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From TechWyse: Facebook Cheat Sheet: Image Size and Dimensions [Infographic]

Faydra Deon — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:39:56 +0000

Source: Facebook Cheat Sheet: Image Size and Dimensions

From Entrepreneur.com: Google+ Gets a Major Makeover by Jason Fell

Faydra Deon — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:50:18 +0000

If you’re one of the growing millions using Google+ for work or play, there was some news today from Google’s I/O developer’s conference that you might find useful. The search giant said it is rolling out more than 40 different changes to Google+ as part of a major redesign.

During the event’s three-hour-long keynote…

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Posterous is gone, but you can still download your content…

Faydra Deon — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:47:52 +0000

From blog.instagram.com: Introducing Photos of You

Faydra Deon — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:31:11 +0000

Photos are memories of the people, places and moments that mean the most to us. We have always sought to give you simple and expressive ways to bring the stories behind your photos to life. Your captions and hashtags capture the “what?” and your Photo Map answers the “where?” but until today we’ve never quite been able to answer the “who?”.

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Posterous to sunset on 30 April 2013

Faydra Deon — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:50:57 +0000

A year after being taken over by Twitter, Posterous will be shutting down.

If you’d like a backup of all the content you’ve posted there, Posterous has created a way for your to get all your information.

Posterous also suggests that you move WordPress.com or Squarespace, as they have tools to help you import your Posterous file.

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Infographic from WebHostingBuzz: Who’s Sharing What – The State of Social Sharing in 2013

Faydra Deon — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:01:26 +0000

Source: Who’s Sharing What – The State of Social Sharing in 2013

Infographic from pagemodo: Post Your Way To Facebook Success

Faydra Deon — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:00:25 +0000

Source: Post Your Way To Facebook Success [INFOGRAPHIC]

Vintage TweetDeck (TweetDeck AIR) will stop functioning soon…

Faydra Deon — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:13:35 +0000

TweetDeck is the most powerful Twitter tool for tracking real-time conversations. Its flexibility and customizable layout let you keep up with what’s happening on Twitter, across multiple topics and accounts, in real time. To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone. They will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter. We’ll also discontinue support for our Facebook integration.

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Infographic on advertising.twitter.com: A new Compete study: Mobile users in the UK

Faydra Deon — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:00:10 +0000

Source: A new Compete study: Mobile users in the UK

From the Index: Beware the viewBook.at and viewAuthor.at link shorteners!

Faydra Deon — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:05:14 +0000

The viewBook.at link shortener service promises you one link to your Kindle book on the appropriate Amazon site for all regions.

That seems pretty cool until you realize what’s actually going on when you use their shortener.

Not only are you getting a short link, the service provider is adding a referral code to that shortened link, so that they get commissions off sales every time you use their short link. Continue reading →