Facebook is jumping into the gun rights debate by creating new clear policies regarding the gun sales on their social media platform. The aim is reportedly to stop what people say are rampant illegal gun sales.
Twitter is clamping down on graphic sexual activities and provocative nudity that people post on quick clip video app Vine, making it clear that explicit sexual content is unwanted.
Facebook has spruced up its Newsfeed redesign and started rolling it out, a year after it announced the makeover. Facebook announced its News Feed redesign exactly 12 months ago today, and is rolling out the updated look to a fraction of its users.
Two leaders in the SEO software space, BrightEdge and Searchmetrics, could be duking it out in court soon over a complaint filed by BrightEdge over reported patent infringement by Searchmetrics. This case hits close to home for many in the industry.
Providing ads with more detail improves the overall user experience. Sitelinks help users get to exactly where they need to go, and are a great way to boost your average CTR. Here are some keys to success when implementing descriptive site links.
Link building for an international campaign means building on the foundation of domestic link building practices and considering how a non-domestic search engine might look at a link. Here are a few basic recommendations.
Paid links are an incredibly gray area. What exactly is a paid link? How can Google figure out what is paid and what isn't? Where does Google draw the line? Google's Matt Cutts dives into the topic of paid links in a new webmaster help video.
UserStats.com recently hit the scene with a new tool that offers free to paid subscriptions for increasing a websites conversion through “social proof,” allowing websites to display users' activity, downloads, visitors, purchases, and more.
As part of the update Microsoft added web results into the Xbox One search function. Using Bing as a back end, Xbox One allows users to perform simple, natural language voice searches using the Kinect microphone.
Is one large piece of content a better investment than several smaller ones? Here's how one piece of content has delivered more than 47,000 unique visitors and continues to bring in more than 1,400 unique visits per month almost one year later.
Would paid search advertisers actually be better off opting out of mobile, especially when you factor in the cost and complexity of management overhead and the fact that mobile clicks tend to convert at a much lower rate? Consider these facts.
Integrated campaigns are stronger. They are more effective, give us clearer data points, allow for more creativity, and bring greater ROI for client and agency. Here's a framework to help make your agency or work more integrated.
Many Google users are seeing a new variety of search results. The redesign increases the font size for titles, removes underlines from links, uses a hard to read gray text, and also features a yellow ads label that has been spotted for months.
Press releases have a part to play in link building campaigns. Is your press release actually newsworthy? Is it getting to the right people? Is it focused? Is it structured properly? These are just 4 of 10 avoidable online public relations mistakes.
Google is testing new targeting capabilities through a partnership with Bizo. Advertisers can select Bizo audience segments within Google AdWords for display campaigns. Available segments include beauty, fashion, parenting, technology, and music.
Many movie-related sites recently saw their organic search traffic cut in half. Was it a Panda refresh? Was it something involving copyright? A new analysis reveals several potential reasons why these sites were impacted by Google's algorithm.
ShopVisible released a report highlighting the mobile benchmarks of 2013, and found 30 percent of site traffic came from something other than a traditional desktop/laptop. While only 4 percent placed orders on mobile, order value was on par with desktop.
You need to track not just mentions of your brand or specific product(s), but also noise around your industry so you can attempt to add value yourself in the right places. How? Use this process to exploit opportunities from natural conversation.
When content is created, technical optimization is needed – keyword placement, engaging copy, and effective calls to action – but these activities are secondary to releasing quality content that users and search engines can react to.
Content marketing is entering a new phase that lets you better connect with your audience, educate them through the buyer's journey, and wring more value from your content dollar with better measurement of what does and doesn't work. Are you ready?
The streaming radio app piggybacks off of Slacker radio and is exclusively available to Samsung Galaxy device users.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should move forward with a plan to open up new 5GHz spectrum to Wi-Fi as consumer demand for wireless bandwidth skyrockets, a member of the commission said Friday. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel called on the agency to “seize this opportunity” and act on With some analysts estimating that 50 percent to 70 percent of mobile phone traffic is now offloaded onto Wi-Fi networks, the longtime Wi-Fi band at 2.4GHz is “getting mighty crowded,” Rosenworcel said
With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool they have developed, called Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written. PREC looks for root exploits, in which a program gains system administration access rights to the entire device, which a malicious hacker can use with ill intent. The researchers detailed their work, captured in the paper “
No more excuses: Sygic’s GPS Navigation app adds a head-up display option. Just keep your phone plugged in, because it sucks battery life big-time.
Between email, Web pages, books and other texts, we each read thousands of words a day. A company called Spritz has spent the last few years in stealth mode, developing a technology to help us read even more, in less time. Spritz—which is both the name of the technology and the verb for using it—streams text on your screen one word at a time, which, the company claims, allows your brain to comprehend it much more quickly and easily. Their trademarked tagline is “Reading Reimagined,” and after playing with the technology a bit I have to agree. Spritz technology enables you to read and comprehend information much faster than normal.
If you bought a computer or other device that uses DRAM around the turn of the century, you could be eligible for a payout as part of a price fixing settlement. The Consumers can make a claim for any purchases made between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2002 for devices that contain dynamic random access memory, a common component in consumer electronics. The settlement covers computers, game consoles, MP3 players, printers, PDAs, graphics cards, DVRs, DVD players and servers, but does
Berlin's metro is not subject to time. It's dark outside, lit here and there by the soft glow of a run-down streetlight or the pink and blue haze of a neon sign. But not in the metro. Here everything is bright as noon, including the woman standing pensively off to the side, waiting. Waiting for you. "I need you to blow up a building," she says. "I can pay you." Welcome back to Shadowrun. It's only been six months since we were last in Jordan Weissman's magic-meets-cyberpunk setting and Harebrained Schemes has already released
The HP 8 is friendly on the wallet, but you definitely get what you pay for.
Dell's Venue 11 Pro is the first Atom-powered computer that I can picture as a replacement for my current laptop. With its two optional accessories, this 10.8-inch tablet can transform into either a small notebook or a diminutive all-in-one PC. The two-day battery life—with the optional keyboard dock—is amazing. But I do wish it had more memory and storage. The model reviewed here is powered by an Intel Atom Z3770 processor (Bay Trail class) paired with 2GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. Most of the tablets I’ve had my hands on recently are based on the Atom Z3740, and the bump up to the Z3770 seems to make a difference. This might be more perception than reality: The Venue 11 Pro’s WorldBench scores are only modestly higher than what Asus’s Z3740-powered Transformer Book T100 delivered. Still, with the Venue 11 Pro, I felt like I wasn't waiting as long for things to happen.
Twitter has decided to clamp down on the posting of explicit sexual content on its Vine video-sharing service. The company said it did not have a problem with such content on the Internet, but did not want to be the source for it. A number of social networks already have rules in some form or the other prohibiting sexually explicit content. Facebook, for example, Twitter said it