Experimental App.”UPTIME”launched by youtube for watching with friends

Dear readers, hoping your good health, I am sharing my latest information that youtube has launched Uptime, an app that lets you watch videos together with your friends. The app is initially available only for iOS devices, and it feels very different from the standard YouTube experience.The app was initially spotted by The Verge, which notes that it works best for vertical videos.You can search and share video clips from YouTube to the app to Uptime, making it discoverable by others. A checkbox lets you also notify your friends on the service when you post. Right now, you may not have too many friends using the app, and there isn’t an address book sync feature or ability to import from other social networks — you can only send invites to friends.While  watching a video, your profile icon floats across the screen, and you can comment on the video or post emoji like the smiley face, surprised face, heart eyes, angry face, etc. These reactions will be displayed to anyone who watches the video, even if they’re watching at a later time. However, you also can tap on the screen to leave “sparkles” on the video itself, and these are only shown to those you’re watching with in real time.

It also doesn’t support live streaming, but this and other features could be added if its creators continue its development and experiment with different types of content.

Uptime is currently in invite-only mode, but the invite code “pizza” gets you in.

Hope it will be of some use.

Jagat

FACEBOOK IS ADDING NEW FEATURE HELPING TO CONTACT GOVERNMENT REP.

Hello dear readers, hoping good for your health,

Last month a 6000 pages manifesto was introduced by MarK Zukerberg (Facebook CEO) facebook manifesto 6000 pages he had for the social network in the days ahead — including one where its users became more “civically-engaged” and voted more often. Now it seems Facebook has taken its first steps toward making that possible, through a new feature it’s calling “Town Hall.” Five main questions are being putup which are as under

• How do we help people build supportive communities that strengthen traditional institutions in a world where membership in these institutions is declining?
• How do we help people build a safe community that prevents harm, helps during crises and rebuilds afterwards in a world where anyone across the world can affect us?
• How do we help people build an informed community that exposes us to new ideas and builds common understanding in a world where every person has a voice?
• How do we help people build a civically-engaged community in a world where participation in voting sometimes includes less than half our population?
• How do we help people build an inclusive community that reflects our collective values and common humanity from local to global levels, spanning cultures, nations and regions in a world with few examples of global communities?

these questions have been elaborately discussed in the manifesto. This latest addition has just popped up on the “More” menu in Facebook’s mobile app, and offers a simple way for users to find and connect with their government representatives on a local, state and federal level.To use Town Hall, you only have to enter your address — which Facebook says is not displayed or shared (though it doesn’t say it’s not “saved,” so be advised). On Representative’s Page, you may be able to dig around to find a phone number or mailing address, if it happens to be published.

“Town Hall is part of our ongoing work to support civic engagement on Election Day and every day. It is a dedicated space for people who want to learn about and participate in the political process.”

The feature’s arrival follows several other recent additions to Facebook’s sidebar in recent months, including its new City Guides, Wi-Fi Finder, Discover People section and Weather guide.