Miscellaneous

Every now and then, early adopters, Apple lovers and tech enthusiasts gather around to hear what Apple and Tim Cook are going to reveal to the public.

I can’t wait for the Apple announcement today. Its like early Christmas! ????

— Matthew Santoro (@MatthewSantoro) September 9, 2015

On September 9, the Apple event 2015 took place and like usual, the iOS team got people talking, some positively others not so much. So, what were the biggest announcements and what were some of the comments by the public?

Are you on Instagram? Following the footsteps of its parent company, Facebook, the social media app has recently announced new and improved additions to its advertising section. Funny enough, Disney was one of the first to hop on the wagon and promote the trailer of “Big Hero 6“. Anthy Price, svp of media at Disney had this to say “We felt like we wanted to step up in a big way for Big Hero 6 and we’re excited about video.” Let’s dig deeper into the new additions:

Google has been making headlines for the past month. After introducing a new mother company, Alphabet, Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to change the leading engine’s logo for the biggest refresh the design has seen since the company’s introduction in 1998.

Iot or the Internet Of Things is a keyword that has been buzzing the tech community for a while now. In brief, it’s this new era we’re living in where objects and machineries can operate and transfer data without the use of humans. The most recent entry into the IoT is Hollie, the robotic bartender. Forget the Terminator, this robot can mix party cocktails and serve you from behind the bar. Let’s talk more about the bot, shall we?

How well are your Throwback Thursday posts on social media? Do you ever feel like shooting a retro video like those back in the 70s? Well now you can. The new app called VHS Camcorder allows you to shoot old school videos just like the old days. In other words: “bad quality recordings”. Let’s discuss it more shall we?

While Facebook’s serving 4 billion daily video views, Snapchat brings in 2 billion views a day and YouTube occupies millions of hours watched daily. However, almost all of the major social media platforms are jumping into the video game whether it’s Instagram,Twitter, Vine or tumblr, in this blog post we’ll compare 7 major social media platforms and the different factors that affect how videos work on each.

Last week, Google surprised the world with a major new announcement. It is now part of a holding company called Alphabet. Larry Page will shift from Google’s CEO to the CEO of Alphabet while Sergey Brin will serve as president while Google’s head of Android and Chrome, Sundar Pichai, will become it’s new CEO.

Forget Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon or Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from the edge of space, a new, tech accomplishment has made history: the first ever legal drone delivery. Fedex and all delivery service companies should read this news carefully.

A big opportunity has been introduced to adventurous videographers and marketers alike. GoPro, the highly successful American corporation which started by just making waterproof cameras you could stick to a helmet, has recently announced its online content licensing portal which allows creative agencies, TV and film studios to find and use quality GoPro videos for prices starting at $1,000 per clip.

YouTube and Facebook have given us a lot to talk about in the last couple of months. The two social networks are battling it out to become the number one source of video provider. Facebook has landed several punches, from autoplay and continuous autoplay videos, new video structure on pages, to floating videos, Mark Zuckerberg still seems to have a lot up his sleeve.