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What Happens After You Click “Report” on Facebook

Friday, June 22, 2012

With more than 900 million users, Facebook has a tough job keeping track of all the links, images, videos, etc. that are posted on the social network so they also rely on users to be vigilant in reporting anything that is offensive, spam, suspicious, crime-relate or other stuff that violates Facebook’s Community Standards and TOS. [...]

How Much is Social Data Worth? [Infographic]

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Ever wonder how much social data (tweets, photos, videos, status updates, shares, check-ins, connections) is all worth? Backupify, a company that specializes in online backup services recently came up with an idea to quantify the value of social data. They’ve taken public information to find out what kind of social data, which social media network [...]

Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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So the biggest news yesterday and probably for the next couple of days was how Facebook bought Instagram for a whopping $1 Billion. This by far is the most expensive acquisition Facebook has ever made (Drop.io $10 million, ConnectU $31 million, FriendFeed $47.5 million, Snaptu $70 million). Why would Facebook buy a photo-sharing service like [...]

Simple Social Icons WordPress Plugin

Friday, February 24, 2012

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StudioPress recently released the Simple Social Icons WordPress plugin. Coded by Nathan Rice, this plugin/widget enables users to easily display social media/networking icons on any widget area of the blog and link it to different social profiles. Like its name, the Simple Social Icons plugin is very simple and easy to use that it doesn’t [...]

Weekend Roundup #145

Sunday, February 5, 2012

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Hello World! Some of you might be wondering what happened to this blog the past few months. Well, I sort of took a break and when I was about to get back, I got hit by a severe case of writer’s block. I had a difficult time getting my writing groove back and even struggled [...]

Google Shutting Down Slide Social Apps

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Last month I blogged about a social photo sharing app called Photovine. This app was released almost the same time as Google+ and was created by Slide a company acquired by Google last year. I only got to try out Photovine a few days ago and I really like it. I love Instagram but Photovine [...]

State of the Internet 2011 [Infographic]

Monday, August 8, 2011

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A couple years back, I blogged about a video I came across entitled The State of the Internet created by Jesse Thomas of JESS3.com which shows different Internet statistics like the number of emails sent each day/year, number of of websites/blogs, number of people using social networks, number of videos posted and viewed on YouTube, [...]

HowTo: Get A Job Using Social Media

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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Believe it or not, more and more employers are using social media to find talent. According to a survey by Jobvite, 80% of employers are using to support their recruitment efforts and the top 3 channels being used are LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Getting a job via social media is without doubt common as much [...]

What is Google+ and Do You Need It? [Video]

Friday, July 22, 2011

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By now many if not most of your are already using Google+ or have heard about it some way or another. In case you haven’t because you went away on a trip to a remote jungle area in South America, got marooned on an island in the Pacific or didn’t use the Internet the last [...]

Facebook vs Google+ [Infographic]

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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By now most of you are either on or have heard about the newest social network – Google+. I got into Google+ a couple days after it was launched thanks to an unsolicited invite sent by my friend Holly. So far, I’m loving it and have been spending more time on Google+ than on Facebook [...]

Mobile Marketing [Infographic]

Friday, July 8, 2011

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Mobile computing used to be the “future” of technology. Now, it has quickly become the “present” with the influx of new devices and technologies such as high-end smartphones, tablets, cloud computing, 4G, WiMAX and LTE are released and implemented. These days, many people use their mobile devices for almost everything – work, study, shopping and [...]