Year: 2014

Annotating webpages in Chrome

Idea: I’d like to have the ability to annotate a webpage natively in Chrome. When i’m done reading the webpage, export the page into a pdf with all the highlights I made in the text and all the marginalia shown next to the related parts of the webpage.  Any ideas on how to accomplish …

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Can Google and Bing search engines recommend great recipes?

When you search for recipes using search engines, how do they they select which ones you’ll see? The New York Times gives a fun ride across how search engines rank recipes, Can Recipe Search Engines Make You a Better Cook?. Some clips: The newer [search engine] models try to evaluate recipes and rank them by …

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Optimizing your site for SEO is one half of the search puzzle

Will all sites ultimately become properly optimized for search engines? Web strategist James Ellis writes: While SEO is a critical element in your digital marketing strategy, there will probably come a day some time soon when everyone is properly optimized for search engines. What happens when there’s a level playing field and tricks don’t push …

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The real food trends for 2014

From Gluten free to buffalo wings. What are the real trends of 2014? Yesterday we took all 14 food trends from forbes.com and uncovered their real trending stats with Google Trends. Today we aggregate all that data together into one chart. Let’s compare all 12 trends in the past 10 years by taking the ranking …

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Use feedly to find events by companies you use

Do you use a ton of services at work? As an online marketer I use Apple, Bitly, Google Chrome, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, Twitter, Return Path, Ginger Labs (maker of Notability), and WooThemes. At home I use Feedly, Evernote, Flipboard, Last.fm, Netflix, Dropbox, Toodledo, Adium, Comixology, Delicious, Foursquare, Spotify, and Zite. #takeadeepbreath That’s a lot of services! I like to keep up to date …

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Why do people not comment on blogs? The psychology and historical reasons

Perplexing is that people can read something and not have anything to say. What are the historical and psychology causes? At the dawn of democracy, listening was primarily an active activity. People would debate each other. A statement would be made, the listener would respond. Communication was interpersonal. Peter Kreten states in his first draft …

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For creators, searchers, readers, and curators

All content goes through a life cycle. First content is created. Then people discover the content. People read the content. Finally, people share the content. By sharing the content, it becomes recreated like how a DJ recreates music by making it into a mix. The content is then discovered by other people, consumed, and reshared. …

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2014 will be the year of interdisciplinary

2013 was the year of lists. Will 2014 continue the heavy use of lists? Yes, 2014 will bring more lists. Specifically for the masses, there will be more lists in 2014. However, for the more attuned reader, lists will become less popular. Perhaps instead we will see more interdisciplinary articles. Topics that merge various fields …

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