One-Tap, Video and App Promoted Pins For Pinterest

Pinterest has recently announced three innovative ways to advertise product or services on its platform: One-Tap, Video Pins and app Promoted Pins. Please find below the new pin line-up options.

1. One-Tap Pins

With the option for one-tap Pin in your feed, you will be taken directly to the site it came from. 

Pinterest blog reveals that “We’ve only just started showing these Pins on Pinterest, but people already seem to be loving how much easier it is to get right to the products they’re looking for almost twice as many Pinners are finding items to buy through these new Pins.”

2. Video Pins

Video Pins will be available for viewing right on Pinterest. So you don't have to click a link to take you to another site to watch the video. There is also a selection of ideas related to the video to give you more product and information options.

3. App Pins

Lastly, with the option Promoted app Pins that “make it easier for you to find out about the apps and app-makers you want to hear about most.” The pins are directly linked to the store so you can download the app for immediate use.

As of now, Promoted Pins have only been available to U.S. businesses and it has recently launched for businesses in the U.K. as well. Pinterest said they are coming to “even more parts of the world very soon.”

How To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible [Infographic]

Do you want to make your LinkedIn profile more attractive to recruiters? LinkedIn continues to be the most important social media network for job seekers and recruiters. Having an impressive LinkedIn profile is essential for the job seeker.

5 key points to remember:

1. Keywords in your profile – if recruiters can’t find you, they won’t hire you!
2. Who do you want to be seen as? People will sum up your personal brand in seconds.
3. Tell us your story – story telling is story selling as we all know.
4. Peek-a-boo, we see you – people are visual and will definitely judge you by your picture.
5. Your LinkedIn URL, this will take you seconds to optimize and will look great in your email signature.

Find the below infographic which states 5 ways to make your LinkedIn profile irresistible.

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Google Launches Messaging App Allo For Android & iOS

Google has launched Allo for Android and iPhone, which will offer users its artificial intelligence-based cross-platform smart messaging solution. In May 2016 at Google IO conference, Google announced Allo and a new video chatting app called Duo that has been released to the public since a month more. But instantly after Allo's release, it became controversial, got critics charged, such as Apple iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and many others. Google already had at least two messaging solutions of its own, Hangouts, which is cross-platform, and the Messages app in Android. The most used messaging apps like Apple’s iMessage and Facebook Messenger, have changed dramatically over the past few months. These apps, primarily designed for simple conversation, are gradually evolving into platforms for more complex messaging and other added features also.

Google stated that their new effort "Allo" is a modern messaging platform, backed by artificial intelligence. And like other smart messaging solutions, it is aimed at a growing generation of users who are ignoring old-fashioned communications solutions like email in favor of more personal, immediate, and private ways to reach out to others. Google’s Amit Fulay says, “Google Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat and the more you use it, the more it improves over time.”

How to use Google Allo:

Here is how you can use Allo app for messaging and  other purposes. The below video from The Verge will help you know how.

Allo’s biggest asset is its integration with Google Assistant, the company’s conversational new virtual aid that can answer questions and make suggestions. Allo offers two ways to interact with Google Assistant. In a messaging thread, typing the trigger phrase “@google” will tell the assistant to pay attention to the next string of text you type so that it can answer your query. When making plans with a friend, you might type something like, “@google Show me movie times near me?” to display upcoming showings. You can also chat with Google Assistant one-on-one to ask it questions, set alarms, tell jokes, find news, and remember information like hotel room numbers, among other things.

That doesn’t help position Allo against Hangouts and Google Messages, of course. For now, Google claims that Hangouts will be repositioned as a messaging/video conferencing solution for businesses. I don’t buy that: If Allo matures into the product Google envisions, it will replace Hangouts for both individuals and businesses. And Hangouts will simply disappear. 

Many reviewers have criticized Google for not activating this functionality by default, as Apple does with iMessage. Google also stores your Allo conversation history, even though it said it wouldn’t look at your messages when it initially unveiled the app, as The Verge noted. (Google says it does this in order to improve its service, but the company’s advertising-based business model is built around knowing as much about its users as possible.)

Let's see how users are getting addicted to it like other rival apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage etc. 

How Mobile Apps Dominated Consumers & Market Trends [Infographic]

We are aware of the fact that mobiles and smart phones have very important role in today's world. Despite the unstoppable growth that is the popularity of applications, there will almost certainly always be a need for websites. We will still need websites to introduce us to a company, through a search engine or alike, although the most innovative of companies could and should find a way of transforming their visitor to a Smartphone application user, if the conditions are right.Here are some inforgrapics which show how the mobile apps dominated us and its trend in market.

Mobile App Download Lowdown

This infographic tells us about the inside information regarding the popularity of different applications, their revenue and consumer trends.

Apponomics

Apponimics or app-economics tells us about the world of apps and some important facts about it.

App Permission

This alarming and thought-provoking infographics tells a lot about how different applications are meddling with our privacy.

Mobile Apps Download Trend

This gives you a peek into the app download trend worldwide and in different regions.

App Store Metrics

An insight into the facts and figures of mobile applications.

App Store Millionaire

A neat infographic about financial breakdown of facts and statistics of an app developer.

App Option for Your Business

An insight into important facts discussing either businesses should go for a mobile app or not.

Cloud Based Applications

This retro styled infographics gives a peek into the statistics of apps based on cloud computing and their usage.

Mobile Health Market

Infographic showing the popularity and statistics of health applications on mobile.

Health and Fitness Apps

Growing trends and market flow of apps based on health and fitness.

Mobile App World

Infographic showing the present state of mobile app world and things associated with it.

Mobile Games App Revenue

A thought-provoking infographic about where does all the money earned by the mobile game apps goes.

Photography Apps

Some interesting facts and figures about photography apps in the form of decent infographics.

Apps Programmed for Consumption

An overall review of applications programed for consumption by the users.

Small Business Saving Money with Apps

Infographic telling about some benefits of using apps for your small business.

Top Ten Travel Apps

A colorful piece of infographic showing the stats of most popular and useful travel apps.

Truth Behind Apps Success

Some shaking numbers revealing some truths behind the success of app business.

Appetite for TV Apps

Infographic about the popularity and statistics of TV related apps.

Users Expect From App Stores

Useful and minimal infographics about user trends and expectations from an app store.

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How To Use Twitter For Recruiting [Infographic]

Twitter can be an extremely powerful tool to help recruiters to capitalize on these trends and fill their open positions faster and more effectively. In this informative infographic, we share best practices for recruiters on how to use Twitter to reach active candidates.

The widely popular microblogging site "Twitter" can be used to share your contents and get connected with your followers. How do you do that? Well! here is a nice infographic which will help you with steps to find the users with your niche and recruit for your company.

Source: AkkenCloud

Twitter Eliminates Repeat tweets And Retweeted Messages

Twitter users will finally get to stop seeing updates and tweets from people they don’t want to. This is similar like Facebook’s ability to stop following certain people.

This will be most easily achieved through the notifications setting on Twitter. Twitter explained this feature should eliminate repeat tweets and retweeted messages.

“Starting today, everyone will have the ability to limit notifications to only people they follow on mobile and on twitter.com. Simply turn it on if you want to give it a go. If not, no worries – your individual Twitter experience will continue unchanged,” Twitter’s product manager, Emil Leong, stated in his blog post. He also added, “We’re also making managing your notifications settings easier: you can now access them directly from your notifications tab.”

Leong also explained that, “Turning it on filters lower-quality content, like duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated, from your notifications and other parts of your Twitter experience. It does not filter content from people you follow or accounts you’ve recently interacted with – and depending on your preferences, you can turn it on or off in your notifications settings.”

Google Lauches Android N aka Nougat

Before the name revealed by Android team, all around the world - people were expecting the name should be Android Nutella but Google revealed via Twitter that N is actually for Nougat. Android tweeted as below to intimate all its fans about the new version of it and the new name.

Introducing #AndroidNougat. Thank you, world, for all your sweet name ideas! #AndroidNReveal pic.twitter.com/7lIfDBwyBE

— Android (@Android) June 30, 2016

Though Android will be made available to few of its own devices such as Nexus series and few sets of Motorola in the near future, but as per normal practice by Google - slowly Android N would be distributed among all the brands. 

Picture Credit : Google

Most of the people are upset with the name because it is more obscure than Nutella, a brand most North Americans have heard of. Nougat, on the other hand, is a less familiar food. It is a chewy confection that is made with sugar or honey, nuts, egg whites and candied fruit. Check out the big unveiling in the video below.

Android N also known as Android 7.0, which is slated to launch later this summer, is currently in beta as users test out new features such as split-screen multitasking and a better notification shade. Android N also comes with Google’s VR platform, Daydream, and features a new version of Doze. It is again an amazing expected release by google for it's Android lovers.

Google Designs Its Own Android Phone This Year

Google is going to set up its own hardware division and appointed former Motorola president Rick Osterloh to run it. This idea was taken to bring the company’s various gadget projects under a single umbrella.

Picture Credit : Google

The Telegraph’s sources say that Google is gearing up to design and manufacture a smartphone on its own – representing a major shift from its standard strategy of partnering with major handset makers like LG, Huawei and HTC to develop Nexus devices which is popular to showcase the Android platform.

The phone is expected to be launched near the end of this year; Google is believed to be in talks with mobile operators about the release. It’ll be interesting to see what this means for all the hardware firms Google partners with to build Android and Chrome OS devices, as well as for the Android platform itself.

Which Is The Most Power Efficient & Battery Friendly Browser?

We all know that Google's Chrome browser and Mozilla's Firefox have been most used browsers in recent few years. But recently, Microsoft claimed that the recent number 1 browser Chrome may not be a friendly tool for your laptop's battery. In a battery test video, the software giant has pitted its Edge browser against Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers by streaming the same HD video for hours.

The below results came up after the test (in hours : minutes : seconds):

• Chrome: 4:19:50
• Firefox: 5:09:30
• Opera: 6:18:33
• Microsoft Edge: 7:22:07

As per the above results, Microsoft proved that it's Edge browser lasted 70% longer than Chrome. It also claimed that even for non-video tasks, its browser lasts 36 to 53% longer than the rivals.

Picture Credit : Microsoft

These tasks, as claimed by the company, include things like opening sites, tabs, reading emails, scrolling articles and watching small videos. Microsoft has also reportedly published data it collected from millions Windows 10 PCs. In a blogpost, the software giant claims, "We designed Microsoft Edge from the ground up to prioritize power efficiency and deliver more battery life, without any special battery saving mode or changes to the default settings."

According to the latest data from NetApplications, Chrome is now the most popular browser in the world. The browser has over 45% share in the market. The biggest loser, according to the study, is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which went from 41.37% down to 38.6% during the month of May.

Microsoft is working to make Microsoft Edge even more efficient with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update soon. No doubt about that, once immensely popular Internet Explorer is almost dead now and a re-birth has been given as Edge to it. Let's see how it goes in it's journey ahead competing it's rivals.

Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion

Microsoft announced a deal of $26.2 billion today to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share.

 

Picture Credit : LinkedIn

Immediately, shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft's stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been halted briefly for news pending before the announcement of the all-cash deal.

Jeff Weiner will stay on as CEO of LinkedIn and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal was unanimously approved by both companies' boards, and is expected to close by the end of the year. The acquisition is still subject to approval by LinkedIn shareholders and regulators.

"The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world's professionals," Nadella said in a statement. "Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet."

Should You Buy Social Media Followers? [Infographic]

When it comes to the murky world of social media, it doesn’t matter how fantastic your products & services are, how good your reputation is or how many awards you have won. Social media users tend to trust brands with a high number of followers and are more likely to follow a company with 10,000 over one with just 500.

Together with SocialNewsDaily people at WhoIsHostingThis?, the infographic below will hopefully be the last word on why filling your social media accounts with fake robot followers is an expensive waste of your time. There are the practical reasons to consider (they’re not real people, they can’t like or share your content, etc.) but WhoIsHostingThis? put together a solid argument for why real beats fake every single time.

Source : SocialNewsDaily

Oracle Loses To Google For Its Copyright War

Google, over the years, has had little to say on the matter other than arguing that its use of the Java programming language did not infringe copyright because Java is free to use.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, however, was quite vocal in his anger with Google and its CEO Larry Page.

“When you write a program for the Android phone, you write it. You use the Oracle tool, Oracle Java tools, for everything. And at the very end, you press a button and said, ‘Convert this to Android format,” Ellison said in an August 2013 CBS This Morning interview with Charlie Rose.

“We don’t compete with Google. We don’t do anything Google does. We just think they took our stuff and that was wrong. That’s a completely separate issue … I think what they did was … was … absolutely evil.”

“This really bothers me,” Ellison said. “I don’t know how he thinks you can just copy someone else’s stuff. It really bothers me.”

Now that the jury has sided with Google, Ellison will likely be even more “bothered.”

Facebook Messenger Offers Free Group Calls

Facebook is adding an awesome feature to Messenger in its latest update. Now, you can make group calls for free via Messenger on your Android or iOS devices. Facebook messaging products vice-president David Marcus, who made the announcement on his wall Wednesday, said the feature is rolling out over the next 24 hours, meaning all Facebook users should be able to use the new feature as of this afternoon.

“Really excited to announce the global roll out of group calling in Messenger today. From any group conversations, just tap on the phone icon to initiate a group call. You can then manage individual participants on the next screen,” he said in his post.

Now lets leverage this new feature while in group conversation.

Is Snapchat The Next Important Social Platform?

Much like how Google, Twitter, and Facebook are getting into the news and publishing game with efforts such as “Instant Articles,” Snapchat has brought its own network of media partners to the table to compete. Snapchat’s “Discover” is a section of the platform reserved for select media companies such as BuzzFeed, Vice, CNN, National Geographic, and others. Daily Mail US CEO, Jon Steinberg, reported that the company’s Snapchat channels received, “hundreds of thousands if not millions of viewers each day.”

Break free the habit of joining social networks only after they have been overrun by brands and marketers. Now is the time to seize the opportunity that Snapchat provides by becoming an early adopter and claiming your stake before the channel becomes overly crowded and noisy. The site is still largely devoid of corporate presences, so your chances of success are much higher now than they will be in the years, or months, to come.

So, is your brand on Snapchat?

What is INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)?

Internet of things (IoT) has many different definitions, and one of the shortest is a global network that connects smart things. This definition is now perhaps the most widespread interpretation where smart devices are actively involved in the communication. These are usually sensors or actuators, although can be connected and other types of devices such as computing resources, data storage device, to communicate with users and others.

Apple To Introduce Wireless Charging In 2017

Apple will debut in the field of wireless charging technology for its mobile devices, according to a latest update. In case, Apple is able to successfully introduce this feature to its devices then it will certainly give it a heads up and obviously a challenge for its competitors. this will make iPhones and iPads more attractive in the mobile market. Samsung and Google have both come up with wireless-charged Smartphones. In this technology the devices have to be kept close to a charging plate because, the further away the device is, the more difficult it is for the battery to be recharged. Now we have to see how Apple will fix this issue.

Apple posted its quarterly results this week, said its iPhone sales, while strong thus far, remain flat while iPad sales have dropped. The company predicted it will see a decline in sales in the coming quarter for the first time in 13 years due to a market saturated mainly by android mobile devices. 

10 Twitter Mistakes That Are Harmful For Your Business [Infographic]

We make a lot of mistakes on social media almost in a regular basis. We do on Twitter as well. Have we ever felt that how much these mistakes can cost us in our real lives? Lets find out how many of you spend time on Twitter per day per hour?

Below infographic shows some 10 mistakes in the real world while using Twitter. Twitter is for marketing, business and information sharing platform not for any junk sharing or emotional  pin board. The below infographic which show some major mistakes we do unknowingly and these worst mistakes should be stopped immediately.


Source: LinkingR

Posting Times & Days On Social Media [Infographic]

Each social network has different kinds of users and their daily activities vary. They use these networks at various times and days to engage with the updates published. To attain maximum engagement on your accounts you need to find out what these times are and then schedule your posts accordingly.

You also need to figure out the best days to publish them. Here is a social media clock and calendar which describes best and worst times for posting,

Source : Social Marketing Writing

12 Tips For Content Writing [Infographic]

In many cases, writing is the most effective way to connect with those outside of your company, especially when trying to reach them in large numbers. But not everyone can produce a solid piece of work. Or at least, many think that they can't. If you're in that camp, you might be surprised to learn just how formulaic writing a blog post, announcement, or a product pitch can really be.

Author Ann Handley wrote a book called Everybody Writes to walk other writers through her own step-by-step process, and Visual.ly created a Spark Notes version of the book in infographic form. Check it out below.

Source: Everybody Writes

How To Avoid Common Blogging Mistakes [Infographic]

Most of the new bloggers are eager to make their blog published online and the process they follow is very fast. In this race, they missed out several mandary and very inportants things to be followed before posting their article.

Here is an infographic which will help bloggers to make themselves aware of the common mistakes they make while blogging.

Source : Startbloggingonline.com