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Google copies Pinterest and Microsoft doesn't hold back with emojis I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update google really wants you to use its google plus social network trying to become a new version of facebook didn't stick so now Google is trying to become a new version of Pinterest Google just launched something called collections and it's the exact same concept as a Pinterest page you create a topic for a group of links and photos and you can share that with others Pinterest is huge right now it's valued at 11 billion dollars and it's a great place to find random inspiration for projects parties fashion or dinner but I don't think you'll find people using google collections in the same way as Pinterest you see google's tied to your real name and it can be pulled up on a Google search so people seem to be using collections in a professional way such as making a collection of their own work as an artist and Pinterest is making changes of its own it's allowing developers to make apps that connect with pins so maybe there'll be an app for ordering ingredients inside of a recipe pen or book a trip based on a pin about travel with 50 billion pins on the site there's an opportunity to make some money here let's switch gears to talk about video streaming and a new feature on Comcast smartphones make it easy to hold the live video call with anyone anywhere provided the person uses the same phone or application you do but what if you could stream a live video feed on your phone and have it show up on someone's living room television that's what comcast is doing with xfinity share use an xfinity app to broadcast a video to your home TV or to another comcast customer TV as long as you both have a certain set top box so if the grandparents can't come to the birthday party they can watch a live feed on TV and as for streaming at 39,000 feet amazon prime video is coming to jetblue flights later this year Amazon's making its TV shows movies music and digital books available to sub jetblue flights and it'll be free unlimited for amazon prime members here's the kick normally you have to pay for internet access on a flight to stream video but JetBlue won't charge for internet when you stream amazon and in other very important texting news microsoft is giving us all the middle finger the middle finger emoji icon that is you may not be aware but the group that creates the emoji font has created several new designs that have not yet been adopted by iPhones and Android phones one of such is a hand with an extended middle finger but Microsoft has come to our rescue and will offer the one fingered salute as a choice on Windows 10 arriving later this year you also get a few others like a person making an okay gesture and a flushed face Thank You Microsoft for the courage to set the bird free that's your tech news update you can head over to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey