology is now available on phones is because they have created algorithms that use a fraction of the battery life to run the app as they would have several years ago where a iPhone would not have had the raw power to run something so powerful. Now that we can create videos that $10,000 equipment used to be required to make the possibilities of what we will see coming out on Facebook and Instagram are endless.

     It is still to early to tell whether or not this will become something that is used by people in everyday or only fit to a certain niche of people in the industry but it will be fun to see where Hyperlapse ends up in the next few years and if it will truly be used to it's full potential by its users.

Download Hyperlapse Here

More Videos: Introducing Hyperlapse from Instagram

                    Stabilization for Hyperlapse from Instagram

    

                                                 

Daily Grind

     Each day, we wake up and go straight to business. The 9-5 Monday-Friday work week we all dread and has us all saying "Can't wait for the weekend!". If we all hate this lifestyle so much it just made me wonder why do we force ourselves to do it? Why not just move to Greece and live off of the land and provide for yourself without having to worry about how much your paycheck is going to be from week to week. Is this way of life so amazing that we all just want to go out and fist pump every Saturday night. I know I don't. When it all starts to make sense the reason we work so hard day after day is because we are motivated by something. Whether it be starting a family, being the richest of the rich or just having enough to get by and enjoy life in your own way. All of these things that motivate us to work require money and as unfortunate as it is we are controlled by it. Each day the daily grind gets us, countless Facebook posts on how everyone hates waking up early or updates saying how happy they are that the day is over and the weekend is coming. We all need to make sure that we are playing as hard as we are working though, each of us has to work but in the long run the truth is all work and no play makes each of us boring as it gets. Eventually we all want to retire and never work another day in our life so I encourage not only myself but also everyone to continue working hard and step at a time make this world a better place, get our economy out of the dumps and make enough money for all of us to retire and party all day everyday! Hard work pays off, pay now and play later!