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Desktop Users Can Send Docs to Kindle in 2 Clicks
Jan 12th
Amazon has released a new ‘Send to Kindle’ feature for PC users. It’s a downloadable extension for Windows that adds a ‘Send to Kindle’ option when right-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer or in the print dialog in any application.
Files sent with Send to Kindle go to the user’s Kindle Library, and they can be downloaded on the e-ink Kindle models as well as the iOS Kindle app. The last-read page, bookmarks, notes and highlights are synchronized automatically, except for PDFs. The Kindle Fire is not listed. Support for Mac is “coming soon.”
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This is actually a major feature. It makes sending Word documents, PDFs or text snippets to Kindle almost effortless. It turns Kindle into a powerful content-shifting service. It was relatively easy to send devices to Kindle via email before, and that feature still works, but now any file can be sent with two clicks, and any thing that can be printed can be sent to Kindle instead.
Content shifting was one of our top trends of 2011 because many impressive solutions for reading later popped up this year on different platforms. The Kindle service was already noteworthy for content shifting due to its whisper-syncing of books and other content, but now it’s easy to send virtually any document to the Kindle.
Do you have a Kindle device? Which one(s) do you use?
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Share the Experience: Send Your Team to SMX West…and Save
Dec 27th
Shared knowledge, experiences, vocabulary…they’re all part of building an effective internet and search engine marketing team. And Search Marketing Expo – SMX West provides an exceptional opportunity for teams to learn and network. Choose from nearly 60 sessions covering SEO, PPC, social media…
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Send a Google Santa Christmas Card
Dec 23rd
This video shows you how you can send your loved ones and friends a Christmas card from Santa via Google. It is really quite funny and festive. If you didn’t have time to send out Christmas cards this year Google has offered you a fun, fast and free way to do it. Take a look… [...]
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New Kik API Allows Users to Send Apps Over Messenger
Dec 23rd
One of the few things that Research In Motion has done well in recent years is it implementation of BlackBerry Messenger. RIM specifically has excelled at BBM’s ability to send data and software, such as apps, to create a truly mobile app-sharing ecosystem. Rival messenger system, Kik, has announced a new API that will create much the same dynamic for its million’s of users.
The new Kik API allows users to share content and apps through Kik Messenger. When the receiving user gets the message, they are either prompted to download the app or if they already have the app, will be directed straight to the content that is being shared.
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The Kik API will be easy for developers to implement. They choose the most shareable content in their apps and add five lines of code to tap into the API. Developers can sign up for the Kik API here.
Kik Messenger for Android will be the first to have get the new sharing feature. Kik Messenger for iOS is coming soon, according to the company. Kik is also available on BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Symbian.
There are five apps in the initial launch:
- Zwonks: a social game revolving around virtual goods and chat.
- FlyScreen: Android app that brings content to a locked screen of a device.
- Smiler: iPhone app to send greeting cards and emoticons.
- DrinkOwl: Find cheap drinks in your city.
- FileKicker: send any file over a messenger platform.
Kik sets itself apart from other apps like Facebook Messenger, Google Talk and iMessages with this new sharing ability. Kik was launched in 2010 by students at the University of Waterloo and its proximity to RIM gives it a lot of similarities to BBM. Kik was once one of the darling apps in the BlackBerry App World but RIM must be rethinking its support of the platform now that it is starting to steal some of its thunder.
Developers: you planning to Kik? What do you think about the ability to send apps over messenger services?
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How to Send Large Files, But Not as Attachments
Nov 4th
As we mentioned in our article earlier this summer, the lines are blurring between file sending and sync services and cloud drives. The latest entrant into this field is ZipSend, from the folks that make the popular WinZip file compression utility. It is somewhat disappointing on several reasons, but gives us an excuse to recap the major players in the marketplace.
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As you mostly know by now, the major Webmail providers limit your attachments to 25 MB, and many corporate email servers have much lower limits because they don’t want their servers bogged down with attachments. To get around this problem, a number of file sending service providers have been created. Instead of using an attachment, they send a link in your email that connects you to their service, where you can download the file outside of your email stream.
Each of the service providers have different limits of their own when it comes to how big a file that they can handle. With Zipsend, you have to upgrade to their paid ($50 a year) Pro version to be able to send up to a 2 GB file. This is the same price point and size that YouSendIt.com offers for their plan, which is no coincidence since Zipsend is an OEM of YouSendIt.
Two GBs For Free
But there are two free services that can handle up to 2 GB files: Sendthisfile.com and Dropsend.com. If you don’t send big files often, it might be worth using one of these services.
So why bother with Zipsend? Well, if you want to use the cloud completely for your file transfers, there are limitations on the browser in terms of how big a file it can upload and download. Most Web browsers restrict file uploads at 2GB. And IE8 restricts file downloads to 4GB, while the restriction in Firefox is for files smaller than 4GB.
For the biggest files, you need special client software to do the transfers. SendThisFile has one, as does Zipsend, but both are only available for Windows clients. The Zipsend client is actually WinZip, which may be a reason to go with their service if that is a utility that you use frequently. YouSendIt and Dropbox.com both have Mac versions, and the latter can upload as big a file to their cloud drive as you have storage capacity to take it on, provided you use their desktop client. And if you are looking for another service for particularly large files, you might want to check out TrendMicro’s SafeSync. Like Dropbox, SafeSync can store a file as big as your storage bucket allows. Both will cost you though a monthly fee (and Trend is updating their service next week).
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Branding, PR, and SEO: Send the Right Signals – Search Engine Watch
Aug 22nd
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Branding, PR, and SEO: Send the Right Signals
Search Engine Watch All that old fashioned marketing stuff, appropriately tuned to support your SEO goals, can really play a huge role in causing rapid growth. The reason is that this type of approach causes all the signals to move together. Instead of manually trying to … |
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Branding, PR, and SEO: Send the Right Signals
Aug 22nd
I often get asked questions about what to expect for traffic increases once a new website promotional effort is launched. This is a challenging question to answer.
The biggest problem a new website faces is that search engines look for signals t…
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Share the Experience: Send Your Team to SMX East… and Save 15-25%
Aug 1st
Shared knowledge, experiences, vocabulary…they’re all part of building an effective internet and search engine marketing team. And Search Marketing Expo – SMX East provides an exceptional opportunity for teams to learn and network. Choose from more than 50 sessions covering SEO, PPC, social media…
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PayPal Adds NFC Support: Just Tap Phones to Send Money
Jul 13th
Today at the MobileBeat 2011 conference, payments leader PayPal announced it would support NFC (near field communications) on mobile as a new way to both shop and pay. The company demonstrated its solution in the form of a new NFC-enabled Android widget that lets people send payments just by tapping two phones together.
The widget will arrive later this summer, the company said.
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NFC is an up-and-coming technology that allows for data exchanges over short distances. It forms the basis of mobile wallet solutions like Google Wallet and Visa’s digital wallet, for example, which aim to replace leather-bound bill holders with nothing but a mobile phone. Everyone from Google to the banks to the credit card companies to the carriers themselves, are involved in developing NFC solutions for their customers these days, although very few programs have officially launched as of yet.
It’s no surprise then, that PayPal is joining in with its own implementation of NFC. As a top provider in the payments space, it had no choice but to participate in this emerging trend.
PayPal Does NFC on Android
The application itself looks great. In the demo (see the video here), a PayPal user can either send money or receive money using the widget. After one person initiates the request, both people just tap their phones together until they buzz. That means the data transfer is complete. However, for security purposes, users do have to complete the transaction with the entry of a PIN or password.
It’s a lot like how the contact sharing mobile app Bump works, except that the underlying technology is different. Bump uses sensors on both iPhones and Android, while NFC requires the use of a special chip in the phone itself, something that’s still somewhat a rarity on today’s smartphones. Today’s demo involved Samsung’s Nexus S, but other NFC phones are on their way, including the upcoming BlackBerry Bold (9900/9930) devices, Nokia’s Astound, variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II and others.
Recently, PayPal made another acquisition aimed at bolstering its mobile presence: Zong, a mobile payments company that specialized in carrier billing. Zong enabled end users to pay for digital items like virtual goods and in-app purchases, by having those items charged to their phone bill. NFC, however, is more often associated with paying for physical goods – like store-bought items from a local retailer. By attacking on both fronts – virtual and physical – it’s clear that PayPal is aiming to retain its place among the top payments companies even as the technologies surrounding payments around are revolutionized by the mobile platform.
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Could Google Suggest Be Used to Send Coded Messages?
Jun 24th
Google Suggest could be used to transmit secret messages in plain site. That’s the message from a stenography specialist at the Warsaw University of Technology. Wojciech Mazurczyk investigates methods by which spies and terrorists might try to sen…
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