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Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.Webdesign CompanyToronto_DMGWeblabs

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature”  phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and web design Toronotoget people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”