Le SoLoMo : la planche de salut des détaillants Dans sa parution de mai, le magazine américain Trendwatching ressortait une de ses tendances 2012 avec

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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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Once upon a time, Yahoo was my favorite company – great leadership, oozing investor confidence and innovative products built on cutting-edge technology. However, over the years, Yahoo’s fortunes have dwindled and the company is no longer reminiscent of its golden days. To make matters worse, Yahoo hasn’t been able to find an able leader who can turn its fortunes around. When Yahoo instilled Scott Thomson as its new CEO, there were rumors of employee discontent hitting a new high. As things turn...  show all text

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Triberr is a unique content distribution platform. Content creators (bloggers, curators) “feed” content into their tribes, who then share that content via their own social media channels. Having your content shared by a large network (tribe) of loyal Tier 1 supporters, gives your content the greatest chance for reaching its intended audience.

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In the white heat of the current tech market it’s sometimes easy to forget that some companies, although taking their time, simply become viable businesses – instead of waiting for a call from Facebook or Twitter that may never come. I’ve been covering web site and shop builder Moonfruit for longer than I care to remember (they launched in 2000), but along the way husband and wife team Joe and Wendy White kept on pushing the company until it was one of the most innovative of its kind out there....  show all text

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With all the talk of massive amounts of cash sloshing around the web/mobile startup ecosystem (including things I've said recently), you would think that nobody bootstraps anymore. But that is not true at all. Last week my partner Albert blogged about our most recent investment in Behance. Behance was bootstrapped for its first five years. As Scott Belsky, Behance's founder and CEO, wrote on the Behance blog: For the past five years, Behance has been a bootstrapped enterprise. We’ve sold Action...  show all text

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Dribbble is made up of a community of designers and creative types who share small screenshots of their daily work. Creative professionals such as illustrators, web designers, graphic designers and icon artists.

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Klout is the Standard for Influence. Join Klout to discover your influence and compare with others you may know.

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On the eve of the Facebook IPO, the country's third-biggest advertiser, GM, announced that it was pulling its entire $10 million ad campaign from Facebook because the ads don't work. This was obviously bad news for a company that many people still think will one day be bigger than Google. GM's competitor, Ford, quickly suggested that GM was the problem, not Facebook, by saying that its own Facebook ads work perfectly well. But other huge companies also appear to be having serious doubts about t...  show all text

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50 Awesome Women Entrepreneurs You Should Be Following on Twitter   Whether this is your first year as an entrepreneur or you’ve been in business for a decade or more, it can be lonely at the top. Twitter is an incredible tool for connecting with other dynamic, like-minded women and finding support, inspiration and a wide array of resources. While it was challenging to compile, here is the SheBrand list of 50 Awesome Women Entrepreneurs You Should Be Following on Twitter. All of these ladies h...  show all text

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With recent news that Twitter's verification process has become linked to monthly advertising, there has been conversation and debate about blurry lines in the sand. What does this change mean for your brand or company on Twitter? Is verification critical to your Twitter strategy?

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Barclays analysts think a new 7-inch iPad is on the way this year, according to their latest note. Here's what they say: Following up on comments made last week, recent research still leads us to believe that Apple may be planning to add another form factor to its iPad line in the 7" range for the fall. We believe that this type of product could be useful in promoting Apple's agenda in education with e-textbooks. Also, the form factor could make sense in gaming, which could become a bigger plat...  show all text

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you’re running a business, chances are high that you’re collecting mounds of data about your customers, including their age, gender, interests and more. And when you take that business online — whether it’s building the next Facebook or developing an app for iPhone or Android — that data can be leeched with the users c...  show all text

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Technology is meant to serve us. Instead it increasingly runs us — and runs us down. Where we put our focus shapes our agenda and defines our experience in every moment. More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking. I see it in myself, as I fight to stay focused on what's most important, and to...  show all text

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Even dream weddings can be missing something — friends and family who cannot attend. So what better way to utilize live streaming technology than for a once in a lifetime event? There are a number of web based services that specialize in live streaming weddings. Check out a couple of them here: Marry Me Live Stacy Yamaoka and her business partner Christopher Anderson started Marry Me Live in 2009. “It started because we recognized the needs of both of our families,” Yamaoka told Mashable. Ander...  show all text

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It’s almost here. The big day. Can you feel the excitement? Yes, if all goes according to plan on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg will ring the Nasdaq bell in a hoodie, the big blue social network will go forward with one of the largest IPOs for an internet company in history, the markets will hit a fever pitch, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse will update their statuses — and the rest of us will just go back to using Twitter. Nonetheless, Facebook is expected to go public at a valuation between $92...  show all text

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Are you looking for easy ways to engage new Facebook fans using Timeline? Keep reading to learn how free apps can provide enormous opportunities for your business. Why Facebook Timeline Apps? Now that the new Timeline layout is mandatory for all page owners, we’re all beginning to find our way around the new layout. For many, especially those who just started seeing traction with the old layout, Timeline presents brand-new challenges (and opportunities!) for staying top-of-mind. Sure, the layout  show all text

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How do large corporate marketers collect and use data? Are practices in marketing measurement and ROI changing? How about the integration of digital and traditional marketing? Has the excitement around big data brought about a shift in how marketers conduct their business? These are some of the topics for investigation in a recent study conducted by Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership and the New York American Marketing Association (NYAMA). The short answer: there is st...  show all text

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No matter what type of commute people have to endure every day, there’s no doubt that it can be an arduous adventure in most cases. If you have any kind of journey to carry out in order to get to your desk and back again then you’ll know many snags you can often encounter along the way. Here are 7 smart mobile apps that would help your commuting much easier.

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A fresh clutch of patent applications from Google hints at the mysterious search algorithm. Plus, ideas for product placement on YouTube and more on Google's Project Glass.

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Twitter has helped shift the balance of media power from press barons to the people – a true champagne moment Tuesday marked a turning point for the UK mainstream media. The combined total of people who buy daily national newspapers is 9,002,963. The number of people on Twitter in the UK is now 10 million. Where once press barons were courted by politicians and PRs, the people have now established their own media. It costs nothing, is faster than mainstream media and galvanises people into acti...  show all text

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Every day is a new beginning.  But in life, sometimes you have to stop before you can truly begin.  So starting today... Stop caring about ...

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The parking meter was rebooting. I guess we're supposed to walk to the other end of the garage and find one that's working. We're seeing digital awareness coming to just about everything. In this case, it was the parking meter near the library. Of course, it's not really a parking meter, it's a centralized fee collection system that saves the town a lot of money. It's easier to collect from, certainly, it doesn't waste the time of meter readers (who get alerted as to what spaces aren't paid for,  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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In today’s digital age, the world is fast evolving into a large global attention economy. Whether it’s an individual or a business, the kind of influence you have on others gains paramount importance. So, how do you determine what kind of influence you have on others? While there are services such as Klout which provide a good indication of your level of influence, it is largely based on your social media influence only. Last week, I posted a video about the 3 rules of engagement in the attenti...  show all text

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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