Bop.fm aggregates music for easy sharing

New free music service Bop.fm helps make music sharing and listening and easier experience. The music aggregator pulls songs from YouTube, Soundcloud, Spotify, and Rdio to give you access to songs no matter where you are from the world. It takes away the pesky “this is not available in your location” notice for those living outside of the US and lets you embed or link to tracks directly onto your website. 

Game of Thrones video game series to come out in 2014

It's TRUE! We're working with @HBO to create an all-new episodic game series based on GAME OF THRONES in 2014! #VGX pic.twitter.com/d5GkhS2MOw

— Telltale Games (@telltalegames) December 8, 2013

The creator of The Walking Dead video games, Telltale Games, has announced that the studio will produce a Game of Thrones game series. The studio said the game will be similar to the TV show than the George R. R. Martin books.

Google, NatGeo partner to offer 500 historic map online

Google and National Geographic have partnered to put over 500 of its signature fold-out historic paper maps onto the Google Maps Engine platform. Frank Biasi, digital development director at National Geographic, said high resolution maps will also be for sale or be available for licensing deals.

Source: The Verge

Facebook introduces auto-play for videos on mobile

Facebook has rolled out an auto-play feature for native Facebook and Instagram videos on iOS and Android versions of its app. Tech Crunch writer Josh Constine likens it to the moving photos in Harry Potter films. If you’re worried about automatic video playing eating up your data, you can activate the setting on your Facebook app that allows you to auto-play videos only on Wi-Fi. You don’t have to worry about sound blaring out as you scroll through your feed, the videos will initially play without sound unless you tap on it to view the videos with sound and on full screen.

Facebook also plans to monetize this feature and will eventually allow the presence of video ads on your News Feed. Let’s just hope it won’t be as obtrusive and annoying as it can get.