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Content Marketing: Speedy Delivery Methods Through Facebook and Google

Informative, helpful content has become an integral part of any digital marketer’s arsenal. It makes sense: if people value your content they value your site, your brand, and hopefully the product or service you’re selling. Unique content is a way to boost traffic to a website. To

Chrome abandons XP, Vista and older versions of OS X

Google yesterday released Chrome 50, and as promised last year, dropped support for Windows XP and Vista, along with three older editions of Apple’s OS X. The upgrade to Chrome 50 will not be recognized or downloaded by personal computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X

Social Advocacy and Politics: Dirty Social Politics v. Authentic Social Media Campaigns

Recent revelations regarding the prolific use of dirty social media tricks to rig Latin American political campaigns once again shine a light on the seamy underbelly of social advocacy and politics. And as I have previously discussed here with respect to using Wikipedia for political purposes and

Experts crack nasty ransomware that locks your PC and your backup

Petya, a brutal piece of malware, surfaced two weeks ago. It’s a mean bit of crypto-extortion that hits its victims where it hurts: right in your startup drive. Because it encrypts your master boot file, if attacked, not only will you be unable to start up your

Most young Arabs reject Isis and think ‘caliphate’ will fail, poll finds

Arab Youth Survey finds declining support for extremist group but lack of jobs is seen as main issue driving terrorist recruitment Pro-Isis demonstrators, many of them young men, on a march in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: Uncredited/AP The vast majority of young Arabs are increasingly rejecting Islamic State

Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems

In the course of our day-to-day lives, we produce vast amounts of data. Whether gathered through online communications platforms, tracking devices, or other sources, these data reveal information about our behavior, decisions, and preferences. Researchers can ultimately use the data to improve systems across a variety of

Social Advocacy and Politics: Facebook Buzz Predicts Bernie Sanders’ Rise in Primaries

Whether you look at the “people talking” on candidate Facebook Pages (Likes, comments and shares over the past week) or the larger metric of Facebook buzz provided by USA Today’s Facebook Barometer (Likes, comments, shares and mentions over the past week), the better a candidate is doing

Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, and Microsoft, you’ll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10. This will be more than just running the Bash shell on Windows 10. After all, thanks to programs such as Cygwin or MSYS utilities, hardcore Unix

What is Retargeting? (And How Does it Work?)

Retargeting is one of our favorite marketing buzzwords, but it’s also a great way to increase conversions and bring people back to your website. Retargeting is a paid advertising strategy that involves putting your ads in front of people who have visited your website, after they have clicked

Blue Bunny Ice Cream Redesigns Their Website And Brand Identity

Iowa-based ice cream shoppe Blue Bunny just redesigned their logo with a modern approach to identity design. This corporate revamp comes with an improved Blue Bunny website which is both fully responsive and much easier to navigate. According to their history page, Blue Bunny ran with their