Many active Twitter users do most of their sharing in bursts. It’s only natural considering you probably sit down at your computer for an hour or so every day to do your main news reading and sharing during that time. The problem is that your followers will get a big giant burst of tweets from you each day that will knock everything else off the top of their twitter feed. Too much tweet spam could lead to unfollows for your account if you are not careful. That is where Buffer comes in.
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If you are still doubting that mobile payment systems are the way of the future…well STOP IT! Global payments with mobile phones are expected to be up 76% over the year before. The dollar value of mobile transactions is expected to be $86.1 billion in 2011. Compare that to the system’s paltry $48.9 billion in 2010 and this year’s haul becomes even more impressive. In spite of those intimidating numbers the research firm that conducted the study believes mass market adoption of mobile payment systems are still four years away, which gives you time to familiarize yourself with the technology and prepare your business for the coming revolution.
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Recently Facebook announced it will be making some changes to what can be posted in comment replies. Currently it is not possible to post an image, video or link and have it show up in the comment thread itself when you reply to someone’s wall post. But soon Facebook is going to fix that. Comments will now work exactly the way original posts do, meaning when you post multimedia, a thumbnail preview will be viewable inside the comment thread and users won’t need to go to an external page to view it.
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Moving all your pictures between photo albums on different social networks like Facebook and Google+ can be a pain in the butt. A new tool that is currently in beta called Primadesk aims to simplify the process. We tested it recently and found that it makes transferring albums a breeze. Here is a step by step for moving your photos to and from any one of the numerous sites that Primadesk supports.
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When Google launched it’s “+” service it requested that businesses and brand names stay off the social network until they could launch their official business offering for the site. And they were serious about that. Recently Google has begun removing brand name profiles from the plus network.
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It was a bitter sweet day for America. Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down safely Thursday at around 6:00 a.m. It was the completion of a successful mission but the end of an era for NASA and the rest of the country. The shuttle was a source of pride. The world’s first and only reusable space truck. Hopefully the business sector will be able to take up the reigns of space travel in the next few years and come up with a suitable replacement vehicle.
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StumbleUpon (also known as internet crack) is testing out a new way for users to stumble the internet. They are calling it “Explore Box” and it looks quite a bit like a typical search engine set up. But this is StumbleUpon, so obviously it doesn’t work like a typical search engine.
The service allows users to put in specific search queries for what they are interested in, and then SU brings you a random site that falls under the criteria you entered into the box. It’s nothing earth shattering but it does allow the user more control over what sorts of things they want to stumble to and expands upon the categories of interests available to stumblers. This may make users consider more specific tagging when they submit websites to SU.
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Tough break for Google fans wanting to play with the newest beta toys it has to offer. Google’s very popular Labs site is going to be phased out so the Googleplex can give more attention to it’s bread and butter products.
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We’ve all seen the maps from Google with the orange bubbles right? When we search for something local, Google matches up the search with local businesses and locations.
This means users can find their favorite restaurants, coffee shops, and other businesses directly from Google Search.
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According to Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft’s fufutre development plans will be “based on HTML5 and Javascript.”
For the last decade Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money developing technologies like .NET, Silverlight, and others. Keep Reading…
