{"id":38015,"date":"2013-05-17T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=38015"},"modified":"2013-05-17T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T08:11:49","slug":"facebook-twitter-heading-to-google-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38015\/facebook-twitter-heading-to-google-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter heading to Google Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking services Facebook Inc and Twitter are coming to Google Glass, the wearable computer made by the Internet search company.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc announced on Thursday a half-dozen apps specially designed to work on its Glass devices. News network CNN, fashion magazine Elle, as well as online apps Tumblr and Evernote were among the half-dozen new apps for Glass unveiled during Google&#8217;s annual developer conference in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Google Glass is a stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on the left side of a pair of eyeglass frames which can record video, access email and messages and retrieve information from the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Google began distributing the devices last month to a limited number of developers, but it has yet to specify when a version will be available for consumers or at what price.<\/p>\n<p>The futuristic-looking devices have been a common sight at the Google conference this week, with many of the attendees and staffers wearing Glass. But Google executives gave Glass short shrift during the more than three-hour keynote talks on Wednesday, barely mentioning Glass among the litany of new products and services discussed on stage.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google Glass<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Glass faces competition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/34863\/google-glass-faces-competition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Glass faces competition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Glass testers selected\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/34405\/google-glass-testers-selected\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Glass testers selected<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Glasses a step closer to retail reality\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16658\/google-glasses-a-step-closer-to-retail-reality\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Glasses a step closer to retail reality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google experiments with augmented reality eyewear\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/9212\/google-experiments-with-augmented-reality-eyewear\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google experiments with augmented reality eyewear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking services Facebook Inc and Twitter are coming to Google Glass, the wearable computer made by the Internet search company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,45,5467,93],"class_list":["post-38015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google-glass","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38042,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015\/revisions\/38042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}