John Merlino

At first glance I thought it was a marketing stunt for the upcoming Ghostbusters remake.

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We’re so excited to launch a whole new version. Katch 2.0 now supports recording Periscope as well as Meerkat live streams, it has privacy control, the ability to download videos AND all videos are served from our own video platform! Katch is still as simple as a hashtag. As a broadcaster, just by putting #katch in the title of your Periscope or Meerkat stream creates a recording for you, no...

Notable updates: - Auto upload setting (competing with Dropbox/Carousel, Apple, Google, etc in an attempt to become the cloud storage for all your mobile photos) - Timeline view of your photos (like Apple Photos and Carousel) - Share to Instagram (no longer forcing you to keep your photos within Flickr) Overall I like the new design. They did pack a ton into this app, probably too much...

What attributes do you consider when making these recommendations? Does the user have to first connect their social accounts (Twitter, FB, LI) for this to work?

Kingsley, I haven'y used it yet but it seems like it identifies hex values automatically and builds a color palette for you. Looks like @frewalker is one of the Markly co-founders. Tell us about your app, @frewalker :)

I like the simple UI after importing. After Markly understands all your interface elements, you can add, remove, change specs super fast. Great tool! The website also does a good job of demoing and letting you try it out that functionality.

Unda has created a gif/video/music playground which can lead to funny little video clips or just messy noise. They seem to realize that exporting the video messages is key. But they need to focus on that use case and eliminate the rest of the functionality. It's easy to see this gif/video combo simply a feature of something like Snapchat. Unda just raised $900k and renamed the app: VideoSelfie...