Who says we can't all just get along? A new update from Twitter lets users tag businesses and restaurants using Yelp. #Yelpers Yelp announced the collaboration in a blog post. "Whether you are having a breakfast naan at Yelp’s recently crowned #1 restaurant in the UK, Dishoom in London, or taking in the sights at […]
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Slack's only been around for two years, but it's already one of the most popular (and chic) team messaging tools on the digital block. Today we're looking at what makes Slack tick. Not much Slack Slack was launched in August 2013, the brain child of colleagues Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson and Serguei Mourachov.
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Today we're looking at the spiffy new automation features now available on MailChimp. Mail by Numbers MailChimps Automation workflow now features a swag of new categories including Nonprofit, Education, Software, Music, and Transactional. MailChimp says this will make it easier to serve your different audiences with their requirements. For example, the Nonprofit workflow covers welcoming
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Tumblr has made good on its promise to reintroduce Replies after six months in the wilderness. The Yahoo-owned platform removed Replies in November 2015, when an instant messaging service was added to Tumblr.com and its apps. Following some blowback from its users, Tumblr said in February that Replies was removed to avoid having two features
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In news that will surprise few, it turns out Facebook is getting even bigger and quite a lot richer. Giant steps Facebook's Q1 2016 earnings report revealed that the social network now has 1.65 billion monthly users. Over this period Facebook netted a tidy US$5.38 billion in revenue and US$0.77 earnings per share. This was
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Popular image hosting site Imgur has rolled out a slew of updates aimed at keeping its millennial, largely mobile audiences happy. Say cheese Imgur's iOS and Android apps now let snap-happy users employ 3D Touch and Spotlight search to find the right picture. Both apps now feature landscape mode and new hand gestures. For example,
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It's easy to get stuck into the Facebook vortex and lose hours browsing, Liking, tagging, and Reacting. Now a new plugin called Focusbook helps you stay on track in the social network. Stay on target Focusbook for Chrome is a free plugin that promises to help you stay productive on Facebook. It does this by
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As a reader of the SMK blog, you are all now aware of the forthcoming new Instagram algorithm that will rank content based on relevance rather than chronological order. The official announcement from Instagram resulted in a sudden panic from Instagram users, with a huge amount of Instagrammers asking followers to turn on mobile notifications
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It's hard to believe it but Twitter has been around for 10 years. Or should we wonder how it has only been 10 years? It feels like a lifetime. Since Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on March 22, 2006, the 140-character service has grown to boast over 320 million monthly active users. Twitter's push
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Productivity apps are well and good, but there' no point working if you don't have down time – both on and offline. While there are plenty of mindful and meditation apps out there, Remente takes a new approach. Balance Remente (pronounced Ree-men-tay) is a virtual life coach of sorts. You begin by completing a series of questions
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