Posts tagged awesome
Link Bait Sucks…Except When It’s Awesome!
Oct 4th
Words get misused all the time for all sorts of reasons. In some cases overuse of a word results in the dilution of its meaning, like the word “awesome.” In our society the adjective “awesome” can be used to describe both t…
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6 Tactics for Awesome ROI on LinkedIn Ads
Sep 30th
When it comes to targeting strategies for LinkedIn, you need to know the various demographics, locations, and vocations of LinkedIn users. Once you’ve done that, you need to take this information and determine an advertising strategy that wi…
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3 Things Wrong With Quora’s Potentially Awesome New iPhone App
Sep 30th
Uber-hyped question and answer site Quora has finally released its long-awaited iPhone app today and it’s ok. I wish it was better but I’ll probably use it more than the website. As expected, location is a big part of it, though I wish location was more granular and involved automated categorization.
That’s not really the biggest let-down though. There are a number of other issues with it. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler says he’s been testing the app for days, yet he didn’t offer any critique of it in his write-up. So I thought I’d focus on three things I’ve noticed this morning that I wish were better.
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This should be an iPad app, not an iPhone app. Quora is all about in-depth discussion. As Siegler says, “You visit the site just to see what’s going on, 30 minutes later you’re still there.” That’s true – and who wants to spend 30 minutes navigating around inside lengthy posts and comments on a phone? I don’t – I want this Quora app on my iPad. Unfortunately, that’s not supported at launch.
It really needs a “mark as read” function. I almost never complain about info overload, but when you’re following a lot of different topics – you get a lot of notifications on your home page. If my brain has to see and skip a question about “why shrimp turns grey when you cook it” one more time, I’m going to scream. Especially on a mobile interface – there needs to be an easy and well executed mark as read function. Personally, I’d like everything I scroll past on the app’s home page to be marked as read, with a “view all” button at the top of the page if I want to see all the day’s notifications again.
Navigation is funky. Click on a message in your Quora inbox and you land at the bottom of the page and have to scroll up to read the message. Reading comments on posts takes like 3 clicks to get into browser mode. I’ve got a notification of new content in the Nearby tab and I can neither figure out what the new content is nor make the notification go away.
I love Quora, I love what the site is trying to do and I want to love its mobile app. I can’t yet, though.
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Three Things Wrong With Quora’s Potentially Awesome New iPhone App
Sep 29th
Uber-hyped question and answer site Quora has finally released its long-awaited iPhone app today and it’s ok. I wish it was better but I’ll probably use it more than the website. As expected, location is a big part of it, though I wish location was more granular and involved automated categorization.
That’s not really the biggest let-down though. There are a number of other issues with it. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler says he’s been testing the app for days, yet he didn’t offer any critique of it in his write-up. So I thought I’d focus on three things I’ve noticed this morning that I wish were better.
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This should be an iPad app, not an iPhone app. Quora is all about in-depth discussion. As Siegler says, “You visit the site just to see what’s going on, 30 minutes later you’re still there.” That’s true – and who wants to spend 30 minutes navigating around inside lengthy posts and comments on a phone? I don’t – I want this Quora app on my iPad. Unfortunately, that’s not supported at launch.
It really needs a “mark as read” function. I almost never complain about info overload, but when you’re following a lot of different topics – you get a lot of notifications on your home page. If my brain has to see and skip a question about “why shrimp turns grey when you cook it” one more time, I’m going to scream. Especially on a mobile interface – there needs to be an easy and well executed mark as read function. Personally, I’d like everything I scroll past on the app’s home page to be marked as read, with a “view all” button at the top of the page if I want to see all the day’s notifications again.
Navigation is funky. Click on a message in your Quora inbox and you land at the bottom of the page and have to scroll up to read the message. Reading comments on posts takes like 3 clicks to get into browser mode. I’ve got a notification of new content in the Nearby tab and I can neither figure out what the new content is nor make the notification go away.
I love Quora, I love what the site is trying to do and I want to love its mobile app. I can’t yet, though.
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Big Question (Answered): “Facebook Timeline: Creepy or Awesome?”
Sep 22nd
f8 garnered many reactions today. Even before we began our liveblog of f8, we saw hundreds of passionate reactions to the recent Facebook changes. Once f8 really got underway, and Timeline was announced, we knew the social web would be screaming their love or hate of the new Facebook. Being the inquisitive bunch that we are, we wanted to know what you thought. Is Timeline cool or creepy?
We asked and you answered, then we culled your responses from Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.
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Awesome SEO Tools Offered By Adigami.com – AddPR.com (press release)
Sep 7th
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Awesome SEO Tools Offered By Adigami.com
AddPR.com (press release) Adigami.com can help you get the right SEO Tools, SEO software and keyword tools so that you have a better web presence and your webpage gets more traffic. With so many different kinds of software and SEO tools available these days, finding out which … What's the Best SEO Method? Find All SEO Tools At adigami.com |
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Three Awesome Ways to Leverage Google Analytics in eCommerce SEO – SEOmoz (blog)
Jul 18th
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Three Awesome Ways to Leverage Google Analytics in eCommerce SEO
SEOmoz (blog) The author's views below are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I love ROI focused search engine optimisation – the kinds of SEO tactics where you know the end result is going to impact on the bottom line. … |
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7 Awesome SEO & Social Media Songs – Business 2 Community
Jul 15th
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7 Awesome SEO & Social Media Songs
Business 2 Community A steady stream of SEO and Social Media songs have hit the Internet with varying degrees of success. And while the genre may be technically dodgy in spots (think MTV in the early 1980′s), done properly it can be an incredibly effective way to gather … |
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Facebook Promised Something Awesome, Now They Have To Deliver
Jul 5th
In the midst of all the Google Plus hype last week, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped in an interview with reporters that the company is going to announce “something awesome” this week. The statement was cryptic and a giant tease to tech reporters looking for the next big story. Now Facebook has to live up to the words of its CEO and actually deliver something awesome.
Awesome is a pretty subjective word. What could be awesome to Zuckerberg could be lame to the rest of the world. What could that be? Powers of deduction around the rumor mill have pointed to some type of Skype integration with Facebook. Zuckerberg made his comments at the Seattle Facebook office. Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond are 15 miles from Seattle. Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and has had a good relationship with the company. Microsoft bought Skype not long ago. Do all these signs lead to Skype integration within Facebook connected with a guiding hand from Microsoft? Or is it something else entirely, like new photo-sharing tools or an HTML5 application store? Let’s take a look at the rumors to see what kind of awesomeness could be released in Palo Alto, Calif. tomorrow.
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Facebook & Skype
Back in September 2010, it appeared that Facebook and Skype were ready to announce “a deep integration partnership” that would bring Facebook the type of communications tools enjoyed by Google such as browser-integrated video chat. For some reason, that deal was never closed. At the time it looked like Skype would enable Facebook users to call and SMS their friends from Skype but the rumors made no mention of being able to video chat with friends from within the Facebook ecosystem in the browser. The ability to embed Skype directly into Facebook would certainly be a killer feature.
Microsoft and Facebook have a close relationship. Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook in 2007. More recently Microsoft debuted its “social search” capabilities by integrating Facebook data into Bing search results. Embedding Skype into Facebook would be a big win for Microsoft and a validation of the $8.5 billion it spent to acquire the service.
Google Plus has an exciting feature called Hangouts that allows up to 10 people to video chat in the same room. When it comes to real-time communications on the Internet, that is a powerful new tool. Will Skype integration into Facebook reach that level of “awesome?”
iPad Application, HTML5 Mobile Web Apps
According to Reuters, the 40-person Facebook team in Seattle has a background in mobile development. Does that mean that Facebook is finally going to release an iPad app or something similar in the mobile realm?
An iPad app does not seem like something that would fall into the “awesome” category. If Facebook was serious about an iPad application, it would have developed one by now, 15 months after the release of the original Apple tablet. A source tells TechCrunch that the announcement will not be an iPad app.
Facebook could still be going after the mobile realm though by releasing an HTML5 version of its platform that would be specifically designed for smartphones and tablets. Would that be the so-called “Project Spartan” that reportedly will try to create an application model to undercut iTunes? Maybe, though reports said that Project Spartan would not be available till mid-July at the earliest.
New Photo-Sharing Tools
When it comes to mobile photo sharing, Google Plus beats Facebook without a doubt. Yet, Facebook could be working on upgrading its photo-sharing tools that utilize sensor data on a device. If the Facebook team in Seattle is really a mobile-first operation, this might make sense. Facebook would like to create more connections using implicit data and as such creating a team of developers to emulate and add upon the ideas of photo-sharing app Color would make a lot of sense. Facebook + photo sharing + implicit data would probably fall into the category of “awesome.” This may or may not be another aspect of Spartan.
Facebook could also update its photo-sharing capabilities in the same rollout. Improvements to Facebook’s mobile uploads would be the ability to upload more than one photo at a time (or enabling “instant upload” the way Google Plus does) that could easily be shared with specific groups of people on Facebook but not the entire user stream.
We will be covering Facebook’s announcement tomorrow at 10 a.m. PST. What do you think? What kind of awesomeness do you want from Facebook? What do you think Facebook will announce on Wednesday? Let us know in the comments.
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