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Why do I use @Zemanta?

By + on December 13, 2011 in Content Marketing, Featured, Infographics, Technology, Thoughts

Here’s one of the main reasons… A report from Skyword found content marketing pages that include images are more likely to generate traffic than those without. The company conducted a study and found that page views were 94 percent higher for pages with visual content than pages that only contained text. Notably, the study saw [...]

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Todd’s take on Android tablets [including the Kindle Fire]

By + on December 2, 2011 in Technology

Here’s my first storify ‘story’ — an informal analysis of Android tablets in the 7″ or so space. Personally? I think the Kindle Fire’s a little lame but read on and let me know what you think in the comments… View the story “Todd’s take on the Android Tablet marketplace…” on Storify] Related articles Amazon’s [...]

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Facebook’s F8 Sends Non-Techie Users Over The Edge

By + on September 23, 2011 in Facebook, Humor, Social Media

via allfacebook.com Follow the ‘via’ link if you’d like the rest of the story… Related articles Facebook Increases Character Limit on Posts to 5000, Rolls Out Floating Navigation Bar and More Amongst Unrest (insidefacebook.com) What Should Facebook Page Admistrators Do After F8? (allfacebook.com)

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No more ‘fan’ pages!

By + on July 29, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media

Image via CrunchBase There’s a lot of confusion around Facebook pages, but I doubt this will clear things up… “Facebook is changing some terminology around how people become fans of its Pages product, a move that could be somewhat confusing but has apparently worked well in the company’s tests. “People will soon connect with your [...]

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Yes, we did redesign the site again!

By + on July 25, 2011 in Just in case

You have a problem with that? Hope not! I’ll be going more into the why later. In the meantime, please pardon our dust and feel free to comment if you find something out of order… Related articles 68% of Marketers Did a Website Redesign in the Last 12 Months [Data] (hubspot.com) The Science Behind Website [...]

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Have you tried Alltop?

By + on June 3, 2011 in Content Management, Thoughts
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via techcrunch.com It’s an online magazine rack with many of the world’s top sources gathered together by category. It’s an excellent place to shop for great content for Google Reader, too! Related articles by Zemanta How to add more sources to your social newspaper (holykaw.alltop.com)

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Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

By + on March 16, 2011 in Facebook

Image via CrunchBase Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users. This isn’t [...]

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Now Cheryl Cole Fans Can Check-In To Billboards

By + on November 17, 2010 in Facebook, Social Media, Thoughts

Image by shahid1618 via Flickr Brands have moved quickly to incorporate Facebook Places into their advertising strategy, with the latest campaign urging people to “check-in” to billboards across the UK for singer Cheryl Cole. TechCrunch reports that the campaign, designed by media agency MediaCom and Polydor Records, gives fans a chance to win two free [...]

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Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And It’s Here Now.

By + on September 28, 2010 in Just in case
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What is Qwiki? from Qwiki on Vimeo. In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator. These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer. But that’s about all the iPad has in common [...]

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