You Can Now Down Vote on Reddit With a Frown
Clicking, typing and using a mouse — that’s for chumps. That’s why Reddit is introducing “Heddit” (it stands for “hand equivalent action detection”). You can now u...
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Is the Facebook Like Dead for Marketers?
Derek Muller longs for the days when his Facebook page had only a few thousand likes. “The other day I was just Googling, ‘How do I delete these likes?'” he said to Mashable in an i...
Facebook’s ‘Teen Problem’ Is More of a Media Problem...
Facebook may have a teen problem. Maybe. Facebook does, however, have a media problem around the now widely adopted perception that teens are abandoning the site, or using it less. Or something. Nobo...
Instagram reveals what its ads will look like
Ads are coming to Instagram, and now we know what they’ll look like. The Facebook subsidiary’s offered up the example above on its blog today, and also confirmed that it will be appearing...
4 Ways to Write LinkedIn Messages That Actually Get Read
Imagine you were at a networking event, and you spot someone you don’t know but would love to. Maybe she has your dream job, or maybe he runs a great business that you’d like to model yours after. Wo...
Welcome to an Internet Without Ads
Ads are ubiquitous — when you’re trying to watch a movie, listen to music or read news headlines. They’ve become so entrenched in how we consume media that an ad-free web sounds like a &#...
Facebook’s new mobile ad format keeps users coming back to famil...
Ads for mobile apps are frequently ineffective after the first viewing — once users install a given app, they rarely have incentives to try the software again. Facebook may have found a way to ...
Social Media Fails to Drive Sales for Fashion Brands. Now What?
There was a time, namely the second half of 2011, when retailers thought Facebook and other social media channels would become major storefronts for their platforms. “We expect Facebook will be...
How Watching Mobile Ads Could Earn You Free Data
Advertisers are pulling out all the tricks when it comes to getting your eyeballs on their mobile content. So could they be successful if the incentive is free data for your smartphone? A Boston-base...
Mobile App Postagram Now Lets You Send Photo Postcards For Free, Spons...
Postagram, the mobile app from Sincerely that turns your photos into postcards you can mail from your phone, just received its first big update in over a year, with the most notable change being the ...