Boost your WordPress blog with Jetpack

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If you self-host a WordPress blog, one of the most useful plug-ins you can install is Jetpack, created by WordPress publisher Automattic originally for blogs built on the hosted WordPress.com service The Jetpack plug-in has recently been updated to version 2, which now makes it an indispensible part of your blog presence on the social [...]

An easier view on influence analysis with Kred Story

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Things are heating up in the social influence measurement space with yesterday’s re-launch of Kred as Kred Story. Kred is one of three companies I see as the primary ones that, broadly, offer measurement and analytics services in the emerging field of social influence measurement (the other two companies are Klout and PeerIndex). Each offers [...]

QR codes at heart of lost-and-found service Belon.gs

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A topic I’ve written about frequently here is QR codes, those square, random-looking black-and-white images that are meaningless to the eye but content-rich to a cameraphone and some barcode-scanning software. These little barcodes are popping up everywhere these days, and how they’re being used by marketers attracts praise and derision in almost equal measure. Given [...]

Paying with your smartphone at Starbucks UK

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When Starbucks announced recently that an Android app is now available in the UK to let you pay for your coffee and other products in store with that app, I was looking forward to trying it out. And I finally did that yesterday at Starbucks in Hammersmith Broadway, west London, in a process that took [...]

I’d love to try the new Office Preview if I could get it installed

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This concise comment on Microsoft’s Office Preview support forum says it all about the frustrations that many people including me have experienced in trying to install the free trial version of Office Customer Preview: Hey Microsoft, make it simple yo…… Announced yesterday, Microsoft is making the trial universally available to anyone who cares to try [...]

American Express and Foursquare connect in the UK

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I was pretty excited when I first learned that American Express were bringing their Foursquare promotional offerings to the UK, their first market for this outside the US. Just as in the US, what the promotion does for American Express cardholders in the UK is give you special offers when you check in with Foursquare [...]

Frictionless podcast listening with Player FM

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If you listen to podcasts, Player.fm might interest you if you want an easy way to both listen to your favourite shows and discover new ones. Player.fm is a podcasting service in the cloud. You use it in your web browser – there are no apps to install, just an easy-to-use method to create a [...]

"Slideshare meets YouTube" from Present dot me

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Every now and again, a PR pitch arrives that just grabs your attention. When thought and imagination goes into it, at least in making it appear personal to you, it’s quite refreshing to receive something that tells a good story, opens your eyes, tickles your fancy, and just works. Such was the case this morning [...]

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