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Facebook Looking to Make Big Money With IPO

May 15, 2012
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For months now, we have been hearing about the clout that Facebook is going to be carrying once they finally release their Initial Public Offering (IPO). It now appears that those particular expectations were a little muted, especially when it comes to the actual value the company would carry once their IPO was sold off. [...]

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5 Ways to Improve Your Social Networking 

May 2, 2012
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These below mentioned tricks and tips are useful in making use of strategy thinking competence along with time-savvy tools over the Internet to expand your effectiveness. Following are 5 ways via which you can easily improve your social networking. 1. Have an Additional Ear Reserved For Your Visitors Words The most imperative figure for your [...]

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The Banjo App Is Gaining Popularity at Breakneck Speed

April 22, 2012
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In just nine months, the Banjo social app has hit 1 million users, rivaling the booming growth of superstar social media websites like Twitter and Facebook. Banjo beat out other social media favorites like Foursquare and Pinterest as it made its way to the top. If you’re not a Banjo user, the first question on [...]

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How Can You Protect Your Online Privacy?

April 5, 2012
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With the advent of new century, everything has gone online. From online shopping to online friendship, things have definitely become easier, more importantly faster. However, it has not come with the advantages only. Like any other thing, it has a different aspect as well and that deals with your privacy. Does it not bother you [...]

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Tips and Tricks for the Diehard Spotify User

March 16, 2012
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If you’re in the majority of Internet users out there, then you probably have a Facebook account by now. And if you’re in the majority of Facebook users, then you have probably linked your Facebook with the free music sharing program called Spotify. What Is Spotify? Spotify is an unlimited music streaming service that lets [...]

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Can Pinterest Boost Your Business?

March 2, 2012
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If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few months, then you’ve probably heard of the latest social media craze called Pinterest. Pinterest is an online pin board created for the purpose of photo sharing via social media. Pinterest users can create pin boards based on unique themes related to their interests. [...]

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Facebook, Google+ or Twitter – which is best for success?

February 28, 2012
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Whether you run a business or a blog, you’ll most likely spend most of your time and effort doing what is best for your business in the long run – and that probably mean not spending time doing something that does not give you a proper return on investment, even though the investment is “only” [...]

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4 Reasons a Business Should Invest in Social Media

January 19, 2012
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Social media is proliferating across all walks of life and is increasingly infiltrating everything we do. Business owners should realise this as they stand to gain many benefits from engaging in social media marketing and utilising methods such as facebook marketing to increase online profitability as well as drive traffic to their retail store fronts. [...]

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How To Update Your Twitter & Facebook Status With Siri

January 6, 2012
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Having a jog in the morning and want to respond to a text, travelling to a distance place and want to know the weather condition or trying to locate your favorite restaurant and you do not know the directions, Siri is there for your rescue. Even when you’re driving or you need a break from [...]

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The New Twitter

January 4, 2012
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As an example of how to finish the year strong and make 2012 a fresh start, Twitter rolled out the microblog’s most extensive overhaul ever last month. TweetDeck got tweaked, the website’s been reorganized, the iOS and Android apps were updated, and some new icons have popped up. Unlike the mass revolts that take place [...]

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Affects of Google Plus Pages in SEO

November 24, 2011
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It has come to many people’s realization that recently, Google plus has increased a lot in relation to its growth.  Since the implementation, Google plus has been able to receive millions and millions of users including Facebook as well as an option that enables businesses to have profiles.  In the past, it could only host [...]

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4 Computer Security Threats that May Challenge Your Business

November 7, 2011
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Money might not be the major problem you business is facing right now. You probably are wondering why you keep on spending so much without even having attractive gains in your business? There are several factors that will challenge your business, but I don’t think there is anyone of them that is going to be [...]

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Is the iPhone 4S Future Proofed for Another 12 Months?

October 31, 2011
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The iPhone 4 was a device that stayed at the very top of the pile in terms of the best phones on offer for well over a year. In fact, between the launch of the iPhone 4 and the recent launch of the iPhone 4S there has only really been one mobile phone deal that [...]

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4 Important Reasons Why Twitter Marketing Is A Must

October 4, 2011
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You can grow faster and easier, when you use twitter as a marketing system. I want to share with you some amazing discoveries about twitter marketing. If you take action and apply these secrets to your marketing campaigns, the sky is your starting point. When you incorporate the 3 giants of social media like Facebook, [...]

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5 Steps To Promote Your Blog Using Social Media Marketing

September 29, 2011
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Social media marketing has evolved in this new age, and promoting your business with this powerful system has become necessary, if not mandatory. A lot of people shy away from social media marketing, because they don’t know how to to it. It all boils down to your knowledge of the web, and how people react [...]

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Netflix’s Most Recent Social Media PR Debacle: Meet Jason Castillo

September 20, 2011
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Pretty much all of the recent news surrounding Netflix has been bad. They have increased the price for subscribers to both of their services from $9.99 a month to $15.99 a month. They are imposing a limit on the amount of content users can simultaneously stream. They are also facing harsh negotiation deals from major [...]

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Facebook sets a new Photo upload record

January 5, 2011
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Randi Zuckerberg (Mark’s sister) who leads Facebook’s consumer marketing team, wrote in a tweet that 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years Eve weekend. The previous record was during Halloween 2010. In July 2010, Facebook said more than 100 million photos are uploaded to their site – each day! It’s unknown [...]

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Samsung Epic 4G: A Super Multimedia Phone [review]

September 10, 2010
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The Samsung Epic 4G is very much unlike its Galaxy S siblings as it has a physical keyboard and a front-facing camera.  This is currently the second phone that runs on Sprint’s 4G network and as of August 20, 2010, it is priced at $250 along with a two-year contract from Sprint.  The question now [...]

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Open Source Facebook Competitor, Diaspora*, Launches in Two Weeks

August 30, 2010

Diaspora* is an open source project that was launched a few months ago where they initially tried to raise just $10,000 via Kickstarter.com so that these four guys could develop their Facebook competitor. They ended up getting around $180,000 instead – including some money (apparently) from Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg. The deal with Diaspora is [...]

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TweetAdder 3 Has Arrived (The App That Got Me 16,000 Twitter Followers)

August 29, 2010
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I’ve mentioned TweetAdder before, but last time I really told my story was all the way back in January 2010 on how I got 500 targeted Twitter followers in 5 days. A lot has happened since then, as I’m now up to over 16,000 Twitter followers – thanks to TweetAdder. Not too bad, ay? A [...]

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Facebook Makes Another Move Into the Search Engine Market

August 3, 2010
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Facebok has begun testing a new feature, Questions, where you can ask questions to the 500 million users of Facebook. At first, Questions is only available to a small group of users but Facebook plans on releasing it to all their users at a later time. Questions is supposed to be a competitor to services [...]

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Recommended: Flipboard – iPad Social Media Magazine & RSS Feeds

July 22, 2010
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Robert Scoble (scobleizer) calls Flipboard a “killer app” for the iPad. I think killer app is relative. What may be a killer app for him and some thousands of other users, might be pretty boring to users like, say, my mum. Never the less, I gave Flipboard a chance, partly because it’s free and still [...]

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“I Can Stalk U” – Raising Awareness About Inadvertent Information Sharing

July 20, 2010
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As if PleaseRobMe.com wasn’t enough, icanstalku.com has also launched a website to take advantage of the geo location information that people inadvertently shares online, mainly focusing on Twitter tweets. icanstalku.com presents a twitter feed on their front page with the title “What are people really saying in their tweets?” – instead of showing the actual [...]

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TechPatio – 1 Year Old – Happy Birthday!

July 9, 2010
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It’s now one year since I first launched TechPatio.com. June 22nd, 2009, was the date I published the first article on TechPatio.com. It was not my first article though, because I had another more personal blog back then, but I decided to start TechPatio and this was my first article: What would you do if [...]

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Must-Have iPhone Applications in the UK

May 30, 2010
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In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at [...]

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Twitter Bug: Force People To Follow You

May 11, 2010
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Shortly after Facebook’s privacy settings exploit (video) went around the world, a bug has also been found in another social media network; Twitter. While the Twitter bug is not as serious as the Facebook one, it’s still a bug that is related to one of the main features of Twitter – the follow/unfollow system. Apparently, [...]

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