24 Easy Ways to Build a Targeted Twitter Following

  Hey curator Tom George here, I found this great post on building a targeted Twitter following and was missing 6 out of the 24 suggestions. How many are you missing, if any? This is a great resource, written by the founder of Blogging Wizard Adam Connell In this post you’re going to learn 24 [...]

Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare

  It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to now see over 50 million snaps per day today. In fact, Facebook launched a clone of the app just [...]

Twitter takes new steps to be even more like Instagram

  With a flurry of new features unveiled this afternoon, Twitter appears to be aiming more than ever at mimicking some of the most visual elements of Instagram and Facebook. The most interesting new feature is one that adds a palette of “top” photos and videos to search results. So, for example, if you search [...]

Unless you go mobile, your online travel business will be dead in five years – The Next Web

  The online travel industry is not only about search these days. The world is increasingly social and mobile – think smart-phones, tablets, e-readers – and the number of tech-savvy consumers is rising. Social and mobile are not going away, so, now more than ever, travel companies must keep pace. Understanding , influencing and delighting [...]

73 Percent of Lady Gaga Twitter Followers Are Fake or Inactive…

See on Scoop.it – Musicbiz Don’t shoot the messenger.  I’m just reporting this information.   See on www.digitalmusicnews.com

Vulnerability: The New Girl Power

It’s tempting to view the female confessional as apolitical. In fact, it’s a new form of feminism. BY SADY DOYLE I finally started sobbing-sobbing,” reads one entry from author and sometime New York Times correspondent Kara Jessella’s blog, “real crying, not illustrative crying, like leave me alone, you are terrorizing me, i just had a [...]

Social Olympics: Does The Gold Medal Go To Facebook, Twitter or Google+?

Yesterday we looked at how online media is covering the London 2012 Olympics. We gave our virtual gold medal to the New York Times, for its sleek design and muscular content. Today we review the major social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. To continue the Olympics theme, we award each of the three a [...]

Online Newspaper Paywalls: Paid News Subscriptions Rising

See on Scoop.it – Online Business Models Robin Good: Interesting news from two of the large traditional newspapers with online editions who have been using a paywall strategy.   Things are going well. This is in essence what the numbers say, at least according to this short report by Dashiel Bennet on the Atlantic Wire. [...]

:: How Flipboard is changing everything ::

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Cyber wars – Information security & technology news

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media Each successful attack spawns new expertise, and it is not limited to sophisticated hackers in the U.S. Around the world, hackers have dissected the Stuxnet worm and have added its clever features to their own, writes R. See on fortsec.com

Google testing heads-up display glasses in public

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Engadget thinks the Google augmented reality glasses “wouldn’t look too out of place in a New York Times style story”. Well, that is if you look like the hot girl in the picture, right? How about the rest of us nerds? See on www.engadget.com

Rodo Firenze: background of a luxury brand

CAMPAIGN / MAGAZINES Photographer: Toni Campo Model: Ania Background: 1969 Rodo advertisement in the New York Times See on www.rodo.it