5 Mobile Marketing Tools to Put on Your Radar

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Mobile marketing is all the rage these days, and we can confidently state that there is much more to this thing than hype. Statistics show that mobile makes up 10% of the world’s internet usage. That may not seem like a significant number, but it indicates how fast the phenomenon is penetrating through the global [...]

Twitter Adds Header Photos

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Earlier today, I read an article that Twitter made a change to the Twitter Profile Pages. That change is the addition of a Twitter Header Image. The above image is a temporary header image I just made to see what one might look like with my profile. Sorry for the image quality, I did a [...]

How to Squeeze Out More Social Traffic with Images

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Please permit me to start this article with a question. What do you think is the most shared item on the social sites? If you said “images” you are right. Be it Facebook, twitter or Pinterest – the current image/photo banker we have on the internet now, images have high tendencies of being shared and [...]

Hootsuite Brings Back Pending Tweets Column!

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Last Wednesday I wrote an article about Hootsuite and the new Publisher features. During this upgrade, they removed the Pending Tweets Column from the dashboard in favor of the Calendar View under the publisher tab. As of Yesterday (June 23rd, 2011), Hootsuite gave us back our Pending Tweets Column by popular demand. Pending Tweets Column [...]

Hootsuite Now Offers Custom Social Analytic Reports

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Since Hootsuite was released, the creators have worked at keeping Hootsuite as one of the best and most popular Twitter clients available. Hootsuite has worked from the beginning to create the best user experience that you can get from a Twitter  client. The creators, listen to their users requests and added features such as monitor [...]

Twitter Tools That I Can’t Live Without

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Using Twitter is not only about creating guidelines and following those, its about tweeting content to your followers and engaging with them. When tweeting content, it should be relevant to your niche. If it’s not relevant then you could start loosing your followers. So in general, try and keep your tweets on topic. But at [...]

Guidelines I Follow When Using Twitter

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Today, I that I would share with some tips and resources for new Twitter users and those Twitter users looking for advice on how to better use Twitter. This article will be broken down into two parts because there is simply too much information to list in one article. Part two will be posted next [...]

Twitter’s "onMouseOver" incident Resolved

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Earlier this week I reported a security flaw with "onMouseOver" links on the website only caused third party websites to popup whenever a user mousedover certain links. A few minutes ago, I was checking on Twitter’s blog to see what the status was on the security flaw and see if they made a statement as [...]

Caution: Twitter Mousover Security Flaw

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Earlier today  Sophos website released a warning about Twitter mouseover and how some users are exploiting a new security flaw using mouseovers. This exploit causes popups and thirdparty websites to popup in your browser by just moving your mouse over the link. Right now most users are using the exploit to create a rainbow effect [...]

The New Twitter, Are You Ready?

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Are you ready for the new Twitter? Earlier this week Twitter announced that the starting Tuesday 14th, 2010 they are rolling out  a new Twitter that would slowly be released over the next few weeks. And no, I am not one of the lucky few that get to test this out. But one I get [...]

Hootsuite Has Introduced Freemium Plans

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Earlier today Hootsuite annouced that they are now offering premium packaged plans designed for businesses and organizations, but will continue to offer a free verison for their customers. The packages are tiered to provide useful tools to as many customers as possible and provide advanced tools to those customers who need the business features. The [...]

Quick Tip: Learn How to Integrate Google Analytics with Hootsuite5

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Recently Hootsuite released their new version of their Twitter client Hootsuite5.  In this version they made a lot of changes for the good of the client. One of the new features is the integration of Google Analytics. This feature is going to be asset to any web designer, SEO consultant, and anyone who maintains a [...]