This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Do you wish you knew the secret to writing popular blog posts? You know, the posts that get over 200 comments, 20 backlinks, and hundreds of shares on social networking sites? Over the past five years I’ve started two blogs. The first one became a Technorati [...]

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Doodle doesn't have the most glamorous or sexy of products, and it rarely gets much press coverage, but the Swiss startup is clearly doing something right as it's announced this...

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What was your favorite toy from the 1980s?  Was it transformers? Lego?  Toy cars?  Nintendo?  Marbles?  Hot Wheels?  All of these and more make an appearance in ‘The King Of Lego Land’, the latest stop motion masterpiece from French web designer and animator Micaël Reynaud.


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PlentyOfFish is a free internet dating service, and some of you might find this amazing that people don't realize how big PlentyofFish has become. Sure, being free has its plus-points, but then the platform has to deliver. It looks like the online dating service is delivering the goods.


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I’m not a fan of contests. As a customer, I may enter one every now and then, but I don’t rush to the attraction of free stuff. The odds of winning are low, and I’m the eternal pessimist. As a marketer, I tend to dislike contests for a variety of reasons. I just don’t see the value in them.

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While the general public seems to have grasped the value of accessing Facebook and Twitter from smartphones, it appears most people do not see the value of check-in apps like Foursquare. According to GigaOm, Liz Claiborne recently commissioned a study to find out how customers use mobile commerce tools. Only 30 percent of those surveyed said they expect to use mobile check-in apps.


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As brands and website owners begin to integrate social networking logins to boost the number of signups and increase interaction, Facebook continues to be the most popular social login in the second quarter, but it has stiff competition, a new report from social media platform specialists Janrain reveals.The company published its latest report in its series of quarterly social login and social sharing trend reports, indicating that in the second quarter Facebook accounted for 39% of all social p [...]

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Nielsen’s finding that the most popular category of apps used in a 30-day period is not a surprising one: Games (64%). What is a bit more interesting with a few surprises are the app categories that fall under games.Play Before Work: Games Most Popular Mobile App Category in USWeather apps beat out Social Networking apps for the number 2 spot (60% vs. 56%). The only other app category with more than 50% of use in a 30-day period was maps/navigation/search.Communications apps like Instant M [...]

Read More: Most Popular Mobile App Category? Social? No, it is Not #1 or #2