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Oceanside Chamber gets spotlight for being ‘Social Media Friendly’
OCEANSIDE -; David Nydegger, president and C.E.O. of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, recently announced that the Oceanside Chamber has been recognized as one of ...
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Taylor Swift Twitter Parody Puts Feminist Spin on Lyrics
FeministTaylorSwift appeared on Twitter, but it's already racked up more 85,000 followers with its stream of endlessly clever feminist tweaks on the country-pop superstar's lyrics. The account even garnered an all caps shout out ...
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Amazon Makes Your Boring Facebook Birthday Posts Worth Something
Facebook birthday greetings are the lowest level of well wishing. Or maybe they used to be. Now you can boost this laziest salutation with something that’s not just tangible, but actually pretty solid: an Amazon gift card. Amazon is hoping to capitalize on your inability to go to the store, buy a card, scribble your name in said card and drop it in a mailbox with a new, aptly ...
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Google Bing Both Win More Search Market Share
release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S. for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its search market share to 66.7 percent, up from 66.5 percent ...
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The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media
posted a piece this morning on one way The Times of London tried, without much success, to get its (hard-paywalled) content noticed by the non-subscribing world. The paper’s Ben ...
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GE moves into Industrial Internet service with Amazon
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analyzed. GE ...
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Do Stock Photos Affect Google Search Rankings Matt Cutts Says No
A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings. For those of you who are lacking in artistic skills, or just don’t have the resources to take photos related to every single webpage you produce, it ...
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Facebook seen most vulnerable in spy scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- It's not surprising that Facebook Inc. moved fast to talk the federal government into letting it disclose more about the amount of data that authorities asked the social network to turn ...
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Study Allowing organ donation status on Facebook increased number of donors
American Journal of Transplantation on June 18 showed that the social network gave a 21-fold boost to the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors in a single day. The study comes at a time when ...
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Concern over high school babe Facebook page
The principals of two Dunedin high schools are worried a Facebook page asking people to nominate a high school "babe of the day'' could put pupils at risk from sexual predators. The page, set up last week, has more than 2100 "likes" and its creation comes after a proliferation of "babe of the day" Facebook pages for New Zealand universities. This includes one in Dunedin which has gained more ...
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Twitter Chat How to Have a Healthy Summer
How can you shed those final 5 pounds you put on over the summer? How can you liven up your BBQs and make tastier green smoothies? U.S. News Health discussed all this and more in a Twitter chat with registered dietitian Julieanna Hever and vegan cookbook author Dreena Burton. Here are the ...
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Yahoo says it received up to 13000 user data requests from US government agencies in 6 months
Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31. Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post late Monday that the most common requests concerned fraud homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal ...
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Google AdWords Enhanced Campaign CPCs Grow 6 Report
Adobe released their findings today on the impact of Google AdWords Enhanced campaigns on advertising click costs. To arrive at their conclusions they examined 100 U.S. advertisers spending more than $100 million between March and May of this year using Adobe’s Media Optimizer. They found overall the cost-per-click (CPC) across devices was up 6 percent since March. The primary factor ...
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Vine Sees Near YouTube-Level Engagement on Twitter
If you’re a brand who’s looking to expand its social media strategy – you better give Vine a look if you’re not ...
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Facebook CEO meets South Korean president
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 18, ...
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USNewsHealth Twitter Chat Healthy Communities for Kids
Our next Twitter chat, about factors that make communities healthy and safe for children, will feature experts from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health ...
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The Ongoing Story Twitter and Writing
magazine archives recently, doing research for my biography of J. D. Salinger, when I pulled open a drawer and found a small box containing a bunch of discarded typewriter heads for the I.B.M. Selectric typewriter—the cutting-edge writing technology of my youth. I had written, or tried to write, my first stories while sitting before this ominously humming machine. At its center was a ...
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Facebook may add videos to Instagram rumors suggest
Facebook invited members of the press to its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. to "learn about a new product" on Thursday. Rumor is that this new product might be a video feature on Instagram.According to Facebook's invitation, a "small team has been working on a big idea," ...
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How Much Is A Social Media Influencer Worth
Influencer marketing has been around for a steady while now. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: all can offer brands many influencers. But no one actually knows how much a brand should pay an ...
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Amazon Launches New Facebook-Integrated Crowdsourced Gifting Product
Amazon is looking to move in on Facebook’s gifting turf with a new product that lets friends crowdsource each other’s gifts using the power of the social network’s graph. Amazon has just announced Amazon Birthday Gift, a ';new way for customers to surprise friends on their birthdays by joining together to send Amazon.com Gift Cards with birthday messages on ...
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Internet access is more important than sleep or food
(Credit: TP-Link) Believe or not, the majority of men in the U.K. rank Internet access as valuable as sex and even more important than food and shelter. That's right, 42 percent of male respondents in a new survey by broadband ...
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Amazon adds group gift cards to Facebook
launched Amazon Birthday Gift, which allows customers to send friends electronic gift cards on their birthdays. Customers can invite mutual friends to contribute, so the gift can grow. You start the process ahead of the friend's birthday ...
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Kenya Shababaab Post Pictures of Two Aps On Twitter
The al Shabaab yesterday posted photos on Twitter of men they claim are two missing APs believed to have been kidnapped by the militia from Damajaley AP camp last month. Constables Fredrick Chirchir and Joseph Wambugu were kidnapped during an ambush on June 25. The militia promised to post photos of a Uganda People Defence Forces commander whom they claim was captured during fighting for the ...
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The top games of E3 2013
>Editor's note: John Gaudiosi is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Gamerhub.tv video syndication network. He's covered video games for hundreds of outlets over the past 20 years and specializes in the convergence of Hollywood and games. Los Angeles (CNN) -- The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, which wrapped up here Thursday, is all about next-generation gaming. More than 45,000 game ...
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Amazon rolls out Facebook social gift card
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Amazon.com on Tuesday rolled out a new way for Facebook users to collectively send a friend a birthday ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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