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Posted by Royh[Estimated read time: 4 minutes] SEO is not just about Google! Yes, that’s right, I genuinely mean this and I’m going to stick to my word. It’s common practice for SEOs to invest all their time and energies into just one search engine, but this is a limited approach. The truth is that SEOs need to investigate other strategies for generating traffic which don’t rely purely on Google. And to underline this point, I’m going to take a quick look at the current landscape and prove why this is an es... →

Posted by Royh[Estimated read time: 4 minutes] SEO is not just about Google! Yes, that’s right, I genuinely mean this and I’m going to stick to my word. It’s common practice for SEOs to invest all their time and energies into just one search engine, but this is a limited approach. The truth is that SEOs need to investigate other strategies for generating traffic which don’t rely purely on Google. And to underline this point, I’m going to take a quick look at the current landscape and prove why this is an es... →

If you get a booboo in virtual reality, you get a booboo in real life. During my 7.5-hour virtual reality livestream yesterday, I sustained my first injury while wearing a head-mounted display. I booted up the game Unseen Diplomacy, which is an excellent room-scale experiment that developer Tirangular Pixels originally built for the National Videogame […]... →

Is Yik Yak a thing anymore? Not so much, according to download stats, traffic charts, surveys, and a source that says the college app’s monthly user count has been declining. That source with intimate knowledge of the company also tipped me off that Yik Yak‘s original CTO Tom Chernetsky has bailed, which the startup now confirms. He’s not the only one who thinks the… Read More... →

Reuters (Can Sezer) – Turkey is investigating how hackers have posted online the identity data of some 50 million Turks, including what they said were details about the president and prime minister, after what is believed to be the biggest data breach seen in the country. While no group has taken credit for uploading the […]... →

Ask most writers and editors and I’ll bet they agree: Writing headlines is hard. It’s not easy to come up with something exciting and attention-grabbing that also conveys the important information about a story in just a few words. Meanwhile, brands and marketers are creating more of their own content, so they have to worry about this, too. Native advertising company Sharethrough… Read More... →

Users of Valve’s Steam video game platform are finding some of the links they mention in chat automatically censored by filtering software, reports TorrentFreak. Specifically, affected websites include several popular — though not all — destinations for pirated torrent content. Sites whose URLs show up on the receiving end as “[LINK REMOVED]” include The Pirate Bay […]... →

Pond5, a company allowing users to buy and sell stock videos, photos and other media content, is adding a big name from the advertising world to its board of directors — Torrence Boone, Google’s vice president of global agency sales and services. Boone comes from the ad agency world, having previously worked at WPP, Publicis and Avenue A. His appointment could help Pond5 make… Read More... →

Девелоперская компания Fort Group может стать владельцем «Ажур-медиа», пишет «Бумага» со ссылкой на источник, знакомый с ситуацией. В медиахолдинг входят издания «Фонтанка.ру», «Доктор Питер», «Фонтанка.fi», «Водитель Петербурга», «Город 812» и «МК в Питере».... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Romania has long been a hotbed for tech companies outsourcing contact centers, software development and even research and development. Now, Romania is growing its own entrepreneurial culture. Read More... →

Upvotes! What are they good for? Soon, they might get your very, very early stage company into Y Combinator. The incubator is experimenting with using the Hacker News community to pick startups for its Fellowship program. Read More... →

Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressive than an emoji, these looping images let you share a specific thought or feeling with little effort. But today, a new app is launching to see if video can step in where GIFs leave off, by allowing for a different means of expression.… Read More... →

Reddit is looking to shape itself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole. Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute other users on the site so they can customize their experience, the New York Times reports. Reddit co-founder Christopher Slowe detailed the changes in an announcement on the site this morning.… Read More... →

We are in a world where high-end consumer virtual reality devices are shipping to people around the globe, but Microsoft is already preparing for the next era of computing. HoloLens is one of Microsoft’s new key products, and the company has a lot to say about what it means for the future and for its […]... →

Y Combinator wants to see if crowdsourcing can help it find worthwhile startups to join its next batch of Fellowship startups. The organization’s latest experiment relies on the Hacker News community for help in choosing at least two startups to participate in its early-stage startup program. In a post on the startup community forum, Daniel […]... →

The Intel Basis Peak launched in 2014 as a high-end fitness and sleep tracker. I’ve used it as my favorite wearable ever since. Now the Intel division is launching an update that allows you to control the music playing through your smartphone from the smartwatch. And it lets you enter details of your workouts manually. With […]... →

The team behind Monstro is launching a new microfund called Monstro Ventures according to co-founder David Prager. For the unfamiliar, Monstro is an ad agency with headquarters in Oakland and another office in Los Angeles, that specializes in video creative, including videos that get hype going around crowdfunding or launches of new tech products. Prager is best-known as the founder of… Read More... →

Расходы фонда «Иннопрактика», который возглавляет предполагаемая дочь президента Владимира Путина Екатерина Тихонова, в 2015 году выросли на 46% до 411 млн рублей по сравнению с по сравнению с 281,6 млн рублей в 2014 году, сообщает РБК. Фонд поддержки научно-проектной деятельности студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых «Национальное интеллектуальное развитие» работает под брендом «Иннопрактика». Бюджет фонда в 2015 году вырос в полтора раза. Больше всего средств у НИР в 2015 году ушло на «прочие расходы» (п... →

Segment helps developers manage all the analytics data their apps and services generate. Besides fanning out this information to analytics services like Google Analytics and Mixpanel, or marketing tools like Marketo, all this data lands in a data warehouse. At best, though, all this information only shows an incomplete view of a customer’s journey from landing page to purchase.… Read More... →