Snapchat Introduces Memories:a searchable replacement for your camera roll

One of the selling points of Snapchat is that your photos and videos aren’t kept around forever, at least not the ones that you send to friends, meaning that if you wanted to share something that can’t be saved, Snapchat is one way to go about it. That being said, Snapchat has introduced a new feature called Memories.

According to Snapchat, Memories is a feature that lets users save their favorite Snaps and Stories. “Memories is a new way to save Snaps and Stories on Snapchat. It’s a personal collection of your favorite moments that lives below the Camera screen. Just swipe up from the Camera to open Memories!” Ultimately this will allow users to relive their favorite moments.




Note that this doesn’t mean that you get to save the Snaps other users send to you, but rather it is a way for you to save your own Snaps so that you can revisit it whenever you want. Snapchat has also made it so that users can move certain Snaps that they want to “My Eyes Only”, meaning that if someone is browsing your phone, they won’t accidentally stumble across a private Snap.

Snapchat notes that the feature isn’t live for everyone yet but it should reach all their users in the next month or so. “We’ll be rolling out Memories selectively over the next month or so — it’s a big change for our service so we want to make sure everything is running smoothly! You’ll receive a Chat from Team Snapchat when Memories is ready for you to use.”



Source: Ubergizmo

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Snapchat Now Offers Extended Editions Of Live Story Moments

Today Snapchat has launched a new tool within Live Stories called Story Explorer, which gives users the ability to look at all of the snaps of a single, special moment.

The idea is to let you see similar snaps from a single moment within a Live Story instead of seeing a string of different, unrelated moments tied to a larger theme. Think ‘Extended Cut’ vs ‘Editors’ Choice.’

As it stands now, Our Stories are offered to users based on their location. In New York right now, the options are AMAs, New York, and Arm Wrestling.

For each story, there are a few snaps that touch on various themes. In New York, there are two are three snaps about the cold weather this morning, and then a few about the Union Square Christmas market, and then a few about the Duke vs. Georgetown game at Madison Square Garden.

With Explore, you can dive into all the Snaps for a particular theme, like the Union Square Market, and see more than the two or three that were curated for the larger New York story.

Snapchat’s Ellis Hamburger explained via Twitter that Snapchat determines the similarity of the snaps through a variety of factors, including “time/place, some computer vision, and more.”

Source :TechCrunch 

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Snapchat videos get slow-motion, fast-forward and rewind filters

Snapchat's focus of late has been on showcasing mainstream content, while simultaneously continuing to enhance its core business: quick-and-dirty pictures and videos. To make those even more entertaining, the Snapchat apps for iOS andAndroid are now getting slow-motion, fast-forward and rewind filters, which the startup is calling Speed Modifiers. Once you record a clip, all you have to do is swipe to try each one of them out. In addition to that, iPhone 6s and 6s Plususers are getting something a little extra, with the application now supporting Apple's 3D Touch feature. Force pressing your home screen's Snapchat icon will give you easy access to two options: Chat With and Add Friends, both self-explanatory. It'll be interesting to see how creative people's snaps get with the new filters.


Source :Engadget 

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Snapchat shuts Snap Channel as it suspends original programming

Less than a year after it started making its own videos, stories, and shows, Snapchat is giving up on creating its own original content. The company has reportedly laid off the staff responsible for curating and creating items for its in-house Snap Channel, which had previously appeared on its ad-supported Discover tab after it was introduced earlier this year. Deadline reports that the decision has prompted the departure of Marcus Wiley, previously a high-profile grab for Snapchat, joining as its head of program planning and development after a stint as Fox's senior vice president of comedy.

Snapchat confirmed that it was closing its original content wing as it responded to the departure of Wiley. "Given that we are winding down the Snap Channel, it's natural that Marcus would want to explore other opportunities," the company toldDeadline. "He is a tremendous talent, and we wish him well." Snapchat removed Snap Channel from the Discover tab earlier this month, originally indicating that it would return after some tweaks. But the company assessed what those alterations would cost, and decided instead to pull the plug on the project, leaving its Discover feature to rely on videos, programming, and stories produced by partners such as ESPN, Comedy Central, and Vice.

Snapchat was reportedly still in talks with major networks

While not as ambitious as Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon in terms of original programming, Snapchat had nonetheless invested heavily in its Snapchat rollout. Its first show, Literally Can't Even, premiered in January and starred Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn as fictionalized versions of themselves. The company also teamed up with Fusion to create Vergaraland, a six-episode series about Sofia Vergara's Hollywood career as seen through the eyes of her son. The team responsible for creating and organizing this content had recently moved to 12,000-square-foot studio, to better be able to produce in-house programming, and executives were reportedly in talks with several major studios and production companies when the news of the closure came through.

Deadline says Snapchat may yet return to original programming in the future, but if it does, it won't be through Snap Channel. For now, as streaming services such as Netflix expand their portfolios and win awards with their in-house shows, Snapchat will instead rely on its live stories, itsfocus on news, and its Discover partners to give its 100 million users something to watch.

Source :The Verge 

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Snapchat's Vomitting Rainbows Feature Is No More

Snapchat has removed the rainbow-barfing and scary face lenses from its app in its latest update.

According to TechRadar, the robot effect has also been removed from the app, leaving "crying face, mustache man, gossip mag, angry face, slapped face, scared face and heart eyes" as the available options. Without the ability to make yourself regurgitate augmented reality rainbows, do the other choices even matter?

The overlays were part of a Snapchat update that hit only last week, so the window of time in which you could virtually throw-up white light's refracted image was cut terribly short. No explanation has been given for the reason behind the removal of the horror face, rainbow barf, or robot effects.

On the official Snapchat support page for Lenses, the demonstrated Lens is, of course, the rainbow barf one, because that's the one everyone realistically wants to use.

We've reached out to Snapchat to try to find an explanation for the loss of these Lenses from the newest update and we'll let you know what we find out.

Also, did you know IGN has an official channel on Snapchat Discover? If you were unaware of this, make sure to read up on all the cool IGN stuff you can find in an easily-digestible Snapchat format.


Source : TechRadar 

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