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Pinterest covertly swaps out your links for affiliate links
Big money, big money! In order to obtain funding, every tech startup has to show investors what their financial strategy is – some begin as free communities that turn premium, others are ad supported, but in an interesting twist, Pinterest has opted for a different alternative wherein they use a service called Skimlinks, according to VentureBeat, which swaps out links ...
Deleted Facebook photos can still be accessed
Facebook’s problem persists In 2009, Ars Technica reported that Facebook was not allowing users to permanently delete any photos from the Facebook servers and that they were still being stored. Nearly three years later, the technology blog is reporting that the problem still exists. If a user has a photo URL (just as AGBeat showed you how to obtain in ...
Facebook publicly supports breast feeding photos, privately bans them
Contradiction at Facebook According to the terms of service of Facebook, uploading images of breast-feeding is acceptable so long as there is no “exposed breast,” and a child is actively nursing, however, as photos are being flagged as inappropriate, Facebook employees review flagged images and have been found to be removing photos of breast-feeding regardless of their terms of service. ...
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Falling beneath the shadow of digital introversion
Attractive extroversion Attractive extroversion = casting a digital overshadow. I bet most of the successful sales people you know are outgoing, friendly and socially savvy. Successful sales people are extroverts. Even if you’re really an introvert (like I am), to be successful in real estate the people, experience, trust and personal-services-business, you have to glow outwardly not inwardly. Glowing outward casts an ...
Best Twitter follower manager on the market
Managing Twitter After five years experimenting with Twitter, dozens of public speaking engagements on the topic, and thousands of followers, I have personally tried endless products that aim to help manage my Twitter followers which is necessary given the shady tactics of spam, bots and jerks. What I have stuck with since its launch is ManageFlitter, not because it has ...
Pinterest now drives as much web traffic as Twitter
What is Pinterest, how do businesses use it? We’ve led the conversation about Pinterest, introducing you to the visual bookmarking site last year, offering the ultimate guide for using Pinterest in business, helped you to learn how to earn influence on Pinterest and even named the site in the 60 Genius Brands to watch in 2012list, after watching the invitation-only network boom as we ...
Facebook calls you an active user even if you don’t use the site
Facebook’s dictionary raises eyebrows This week, Facebook filed their long awaited Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “FB” as most guessed it would be. The rush to file was quickly spotted with technologist Paul Allen pointing out that investors will be most interested ...
Discover your most valuable Twitter follower
Why you might care who your MVF is Sometimes determining your Twitter influence isn’t solely about the number of followers you have. To be a tad brutally honest, not all Twitter followers are created equal. There are countless spammers and those who haven’t actively used the site for quite a while. And we all know how fickle some Twitter users ...
Forecast app makes impromptu offline meetings more likely
Combining social networking and real life contact Social networking sites have created a way to establish and maintain relationships without ever actually having to see each other in person. But this has also created a generational belief that the best way to keep in contact with a friend is through virtual methods. Facebook is a way of sharing what you’ve ...
Loku quietly rolls out brilliant site redesign
Genius makeover Named in the 60 Genius Brands to watch in 2012 list, Loku.com is an Austin tech startup launched to “reveal what locals care about,” helping to make anyone feel like a local through their contextual search engine helps people find news, deals, businesses and events in a hyperlocal area using an algorithm that defines and ranks local content ...
Facebook files for $5 billion IPO under predictable ticker symbol
Facebook’s IPO As suspected, Facebook today filed their Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “FB” as most guessed it would be. Expectations for their IPO was for $10 billion which would have made it the fourth largest IPO in American history, with only ...
How to build a mobile app without knowing any code
Dissolving the tech learning curve With the rise of mobile apps for smartphones and tablets, many small businesses and professionals are struggling with where to invest money and where to save, while some debate that building a custom app is the only way to go for some niche industries while others debate that spending no money on an app is ...
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