News radio just got personal. With Swell’s new radio app, you can listen to the latest news stories with unlimited skips. With each skip, the radio’s algorithms adjust the stream to be relevant for you:

Swell’s vision is to elevate the radio experience with a listener focused recommendation algorithm, delivering curated news and information that learns as you listen so it’s always giving you the most relevant content. The more you listen, the more finely tuned the recommendations become, rewarding the smart and curious with quality content that keeps them informed and entertained.

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Have you seen or heard part of a song in a cafe and want to know where to buy the track? Check out GSound, a new iPhone app that will help you identify media, be it a song, TV show or movie, by allowing you to record a few seconds of the audio which is used to help connect you with where you can buy it.

GSound uses sound recognition technology to help you identify the TV show, song or movie. The app tries to identify the media’s “audio fingerprint” and searches for three elements that are tagged into the file.

Damián A. Scavo, the CEO of Axwave, GSound’s maker, explained in a statement: “Every search triggers three queries that allows GSOUND to not only identify the movie, music or TV show being heard, but also detailed information about it, where you can buy it and share it with friends.”

Once you have identified the song or show, the app will provide you with links to help you purchase the media from iTunes or Amazon, if it is available. The app will also suggest related content that is available for purchase.

Putting a baby to sleep can be a gargantuan task, but sometimes a little white noise is all that you need. Rather than filling your home with big white noise machines, you can turn your phone into a relaxing sound box that will help keep things calm in your home. (It’s also a great idea for travel!).

We’ve put together a list of five apps (both iOS & Android) that can help you create a soothing environment, along with links and descriptions of the apps for you to explore further.

1. White Noise: “Even when you’re asleep, your brain is constantly scanning and listening for sounds. If it’s too quiet, unwanted noises such as faucet drips or police sirens can interrupt your sleep. White Noise generates sounds over a wide range of frequencies, masking those noise interruptions, so you can not only fall asleep, but stay asleep.” Read more

With Imgur’s new Meme Generator, you can instantaneously create a meme to share on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter or your blog.

AgencySpy editor Kiran Aditham talked about the new tool on the Morning Media Menu today. He also discussed why advertising agency Grey has resigned its account with E*Trade. Press play below to listen.

Below, we’ve outlined how you can use Imgur’s Meme Generator. Be sure to browse the complete catalog of default memes. They are sorted by popularity so you can find the most viral picture for your message.

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Coupons.com, a site that offers discounts on consumer products goods, has introduced a voice-activated Google Glass app for cooking. Using the app, a Google Glass user can ask for recipes, which will pop up on the screen of their glass as they are standing in the kitchen or the grocery store.

KitchMe for Glass pulls recipes from the already existing KitchMe.com web app. Users can voice search the app by varying categories such as ingredients, calorie counts or dietary requirements, then swipe through results.  Ingredient searches can help users find recipes based on what they’ve already got in the refrigerator  or by what’s on sale at the grocery store.

The company is working on developing additional features such as the ability to take photos of prepared meals and then share them with social networks. They are also trying to figure out how to make the entire app entirely hands free.

Amazon has opened the Kindle Worlds store and launched a self-service submission platform for the fan fiction outlet. The stories are on sale for between around $0.99 and $3.99.

Last month, Amazon introduced Kindle Worlds as a place for fans to create and share fiction involving their favorite characters from other works. At launch, the store includes more than 50 stories including a few commissioned by Amazon such as Pretty Little Liars: Stained by Barbra Annino. Readers can shop by the original work, so for example, if you’d like to read Gossip Girl fan fiction, you can search for all related fan fiction in the category, which currently has 6 stories. The page also includes links to purchase DVD collections of the TV show.

Amazon has licenses for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and Vampire Diaries, as well as for Hugh Howey’s Silo Saga, Barry Eisler’s John Rain novels, Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines Series, and the Foreworld Saga by Neal Stephenson. They also hold licenses for the Worlds of Valiant superhero comic book series Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong, Harbinger, and Shadowman. Read more

Looking for new ways to license your images, videos or audio recordings? Check out Derbywire, a smartphone app that is designed for creative professionals to buy and sell content via a social networking experience.

The app is designed a platform for photographers, graphic designers, writers, musicians, and filmmakers, to showcase their work and it facilitates transactions, so you can also make some money for your hard work. Derbywire takes a 30 percent commission for each sale, you’ll get the rest.

It’s as simple to use as any other social network. You create a profile and upload and share content. You can subscribe to other users and they can subscribe to you. You can make works available for sale and users can contact you directly through the social network to purchase your work.

Social reading platform Copia has partnered with two Australian book entities — the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and QBD The Bookshop, the largest company-owned retail book chain in Australia.

Copia will power the APA’s eBook new subscription-based supply chain eBook tool. The new TitlePage Plus offering is a fulfillment toolset for bookstores to sell both print books and eBooks. Macmillan, Penguin Group, Random House, Wiley, Allen & Unwin, Cambridge University Press, Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster, all offer titles for sale through this platform. Similarly, QBD The Bookshop will now be selling eBooks directly to customers through a back end that is powered by Copia.

“The Australian book industry values a partner like Copia to enable bookshops, retailers and publishers to compete against larger international outlets,” stated Ben Lowinger, EVP of Copia. “There is an emerging need for new platforms as the convergence of digital media and publishing becomes increasingly mainstream within this sector. Copia is proud to be a part of this evolution and to help drive this next wave of innovation.”

Have you ever wanted to make your iPhone videos 3D? Seattle-based designers Ethan Lowry and Joe Heitzeberg are trying to help you do this with their new product called Poppy.

The device attaches to your iPhone and helps you capture, view and share 3D video clips. The device works by lenses that combine two video streams into one 3D video. The designers are currently looking for funding for the work on Kickstarter. Here is more about the project:

When you look in the viewfinder, Poppy’s lenses combine the two video streams into a single, crisp, 3D video. It’s beautiful, and really hard to describe or show in two dimensions. It doesn’t need batteries and there are no electronics. It’s just optics and your iPhone’s camera and screen, so we can keep the price low without sacrificing quality. Read more

If you like to use digital recipes, you know that the kitchen is no place for an iPad – it’s not waterproof or knife-friendly. Siobhán Andrews knows about this technological dilemma. She’s the designer behind the Chop-Syc, a tablet that masquerades as a wooden board when you’re chopping, but switches to reading tablet mode for recipe retrieval. The design won the GetitDownOnPaper challenge at Sharp Laboratories – a competition between 70 international designers.

There’s not a definite plan to make the design a reality, but Andrew’s two months internship at Sharpe could help to solidify that decision.  Andrews work primarily revolves around humanitarian and medical equipment. Read more