Meet Meerkat’s new video chat app

Meerkat started out strong when it launched its livestreaming app but has since fizzled and been left behind by the giants like Facebook and Twitter. It seems the company is taking a stab at video apps again with Houseparty. The twist, though, is they won’t confirm that they own the app but according to Recode, the app is “definitely theirs.”

Houseparty is a video chat app like FaceTime and Skype that’ll make you available for chatting once you open that app. So, you can jump in and talk to friends who are online or they can talk to you. If they’re already chatting, you can see who they’re talking to and join their conversation. So yes, like at a house party. According to a source close to Meerkat, Houseparty is supposedly already bigger than Meerkat ever was. So it seems this under-the-radar approach to debuting an app is working for them.

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Canadian streaming video app Yeplive aims to improve on the experience offered by competitors

Meerkat and Periscope have been popular video streaming apps but they wiill soon be joined by Canadian made Yeplive which promises a range of features that its competitors still have to offer.

Yeplive has more features that reviewers of both apps have voiced that they want to see,  (see above chart). The biggest featrues are;

• Sharing to all popular social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and G+ (Periscope and Meerkat are chained to Twitter)
• Videos are archived in each user's personal profile - so you can keep your moments
• Yeplive is location centric so you can discover what live events are happening around you, or globally in places you care about 

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