Picuous: The easy way to share photos and protect your copyright

When it comes to sharing media, videos, music and documents have been very easy to share. Services like YouTube, Vimeo, Google Docs and Soundcloud all provide widgets which can be placed on a blog and then attributed to the source. However, when it comes to images, anyone is able to download and share a copy, passing it off as their own and stripping the original creator of his/her copyright claims. A new tool calledPicuousaims to change this, providing a service that enabled users to upload and share their pictures, whilst keeping some control over the rights of their work....

2 min · 363 words · Zachary Bailey

Picuous’ HTML5 photo player goes public with a social sharing revamp

It wasn’t long ago thatwe told youaboutPicuous, which is essentially an incredibly easy way to embed photos onto a website while still retaining copyright. Essentially Picuous fills the gap that YouTube and Scribd have managed to do for video and documents respectively, but it does so for photographs. While the service has been hugely successful in its private beta, acquiring over 10,000 photos and 100,000 views, the Picuous team (lead by CEO Martin Pannier) have been getting a hefty amount of user feedback that told them that their focus was wrong....

3 min · 544 words · Samuel Brooks

Pieceable Brings Affordable App Creation to Everyone

It will cost you a minimum of $10,000 to have even the simplest of iPhone apps built for you properly. Even then, it will most likely be pretty terrible. The cost of building a decent app was one of the reasons that Chris Stewart and Fred Potter started working onPieceable, a modular app building service that will allow small business or agencies to craft decent apps at a fraction of the cost of having one custom built....

5 min · 855 words · Amanda Wheeler

Piers Morgan to air live Twitter show, invites Twitter co-founders and celebrities

Piers Morgan will dedicate Tuesday’s instalment of his live CNN show to Twitter, inviting Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams to appear on the programme, as well as to celebrity Twitter users Alyssa Milano and Martha Stewart. LostRemote highlighteda tweet yesterday where Morgan announced the show,posting: “To celebrate my new obsession, we’re going Twitter mad at @PiersTonight on Tuesday – live show with founders, tweeting celebs & audience.” Morgan, a prolific “tweeter” himself, has amassed over 500,000 followers and is famous for his very public spats with other television and radio personalities....

2 min · 309 words · Ashley Dean

Pigeons, Sex and Investing

It is very difficult to determine the sex of a pigeon. I used to keep pigeons as a kid so I’m good at it. There are three ways to do it: 1 – Check their reproductive organsPigeons genitalia all look the same (they have ‘cloaca‘) so you will have to cut them open to actually see their reproductive organs. Not a very efficient method. 2 – See who goes on topThere isn’t much variation in the sex life of a pigeon....

2 min · 384 words · Christopher Walker
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