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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

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How AI Is Making Advertising More Efficient and Consumer-Focused

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www.adweek.com - Last year, veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg denounced online ads for ruining the online experience. The model is bad for everyone, as advertisers and online sites scrabble over quality control a…

Make no mistake: content errors harm your brand and SEO

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searchenginewatch.com - How to optimize for audience trust. Plus, four tips for dealing with mistakes that can kill your brand’s reputation. Trust matters. Whether you’re creating content for a standalone brand publication …

A Few More Details About Microsoft's Xbox Scarlett Game Streaming Service - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console is a family of devices and was going by the name of Scarlett. Since un…

10 Digital Marketing Trends That Are Totally Transforming The Landscape This Year

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www.jeffbullas.com - In 2017, the digital marketing landscape built itself around video ads, mobile optimization, big data, dedicated apps, SEO audits, high-quality content, and smart machines. An eventful year, indeed! …

We need a new model for tech journalism

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www.cjr.org - A lowly tech employee was trying to do some simple task online and found out it was really hard. Inspired by that difficulty, he—and it was almost always a he—used his spare time to build a better wa…

5 Growth Hacks That Continuously Deliver Results

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www.jeffbullas.com - “Growth hacking” is a hot term in the marketing community and many people are denouncing the strategies. But what is growth hacking really? I like to define it as any strategy that helps your brand g…

The Science of Social Media Episode 104 Show Notes

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blog.bufferapp.com - There is always so much happening in the social media marketing industry that it can be a challenge to keep up with all of the latest news and insights. From constant changes to the Facebook and Inst…

Social Media Advertising for Content Marketing: 10 Killer Hacks

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www.curata.com - Let’s start with the bad news first. It’s tougher than ever to get content noticed. Changes to Google search results pages have further obscured content organically, especially on competitive commerc…

Top Marketing Books

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curationsuite.com - All trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. This site and the products and services offered on this site are not associated, affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by any busine…

Content Marketing Tips RoundUp - Video, 5 Steps, and Choosing Images

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curationsuite.com - Later this month, Oracle Oracle will bring together a diverse group of modern marketing leaders—representing dozens of industries—to discuss the art and science of creating and distributing great con…

Cloud-Driven Innovation

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www.simplilearn.com - The cloud is driving faster innovation in today’s society, mostly because migrating to the cloud offers businesses an easy way to access faster, more flexible, and cost-efficient resources. The cloud…

Content Optimization: Boost Traffic by Improving What You Already Have

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www.searchenginejournal.com - You put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into your content, and it would be a shame not to reap its benefits. Often it will serve you a lot more if you touch it up just a little. It’s the low-hanging…

5 Growth Hacking Case Studies From Amazing Startups

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www.jeffbullas.com - Startup marketing can be a challenging journey, especially if you are starting from scratch. With so many digital channels to invest in and thousands of experts offering you multiple strategies, it i…

How to Share or Curate Content From Instagram

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curationsuite.com - One of the best ways to create fresh and dynamic curated content is to curate from social media sources such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. In this post and video I’ll share how you ca…

Content Marketing RoundUp - Length of Content, Social SEO, and Ideation

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curationsuite.com - For a long time the Holy Grail of blogging was the 500-word blog post. It was the winning formula. It worked every time. Until it didn’t. Then in August 2013, Google updated their algorithm for showi…

Nintendo to ROM sites: Forget cease-and-desist, now we’re suing

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arstechnica.com - Nintendo's attitude towards ROM releases—either original games' files, or fan-made edits—has often erred on the side of litigious. But in most cases, the game producer has settled on cease-and-desist…

Google Cloud’s partnership network begins paying dividends

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techcrunch.com - When Google Cloud brought Diane Greene on board at the end of 2015, one of her goals was to expand the division’s partnership network, an approach she found worked quite well when she was running VMw…

Musical.ly’s shutdown of Live.ly was contractually obligated

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techcrunch.com - Musical.ly has begun redirecting users of its Live.ly app, which it decided to kill off last month, to a competing app called LiveMe. Existing Live.ly users are being pointed to LiveMe through an in-…

Fritz wants to help developers bring machine learning to their mobile apps

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techcrunch.com - It’s one thing to run machine learning models in the cloud, where you have plenty of resources. On mobile devices, you’re dealing with very finite compute resources, so if you want to run your models…

Crypto’s most popular wallet service is getting a mobile app for secure login

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techcrunch.com - MyEtherWallet, the most popular crypto wallet service on the internet, is finally getting a mobile app as it bids to increase security for its users. Today the company introduced MEW Connect, an iOS …

Peak Design goes back to Kickstarter to launch $299 travel backpack

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techcrunch.com - Meet the Travel Backpack 45L. It’s Peak Design’s latest creation and the company just launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring it to life. This product marks the eighth Kickstarter campaign for Peak …

YouTube is testing its own ‘Explore’ tab on iPhone

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techcrunch.com - YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on Friday promised the company would do a better job with communicating to creators about its experiments and tests. Today, YouTube is making good on that commitment with a…

Microsoft is building low-cost, streaming-only Xbox, says report

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techcrunch.com - It was revealed at E3 last month that Microsoft was building a cloud gaming system. A report today calls that system Scarlett Cloud and it’s only part of Microsoft next-gen Xbox strategy. And it make…

10 Brilliant Strategies For Writing Viral Content

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www.forbes.com - This is part of a series. Check out the companion piece: BuzzFeed’s Guide To Viral Content (Cats Optional, But Encouraged) There are certain websites, writers, marketers and content creators who seem…

Even Leica loves “computational photography”

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om.co - What I hate about news is that there is too much of it, and most of it doesn’t matter. So instead of writing about the regulation of Google’s monopoly or moral ambiguities of Facebook, I decided to f…

Tesla clears the air with “farting unicorn” artist after copyright stink

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arstechnica.com - "It's clear there were some misunderstandings that led to this escalating, but I'm just glad that everything has been cleared up," Edwards wrote. "I've always been a Tesla fan, and I'm looking forwar…

Google video shows early app redesigns for Gmail, Google Photos, and more

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arstechnica.com - Behold, a new Gmail inbox design. The red is gone, replaced with a lot more white. You also get a bottom bar and in-line thumbnails. The Gmail message screen. I'm confident that this is a horizontal …

Declining cryptocurrency prices are making graphics cards affordable again

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arstechnica.com - About a year ago, graphics card prices started to go crazy. Then in early 2018, things got even crazier. The price of a Radeon RX 570—a mid-range graphics card popular for cryptocurrency mining—soare…

Divi Builder, Beaver Builder or Elementor - Compared - Which to Choose and Why?

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winningwp.com - You might have heard of these things called page builder plugins. Okay, of course you have! They are all the craze right now. But here’s the thing; which one is best? Today we make it clear by compar…

Leaked videos appear to depict Apple’s internal iPhone and Mac repair processes

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www.theverge.com - Eleven videos that appear to depict Apple’s internal processes for repairing iPhones and MacBooks have been uploaded onto YouTube. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the vid…

Sony announces 48-megapixel sensor, smartphone cameras to get a quality boost

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androidcommunity.com - Sony is one of the world’s top manufacturers of camera sensors for smartphones. By this we mean that most of the leading smartphone makers will usually have a Sony IMX sensor or another powering thei…

Pixelbook refresh coming later this year

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve only been hearing about the next Pixel phone but nothing much on the Pixelbook. We never really thought about the notebook computer until over the weekend when Evleaks (Evan Blass) shared over …

Meizu X8 pictured with a notch design, still a mid-range

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androidcommunity.com - The last Meizu X phone we remember was released back in 2016. We first thought it would have a Helio chipset and ring flash around the camera. We didn’t feature any follow-up since then but there hav…

Galaxy Note 9 colors: these are your choices

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androidcommunity.com - We are just a few days away supposedly from the official announcement of the Galaxy Note 9 (and maybe other stuff too!) at the Samsung Unpacked event, happening on August 9 in New York City. But of c…

If you want the fastest data speeds, get a new Android, not an iPhone

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mashable.com - Apple's iPhone X is one of the most advanced smartphones you can buy, successfully combining an edge-to-edge display, best-in-class cameras, fast performance, and a secure operating system into a stu…

How to Recognize and Overcome Facebook Ad Fatigue : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are your once-successful Facebook ad campaigns no longer effective? Wondering if ad fatigue is responsible? In this article, you’ll learn how to recognize the signs of ad fatigue and tweak existing F…

Mike's List of Chrome Extensions

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elgan.com - Chrome extensions collectively make up the building blocks of what I call the Super Internet. This list will be improved and updated constantly. Please come back early and often for the updates. Go h…

China is targeting Apple with advanced OLED screens for future iPhones

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www.dailymail.co.uk - Chinese manufacturer BOE Technology Group is developing advanced organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, which it hopes will be used in Apple's top-tier smartphone range. The company, based in …

Retail’s Ongoing Digital Transformation Also Points to Its Future - RetailTechNews

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www.retailtechnews.com - In this piece, Ian Waters, director, solutions marketing, ThousandEyes, tells RetailTechNews that with 18% of UK retail sales coming from e-commerce, it might seem that the ‘digitisation’ of the reta…

The state of natural language & conversational search in 2018

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www.econsultancy.com - As human beings, we use our voices for conversation. When we interact with voice interfaces, therefore, our natural instinct is to apply the same rules that we would to a human conversation. We expec…

60 Of The Best Damn Photos On The Internet This Afternoon

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brobible.com - Welcome! It’s my job to bring you the best funny memes of 2018 each day. Here at BroBible, I put out the ‘Best Damn Photos’ daily pic dump in the morning and afternoon, 52 weeks a hear. This is your …

Are the Kings dealing away their veterans? Why these ‘random trades’ aren’t likely

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www.sacbee.com - There’s an old saying that remains accurate: Just because something’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s true. If “reports” from one Twitter page were for real, the Kings’ potential roster for the upc…

Twitter Tests Promoted Trend Spotlight Ads In Its Explore Tab • Featured, Twitter • WeRSM - We are Social Media

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wersm.com - Twitter is starting to let advertisers appear in its Explore tab with a new Promoted Trend Spotlight ad unit. Disney is the first company to use it. After burying its Moments feature within its Explo…

Tesla shorts drive Pulitzer-winning journalist off Twitter after glowing review of Model 3 Performance

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www.teslarati.com - The Tesla Model 3 recently got its first professional review from a veteran auto journalist. In an article published in the Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer-winning journalist Dan Neil gave the Model 3 …

The value of superior UX? Priceless, but awfully hard to measure | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Let's face it -- when it comes to measuring the return on investment for user experience (UX), all the traditional metrics fall down flat. For today's organizations, you simply can't put a price on t…

WTF is a GDPR consent string? - Digiday

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digiday.com - Anyone who has their nose to the data-privacy law grindstone — and who doesn’t, really? — get ready to hear a new term bandied about: consent string. What is it, and why is it necessary? Here’s an ex…

Sciforma - Case Study - Sciforma replaces all Windows file servers and unifies international team

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www.egnyte.com - Sciforma, a leading global provider of project and portfolio management software, has chosen Egnyte to provide a worldwide file storage and sharing solution at its branches in all countries where it …

None of Google's 85,000 employees have been phished in over a year — and it's because of a simple $20 product anyone can use

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www.businessinsider.com - One of the most common ways that people get hacked is called phishing or spearphishing: Basically, attackers craft an email that looks just like something you'd normally click on, like a bill or an e…

How to Leverage Your Ideal Partnerships to Scale Your Business

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www.entrepreneur.com - At Clickfunnels’ annual business conference, Funnel Hacking Live, Emily Richett chats with Dana Derricks, serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, coach and goat farmer-- yes, that’s right. This guy lov…

Reminder: Google Flips To HTTPS by Default Tomorrow - ExtremeTech

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www.extremetech.com - Starting tomorrow, Google Chrome will begin warning users who visit unencrypted websites that their traffic is flowing to an insecure location. It’s a transition we’ve covered several times already t…

8 laptops for people who want the absolute best

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www.businessinsider.com - It's tough to say which of these 4 checklist items matter the most — each person might value one particular element more than another. One of the factors that makes the biggest difference, in my opin…

FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 392, Jonathan Marks on the Meta Model of Fraud | JD Supra

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www.jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…

This New Instagram Feature Will Help You Lurk In Secret Without Interruptions

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www.elitedaily.com - While I am a big fan of receiving hilarious memes from my friends on Instagram, I don't think they need to know my every single move on the app. Instagram recently released a feature that lets your f…

3 Ways Brands Are Using Virtual Reality Right Now

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www.entrepreneur.com - Once only a strange and futuristic concept featured in science fiction, virtual reality is now a part of our lives, and it’s no longer just for video games, either. Many top companies are now using v…

The 3 Pillars of Marketing to Help Turn Your Company Into the Next Coca-Cola

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www.entrepreneur.com - In this video, Erik Huberman talks with Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstar about the three pillars of marketing: awareness, nurturing and trust. The three pillars can combine to add new c…

Small Business Users Have Until September 1 to Switch to Skype 8.25 - Small Business Trends

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smallbiztrends.com - Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) just announced it is replacing the classic desktop Skype (7.0) with a host of new features which resemble the mobile version. With Skype 8.25, Microsoft says it has improved …

Try Decluttering Your Brain to Find More Room for Creativity

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www.entrepreneur.com - In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brian Tracy talks about how decluttering your brain can lead to creativity. When we let stuff clog our thoughts and brain power, we lose focus and space fo…

Mergers, acquisitions, and the new media landscape

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www.cjr.org - While much of the media remains focused on President Trump’s summit with Putin in Helsinki, an eventful week for media companies has set in motion changes that may alter how Americans get their news.…

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