1) Blog drafts Ever have a great idea for a blog post? You don’t want to lose that idea. In Evernote you can quickly jot down those ideas. I have 778 unpublished blog drafts. Anything that will be an idea for a post. A photo. A website link. I’ll copy and paste instant messenger conversations into a note. …
Tumblr is growing faster than Pinterest (via PNConnect) When Pinterest came out, I thought it would totally kill Tumblr. Tumblr is just one steady stream of EVERYTHING. When I subscribe to Tumblr feeds, I see the whole mix together. What a mess! Pinterest has the potential to be so much better than Tumblr, because Pinterest …
couple devicing in a gallery – Art Institute of Chicago.jpg by Anne Petersen, on Flickr This photo of a couple intertwined on an art museum bench looking each of their own devices is quite curious. For one, they are in an art museum with plenty of artwork to look at, yet they choose to look …
Do a twitter search for: “there are only” “google results” and you’ll get some fun results. Here are a select few tweets from the results: Internet I am disappoint. There are only four Google results for "how to monetize your cat" — Scott Kubie (@scottrocketship) January 25, 2014 .@ethanz introduced us to US "Institute for …
Video is great, but do visitors ever get past the play button? Sometimes when visiting a webpage for a service, the page might be nice and simple with one single video. In marketing tactics, a focused page is great. No distractions. One call to action. In this case, watch the video. You’d think that people …
It’s funny how flexible the internet is, yet we don’t have technology to write directly on webpages in a browser and immediately share that marginalia. When reading an article on a piece of paper, you have an immediacy with that sheet of paper where you can underline text and write notes in the margin. When …
MLB’s only official baseball card manufacturer, Topps, is running a super-fun photo competition. Thirty fan-submitted photos will be used for the 2015 baseball card set. Imagine the delight baseball fans will get seeing their own photo appear on a baseball card! To enter just your photo on instagram with the hashtag #toppslive and it’s automatically …
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The first raindrop hits the ground. Then a few more tap on the concrete alley outside my bedroom window. Suddenly I hear thousands, probably millions more raindrops land upon the thirsty ground. How many raindrops does an average storm produce in one square mile? Do raindrops compete with each other to see who will land …
Do you ever feel like not leaving a comment on a blog, because you feel like it won’t be seen by anyone else other than the author? With the dominance social media today, people are more apt to make their comments on another social media channel rather than your lonely blog post. Imagine if today’s …
Are the overabundance of people trying to gain followers on Twitter actually killing the service? Marketers constantly tweeting utility links, never sharing their own personality. People trying to impress others by constantly retweeting others. Is all this noise killing Twitter? The Atlantic wrote a Eulogy for Twitter, claiming “the beloved social publishing platform enters its …
No more in-app purchases for Comixology? At first I didn’t care, because I always purchsed my Comixology comics through my local comic book store’s website (that way a local shop gets a cut of my purchase). But there is bad news behind Amazon killing in-app purchases on the popular comics reading app. It signals that …
Techcrunch reports that many of the workers who formerly worked on Google Plus will be doing things in other parts of google. The techcrunch author states that perhaps other parts of Google will benefit from the people who worked on the imaging on Google Plus: …there are a ton of really interesting things going on …
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Mashable is reports that “Millennials trust user-generated content 50% more than other media.” Sounds reasonable, right? However, in that article Mashable makes a false claim, “User-generated content (UGC) is media created by your peers.” Whoa. Mashable. Hold it there. Be careful with this report. Mashable is blending together the terms “user-generated content” with content made by your …
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How is it that Flickr is now the place for quality photos? Isn’t that Instagram’s realm? Not quite. Here’s what has happened between the two services in the past few years. With the rise of Instagram in 2011, many photographers left Flickr. Instagram became THE photo app for mobile, while Flickr sat undeveloped since Yahoo …
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Gee, I don’t remember the name of the filter. Heck, I can’t even remember the name of the app that I used. Was it Fotor, Photogene, PhotoStudio, CP Pro, Filterstorm, PS Touch, Camera+, KingCamera, or Film Lab? Imagine if the iOS forced all photo app developers to include the filter information in the metadata of …
Evernote is helping me tame all the articles I read in RSS; articles that I want to take some sort of action on: Blog about the article Archive it as pdf Watch a video from inside the link I’ll write a post outlining how I use Evernote to help my article reading/sharing workflow from iPhone …
Facebook and Pinterest may drive a lot of traffic to websites, but they don’t do quite as well in converting those clicks into engagement. If you want your social media visitors to stick around on your site, you are best off using YouTube, Google Plus, and Linkedin. Shareaholic created two very interesting reports: Facebook and …
What is your dream app? I’d like an app that combines the functionality of an RSS reader with a PDF editor. This extremely powerful RSS reader would present every article as a PDF that you can annotate and highlight. Your notes on each PDF would be easily exported to share via social media and on …
Microsoft calls all internet browsers “Chrome.” Today Microsoft popped up a warning that my Office has a critical bug and needs an update. Conceding to update right now, the installer asks me to close Outlook and Chrome. I figure, ok, I can close Chrome, because I can still work in Firefox. However, when I click …
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Today Amazon bought the #1 digital comic book seller, ComiXology. Last year Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, bought the 7th largest newspaper The Washington Post. Hmm. Digital comics. Digital newspaper. Bezos should totally do a mashup with ComiXology and The Washington Post. While I wouldn’t want to read the Washington Post in my Comixology app, …