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Yahoo Reportedly Looking To Buy Tumblr For That Magic $1B
May 17th
Yahoo is in talks to acquire the fast-growing blogging site Tumblr for as much as $1 billion, AllThingsD reports. This could be the “big deal” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has reportedly been looking for.
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3 Practical Tips for Creating Magic Content Flow
Apr 22nd
When you are entering the Internet world, you will see that there are so many people who are searching for something to meet their needs. The core medium to find information online is by using a “search engine”. Search engines have become the best resource for the people to get relevant source of information in [...]
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Solar Powered SEO Eliminates SEO Black Magic and Voodoo – PR.com (press release)
Mar 5th
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Solar Powered SEO Eliminates SEO Black Magic and Voodoo
PR.com (press release) Yet with search engine optimization (SEO), the game plan may not always be as clear. The rule book for search engine optimization is always changing. You can easily teach a child a pastime, and they can teach their friends and own children down the line. Head of SEO Phil Smith's SEO Company Long Island Offers Internet Marketing Services Why SEO Can Help Your Local Business Grow |
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Mobile-Only Magic: How Instagram Just Killed What Makes It Special
Feb 5th
Well, that’s it folks. It’s all over. Instagram has come to the web – and not just via static web profiles like the company introduced last year.
No, Instagram is on the web now. It’s a full blown web-based social network with a companion app. Forgive me while I totally freak out for a minute over here.
This is what I’ve been afraid of.
For Instagram, The Rules Were Different
Instagram is special. It’s why we Instagram acolytes almost start a holy war every time Facebook so much as looks at its billion-dollar acquisition. But what makes Instagram so different? The app has a lot going for it, sure. The interface is lovely, with both social networking and social discovery built right in. But that’s not it.
The thing that makes Instagram special is that – until today – it was a social network with no web presence. There’s an inestimable charm to how Instagram feels walled-off in its mobile-only realm. You just don’t interact with Instagram on desktop. The rules are different. It’s like when the power goes out and you have to play board games. And it’s really, really fun.
Mobile-Only: The Final Frontier Of Play
Look at how (and why) we love to hate Facebook. As a social network, Facebook is woven into the fabric of our workday lives – namely we use it on on our desktop computers when we’re supposed to be doing something else entirely. That fact makes a site like Facebook feel less like play and more like a professional tic. A social network with a ubiquitous presence across platforms becomes something we shove into every micromoment of the workday – and most of those happen while we’re zoning out sitting at a desk.
Instagram wasn’t like that – it was serendipitous and social and creative in turns. But that may have all just changed. Now, in every inbox lull and pre-meeting chunk of lagtime, we’ll open a new tab and feel the tug – why not just check Instagram?
The Unbearable Lightness Of Instagram
There’s a heaviness to all of this attentional straying. It’s the dopamine surge that lures us back to places like the Facebook News Feed, even though we know that little pleasure spike in our brain is as empty as it is ephemeral. Then we’re back to the unshakeable guilt of what we were abandoned when we wandered off the trail.
Mobile is monomaniacal — even with Android’s multitasking and iOS’s relatively nascent notification center and fast app switching, we pick a portal and enter into it. But on a computer, we partition our screen off into hostile factions warring for our attention – and we never seem to be on the winning side. But on mobile, choosing to open Instagram is just that: a choice and not a tic.
Instagram is meant to be us at play, capturing the world and parceling it back out to our friends who are out there doing just the same. For Instagram, mobile is more than just a platform. It’s a mindset.
Sure, Instagram’s web feed will boost engagement and provide new opportunities for monetization and so on. But it could prove to be a major paradigm shift for the kind of unconditional positive regard that the company has enjoyed to date.
We’ll soon be wallowing in our newly compounded web ennui, scrolling back through our web feeds to remember what the good ol’ days were like, way back when Instagram was still fun.
Remember?
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Social Magic: How Psy’s Gangnam Style Beat Justin Bieber on YouTube
Nov 24th
How Psy’s Gangnam Style Defeated Justin Bieber and Became the Most Viewed YouTube Video of All Time! Unless you’re living in one of those countries with no internet, you’ve most certainly seen Psy’s bizarre yet internationally inspiring imaginary horse dance and its thousands of parodies on YouTube. In just 19 weeks since its release, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” [...]
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Of “Magic Keywords” & Flavors Of Personalized Search At Google
Nov 9th
When is personalized search not personalized search? A recently discovered shift on how Google may alter your search results based on what you — and others in aggregate — previously have searched for may have you wondering how to answer that question. To understand the latest…
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Content Marketing Magic: Aligning Keyword & Content Types with Business Goals – Business 2 Community
Sep 9th
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Content Marketing Magic: Aligning Keyword & Content Types with Business Goals
Business 2 Community Lately it seems like content marketing is the new SEO. It's become a bit of a buzzword. But when you slap a trendy label on something, it's easy to start overthinking it. Ten years ago, everyone with a website was producing content of one kind or another. Employ Organic SEO and get your site on the Page One Listings |
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Microsoft’s “Magic Wall” Tech on Windows 8 Laptops & Tablets by Next Year
Jul 20th
Microsoft announced its acquisition of Perceptive Pixel just as it was preparing to launch Windows 8, Office 13 and the Surface tablet. The timing wasn’t by chance: The maker of huge multi-touch screens – check out CNN’s eight-foot “magic wall” – is an integral part of software giant’s bet-the-company leap into mobile and tablet computing. Microsoft isn’t likely to spend much time or treasure building giant displays. It’s after much bigger game. And if it succeeds, the Windows experience will never be the same.
Founded in 2006 by Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel was famous for multi-touch technology before Apple launched it into the mainstream with the first iPhone in 2007. But the question about Perceptive Pixel’s technology has always been scalability: Can the company’s big-screen tech be shrunk down to the size of a laptop PC?
“It’s very scalable,” answers Jennifer Colegrove, a vice president and analyst for NPD DisplaySearch, a market research firm. It’s already possible to incorporate Perceptive Pixel’s technology into displays as small as 27 inches. Scaling it down to laptop or tablet size would require “some adjustment, but it would not be terribly difficult,” she said. Expect to see greatly improve multi-touch capabilities in Windows 8 PCs and tablets in about a year, she says.
Perceptive Pixel’s technology is based on the same technology used by Apple’s multi-touch screens, but the implementation is different. It dramatically improves the ability to use an active pen to write on a screen. Unlike a passive pen, the active pen translates the amount of force applied by the user into a thicker or thinner line, making it possible to submit an accurate, electronic rendition of a signature, or to sketch fairly complex objects. On a more sophisticated level, an active pen enables a user to take notes on a tablet and then save them in an editable, searchable format, instead of simply saving the notes as a fixed image.
You’ll pay a premium for that technology, but it won’t be large. Incorporating conventional touch technology in a laptop adds about $50 to the cost; adding Perceptive Pixel’s capabilities will cost another $20 or so, Colegrove says. The boost to the display industry, though, will be substantial. Total touch screen module revenue will reach $16 billion in 2012, and nearly double in six years, reaching $31.9 billion by 2018, according to NPD DisplaySearch.
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YouTube for SEO: The Magic of Video is the Topic of Recent DigitalMarketer … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jul 18th
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YouTube for SEO: The Magic of Video is the Topic of Recent DigitalMarketer …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) YouTube for SEO purposes has taken on a whole new meaning, says a recent article from DigitalMarketer.com. Since Google owns YouTube, their close relationship influences the total impact a simple video can have on the entire Internet. According to the … The dirty secrets in the viral video sausage factory |
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YouTube for SEO: The Magic of Video is the Topic of Recent DigitalMarketer … – Equities.com
Jul 18th
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YouTube for SEO: The Magic of Video is the Topic of Recent DigitalMarketer …
Equities.com YouTube for SEO purposes has taken on a whole new meaning, says a recent article from DigitalMarketer.com. Since Google owns YouTube, their close relationship influences the total impact a simple video can have on the entire Internet. According to the … |
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