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Pagelines 2.0

Pagelines 2.0, a theme framework that transforms WordPress:

Use PageLines Drag & Drop Framework and WordPress to build professional websites faster, easier and better than ever before.

 

Here: Pagelines 2.0

Chrome usage within striking distance of Firefox

CNET News

Social Marketing - Facebook lab

Info.nl / Social Marketing - Facebook lab 11/11/2010

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The Future of Work is Now

Google’s Android OS is the most popular smartphone platform in the US and increases it's distance to Apple

According to comScore, with a 44.8 percent market share, Google’s Android OS is the most popular smartphone platform in the US, and Samsung is the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share.

Android jumps 4.6 points (3 Month Avg. Ending Sep. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Jun. 2011) and Apple secured the #2 position, growing 0.8 percentage points to account for 27.4 percent of the smartphone market. Microsoft ranked forth with only 5.6 percent (-0.2%), after RIM with 18.9% and losing 4.6%.

More at comScore, Inc

Mobile connectivity will be bigger than the Internet for UK retailing giant

Even though retailer Tesco is one of the few to actually make a profit from its online sales, mobile technology will have a bigger impact to the business, says CIO Mike McNamara

IT is no longer backroom stuff, but be a key touchpoint with customers, he said.

ITworld

Announced a couple of days ago, Google+ for Business Pages are now available. With the rollout, let’s look at a few key points:

How to Get Started With Google+ Pages for Business

Gmail's new look

Alice.es pretende relacionar a marcas y clientes "con nombres y apellidos"

El portal de comercio electrónico de gran consumo Alice.es ha abierto en España para eliminar intermediarios entre marcas y compradores, pero también para que las empresas conozcan a sus clientes 'con nombres y apellidos'

Expansion.com

Introducing Galaxy Nexus. Simple, beautiful, beyond smart

The 24-Hour Customer:Time-onomics Create New Rules.

More from Exponential Edge, Inc.

Social Networking - WIIFM

Social Networking Wiifm

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The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network

The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network

[SAMSUNG Mobile Unpacked 2011 - Google Episode] Teaser Video

The Growing Importance of Mobile Website Optimization

There’s no question that mobile devices have become a staple in everyday living around the world. Now more than ever it’s important that websites be optimized for mobile devices. Mobile optimization can increase sales, generate more traffic, and boost customer engagement. It’ll give you an edge over the competition, too.

Vi@ Kissmetrics
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The future of intranets (and what it means for KM)

The future of intranets (and what it means for KM)

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How effective is a Twitter link?

Just as brands and publishers use those tools to track who is engaging with their content via Facebook, Twitter’s dashboard shows who is interacting with a site’s content either by tweeting or retweeting a link to it, or by using the Twitter button the company offered for websites and publishers since last year.

Twitter offers analytics to try and prove its value — Tech News and Analysis

Google challenges Kayak, Bing Travel with new flight search tool

Google on Tuesday launched a new flight search tool that integrates with Google search and will challenge Bing Travel and travel-intensive sites like Kayak and Orbitz.

Read here: VentureBeat

RapidBiz: app development tool for non-developers

Amazon releases a web-based Kindle Reader

Amazon has a Web app that will let users read Kindle books directly from their Chrome and Safari Web browsers -- including the version of Safari used on the iPad.

Amazon Quietly Releases A Web-Based Kindle Reader

Google+ Off to a Fast Start with 20 Million Visitors in 21 Days

According to Comscore, most of those visitors -- 5.3 million -- are from the U.S. More surprising is that number-two country India already has 2.8 million unique visitors, almost half as many as the U.S. All other countries are way down the list with less than a million.

Read more @ Businessinsider: Google+: Big In India

In US, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases

Smartphones continue to grow in popularity. According to Nielsen’s May survey of mobile consumers in the U.S., 38 percent now own smartphones. And 55 percent of those who purchased a new handset in the past three months reported buying a smartphone instead of a feature phone, up from 34 percent just a year ago.

More @ Nielsen Wire

Facebook growth slows for second month in a row | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The number of people using Facebook during May fell in the US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia, according to new data.

That means the site's growth has slowed for the second month in a row, even as it approaches 700 million users worldwide.

Technology | guardian.co.uk

Nokia N9 UI hands-on demo

Nokia N9 Design Story

Introducing the Chromebook: Nothing but the web

Google is just announcing:

"Today, we’re announcing the first Chromebooks from our partners, Samsung and Acer. These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you won’t wait minutes for your computer to boot and browser to start. You’ll be reading your email in seconds. Thanks to automatic updates the software on your Chromebook will get faster over time. Your apps, games, photos, music, movies and documents will be accessible wherever you are and you won't need to worry about losing your computer or forgetting to back up files. Chromebooks will last a day of use on a single charge, so you don’t need to carry a power cord everywhere. And with optional 3G, just like your phone, you’ll have the web when you need it. "




More: Google Chrome Blog

Business Photos from Google

Microsoft, Toyota Announce $12 Million Partnership

Today Microsoft and Toyota announced a strategic partnership to build the "ultimate 'mobile device.'" Touted as a 1 billion yen investment in Toyota Media Service (a lot more catchy than saying $12 million), the partnership will have both companies team up to build a global cloud platform to support next-gen telematics in Toyota's hybrid and plug-in vehicles.

More at: Fast Company

Computer gamers less likely to go to university

"Frequently playing computer games appears to reduce a teenager's chances of going to university, while reading enhances the likelihood that they will go on to study for a degree, according to Oxford University research that tracked 17,000 people born in 1970.

Reading was also linked to careers success, as the research finds 16-year-olds who read books at least once a month were significantly more likely to be in a professional or managerial job at 33 than those who didn't read books at all."

via guardian.co.uk

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Like it or not. What is the 'Plus One' relevance?

If we have Facebook Like buttons, we may also would like to tag as Plus One, some of our web experiences. Do we?? Definitely, yes!

Google announced a new social feature to its search service, adding a button to allow users to recommend sites and share those recommendations with their friends.

"It’s called +1 — the digital shorthand for “this is pretty cool.” To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These +1’s will then start appearing in Google’s search results."

Let's play this new game. The world wide web is getting more and more social and a single click will be no trouble for anybody. Will it be relevant? let's click and see.

Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android

That's it! Amazon Cloud Player is now live, a streaming and storage service for music,videos, photos, and documents. Keep whatever you need online and access your files from anywhere.
So... where's Apple?? We may say that Google is here, as the service comes with an Android player, but there's no iOS player, sorry!

The Amazon Cloud drive offers 5 GB of free online storage that you can access from any computer. If you need more storage space, paid plans are available for storage up to 1,000 GB.
Outside US, please note that you can only have this 5GB plan. No upgrade plans for now.

When you purchase digital downloads from the Amazon MP3 Store, you can choose to automatically save your purchases to your Cloud Drive. All your purchases will be backed up and available to download anywhere, anytime.

Color Palette Generator

Need inspiration for your color pallet? This is a convenient tool to pick and get color’s value from any picture on the web. Simple and usefull.

Google Will Test Mobile-Payment System With VeriFone

According to Bloomberg:

Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, three people familiar with the project said.

The company will pay to install thousands of special cash- register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc.  at merchant locations, said one of the people, who requested anonymity because Google’s plans haven’t been made public.

Google's Instant Previews for mobile

Bloomberg and Gartner Inc on Apple's Ipad 2.

Free Kindle This November

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon "Oh, you noticed that!"

Any idea about Amazon's plan? Check The Technium

Groupon seeks managers to head expansion

Groupon Inc., owner of the largest website for daily deals, is ramping up hiring of managers who can help spearhead expansion abroad, according to two people involved in the planning.

Today's links: New Chrome extension, Facebook web dominance, e-marketing and leadership

New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

Google has launched one of its first experiments aimed at fighting back against content farms, asking the public to help identify the worst offenders.

The Official Google Blog

Facebook's Web of Frenemies

Facebook Inc.'s growing ambitions are redrawing battle lines in Silicon Valley.

As the seven-year-old company ramps up its hiring and adds new features to its social network, it is disrupting the businesses of established companies like Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. and putting even more Internet firms on notice

WSJ.com

Stop Treating Consumers Like Liabilities, Start Treating Them Like People

Consumerist Offers Tips on How to Hold on to Unhappy Customers and Win New Ones; First: Stop Being Such a Jerk

adage.com

Do We Need Leaders?

Like millions of others, we have been thrilled and terrified by the unexpected and unprecedented news coming out of Egypt in recent weeks.

Hbr.com

Consumer Privacy And Marketers: Let's Talk Terms

The marketing and privacy discussion is full of complex issues being conflated in similar ways.

Most marketers are interested in data that gives them a better understanding of their audiences overall.

“Privacy” itself may mean not collecting unneccessary data, or collecting data and sharing it only with companies that the consumer specifies.

Blogs.Forrester.com

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Top Reasons Why Consumers Unsubscribe Via E-Mail, Facebook & Twitter

More than 90% of consumers unsubscribe, “unlike” or stop following brands because of too frequent, irrelevant or boring communications, according to a report by social media and e-mail marketing services company ExactTarget.

Here are a few key findings from the study:

• 91% of consumers have unsubscribed from opt-in marketing e-mails.
• 77% of consumers report being more cautious about providing their e-mail address to companies versus last year.
• 81% of consumers have either “unliked” or removed a company’s posts from their Facebook News Feed.
• 71% of consumers report being more selective about “liking” a company on Facebook than they were last year.
• 51% of consumers expect that a “like” will result in marketing communications from brands, while 40% do not believe it should result in marketing communications.
• 41% of consumers have “unfollowed” a company on Twitter.

With 95% of U.S. online consumers using e-mail (and 93% of U.S. online consumers being subscribers to at least one opt-in e-mail per day), the e-mail findings are particularly important for marketers hoping to remain in good standing with their audiences via e-mail.

More at: Mashable | The Social Media Guide:
Top Reasons Why Consumers Unsubscribe Via E-Mail, Facebook & Twitter Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Rush is on for custom domain name suffixes

The pillar of the basic Web address - the trusty .com domain - is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New Web sites, with more subject-specific, sometimes controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god, .sport, .gay or .kurd.

READ at: washingtonpost.com

Again…. “The Web is dead”

Not only are tablets the future, but "We think the Web is dead." It may always be there, but it's not the future. Nor are e-readers-devices like Amazon's Kindle. "There's one advantage to those things and that's that they can be read on the beach. That's not enough."

If the Web is dead, what's rising is "the "app Internet." And that's where media companies need to focus themselves strategically. The need to de-emphasize their HTML skills and become app-Internet developers-for tablets and smart phones alike. "That's the most important thing”

George F. Colony, CEO of Forrester Research:

Media Dealmakers Summit: "The Web Is Dead" - Consumer @ FolioMag.com

Where Are Social Media Marketers Seeing the Most Success?

It may surprise you, but the answer isn’t Facebook

Check the answer at ... eMarketer

Facebook’s Places Deals Launches in Europe

Facebook launched its Places Deals across five countries in Europe this morning with a range of deals including free XBoxes, discounts on cars, the inevitable Starbucks coffee and, for U.K. subscribers, a free day at the Alton Towers theme park.

The European roll out hits five countries today: the U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy. According to Joanna Shields, Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA, other European countries will be added “as soon as we possibly can”.

More:

Facebook’s Places Deals Launches in Europe - Tech Europe - WSJ

Internet "kill switch"

Egypt has pulled the plug on the entire Internet for its citizens.

Such a flagrant violation of communications--possible only in the less free corners of the world, right? But since last summer, when a Senate bill was introduced by Joe Lieberman, the US has been considering an Internet "kill switch" of its own.

Read the full text:

Could Egypt Happen Here? Obama's Internet "Kill Switch" | Fast Company

Link Me: Social Media Data, CRM to Profitable Customers and Video as the Next Tech Innovation

• Rethinking the Future of Business Part 2: Building the Framework

• Data markets aren't coming. They're already here

• CRM Is The ONLY Way To Touch Profitable Customers. Who Are You Touching?

• Davos: Explosion Of Video Is Next Technological Innovation

Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!

Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt in an unexpected move as Google announced far better than expected profits.


The company said Page would take over from 4 April when Eric Schmidt will become executive chairman "focusing externally on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships".


Schmidt posted the moves some minutes ago, at Google's official blog:

Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths, and starting from April 4 he will take charge of our day-to-day operations as Google’s Chief Executive Officer. In this new role I know he will merge Google’s technology and business vision brilliantly. I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the next 10 years under Larry will be even better! Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.

Sergey has decided to devote his time and energy to strategic projects, in particular working on new products. His title will be Co-Founder. He’s an innovator and entrepreneur to the core, and this role suits him perfectly.

As Executive Chairman, I will focus wherever I can add the greatest value: externally, on the deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership that are increasingly important given Google’s global reach; and internally as an advisor to Larry and Sergey.

"Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!", Eric Schmidt twitted

Londres-2012 faz simulação dos Jogos para evitar erros

Os responsáveis pela infraestrutura tecnológica dos Jogos Olímpicos de Londres 2012 realizaram uma recriação virtual das 36 competições que receberão a capital britânica no próximo ano para verificar os sistemas informáticos e tentar evitar erros e imprevistos durante as provas.

Uma multinacional francesa instalou um laboratório com mais de 900 servidores e 9.500 computadores que simularão, desde agora até 28 de julho de 2012, competições esportivas reais para comprovar que os resultados se transmitam corretamente e a tempo real.

Vi@ Folha.com

Why I don’t use facebook? Too retro for my taste.

Facebook is retro because, like AOL, it's retro by its nature. It's a closed system. Some people like a closed comfy system and others don't. I, for one, don't. If I want a personal webpage with all sorts of information about myself, I'll go to Wordpress.com and make one. By doing this, I don't turn over any data, control, or information to an onerous third party to sell, use, or exploit. I can close down the site when I want. I can say what I want. I can pretty much do whatever.

John C. Dvorak, PCMag.com

A sneak peek at Android 3.0, Honeycomb

Tech and Data for a Smarter Planet, by IBM

PwC: G-7 Will Be Overtaken by Emerging Economies in 2032

The combined gross domestic product of the seven biggest developing economies will exceed that of the G-7, the world’s largest industrialized markets, in 2032 using projected market exchange rates, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said in a report released in London today. China will overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy also in that year, it said.

...

In 2009, the combined GDP what PricewaterhouseCoopers calls the Emerging Seven of China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey was the equivalent of 35 percent of the G-7. By 2020, E-7 GDP will increase to about 70 percent of the G-7’s, and by 2050 it will be 64 percent larger, according to the report.

Also in 2032, Brazil’s economy will overtake Germany’s in size, while India will eclipse Japan in 2028, the accountancy firm said.

Read at: Bloomberg

Skype buys rival Qik to handle two-way Android video calls

Skype announced that it acquired Qik, a rival that became well known when it was preloaded onto the HTC Evo with its front-facing camera.

Qik's purchase price it's rumored to be a cool $100 million.

via ces.cnet.com

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E-Commerce Plugins and Shopping Carts for WordPress

Want to start the new year off by turning your WordPress website into a full-fledged online store?

You’re in luck – WordPress has a wide range of options available. We’ve put together a list of e-commerce plugins and carts that work with WordPress 3.0+, as well as a short introduction to each to help you narrow down your options. These are in no particular order. Some are free and some are premium, but what they all have in common is that they’ve been fairly recently updated for the latest version of WordPress.

Read at: 

WPMU.org

You need to get off facebook

Toshiba launches tablet to challenge iPad

Toshiba Corp is making its foray into the tablet war, offering a 10-inch device it says will be comparable in price to Apple's iPad.

The Toshiba Tablet, which will be available in the first half of 2011 and run Google's forthcoming Honeycomb version of the Android operating system, is targeted at consumers.

Like other touchscreen tablets, it plays high-definition videos and is designed for Web browsing, games and electronic books.

Read more at reuters.com

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Chrome finishes 2010 with 10 percent share

via news.cnet.com

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