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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

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Account security tips

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help.twitter.com - To help keep your account secure, we recommend the following best practices: Password strength Use login verification Check that you're on twitter.com We won't contact you asking for your password ...

Galaxy Note 7 recall costs expected to top $1 billion

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slashgear.com - Just as things were looking really good for Samsung with the launch of its popular Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, it all went wrong. Reports of Note 7 smartphones catching on fire while charging started...

A Growth Hacker’s Guide to Onboarding Your First 100 Users

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blog.innertrends.com - Before your app can begin to improve your users’ lives, you have to figure out a way to remove the friction that stands between them and the value that your product delivers. You will never be able...

Why you should build your web startup using Ruby on Rails – Katana Code’s Blog

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blog.katanacode.com - I can still remember how my face lit up with delight at the laptop screen in front of me. This was back in 2008 — I was sitting in my small apartment in Ålesund, Norway. It was the first time I tri...

Blame Putin for Everything - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

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original.antiwar.com - Hardly a day goes by without some “news” about the Russian “threat,” and in the past twenty-four hours, the hate-on-Russia campaign seems to have picked up speed. After learning from Hillary Clinto...

Amazon, Google, Apple... Fox News join Microsoft in US gagging orders fight

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arstechnica.co.uk - Microsoft's quest to put a stop the US government's habit of demanding access to customers' digital records in court-ordered secrecy has won dozens of allies in the tech world. The likes of Apple, ...

6 easy ways to get more out of your Instagram

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lilachbullock.com - Instagram is one of the most popular social networks in the world, with 500 million monthly active users and as many as 300 million daily active users, and the numbers just keep on growing year by ...

9 Essential Tips for Building Product Pages That Convert - LeadChat | Live Chat Agent Staffing

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leadchat.com - 95% of our purchase decision making happens in our subconscious mind, according to Harvard Business School professor Gerald Zaltman. Therefore, reading something as simple as a product description ...

How To Write The Perfect SEO Content in 2016

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madlemmings.com - Your content is epic. Your readers are ecstatic. You get lots of social media shares... But you have no idea how to write and optimize your articles for SEO in 2016. Figuring out what works, what t...

Nier Automata: Is Platinum Games enough to save a franchise?

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arstechnica.co.uk - One way to resurrect a struggling franchise is to bring in a new development team. All the better if said team has the kind of status that helps fans forgive past mistakes. Capcom did it when it ga...

25 reasons you should quit online dating

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mashable.com - Online dating is not for everyone — and that's okay. According to the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of American adults use online dating sites and apps, and 59 percent believe it's a good way to ...

5 New Social Platform Features That You Need to Know About

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socialmediatoday.com - The social media landscape is constantly changing, everyday there are new options and tools being announced and introduced, some major and some less significant. And in that, there are also some of...

New USB Type-C to HDMI spec lets you ditch the dongle

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arstechnica.com - HDMI Licensing, the outfit that decides what is or what isn't HDMI compatible, is releasing HDMI Alternate Mode (Alt Mode) for USB Type-C devices. The new spec will finally allow HDMI video signals...

VR on the battlefield, to the couch and back again — sort of

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techcrunch.com - Yuval Boger is the CEO of Sensics, author of the VRGuy blog and podcast and co-founder of OSVR, the open-source virtual reality initiative. Fifteen years ago, a team of scientists working at Johns ...

Apple rolls out its new, personalized playlists to Apple Music subscribers on iOS, macOS betas

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techcrunch.com - Ahead of Apple’s iPhone event on September 7th, the company has begun rolling out new, personalized music playlists to Apple Music subscribers, who are beta testing the soon-to-be-released iOS 10 m...

Investors, here are the Startup Alley companies at Disrupt SF

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techcrunch.com - We’re thrilled to announce that you can catch a glimpse of all the Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley companies on our Startup Alley hub. In addition to being a great resource for investors, the site is...

Why the advertising industry needs to embrace AdBlock

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techcrunch.com - Vinay Kumar Mysore is a digital strategist and writer. I am now part of the problem. The advertising industry is wringing its hands and shaking its fist at the use and growth of ad-block technology...

Snapchat joins the Bluetooth SIG, fueling hardware speculation

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat has given observers another reason to suspect it might be working on hardware – the social network company joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) according to the Financial Time...

11 Questions to Ask Before Accepting a LinkedIn Invitation

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inc.com - That's the question many people ask every day when using LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social network. I used LinkedIn extensively when starting my business, and it led to numerous hig...

Tales from Comcast’s data cap nation: Can the meter be trusted?

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arstechnica.com - On March 18, Ars ­­received an exasperated e-mail from the father of one very frustrated Comcast customer. Elliot told us that his son, Brad, had received bills totaling more than $1,500, and Comca...

Revisiting the World of Warcraft, nine years after I left

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arstechnica.com - It’s still a little hard to believe that World of Warcraft has been around long enough for people to be nostalgic about “the good old days.” At this point, WoW has been around for longer than what'...

El extraño homenaje a Freddie Mercury

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telemundo.com - El guitarrista Brian May, de la legendaria banda Queen, dio a conocer que un asteroide que se encuentra en la órbita de Júpiter fue llamado Freddie Mercury, a manera de homenaje por el que sería el...

A Few Different CSS Methods for Changing Display Order

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webdesign.tutsplus.com - In this tutorial we’ll cover a few different CSS methods for reordering HTML elements. The layout we want to build is very simple. Specifically, on small screens (i.e. <600px), it should look like...

How A Subtle UX Tweak Reduced Racial Profiling On A Site Notorious For It

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fastcodesign.com - Nextdoor has a problem. The hyperlocal social network was designed to help neighbors privately share information like garage sale listings and handyman recommendations, but it has also become a hot...

How To Become A Social Media Icon

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smedio.com - If you’ve good intentions, it’s never too late to start afresh. I come across several successful online marketers who aspired to be social media icons but they feel they’ve missed the bus. The imme...

Here's how to see every Google search you've ever made — even if you deleted your history

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digitalspy.com - Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Ever since Google launched 18 years ago, it's been storing every single search you've made – even those naughty ones you'd thought you'd managed to hide - and now y...

The Mythbusters Build Team is Heading to Netflix

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io9.gizmodo.com - Mythbusters may have booted out its Three Musketeers shortly before the entire series was shut down, but the M7 Build Team is coming back with a new Netflix show about the dark corners of web scien...

Obduction's Beautiful World Is a Worthy Successor to Myst

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wired.com - Until The Sims broke the record in 2006, the best-selling PC game of all time was a slow series of vignettes across parallel worlds. It was Myst, a revolutionary and strange puzzle game that looked...

26 Inspiring Quotes From Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

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inc.com - You would think that wisdom comes with age and most often it does. But there are a few people who seem to learn faster and know more than the average folks. Some of these people explode on to the s...

Google's secretive skunkworks lab wants to make a new multiplayer smartphone game

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businessinsider.com - Google’s secretive skunkworks lab is trying to create the multiplayer game of the future. The Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division is hiring a bunch of gaming experts to work on a new s...

OnePlus will merge HydrogenOS and OxygenOS to give faster software updates

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androidcommunity.com - For owners of the OnePlus 3 and the less recent OnePlus X, there are two official software builds out in the market – HydrogenOS and OxygenOS. For the international market, OnePlus loaded their One...

Wacom brings Bamboo Slate and Bamboo Folio to digitize notes, drawings

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androidcommunity.com - At this year’s IFA 2016, one new, or rather newish, trend that we’re seeing is the digital notepad feature, which marries physical drawing and note-taking and digitizing them to save them on your r...

Room In The Moon : Social Travel Website - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rafael Dos Santos'; CEO of the – UK start-up “Room in the Moon”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. W...

SpareFoot.com: The World's Largest Marketplace for Self-Storage - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solution for locating storage facilities, comparing prices, and booking storage units online. According to Mr. ‘Betts'; Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solut...

KindCritic.com: A Social Platform that Allows you to get Crowdsourced Feedback on your Creative Projects - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - KindCritic is a social platform where creatives can give and get crowdsourced constructive feedback on their creative works from real experts in their field of interest. “KindCritic” is A Social Pl...

Crowdid : E-Commerce Platform Selling Crowdfunded Products - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ed Havens”, Founder (CMO) at the San Francisco – USA based start-up “crowdid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do a...

Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Dominic Smith”, CEO of the Baltimore USA-based start-up “Imboard” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your ...

Trainoholics : Skill Development Arena - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Sandesh HS'; Founder of the Karnataka – India start-up “TRAINOHOLICS”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted ...

Mekiwi Oy : Finnish Startup To Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Antti Kananen”, CEO of the Finland based start-up “Mekiwi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-u...

Limetr.ee: A Web Application that Allows you to Safely Keep Messages, Photos and Videos you Want to Preserve as a Legacy for your Child - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Limetree is about gathering family and friends around your children’s history. About the legacy you want to pass to your child. About safeguarding memories for the future. Below is the full and in-...

Fitnescity : Allows Users To Connect With Personal Trainers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Leila Zemrani”, Founder and CEO of the New York – US based start-up “Fitnescity” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...

Mangomolo : Stream Personlized Live and On-Demand Content - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Wissam Sabbagh”, CEO of the Beirut – Lebanon based StartUp “Mangomolo” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what ...

WhyWaitTheApp.com: A Mobile Discovery App that Allows Users to Find a Plethora of Info Related to Restaurants & Bars - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - WhyWait is a discovery app that allows users to find the following for restaurants/bars: Happy Hours, Deals, Events, Menus, Images and Social Media Integration. “WhyWait” is a discovery app that al...

Label 59: A Web-Based Application that Requires No Coding Skills and That Helps you to Label Anything Interactively on your Own in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Label 59 is a web application that helps you to label anything interactively on your own in minutes. It is ideal for creating engaging presentations that have interactive labels attached to them. “...

My Driving Pal : Security and Safety - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Shahram Rezaei”, Founder Of the California – USA based startup “MyDrivingPal” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do ...

The ONE Social Media Rule That Will Determine Whether You Succeed... Or Fail - Traffic Café

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trafficcafe.com - This morning I was listening to a radio interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the future of social media, when the station suddenly cut to an advertising break that seemed to last for an e...

Top 10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

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inc.com - TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you've yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash o...

What Ad Buyers Really Think About Google, Facebook, Twitter and Everything in Between

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adweek.com - The major digital media platforms—full of big gains, big hype and often a lack of transparency—have made the advertising universe a complicated, fragmented place. And with eMarketer predicting digi...

These Upstarts Are Taking on Big Tech in the Rapidly Expanding Artificial Intelligence Field

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adweek.com - The next time you see Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with an unflattering look on her face in a TV spot supporting GOP rival Donald Trump, it's all but certain you can attribute th...

How Treating Consumers Like Partners Will Rescue Advertising From Itself

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adweek.com - Unsubscribe is our favorite toggle in our inbox. Skip, our favorite prompt when viewing online videos. Block, our go-to option for internet browsing. Why? Because advertising's relationship with th...