Brain Surgery on Twitter Dr. Kim Dong of Houston’s Memorial Hermann hospital performed a brain tumor resection surgery on a young adult patient Wednesday morning. The operation was a routine one for him, but this time it came with a catch: His every move was live tweeted by hospital staff, with graphic photos and video [...]
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Facebook offers are here Facebook Offers are a great new way to drive people to your offline business and to engage with your online customers. Facebook Offers encourage people to talk about your Page when your offers are shared between friends. Offers are free for admins to create and share but are only available to a small number of [...]
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Facebook Offers are a great new way to drive people to your offline business and to engage with your online customers. Facebook Offers encourage people to talk about your Page when your offers are shared between friends. Offers are free for admins to create and share but are only available to a small number of local business Pages. So [...]
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Facebook Tests Smaller Version of Trending Articles Facebook is testing a smaller, less invasive version of the “Trending Articles” insert that began appearing in some users’ News Feeds earlier this month. Now, instead of displaying a vertical block of stories between three and six, users see just one headline accompanied by a thumbnail, source, introductory text and the name(s) [...]
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This might just be the most creative use of Twitter yet. From time to time on Twitter, we see some creative imagery not just in language, but in images, mostly of the ASCII variety. Smart Car Argentina takes it up a notch with its movie that incorporates a stop-motion animation that depicts the happy go-lucky [...]
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This week in the regular Weekly Page Update emails that Facebook sends out they have been attatching the following message. On April 26, we will be updating the size of the profile picture on all Pages. We are letting you know about this small change in advance so that you can update your profile picture [...]
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Google Revamp Google+ Google’s social network, Google+, got a re-design yesterday that makes it a little bit prettier and improves the usability of the platform. Some of the re-design elements, included in the update, echo Facebook Timeline. For instance, there is now a cover photo that sprawls across the top of the profile and photos [...]
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Google’s social network, Google+, got a re-design yesterday that makes it a little bit prettier and improves the usability of the platform. Some of the re-design elements, included in the update, echo Facebook Timeline. For instance, there is now a cover photo that sprawls across the top of the profile (see image below) and photos [...]
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