TECHNOLOGY
Mark Zuckerberg Covers His Laptop Camera. You Should Consider It, Too.
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Anita Nelson
nytimes.com - Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most powerful men in the world because billions of people give Facebook, which he founded, free access to their personal data. In return, users receive carefully curat...
6 Stupid Marketing Metrics That Need to Die
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Chuck Hahn
wordstream.com - Way too often—at least several times a week—I'm amazed by the things that some marketers are still measuring. Maybe they don't know any better. Maybe some are just married to legacy metrics that we...
The app boom is over
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Michael Abehsera
recode.net - The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Now it is over. People are still making plenty of apps, of course. And many people are still downloading them. But ...
#303 – An Interview with Dmitry Nedospasov
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Industrial Computer
theamphour.com - #303 – An Interview with Dmitry Nedospasov Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Welcome Dmitry Nedospasov (@nedos), Dmitry is from Russia, grew up in US, and mov...
App Store search is totally broken.
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Mike Elgan
thenextweb.com - Searching for apps is typically pretty straightforward, so long as you know what you’re looking for. But when you don’t, both Apple and Google’s respective shops (the App Store and Google Play) do ...
'Battle Of The Bastards' Got The Leeroy Jenkins Treatment — Best Battle Scene In TV History + Best Viral Video Ever
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Cass Anderson
brobible.com - First off, if you haven’t seen this week’s Game of Thrones episode, Battle of the Bastards, there are some serious spoilers in this so you should turn away now. Moving on: for my money ‘Leeeeeroy J...
The Amazon Echo Is Winning the Race to a Screenless Future
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Mike Elgan
wired.com - The Amazon Echo is an unlikely hit. After all, the world’s largest online retailer hasn’t always won its bets on hardware. (RIP, Fire Phone.) And a gadget that relies solely on voice? Let’s just sa...
Apple celebrates Pride weekend with rainbow Apple Watch bands for employees
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - As Tim Cook and others from Apple prepared to join in Sunday's annual Pride parade in San Francisco, the company gave employees a special, limited-edition rainbow-colored watch band to commemorate ...
Periscope's CEO Discusses Politics, Best Practices and the Future of Live-Streaming
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - Live-streaming is the trend of the moment. Combining the rising consumption of video content and the immediate connectivity of social networks, live-streaming puts a new spin on how we connect, and...
Xiaomi’s newest gadget is a foldable electric bicycle that costs $450
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Is there anything that China’s Xiaomi doesn’t sell? The company best-known for its affordable but high-quality smartphones recently announced its first drone, right after launching a smart rice coo...
Accessibility was all around this year’s WWDC
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. From this year’s WWDC keynote, there was one overarching theme that emerged — from watchOS 3’s conceptual simplification, to ...
Facebook Live grows up with two-person broadcasts and waiting rooms for viewers
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook. The platform will soon let you do two-person remote broadc...
How the ‘insecurity of things’ creates the next wave of security opportunities
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More than 5 billion IoT devices were installed in 2015. Gartner estimates this will grow to 20 ...
iOS 10 and macOS Sierra: Networking for the modern Internet
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference starts with a keynote, but the rest of the week is about sessions that go into much more depth with Apple's software. During a session named Networking for t...
47 No-Fail Ways to Come Up with Blog Post Ideas
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - Sometimes content marketers have to deal with a lot of emptiness, and turn all that blank space into content that attracts, and engages, and converts. How do you keep the ideas and creativity flowi...
Rightscorp Pressures ISPs to Hijack Pirates Browsers - TorrentFreak
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Reg Saddler
torrentfreak.com - Rightscorp has made plenty of headlines in recent years, often due its aggressive attempts to obtain settlements from allegedly pirating Internet users. Thus far these efforts haven’t been particul...
Survey: 28% of U.S. Adults Have Paid for an App or In-App Purchase
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Reg Saddler
adweek.com - Marketing intelligence company CivicScience released the results of its survey of 1,971 U.S. adults, which revealed that 28 percent of respondents had paid for a mobile application or for an in-app...
How 1-800-PetMeds Approaches Social Customer Service [Podcast]
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - With the seemingly endless popularity of puppy and kitten pictures, videos, and memes on the internet, it would seem that the social media script for America’s largest pet pharmacy could basically ...
Technology Triggers Brand Loyalty at FedEx
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Becky Huling, Vice president of Customer Engagement Marketing at FedEx, told Loyalty360 that the company’s technology platforms pave the way for brand loyalty. “FedEx has consistently been at the f...
FedEx Intersects the User and Technology for Powerful Customer Experience
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - The intersection of the user and technology creates the opportunity to provide a unique and powerful customer experience. That is the mantra for FedEx, which prides itself on using technology and s...
Arctic Cat Delivers Ultimate Virtual Customer Experience
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Arctic Cat, among the most widely recognized and respected brands in the recreational vehicle industry, recently launched the new Arctic Cat 360 Wildcat VR experience. For off-road and snowmobiling...
Choice Privileges Expands Loyalty Program Rewards Network
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Choice Privileges, the recently redesigned loyalty program at hospitality chain Choice Hotels, has earned a sterling reputation based on its generous “Your Extras” benefits. Members of the program ...
Global Loyalty Programs Demand Enhanced Technology, Personalization
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Customer loyalty is no longer a matter of finding a “one-size-fits-all” approach and sticking to it. Customer demand is constantly shifting across generations, demographics, and even international ...
Sleeves Up Productions : Digital Content For Brands - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Erika Kramer”, CEO and Founder at New York – USA based start-up “SleevesUpProductions” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that...
Room In The Moon : Social Travel Website - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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...
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...
Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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 ...
Narwall : Personalized Designs for Toys, Apparel and Decor for Kids - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Andrew Fry”, Founder of the startup based in Campbell – United States “Narwall” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...
Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - Brian Zuercher had a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has be...
50 A/B Split Tests to Optimize Your Site to Perfection -
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Travis Wright
sujanpatel.com - Is a website finished once the design and development is complete, and the site gets launched? Of course not! It doesn’t matter how beautiful your site looks or how well it converts – there are alw...
Update Your Local Online Listing – BeBizzy Consulting
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Wayne Mansfield
bebizzy.com - When was the last time you used a phone book for something other than a door stop, table leveler, or napkin weight? Last year? The 2000’s? If you’re a millennial… EVER? As a business owner you simp...
11 Awesome Tactics and Tools to Grow Traffic That Sticks
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Anita Nelson
jeffbullas.com - Social media offered a promise that was so compelling that when I discovered it I was hooked. The potential and the promise became apparent. You could create, publish and get worldwide attention fo...
Seven tips on keeping your phone safe while traveling
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cnet.com - You may not think of it this way, but the phone in your pocket is really an extension of you -- it contains everything from personal photos and videos to critical contact information. It's also val...
Speed Dating Your Way to a Startup Soulmate
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Jefferson Faudan
huffingtonpost.com - Think peanut butter and jelly. Or Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Or pen and paper. All capture that special something, that special partnership, that comes when two great things just go together. Somet...
10 industries that are changing because of data - Import.io
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Chris Abraham
import.io - The migration to big data is quickly becoming a race: keep up or shut down. Whether you’re a standalone brick-and-mortar shop or the next Silicon Valley unicorn, there’s an emerging urgency to adop...
Whatever happened to the internet democratising media?
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Gregg Luhring
dailymaverick.co.za - Overnight, one could be a citizen journalist, a blogger whose content rivalled the major media moguls, or a YouTube star challenging linear television for ad dollars. The global media giants were g...
How to Create and A/B Test Your Thank You Pages
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Tyson Quick
instapage.com - In your everyday life, saying two simple words has the power to make you and the people around you happier, more self-confident, and physically healthier. What are they? This seemingly magic phrase...
Google, Facebook Quietly Move Toward Automatic Blocking of Extremist Videos
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Mike Elgan
fortune.com - Some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process. The...
Social Media: How Facebook Is Destroying The Creativity Of Self Marketing
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William Lark
theinscribermag.com - Back in the day, Facebook was the start of the new wave of communication, advertisement and opportunity. But, along its way to three-plus billion dollars revenue in 2015 they lost their way. Facebo...
Want To Know More About Affiliate Marketing? Read This Now!
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Rolf Joho
freeaffiliatepro.com - If you are a stranger to the universe that is affiliate promotion, you may be looking for some tips to help you begin a career in this exciting field. Here are some ways you in the right direction ...
The Skyrim Opening: Shell vs Essence of a Game Design
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Most players experience video games as interactive story adventures, and the Onboarding Phase is essential in setting users in the right mood towards Onboarding. Besides making people feel smart (C...
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
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Rob Llewellyn
hbr.org - Platform businesses that bring together producers and consumers, as Uber and Airbnb do, are gobbling up market share and transforming competition. Traditional businesses that fail to create platfor...
Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation Management
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Rob Llewellyn
cxoweekly.com - The management of Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation have both similarities and differences, although confusion sometimes arises between the two. While Enterprise Architecture mode...
Understanding Cloud Computing
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LeVar Thomas
huffingtonpost.com - Cloud computing finds its origin in the need of advanced computing infrastructure by people and organization which can be shared among them. The cloud came as a solution. It is the practice of usin...
So Hey You Should Stop Using Texts for Two-Factor Authentication
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panah
wired.com - Since two-factor authentication became the norm for web services that care about securing your accounts, it’s started to feel like a security blanket, an extra layer keeping your data safe no matte...
Apple won’t collect your data for its AI services unless you let it
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Tamara Dull
recode.net - After years of touting itself as the company that didn’t access its users data, Apple has finally acknowledged that it really does need at least some collective understanding. The company announced...
Best Android Twitter apps for both casual and power users
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Jason Cramer
phonearena.com - Twitter is one of the more strange social networks around, mostly because there's a wide range of ways to use the service. Facebook is polarizing, but it's clear what the platform is primarily for:...
BitTorrent Now Is A New Music And Video Streaming App For iOS, Android, Apple TV | Redmond Pie
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redmondpie.com - The streaming revolution is clearly going strong, and today it’s getting another player in the game. BitTorrent has announced its new BitTorrent Now platform available on the web and Android, with ...
Twitter now lets users tag location feeds in tweets
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Jason Cramer
deccanchronicle.com - In a recent development, micro-blogging site Twitter has introduced a new feature which allows users to tag and view tweets from specific locations like a sports stadium, music festival, or a busin...
20 App-enabled Smart Home Appliances & Gadgets - iPhoneNess
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panah
iphoneness.com - Our homes are going to become a lot smarter in the future. There are already plenty of app-enabled products you can pick up to make your life easier. Here are 20 smart home appliances and gadgets y...
