Friday links (3)
Here's a collection of links that went round the office today, perhaps you'll find them interesting too:
For the parents, Backseat Driver is an app that let's your kid - ermmm - do what the game says: be a backseat driver! Channel 4 is partnering with Get Glue to offer viewers badges and stickers to attract views for their latest show Beaver Falls.
You will soon be able to view live YouTube videos with your friends via Google Plus hangouts - I wonder how that will affect Skype, if at all.
AOL is launching Editions, their new iPad magazine. Read Write Web says: "AOL has made the bold decision to forgo real-time updates in favor of a magazine that you can actually finish reading throughout the course of the day". CNN reviews it and says they are trying to 'out-Flipboard Flipboard'.
Arduino has launched a Labs website to host community code libraries and efforts.
I'm sure some of you have heard about GLMPS, an app which records the few seconds immediately before you take a picture.
Apple has now officially topped the worldwide smartphone market, according to this article in CNET.
Facebook has plans to introduce facial recognition technology for uploaded photos; here's an infographic that traces the history of photos on the site.
HTC has bought Dashwire, a company that allows users to access mobile content across multiple devices.
And in the US, the FBI has launched their first iPhone app called Child iD. It allows "parents to to electronically store photos and vital information about their children, enabling them to quickly show pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers in their vicinity if for whatever reason a kid goes missing (which, according to the FBI, happens in America about every 40 seconds".