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Why I Quit Twitter — and Left Behind 35,000 Followers
Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights from The New York Times. In this piece, Jonathan Weisman, The Times’s deputy Washington editor, explains his recent decision to quit Twitter
Saturday, February 13, 2016
How to Create an Award Winning Blog - Jenn's TrendsJenn's Trends
How to Create an Award Winning Blog - Jenn's TrendsJenn's Trends
Embrace Your Readers
Really, this should be number one in growing your blog. The main reason my blog made it onto the final list of the top 10 blogs, and the ONLY reason it was even nominated is because of my readers. I will be the first to admit that I don’t have a huge readership. I average about 13,000 views a month right now. I realize that’s nowhere near the big leagues but it’s a whole hell of a lot more than the couple hundred views I had when I started this thing.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Chicken-little investors, please read the jobs report - MarketWatch
Chicken-little investors, please read the jobs report - MarketWatch
Remember that consumer spending is 70% of the economy. If it’s working, everything else has to go really, really wrong to make either the market or the economy go sour.
Monday, August 11, 2014
The 10 Weirdest One Weird Trick Ads | InvestorPlace
If you’ve been online any time in the past decade you’ve seen them: ads that claim to have a weird trick that helps you to do something.Someone figured out that weird, odd, unusual, unexpected and unorthodox tricks grab our attention, and marketers have run with it. The “something” is often as weird as the trick, but someone must be clicking these things because as Slate‘s Alex Kaufman points out, they’re popular enough to have spawned their own advertising genre.
Monday, May 26, 2014
How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technology | The Guardian
How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technology | The Guardian
How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button – even with dozens of other pages about courgettes to choose from.
How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button – even with dozens of other pages about courgettes to choose from.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic
Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic: "Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't."
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes
Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes
How does this work? In one of their brochures, direct marketing services company Harte-Hanks describes the GeoCapture service they offer retail businesses as follows: “Users simply capture name from the credit card swipe and request a customer’s ZIP code during the transaction. GeoCapture matches the collected information to a comprehensive consumer database to return an address.” In a promotional brochure, they claim accuracy rates as high as 100%.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider
Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider: There are 10 independent YouTube stars who made over $100,000 in the past year, according to a study done by analytics and advertising company TubeMogul.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff
Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff
Your Museum of Me is a white structure located in an unidentified utopia space far beyond city limits. There's a green open field, a shallow pond and clean white pavement surrounding your incubator-like museum. To enter, just click.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld
Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld:
Google+ is now the world’s second largest social network, outranking Twitter that comes in at the number four position. But both social networks are still far behind Facbook, which is used by more than 51 percent of the world’s online population, according to a new survey.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com
Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com:
Android smartphone owners can finally stop trading dirty looks with their iPhone-carrying friends: Twitter's increasingly popular Vine six-second video and creativity app is finally available on the Android platform.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!
Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!:
The new update fills up nearly all the blank space with a mosaic of images with large, high res photos prominently displayed. The navigation is revamped as well and the whole thing looks and functions like a dream.
Of course, if this doesn’t bring the masses back to Flickr, the Free Terabyte of Storage will!
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Instagram Food Porn Leads to Capture of Identity Thieves
Instagram Food Porn Leads to Capture of Identity Thieves:
Food porn on Instagram is ubiquitous. That is to say, pretty much everywhere you look someone's posted a meal for one reason or another. It's the perfect tool to show off how lovely your burger looks before devouring it. If, however, you're an identity thief trying to avoid getting caught by the law, perhaps it's a good idea to not take photos of food at your clandestine meetings.
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