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Friday, September 9, 2016

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25 tips for becoming an online influencer

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mashable.com - Influencer marketing has become a powerful strategy for brands who want to reach their audience in a non-pushy, non-promotional way. Instead of pushing their own message, they can leverage online i...

Hands On With Sony's PS4 Pro

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pcmag.com - Sony's new PlayStation 4 system is an upgrade from the original PS4 and a departure from Sony's historical game console strategy. The PS4 Pro, while more powerful, isn't a PS4 replacement or a new ...

Raspberry Pi sells over 10 million computers

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arstechnica.co.uk - Four years since it first went on sale to eager developers, the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer has sold an impressive 10 million units. It remains the UK's best-selling computer ever, and ...

THWACKcamp 2016

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thwack.solarwinds.com - THWACKcamp is SolarWinds’ annual virtual knowledge share event that provides IT Pros with intermediate to advanced educational content in the SolarWinds community of 130,000+ members. It allows li...

Musicians Guide Search Engine Optimization SEO

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newartistmodel.com - SEO is all about setting up your website so that its pages are easily found and highly ranked by search engines like Google. This Musicians Guide Search Engine Optimization SEO will show you how. W...

What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop

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hbr.org - Even in my relatively short foray into office life, I notice that few people bring a pen and notebook to meetings. I’ve been told that over the years, the spiral notebooks and pens once prevalent d...

How to: Get our latest news delivered directly to your inbox

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community.hpe.com - Community Home > Partner Certification > My Learning Certification > How to: Get our latest news delivered directly to ... CommunityCategoryBlogUsers turn on suggestions Auto-suggest helps you quic...

Forget cities. Volvo is testing autonomous trucks ... in a mine?

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mashable.com - If you were impressed when carmakers started testing self-driving vehicles on freeways, wait until you get a load of what Volvo has up its sleeves. Volvo Trucks announced Thursday that starting thi...

Google reminds webmasters that widget links are against their webmaster guidelines

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searchengineland.com - Google issued a stern warning this morning on the Google Webmaster Blog saying that they are reminding webmasters that links within widgets can be against their webmaster guidelines. Googlers, Agni...

6 data visualizations in the new AdWords that will save you a ton of time

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searchengineland.com - The new AdWords UI is slowly starting to roll out to accounts, with a smattering of users having access. I’ve been able to spend some time in the new AdWords with a small account. Getting used to t...

Brexit pound slump could be responsible for higher iPhone 7 prices in the UK

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mashable.com - When Phil Schiller announced the iPhone 7 on Wednesday, he proudly pointed out that its price is the same as the launch price of its predecessor, the iPhone 6S. SEE ALSO: Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 Pl...

Amazon Echo will soon speak up without voice commands, report says

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mashable.com - Amazon's digital assistant will soon be able to talk to you even if you haven't issued a voice command, according to a new paywalled report from The Information. As the outlet put it, your Echo cou...

Why podcasts are so popular and what the format needs to grow

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mashable.com - Almost two years ago, the true crime podcast Serial enthralled people worldwide with downloads hitting more than 1 million week by week. In its second season, Serial failed to capture as much buzz....

Riders can now stream from Pandora in their Uber

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techcrunch.com - Uber this morning announced an expanded relationship with Pandora, which will see the music service integrated into the Uber rider mobile application, along with Spotify. Uber customers in the U.S....

Amazon Echo could soon start talking to you unprompted

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techcrunch.com - The speaker that speaks might soon speak without you speaking to ask it to speak. Amazon’s Echo is set to get push notifications, according to The Information, which would allow it to give you a he...

Europe’s top court rules linking can infringe copyright if done for profit

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techcrunch.com - Europe’s top court has ruled that knowingly posting links to copyrighted material can be an infringement of rights holders’ rights — even though the copyrighted material in question is being hosted...

Apple and Nintendo are bringing Super Mario to an iPhone near you

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techcrunch.com - Apple just announced that it is working with Nintendo to deliver a new game on the App Store called “Super Mario Run.” As the name implies, Super Mario Run is a runner game – think “Temple Run” – t...

Meet your Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield Final Round Judges: Cyan Banister, Roelof Botha, Matthew Panzarino, Susan Wojcicki and Padmasree Warrior

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techcrunch.com - Choosing this year’s Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield winners will be a tough job. There is an exceptionally strong and unique group of young companies competing in Startup Battlefield next week with...

Google will acquire Apigee for $625 million

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techcrunch.com - Google announced today that it intends to purchase Apigee, an API management platform that went public last year, for $625 million or $17.40 a share. The company, which helps customers build digita...

AirPods and the rise of snackable audio

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techcrunch.com - In just 30 seconds, you can enjoyably consume a viral video or a few Facebook stories. But until now, the shortest thing you could typically listen to was a three minute song, especially when you f...

SpotHero is ready for the future of autonomous parking

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techcrunch.com - SpotHero is not new to the on-demand parking game. It raised $2.5 million in 2012, and another $20 million in series B funding in 2015. This for a service that allows drivers to prepay for a parkin...

Trying out Apple’s fully wireless AirPods

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techcrunch.com - The AirPods were as close as we got to an honest-to-goodness hardware surprise at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco — though anyone who heard tell of the untimely demise of the headphone jac...

Playing around with the Apple Watch Series 2

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techcrunch.com - Maybe there’s a theme emerging here — behind-the-scenes tweaks while maintaining aesthetic consistency with past generations. Like the new iPhone, the Apple Watch Series 2 is pretty much aesthetica...

With the iPhone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever - The New Yorker

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newyorker.com - Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought th...

Hands on with the iPhone 7: A brief peek at the wireless future

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arstechnica.com - The rumors got a lot right about the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Its design isn't too far off from the 6S and 6S Plus, it has an immovable Home button, the Plus has a dual-camera setup to simulate optical...

Warning! This Cross-Platform Malware Can Hack Windows, Linux and OS X Computers

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thehackernews.com - Unlike specially crafted malware specifically developed to take advantage of Windows operating system platform, cyber attackers have started creating cross-platform malware for wider exploitation. ...

The Ultimate Guide to Facebook's Pixel Manager

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socialmediatoday.com - The “Facebook pixel” isn’t the kind of pixel you’d find on a display monitor; it’s a short string of code you place on the pages of your website. And if you're looking to maximize the performance a...

Why Voice is the Missing Link in the Evolution of Search | SEJ

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searchenginejournal.com - Missing links are typically more the purview of paleoanthropologists or fire and brimstone preachers in the pulpit, but as voice technology becomes more prevalent, it is becoming increasingly clear...

Moto Z, Moto Mod accessories now available in the UK

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androidcommunity.com - While a lot of people are probably all about the new smartphone that will be announced this week from the folks over at Cupertino, if you’re an Android person, you probably wouldn’t care. If you’re...

mophie announces new line of charging solutions to give Power for All

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androidcommunity.com - mophie is the number one producer of battery cases and power solutions in North America, and as long as OEMs keep producing smartphones and as long as the battery capacity will not be enough for co...

Telstra leaks Google Pixel date

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androidcommunity.com - While Google still hasn’t confirmed if they will be indeed launching two Pixel phones, codenamed Marlin and Starfish, some people are treating it as a foregone conclusion. And if you live in Austra...

Learn why non-compliant USB-C charging can damage your cables

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androidcommunity.com - By now, we must all know that using accessories and devices from unofficial and non-compliant third parties is not advisable. While some may work and help you save money, there are some that can be...

Pokémon GO hits 500M downloads worldwide across platforms

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androidcommunity.com - In less than two months, Niantic and Nintendo, with the help of Google, have managed to wow the gaming world with the release of ‘Pokemon GO’. This new augmented reality game has taken the globe by...

5 Things Google Doesn't Want You To Google - Elementary Digital

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elementarydigital.co.uk - The many products offered by Google through search, advertising technologies, software and cloud computing have become a hallmark of everyday life. Their revenue figures, new office locations, new ...

Create a Facebook Timeline Cover With Your Instagram Photos

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valuewalk.com - If you are an Instagram user and have captured some beautiful shots, then you can set those photos as your Facebook Timeline Cover with the help of a web app named as InstaCover. This app lets you ...

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 ...

GetQuantify.com: A Real-Time Online Collaboration Application for Small Businesses - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Getquantify is real-time online collaboration application for small businesses. Organize your tasks into projects and keep your team up to date. “GetQuantify.com” is a real-time online collaboratio...

betternet :Provides Parents With Information About Their Kids' Online Behavior - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Colton Shields”, Co-Founder of the Provo – USA based start-up “bettrnet” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and w...

Mekiwi : Easy-To-Use 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 her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-u...

Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can no...

Boxagon: Social Commerce Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Juan Diego Farah'; Co-Founder and CEO of the UK-Based Start Up “Boxagon”. Below, is the full interview that we have condu...

Twitter now acts more like a messaging app with read receipts, typing indicators & web link previews

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techcrunch.com - Twitter rolled out an update to its service this morning that aims to make the social app more competitive with mobile messaging clients, including the recently upgraded iMessage arriving in iOS 10...

LinkedIn will track ad-driven purchases, leads against its audience data

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Brett Prince





marketingland.com - This could be a really short article. LinkedIn is rolling out a way for advertisers to track when their ads lead people to do things on the brand’s site like buy a product or register an account, w...

99 Viral Tweets: The Ultimate Swipe File For Twitter Marketers - Traffic Café

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trafficcafe.com - You’re about to see some amazing Tweets here, many of which have been retweeted a huge number of times. My intention is to inspire your own viral Tweets with this collection, so enjoy browsing. You...

SPI 230: From Deathly Afraid to Cool and Confident: My 5-Year Public Speaking Journey - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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smartpassiveincome.com - In today’s episode, we’re hopping into the Delorean. We’re going back to 2011, to my very first FinCon—the first time I ever spoke in public. I’ll break down all the things I got wrong about that f...

Apple Quietly Updates the iPad - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Did you hear about yesterday’s big Apple news? No, I don’t mean the iPhone 7 or the new Apple Watch: Those were telegraphed months in advance. The big news. I’m referring instead to the iPad, which...

Brands Will Now Know How Many People Bought Products After Seeing LinkedIn Ads

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adweek.com - Fresh off its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft, LinkedIn is lifting the hood on its advertising business to give marketers a glimpse at which campaigns are the most effective at driving sales...

How ‘Google AMP’ & ‘Facebook Instant Articles’ Integration With Wordpress Will Transform The Internet?

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kikolani.com - A decade back, it just used to be about keywords, keywords, and keywords. Simply stuff the keywords all around the page and you’re good to go online. But then suddenly, various important parameters...

SearchCap: Google widget links, ads & SEO

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google reminds webmasters that widget links are against thei...

Just Say Yes | State of Mind Coaching & Training

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stateofmindcoaching.com - Ever felt like you would have made the sale had you stopped talking? We sales professionals call this ‘selling yourself out of the deal,” or ‘overselling it’. Let’s say your prospect asks you if yo...