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If you love taking photos but feel constrained by Instagram's square format, you can now give your creativity full flight. Instagram finally supports portrait and landscape photos. Thinking outside the square Instagram announced the news in a blog post. "Square format has been and always will be part of who we are. "That said, the
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While Facebook has finally taken to video with aplomb, Vine's been doing it longer, and shorter, than most. Here's the latest stats from the six-second looping video platform. Vineyard Vine was launched back in June 2012 by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. It allowed users to create and share looping videos up to
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Who says digital giants can't play nice? Google and Twitter have just got a little cosier: now tweets are discoverable in Search. #Search Google announced the news, appropriately enough, in a tweet. It means that users can now search for, and view, tweets and hashtags directly from Google on desktop. For example, if you were
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Social media can be described as the ultimate digital see-saw: what goes up must eventually come down. After a dream ascent to the top, it looks like Instagram might be falling back to earth. Or levelling off at least. Instant karma A recent report from Locowise that looked at 2500 accounts reveals that engagement on
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Another day, another hot new social network. It can be hard keeping up with the Snapchats and Meerkats of the world, let along creating and scheduling content across multiple platforms. Thankfully easing the headache for the savvy digital marketer are a range of scheduling services. Here are three of our favourites. 1. Hootsuite Hootsuite is
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The old QWERTY keyboard has served us faithfully for many years but as Bob Dylan reminds us, the times they are a changin'. Keeping up with the latest trend in tapping is the hard to pronounce but easy-to-use TagsDock. Typo Negative TagsDock is an iOS keyboard designed with social media messaging in mind. The TagsDock
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Facebook Notes might not be the most recognisable feature on the social network, but a refresh means you might be hearing a lot more about Notes. Note to self Notes is a somewhat hidden feature that lets users add more in-depth information about themselves, similar to a journal or blog. The feature is a throwback
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Proving its more that the driver behind incessant Acrobat Reader updates, Adobe has launched a Shoppable Video service. Shopaholic The service comes under the umbrella of Adobe's Experience Manager, which allows brands to manage a variety of digital consumer experiences including websites, apps and document management. Now brands can display videos of products available for purchase. Consumers
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Online Circle has just launched the latest version of our ongoing Facebook Benchmarks Reports. The Second Quarter 2015 edition is now live. This time we analysed over 6000 Australian Facebook brand pages, and presented the 500 most successful pages over 27 categories using data gathered from March to June. Which brands performed best? According to our report,
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While YouTube is the undisputed king of online video, it’s far from the only show in town. Vimeo is YouTube’s indie cousin, a place where creators and discerning viewers go for their fix of cat-free clips. Here are how things look today at Vimeo. Vision first Vimeo was launched in November 2004 by Jake Lodwick
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