FOMO sufferers up by 56%

The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) syndrome seems to be growing among social network users as seen in the results of a recent survey conducted by MyLife.com. Out of the 2,084 adults (ages 18 and above) surveyed, 56% of them fear they miss out on important status updates, events, and news when they aren't on their choice social networking sites. In connection with this, 51% of the respondents say they have visited their social networks more often than they did two years ago with 27% of them logging in first thing in the morning.

Some would even go to the extent of giving up an addiction to stay connected—approximately 26% would trade habits like smoking and watching reality TV for access to social networking sites. However, 52% of the respondents want to take a break from one or more of these sites but only 24% said they will push through with this. The reason? FOMO, obviously. You can see the entire infographic here.

Adobe Anywhere for video now available

Adobe wants to make the common video production headaches a thing of the past with Adobe Anywhere for video. This collaborative platform is an enterprise-level solution that lets users virtually collaborate to finish video productions as smoothly and securely as possible.

The software is installed on a cluster of servers and is powered by two core components: the Anywhere Collaboration Hub and the Mercury Streaming Engine. This release of Adobe Anywhere supports the latest versions of Premiere Pro and Prelude CC, which are part of Adobe's Creative Cloud. Meanwhile, support for After Effects CC is expected later in the year.

TikTakTo: Daily deals aggregator

Offering something different to the deal site table, Canadian-based TikTakTo organizes the promotions from popular online sources, allows users to view deals without the need to sign up, and offers bookmarks for later deals.

The site has over 100,000 active daily deals and up to 10,000 new ones each day with partnerships with major brands such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Hotels.com, Gray Line New York, Skechers, and Converse.

Google brings back free calls to Gmail Hangouts

After rolling out the unified Hangouts, Google took out the ability to make free calls in Gmail. It’s a good thing they’ve been listening and brought the feature back. They even improved it further by making calls to the US and Canada free for countries where Hangouts calling is available.

Other new features their adding to this “future of Google Voice” include being able to add multiple phone numbers and video participants to the same call as well as playing sound effects using the Google Effects app. These new additions are said to be coming out in the next couple of days.

Source: Gmail Blog