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Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo
Jan 27th
If you’re not smiling in your Facebook photo, your life is probably going to suck in four years time.
Reseachers J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville discovered that smile intensity from a single Facebook profile photo in the first semester of college predicted self-reported life satisfaction three and a half years later, at the time of college graduation.
This type of study isn’t actually unique to Facebook, however. A 2011 study by Harker and Keltner showed that female students smiling in their college graduation yearbook photos from 1958 and 1960 were reportedly happier 30 years later. A similar study by Abel and Kruger (2010) found that professional baseball players who smiled more intensely in archival photos lived seven years longer than those who didn’t smile much.
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Why does intensity of smiling in a photo predict well-being later in life? Smile intensity is associated with life satisfaction. But what about extroversion? This is another, third variable that the researchers considered.
The researchers also considered that people who smile more in their public Facebook photos tend to have better social relationships. Past research shows that people who smile in photos are usually warm and friendly, and they tend to have an easier time in social relationships. As such, smiling intensity in photos correlates with a higher life satisfaction through positive social relationships.
Does extroversion play into the longitudinal association between smile intensity and life satisfaction? Smile intensity did not significantly correlate with self-reported extroversion. The researchers did not find evidence for extroversion-as-third-variable account of life satisfaction. They did find that first-semester social relationships satisfaction was an important link between smile intensity and future self-reported life satisfaction.
Interestingly, they did not find evidence that extroversion was responsible for association between smile intensity in photos and future life satisfaction. So just because someone is extroverted on Facebook or in life doesn’t mean they’re satisfied – it just means that they’re extroverted.
One caveat to the study: Researchers worked with students who were college freshmen in the fall 2005, and used Facebook when it became available to most colleges. In September 2006, Facebook became available outside of the academy. The first study worked with 92 participants (35 male), which is a rather small sample size. All Study 1 participants were early adopters of Facebook.
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Leaked Photo of Donghae and Son Eun Seo Reignites Rumor of WGM Casting – Soompi
Jan 18th
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Leaked Photo of Donghae and Son Eun Seo Reignites Rumor of WGM Casting
Soompi As reported earlier, Super Junior's Donghae and actress Son Eun Seo are rumored to be the next couple for MBC “We Got Married.” Nothing has been confirmed at this point, but a photo of the two enjoying a double date with current WGM couple, … |
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Aviary Mobile Upgrade Gives Users Powerful Photo Editing Tools
Jan 17th
The golden age of mobile photography is upon us. Smartphones are now more capable at producing high-quality photos than digital cameras were just five years ago. Editing photos has been an evolving process but a lot of great services have been released to mobile users in the last year such as filters from Instagram or full-featured suites from Aviary and Skitch. Today, Aviary is making a dramatic update to its platform to gives users a set of powerful tools to edit photos on the go.
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Aviary, which has its roots as a popular photo editing browser extension, released the first version of its mobile toolset four months ago. Aviary’s software developer kit (SDK) can be implemented by mobile developers to add photo-editing functionality to any app. Users are now editing over 10 million photos on mobile a month and is growing 50% a month.
Version 2 of Aviary mobile releases a bunch of new feature and performance updates. Here is a breakdown of what is new:
One-touch auto-enhance: The ability to easily touch up a photo without going through a complicated editing process. Use one of Aviary’s pre-set optimization settings and enhance a photo with a tap.
Improved effects: 10 more effects with new border designs.
Unique dials: This is really a user interface function. A dial instead of a slider for brightness and color palettes.
Stickers: Bowties, cigars, funny glasses.
New design: What would an update be to a mobile app if it did not completely throw out its old design and start anew. Sometimes this works for the better, many times it does not.
Minimal branding: This is perhaps the best rollout for this version of Aviary and hopefully it is not limited to just the mobile versions of the apps. Anyone that has used an Aviary extension before knows that the little blue lower-case A company logo pops up on just about everything you want to edit or take a screen shot of. This is now hidden and can be accessed by swiping to the last page of the app for details.
Aviary is up to date with all the mobile platforms. It can instituted by developers writing apps for Android 2.2 (API level 
or higher or iOS 4+. It will also work on all browsers and tablets that support HTML5, JavaScript or Flash.
Aviary also wants to help developers make money through the mobile SDK. Users of apps that have Aviary embedded can purchase premium effects as well as original and branded stickers. Aviary will split the revenue with the app maker.
Does Aviary outshine Skitch or other photo editors on iOS and Android? The SDK is a clever bit of implementation for developers to add photo editing capabilities to apps. Let us know what you think of the newest version in the comments.
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Google+ Adds Stream Noise Controls, 50 Admins Per Page & New Photo Interface
Dec 19th
In what sounds like its last announcement before the holidays, Google+ has shipped one of its best updates yet. It addresses the noisy the stream with a slider at the top of every circle, allowing users to adjust the volume of that circle within their overall stream. It also adds more information to the notifications menu and makes new events easier to understand.
In a big update for organizations, Google+ Pages can now have up to 50 administrators. Notifications for pages have been rearranged to support multiple managers. Finally, the lightbox for Google+ Photos has been redesigned, improving comments and tagging while keeping the image as the center of attention.
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Instead of little, unexpected new features or tweaks to the existing interface, this update improves some of the main components of Google+ in ways that make the service more usable overall.
Stream Noise Controls
The Google+ stream is a noisy place. Someone I follow on Twitter called it “information Tetris” (I’d love help finding attribution for that), and that is an apt description. The stream doesn’t stay in place; when new content appears, it bumps the rest down, even if you’re hovering over something. That will still happen after today’s update, but the volume slider for circles will at least help slow down the most prolific circles.
Clearer Notifications
Google’s own blog post pokes fun at the glowing red notification box for Google+, which is now plastered across all Google Web properties.
The tab that drops down was designed to make it possible to view and act on G+ social events without leaving what you were working on, but the messages were cryptic, saying little more than “so-and-so did something to your post,” requiring users to click through and see, anyway.
Today’s update adds sneak previews of the new information, just enough of a new comment to see whether it’s worth clicking through. The notification tab also now displays how many +1s and shares your posts have gotten since you last checked.
Key Improvements To Brand Pages
Google’s launch of pages in November was a big deal for brands. In Google’s new world of social SEO, a Google+ profile is an essential way for a business to show up in personalized searches. But at the time of launch, Google+ pages could only be operated by a single user, which isn’t the way many organizations control their online presence. Today’s update allows up to 50 moderators per page.
The update also changes notifications for pages, so that these 50 people can all stay in the loop. For the benefit of both admins and visitors, there’s also a new, simple metric displayed on the page, aggregating how many people have engaged with it, whether through +1′ing or encircling.
Nice New Photo Interface
Photos have been a killer feature of Google+ since launch, especially for Android users. Today’s update retools the Web interface for viewing photos to improve the social parts – tagging and commenting – while keeping the photos in the center of attention.
Are you using Google+? Is it becoming a part of your online life?
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Zuckerberg Photo Leak Highlights Facebook’s Privacy Problem
Dec 10th
The recent Facebook flaw that led to the disclosure of founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal images could signal a larger issue regarding user privacy at the social networking site.
A group of users disclosed the flaw along with a number of images …
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Photo SEO: How Optimized Images Can Drive Improved Visibility for Messages – Sacramento Bee
Dec 7th
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Photo SEO: How Optimized Images Can Drive Improved Visibility for Messages
Sacramento Bee The Beyond PR blog highlights communications tactics and trends in public relations, investor relations, social media, SEO and content marketing. PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable … |
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Photo SEO: How Optimized Images Can Drive Improved Visibility for Messages – MarketWatch (press release)
Dec 7th
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Photo SEO: How Optimized Images Can Drive Improved Visibility for Messages
MarketWatch (press release) The Beyond PR blog highlights communications tactics and trends in public relations, investor relations, social media, SEO and content marketing. PR Newswire ( www.prnewswire.com ) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable … |
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WordPress.com Adds Photo Carousels, Goes Even More Social
Nov 10th
WordPress.com launched a new photo carousel feature today for its users. This full-size carousel view presents images as large as your device can display them. Readers can “like” a photo from a carousel in the same way they already do on Facebook.
The “like” feature on the photo carousel follows on the heels of WordPress notifications that look exactly like Google+. Earlier this year, WordPress.com added a comment panel to show the most active posts and commenters, and ‘follow’ buttons and subscription widgets for its Web and Android apps.
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To add a photo carousel to your WordPress.com blog, go here. This is the first version of the carousel, so in order to “like” a photo you must first log-in to your WordPress account. Select a photo from the gallery, then click the permalink button located in the lower right-hand corner.
This will take you to the photo itself. From there, you’re free to “like” it.
The photo carousel will be available to WordPress.org users in the near future. In order to use it, users will first have to install the jetpack.me plugin.
Will the new “like” feature on photo carousels edge WordPress closer to its super traffic-heavy competitor, Tumblr? Tell us what you think in the comments.
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