I used to work for a guy. This guy has gotten a really bad rap over the years. Like, really bad. Multiple forums and third party sites were dedicated to saying negative things about this person. It was so bad, that people were even making Twitter accounts specifically just to bash him and his company. So he hired a team of social media specialists, myself included, to push down all the negative things about him on the web. Well, obviously there’s no way to really push down all the negative acti...  show all text

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“Social magazine” Flipboard may have to think up a new tagline for itself, as tonight the company is rolling out an update which greatly expands its focus beyond text-based content to also include audio. The rollout features integrations from NPR, PRI (Public Radio International) and social sound platform, SoundCloud. Also of note, Flipboard is launching its third localized edition with the debut of a Flipboard app for Japan, following its previous launches in China and France. And there’s an u...  show all text

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If you’re looking to build traffic for your blog, guest blogging is one of the best ways to do it because it gives you the opportunity to get your great content in front of someone else’s audience. It’s also a fantastic way to get more brand exposure in your industry and to meet and work with other blog owners (which could lead to other collaborations or partnerships). I also strongly believe that guest blogging forces you to develop your blogging skills faster than just blogging for your own p...  show all text

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Gushcloud and UBL Small Business Marketing Blog Outreach Blogging Contest Current Cash Prize Total: $8750 and climbing ~ Non-cash prizes too! Paying out TWENTY cash prizes! Major social media influencers, bloggers, and blogging and SEO communities are working together to

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With Square yet to reveal when or where it might offer its mobile payment service in Europe, and PayPal apparently still only talking with would-be partners, the door is wide open for more local players to jump in and pick up some market share. Sweden’s iZettle, which often gets compared to Square, is now doing just that: today it is launching its iOS, dongle-based mobile payment service to the UK, four months after its pan-nordic live launch, and as it is preparing to launch an Android version...  show all text

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Tweet If you care about your Klout score, but tend to struggle increasing the number, this is for you. Here’s more on Klout if you’re new to the platform.  While the Klout score tends to garner more weight in Social Media and Marketing, other verticals such as retail and food have felt the influence.  The mysterious Klout algorithm has definitely showed its hand since the controversial update back in October 2011.  So if you’re looking to improve your score for business reasons or you just want...  show all text

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As long as you are adding value or perceived to be adding value to the content of a page you can easily get Wikipedia links. Watch the video below which gives a brief overview on how to get Wikipedia links.  Your content must be original though or it will be deleted by the wikipedia moderators, they are very alert it seems when new contributors start adding links. How To Get Wikipedia links to your website Remember..as long as you are adding value or perceived to be adding value to the ...  show all text

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About The Redwalls To Rule the World Deerfield, IL-based quartet the Redwalls formed in 2001; originally a British Invasion-inspired cover band dubbed the Pages, the group's members -- singer/guitarist Logan Baren, his bassist brother Justin, lead guitarist Whale  Ahoy JPMorgan announced a $2 billion loss Friday. When compared to its market cap and other indicators, that goes Ouch!, but not much more. However, there’s more going on. The bank has refused to state where in its operations t...  show all text

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Posted by Carson Ward If the last few months of ranking changes have shown me anything, it's that poorly executed link building strategy that many of us call white hat can be more dangerous than black-hat strategies like buying links. As a result of well intentioned but short-sighted link building, many sites have seen significant drops in rankings and traffic. Whether you employ link building tactics that are black, white, or any shade of grey, you can do yourself a favor by avoiding the appea...  show all text

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"I realized that it wasn't about the data, but making an impression on people that lasted," says Epler. Warning: The contents of this post are both political and naughty. It must feel pretty good to be Mitt right now. But is anyone thinking about the losers of the Republican primary? The pain they must be feeling? One guy is! Matthew Epler, a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU, has designed a way to bring Michele Bachmann et al. a bit of pleasure. His Grand Old P...  show all text

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GET YOUR MITT ROMNEY second hand MAGIC UNDERWEAR #GOP APPROVED TERRESTRIAL HEAVEN HERE I COME Capitalism RULES Beyond Occupy -You can not Evict an Idea The rise of the people. The Global Revolution follow FREE on twitter @RECALLCONGRESS stop the #GOP #WarOnWomen #OWS #OCCUPYEVERYTHING - END CITIZEN's UNITED OccupyWallstreet has just begun, the price grows larger every day change does not come. End Citizens United - Occupy Wall Street Occupy Chicago The 99 Percent

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Happy Tuesday Governor Walker Is she flirting with him check out her eyes and mouth? Scott Walker - enter a small lobby - where he meets billionaire donor lady - () - who asks him when will Wisconsin become a "Red" state - a "right-to-work" state - WHEREBY Republican Gov. Scott Walker says his first job will be to take away collective bargarining rights - "Divide + Conquer" Beyond Occupy -You can not Evict an Idea The rise of the people. The Global Revolution follow FREE on twitter @RECALLCONGR...  show all text

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Beyond Occupy -You can not Evict an Idea The rise of the people. The Global Revolution Mitt on his Sesame Street Ad program - SHUT UP AND WORK YOU LAZY BIRD NOW SELL  JP MORGAN they need more money to gamble on naked CDS's you silly bird and those toddlers are loaded with cash You heard Bill Oh Really America is fair and only the lazy and mentally sickooos can't make great money income equality is the AMERICA BILL AND MITT SEE in their gated communities follow FREE on twitter @RE...  show all text

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Facebook social travel app Gogobot announced on Wednesday that it has reached the 1 million registered users mark. The app launched on Facebook in January, when the social network unveiled a slew of integrated apps, including Gogobot. Gogobot was in use before that time, launching in private beta 18 month ago. Now the app is exploding in popularity: A new user joins every 15 seconds, more than 5 million places have been shared on Gogobot and overall membership has grown 65x year-on-year. The so...  show all text

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I have owned the Blog Engage community since 2007. The site was founded by me, managed by me, and made possible by our loyal members. Everyday I remind myself, without our users we would be nothing. The support I have received from the blogosphere has been incredible, but this did not come easy. You know what it’s like when you first start blogging? You are lost? You have to become familiar hosting, databases, software scripts all wile writing meaningful content. Looking back to the past 5 years  show all text

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Facebook is nearing a billion users, but what could topple the big blue giant? Government intervention, the shift to mobile, and a loss of “cool” all have the power to violently disrupt the social network, or at least cause it to lose its strong grip on the market. Here’s a look at the four things that could ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a single site that connects the world. The thread that runs between all these pitfalls is their potential to make Facebook irrelevant. If you can’t access it,  show all text

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You know it baby! It's been two years since I've joined a blog contest, so while you're all rocking out here on the Blog Engage Guest Blog Contest I'm going

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Google Docs just got a little smarter with the introduction of a research pane Tuesday. The pane allows you to tap into a Google Search directly from Google documents to find additional information about a particular topic or idea. Searches can be for things such as a map to a particular destination, quotes for a research paper, or even images. When you find something you like, you can add it to the document you’re working on by clicking the insert button. Images can be dragged and dropped from...  show all text

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Cloud-based telephony API startup Twilio has made significant inroads into VoIP and other carrier services like SMS by launching products that work on the web and in iOS apps, supporting 90,000 registered developer accounts in the process. Today it’s widening that net considerably with the launch of a new Android client, the first SDK from the company to work on Google’s platform. And it hints that Windows Phone may be next in line. Considering that Android is currently the most popular smartph...  show all text

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Talktala Quick Pitch: Talktala is an online platform for group therapy. Genius Idea: Targeting a support-group demographic rather than diagnosed therapy veterans. The online support group is almost as old as the Internet. It easily overcomes location, limited budgets and desire for an...  show all text

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Hitting the friendly skies doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t make a mobile phone call — at least if you’re flying on one of Virgin’s new Airbus A330 planes. The airline plans to make in-flight calling available first on its flight from London to New York. By the end of the year, in-flight calling will be available on 17 planes and at least 10 routes. Calls will be restricted to the time the plane is actually in the air – so you’ll still have to power off when the plane takes off or lands – and...  show all text

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After winning an Oscar for writing a screenplay about Facebook, Aaron Sorkin is setting his sights on Apple. Variety reports that Sorkin has officially signed on to adapt Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, titled Steve Jobs, for Sony Pictures. Sony optioned the screen rights for Steve Jobs before the book even hit shelves. And almost immediately, the studio began courting Sorkin. Variety quotes Sony’s co-chairman Amy Pascal as saying, “There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is  show all text

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German designers placed a high-tech, sensor-equipped chair in the middle of a palazzo in Milan last month to record stress points on the backsides of thousands of people. The goal? To determine how to design a lightweight and efficient chair that’s sturdy enough to support a wide variety of users. When someone sat in the chair, monitors recorded data and processed it with an “algorithm that determines the most structurally efficient version of the chair,” according to the blog Co.Design. The en...  show all text

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Although the NBA Playoffs round two Lakers vs. Nuggets game earned over 2 million more social media mentions than The Voice, the latter’s season finale caused quite a large ripple in the social ocean. People took to the socialverse last Tuesday to chat about and celebrate the reality show competition’s winner, Jermaine Paul. A former backup singer to Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige, Paul finally earned his own celebrity bragging rights by wowing both judges and viewers. The runners-up also perfor...  show all text

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For years, the conventional wisdom on Facebook has gone something like this: the social network is an unstoppable juggernaut. It commands more and more of our attention and, ultimately, our ad dollars. Mark Zuckerberg is an unimpeachable genius. His product is too popular to ever be replaced. But there’s something wrong with that picture — and it’s not just that anything labeled “conventional wisdom” is almost certain to be wrong in the long term. It’s that Mark Zuckerberg himself would likely ...  show all text

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The Galaxy Nexus was Google's flagship Samsung phone for the Android 4.0 launch. In support of its upcoming Android 5.0 operating system release, code-named Jelly Bean, Google will deploy the OS on not a single Nexus smartphone per Android tradition, but perhaps on five Nexus phones this fall — so says a Tuesday report by Wall Street Journal. The move would be a huge reboot for Google’s Nexus program, which so far has resulted in three phones over the last three years — the HTC Nexus One, and S...  show all text

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Flipboard wants to be the first magazine with a soundtrack. The company is releasing an update on Tuesday that integrates music-sharing service SoundCloud as well as radio programs from NPR and Public Radio International (PRI). Flipboard’s app for iPhone and iPad (and soon Android) collects articles, images, photo albums and videos that your friends share on social networks and re-formats them in a personalized magazine. Its pages will now contain tracks that friends share through SoundCloud, i...  show all text

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Fox is continuing its viral and digital campaign for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus with a new viral video, a special Twitter chat and a live-streamed red carpet premiere. To kick things off, Fox will release its latest viral video for the film, “Quiet Eye,” at 7:00am PT on Wednesday. The video features Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw and was conceived and designed by Ridley Scott and screenwriter Damon Lindelof. The video, which follows earlier viral videos for the film — including the amazing TEDTa...  show all text

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