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When infographics rocketed onto the scene a couple of years ago, everyone was rushing to make one. Like every new SEO tactic, it was easy to score some quick wins. Yet, as with all successful marketing approaches, the market for infographics has become crowded. It takes more than just great design to have a real [...]Author information Jayson DeMers Jayson DeMers is the founder & CEO of AudienceBloom, a Seattle-based SEO agency, as well as Crackerize.com, a lyrics-humor website. You can contact him on LinkedIn, Google+, or Twitter. TwitterGoogle+ The post The Definitive Guide to Writing and Promoting a Viral Infographic by @jaysondemers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Finding a Chromebook from Google has never been particularly hard to do, since they've been available at Best Buy and Amazon for quite a while. But now Acer's $199 model Chromebooks have gotten even more prolific, now available on the shelves of 2,800 U.S. Wal-Mart stores. The expansion of Chromebook inventories doesn't stop there, according to Google's blog post yesterday. Starting this weekend, Staples will have Chromebooks from Acer, HP and Samsung in every one of its 1,500-plus U.S. stores. Expansion is coming to other markets as well, wrote David Shapiro, Director of Chromebook Marketing: In addition to Dixons in the UK, now 116 Tesco stores are selling Chromebooks, as well as all Media Markt and Saturn stores in the Netherlands, FNAC stores in France and Elgiganten stores in Sweden. In Australia, all JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman stores will be carrying Chromebooks for their customers as well. See also HP TouchPad is Clever, Not a Killer While sales numbers of Chromebooks have not...

Our API directory now includes 40 reviews APIs. The newest is the Open Game API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Shopzilla API. We list 27 Shopzilla mashups. Below you'll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of reviews APIs.

Yahoo has joined the ranks of Internet technology companies demonstrating their commitment to openness - and trying to rebuild trust with their users - with its own revelation of data requests received from law enforcement agencies. Yahoo announced the numbers in a Tumblr blog from CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell, citing figures from December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013. During that time period, we received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests, inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations. The FISA requests are presumably tied to the leaked program known only as PRISM, alleged to be the NSA's secret access to major Internet companies' data stores in the intelligence agency's hunt for terrorists. See also PRISM Leaker Goes Public To Defend Claims Since information on PRISM was leaked by Booz Allen technician Edward Snowden...

Smartphone have come a long way, especially since 2011 was dubbed as the year of smartphones. It always amazes me how many people are on their smartphones during church, a movie, in classrooms, and etc. New mothers are tossing their smartphones and tablets off to quiet their fussy children. You’ve done it right? ;) My [...]Author information Adam Morgan Adam Morgan is a PPC expert, entrepreneur, blogger, and amiable guy. In his spare time, you can find him updating his own blog. Follow him on twitter @smorgs13. TwitterGoogle+ The post [Infographic] The Current State of Smartphones by @smorgs13 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here.... Continue reading the article Read full post: Cool Websites and Tools [June 17th 2013]

You can now automatically tweet your current location every time you land in a new country. It may not be ideal for 007, but it's perfectly possible for other British residents, thanks to a new IFTTT channel: JetSetMe by mobile carrier O2. Continue reading the article Read full post: New IFTTT Channel JetSetMe Triggers Every Time You Set Down In A New Country [Updates]

If you’re looking to market yourself as a competent programmer, there’s no better time to show off your skills in the best way possible — by contributing to open source projects. There are many reasons why you should contribute to open source projects , but the most important reason of them all is that you can “learn by doing”. And once you learn, you can not only claim that you have coding skills, but you can prove it by showing your work. Continue reading the article Read full post: The Journey Of A Coder: How To Enhance Your Coding Skills By Contributing To An Open Source Project

With the Prism-Verizon scandal, what allegedly has been happening is that the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been data mining. That is, they have been going through the call records of Verizon's approximately 99 million users looking for, well, anything! If the thought of the occasionally overzealous government official isn't enough reason to encrypt your smartphone, then all the identity thieves and scammers out there ought to be. Today, I'm going to show you a few things you can do to make that information a bit more secure. Continue reading the article Read full post: How To Encrypt Data on Your Smartphone

Facebook can suck. Really. That's a blunt statement, but regardless of the medium, it's the content that makes up in publication. In Facebook's case, it's a great medium, but sometimes it has some horrible content. Only the users are to blame. Fortunately, I'm here to help you enhance your content output so you can develop some truly engaging status ideas to help you connect better with those on your social network. Continue reading the article Read full post: 7 Facebook Status Ideas That Show How To Engage Better With Your Social Network

If you check your email a lot on your iPhone like I do, you now have some awesome choices as to which iOS mail client you use. Quite frankly, Apple's default iOS Mail client can't compare to the recently released third-party mobile apps, including Mail Pilot, Mailbox, Cloze and my favorite, the one trick pony Triage. If you want to actually do something with your emails, and get the functionality of many desktop mail clients, then you might want to check out the recently released Dispatch mail app for the iPhone. Continue reading the article Read full post: Dispatch Is Your Action-Based Email Client for the iPhone

FaveBucket which allows you to not only collect and organize your links in one place, it also gives you options on how to share it with your friends online. FaveBucket has a somewhat Pinterest-inspired layout, with a grid of boxes featuring all of your latest links. It's a slick and easy-to-use service that is just getting started. Continue reading the article Read full post: FaveBucket: Save And Share Your Favorite Links From Across The Web

Being at the right place at the right time is often squarely tied to luck. While it's true that you can't be everywhere, it is also true that nurturing your professional relationships could help you hear the knock when opportunity comes calling. The little things done right there can help to foster career growth. We tend to sometimes use social media too casually. Tuned just right, it is a minimal effort tool for managing our relationships en masse. Continue reading the article Read full post: Stay Connected Smartly: Use LinkedIn Contacts For Better Relationship Management

There are millions of people all around the world who want to be professional writers, yet only a tiny fraction of them ever make enough money to write full-time. It’s a market that is saturated in terms of supply, so you need to be excellent or revolutionary to even be noticed. Fortunately, there are many resources out there that will get your feet wet. Here are five of my favorites. Continue reading the article Read full post: 5 Sites To Learn How To Write A Book And Get It Published

The Open University is a world renowned British institution of higher education offering people all over the world the chance to earn a first-class degree without ever stepping foot in a lecture theater. Thanks to the Internet, the Open University is now able to offer more courses to more people than ever before, and their YouTube channel helps market their wares. Continue reading the article Read full post: Find A Topic Worth Studying With The Open University On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]

image credit: ShutterStock The other day I dropped by a small tea stall near my house and one of my friends jokingly said to the tea guy: “hum paise tabhi denge agar chai achi hogi” (we’ll pay you only if you delight us with your tea). Now that’s a pretty natural instinct. We don’t like [...]Author information Ruchi Pardal Ruchi Pardal is Director of ResultFirst, a firm that works on pay-for-performance model, helping businesses get found across search engines and give an optimal experience to their audience. She’s been into digital marketing for well over 10 years. When she's not busy with her work, Ruchi loves to spend every moment with her awesome family. TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn The post Why Pay For Performance SEO Is Really Too Good To Be True (Provided You’re Cautious Enough) by @resultfirst appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Mozilla has just opened ScienceLab, believing that the project will help foster scientific ideas and will be an open platform for making scientific research more collaborative. The ScienceLab is an initiative that aims to use the open web to build a community around ideas, tools, and implementation of best practices for using next-generation web solutions to solve real problems in science. Continue reading the article Read full post: Mozilla Opens ScienceLab To Help Shape Science’s Future [Updates]

Elastic Path raises $8 milloon for Commerce Everywhere API platform. Keek launches API program. Plus: automating the connections between humans and machines in the API economy, Nuvo releases new API for wireless audio system, and 15 new APIs.

As you can imagine, things change in the Timeline arena. Facebook has changed since, changing the way profiles look along the way, and Timeline photos are now bigger and more prominent than they used to be. In addition, some new tools have popped up that can help you reach that coveted goal: an awesome and original Timeline. Continue reading the article Read full post: How To Create A Custom Timeline Cover Photo In Minutes With Timeline Cover Photo Maker

Got a dead or worn-out Nexus 4 battery? Replacing the defective battery is dead-simple – simply crack your phone open, pry the old battery out and pop in a fresh one. However, unless you want a broken hunk of glass, take a little time to prepare and buy some cheap tools, before getting started. Continue reading the article Read full post: How To Replace The Nexus 4 Battery (It Can Be Done) [Android]

At its very core, Framebase constitutes an API for video. The Framebase API enables developers to easily add video to an application without the hassles that usually accompany video. Whether an app needs to record, play, or upload a video; Framebase empowers apps with attractive video capabilities. The Framebase team created Framebase purely out of personal frustration with adding and maintaining video within other apps. Accordingly the team created Framebase: "Framebase is programmatic video."

So you want to get rid of your computer. To keep your data secure you will want to securely wipe the drive. This ensures that no one can recover the deleted files. However, you might not want to remove the entire operating system itself. Just re-installing your operating system or restoring from your recovery partition isn't enough to guarantee that your files won't be recoverable. When getting rid of a PC that has potentially sensitive data, you should wipe the drive to be sure your data can't be recovered. Continue reading the article Read full post: How to Wipe Your Hard Disk Drive Leaving the OS Intact

The United States’ White House has developed a set of API standards they are hoping will be used across all government agencies. The standards were developed following a number of API releases, including the White House’s We The People API that allows citizen petition collection and lodgement. The new API standards document naming conventions, minimum requirements, and best practices for RESTful interfaces, while also acknowledging the importance of offering a “positive developer experience” through their API releases.

Attending a Twitter Chat is akin to attending an online cocktail party. It happens when a lot of people, all using the same hashtags, Tweet on the same topic. The chats happen at a scheduled time and often repeat every week or biweekly. The events have become a popular tool for social media managers wanting to build their brand.

It's a fuzzy feeling when you unbox that brand new desktop or laptop and consider how fast and responsive of an experience you're about to be in for. When you purchase a new computer, treat it like a new car. Take care of it and give it no more or less than what it needs. Is there really a need for you to download six different media players? None of that! If you consider buying a new PC, or you've just purchased one, go down this list and let me make your job easier on you. Continue reading the article Read full post: Getting A New PC? 12 Must Have Applications To Install First

Quick: name that huge search engine you use a lot that starts with G but isn't...Google. (Hint: it's a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony.) Right. It's Gracenote, the folks who help you identify all those tracks in your music library. Okay, it's not exactly a search engine in the conventional sense. But it does have 130 million tracks and TV listings across 28 countries. And it handles 15 billion queries a month. We've covered Gracenote's earlier APIs in a previous column.