This week Twitter finally launched its highly anticipated music service, and Facebook brought its new Chat Heads features to the iPhone.
Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Yahoo Mail with a full-screen feature that lets you read your email like a magazine, and it released a weather app that incorporates Flickr photos, so you see the weather as well as read it.
Yahoo Weather
Yahoo announced a new standalone weather app Thursday -- Yahoo! Weather for iPhone. It uses location-specific images from Flickr to show you near-real-time weather conditions from around the world, all right from your smartphone.
Beautiful images are displayed full-screen, and have weather information overlaid when in portrait mode. In landscape mode, photos are displayed without any accompanying information except the name of the photographer. The idea is that you might flip through images like postcards.
Twitter Music
Twitter launched a new standalone music discovery service this week called Twitter Music. The free app lets you discover what tunes are trending on Twitter, follow musicians, and listen to tunes through Rdio and Spotify integration.
Pocket
To help celebrate its first birthday, Pocket added a new Send to Friend feature Wednesday. The update -- which launched on iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac OS X -- brings a completely redesigned Share Menu to the service, highlighting your most recently used services such as Twitter, Facebook, Buffer or Evernote.
Rand McNally 2014 Road Atlas
Rand McNally celebrated its 90th birthday this week with the release of an ebook version of its 2014 Road Atlas, as well as an interactive iPad app.
The digital version of the Atlas includes updated maps for all U.S.states and Canadian provinces, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and detailed inset maps for larger cities and national parks.
Yahoo Mail for Tablets
Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Yahoo Mail Thursday. The app has a full-screen mode for flipping through your email like a book, as well as some new organization features that make it easier than ever to get your inbox down to zero.
Facebook
Facebook updated its Android and iPhone apps this week. iPhone users got the ability to chat with friends using Facebook's new Chat Heads feature, and Android users are now able to make free VoIP calls from the app.
Knotch
Knotch lets users express their opinions with colors, labeling everything from the latest smartphone to a television show in various hues that correspond to their feelings about that product or service. The app launched late last year, and updated to version 1.2 on Thursday.
By Emily Price
