Social Media: The Positive and Negative Aspects
Social Media: The Positive and Negative Aspects Social media is an extremely powerful tool that can be used for great causes and some that are not so great. Social media has led to relationships ending and even death for some that took things too far. Most people use social media for the distraction that it provides but social media addiction plagues quite a few people without them realizing it. The following are some negative and positive aspects of social media platforms.
99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications - Smashing Magazine
99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications Advertisement If you haven’t heard of Twitter1 by now, you must be living under a rock!
Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website [DOs & DON'Ts]
So you are in the process of designing and developing a website and you want to adhere to the best SEO practices (good idea). There is a plethora of good SEO tips and guides on the web to get your brain juices flowing, but we have compiled these essential 5 SEO DOs and DON’Ts to keep in mind when designing and developing a new website. If you want your website to show up in the search engines (like Google, Yahoo, and Bing), you have to make sure you’re following the 5 tips below. Remember, "80% of success is showing up" (Woody Allen).
Ads with Friends: Analyzing the Benefits of Social Ads
As social networks have picked up a greater share of digital ad dollars, a key differentiator they emphasize to brand advertisers is the ability to harness the power of friend recommendations when it comes to sharing experiences and content. Last week, Facebook introduced new advertising products that highlight friend connections on the site to make marketing more inherently social. Though social ads were previously available on Facebook, last week’s announcement signifies even greater emphasis on this unique form of advertising. But do these types of social ads offer any advantages over their non-social counterparts? To answer this question, Nielsen analyzed* results from 79 Facebook campaigns over a period of six months to determine how well ads with social messages succeeded at breaking through to the audience.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr
Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Fortnite hosted a Diplo concert in its new party mode
Fortnite’s new no-guns “party royale” mode just launched on Wednesday, and the new map played host to its first live concert Friday evening. DJ and producer Diplo performed a live Major Lazer set, and actor and performer Jordan Fisher also made appearances before and after the show. The concert was held at the big, music festival-like main stage on the east side of the island. Because there are no weapons in the new mode, attendees didn’t have to worry about defending themselves, which, for me, made it easier to just enjoy the show. If you missed the event on Friday, there’s an in-game rebroadcast scheduled for Saturday at 10AM ET, according to Epic Games.
New Media, Marketing, Advertising & Interactive News & Jobs
You know you’re working in UX when … I’m sure you’ve heard the expression 'Never work with children or animals' right? Well, after you’ve read this lot, I reckon you’ll want to add participants, facilitators and even clients to this list. You see, since my last blog I’ve spent a few weeks “playing journalist” sourcing weird, wonderful and downright bizarre stories from the UX (User Experience) Community. The idea came to me while I was telling a friend how I had to sit throughout a whole study earlier this year in Norway, trying not to crack up every time a participant had to fill in his name on a form. Thing is, he was doing it with such a straight face that for a long time I thought it really was his name.
An update to Google Social Search
Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships.
