Someone from Google Plus discreetly announced in a blog post a few weeks ago, that they will remove the share counters from their Google Plus sharing buttons, (including the third party API's) in order to increase the load speed for the +1 button and sharing box. This means that on your blog and elsewhere outside Google Plus platform, your +1s and share counts will not show anymore on your sharing buttons, especially if you use something different than the famous Social Warfare - Pro. I … [Read more...]
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Nasty Moves from Instagram, Just When I Started to Like Them
I fell in love with Instagram, another platform where people show pictures to the masses. What is awesome and different from Google Plus, which with all its pretended complexity seems to be just the place where amateurs and professionals show and appreciate each others' photos? Now, because Instagram is mostly a mobile application, there is a greater probability for pictures to have been made by the sharers, instead of being taken from Pinterest or 500px.com. [source] Motivation In … [Read more...]
Google Plus Allowed Full Access to Personal Profiles via the API
One of the best news I have recently seen is that finally, after all the years of interdiction from their launching till now, Google Plus allowed full access to personal profiles via the API. You know how good this is? It's gold! I know the purists will say that it's "unnatural", and if you want to share on G+, do it "live"! But what if you're not interested in your timeline and your target is a different one? Should you stay awake all night long to let your overseas friends to know what you … [Read more...]
Tsu Disappeared! Tsu Went Dark! What a Shim Sham!
Tsu disappeared as a Social Media site, it went "dark"! It's incredible how this swindler got over so many nice people's good will and kept it online for so long! Somehow, Sobczak gave me a very odd feeling from the beginning, but I thought I was subjective. It was his face, I didn't like the mimics, so, I have concentrated on the Tsu itself and left him as a person, away. A bum, a Tsu user, licked his way up to him and had his account becoming "verified", like on Twitter or Google Plus. He was … [Read more...]
Switch to Twitter Cards ASAP – That, only if You Need Conversions!
I'm writing this more as an advice than a tutorial, also explaining the differences between Twitter posts with pictures and posts with the Twitter cards enabled. It is simple and necessary at the same time, especially if you have some nice pictures to illustrate your posts. Pictures invite to clicks, and every click on it sends the reader to your blog post which potentially leads to a conversion, especially if you have something to offer. Even if you don't sell a service or a product, since you … [Read more...]
RIPTwitter – There Is No Smoke Without Fire
Twitter, my favorite Social Media venue of all times, gave birth to a wave of anger late Saturday, which generated the #RIPTwitter hashtag. It seems that people got rumors about some major changes for the famous micro-blogging site. Twitter is famous because it is based on the SMS model of "posting" updates, the SMS has 160 characters, a Twitter post has 140, 20 being reserved for the username (which is actually of maximum 15 characters, not counting the @ prefix). It is true that a lot of so … [Read more...]
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