Just a quick intro here to the Sonitrol audio monitoring technology for security alarms.
There's also a link to a review of the Sonitrol Chicagoland North Dealership.
http://securityalarmreviews.blogspot.com/2015/06/security-alarm-reviews-in-chicago.html
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Conservative Russians are putting flags on profile photos to offset the rainbows
KIEV, Ukraine — In Soviet Russia, love doesn't always win.
Responding to the wave of pride rainbow-embossed profile photos that washed across social media in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in America on Friday, some conservative and homophobic Russians are shading profile images the colors of their country's flag: white, blue and red.
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Marketing Day: Facebook Tweaks Video Rankings, Content Marketing Hacks & More
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Facebook Expands Beyond Like, Comment & Share In Ranking Video In News Feed
News Feed video rankings will start taking into account actions such as activating audio and making video full screen. - Is Facebook Planning Its Own Video Streaming App? Survey Suggests Interest
Facebook survey digs into how users are viewing and reacting to video on Meerkat and Periscope. - Study Claims Google Is Delivering “Degraded” Search Results, Adding Steam To EU Antitrust Case
Sponsored by Yelp, the study showed users were more likely to click on merit-based search results over Google’s self promoted content. - Beardbrand: Facebook Is Frustrating, But We May Shift Our AdWords Budget There
Despite great content, company struggles to reach its audience organically on Facebook. But love-hate relationship has it experimenting with ads on the social network again. - How To Begin Leveraging Your First-Party Data By Understanding The Landscape
How do you maximize the power of first-party data? Columnist Mike Sands outlines three steps to help you build a successful first-party data strategy. - 10 Stupidly Simple “Hacks” To Win At Content Marketing
Columnist Quinn Whissen shares easy tactics that will help you get the most out of your content marketing strategy. - Empower Yourself at SMX East – Register Now For A Workshop & Save Up To $600
Upgrade your digital marketing skillset at SMX East. Choose from five pre-conference workshops taking place on September 28.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Choosing the Right Images for Your Ads- July 14 Webcast
- Study By Former FTC Advisor Tim Wu Claims Google Local Search Results Violate Competition Laws
- Mobile-Friendly Isn’t Enough For Local Businesses: 3 Pitfalls To Avoid, From A Recent #LocalU Hangout
- Use Google Analytics To Stop Wasting Remarketing Dollars On People That “Just Aren’t That Into You”
- Empower Yourself at SMX East – Register Now For A Workshop & Save Up To $600
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Your Data Driven Marketing Fitness Regime, www.cmswire.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 12 elements of a user-friendly blog page, econsultancy.com
- 27 Tricks to Boost Blog Post Conversion Rates, www.jeffbullas.com
Business Issues
- Broadband Speeds Are Improving in Many Places. Too Bad It Took Google to Make It Happen., www.technologyreview.com
- Google has until August 17 to reply to EU antitrust charges, www.reuters.com
- Supreme Court declines to hear Oracle v. Google case over software copyright, www.theverge.com
- Twitter vice president Rishi Garg is leaving company, www.businessinsider.com
- Why This Tech Bubble Is Less Scary, www.wsj.com
Content Marketing
- 12 Content Marketing Experts Share Content Tips, www.toprankblog.com
- How Can You Energize Your Content Marketing?, www.cmswire.com
- Is Your Native Advertising Ruled by Metrics That Matter?, www.convinceandconvert.com
- The Definitive Guide to Content Curation, www.martechadvisor.com
- The One Ingredient Your Content Marketing Program Is Missing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- What the hell is a chief storyteller anyway?, econsultancy.com
- Why Does Your Content Need to be Unique?, www.stonetemple.com
Conversion Optimization
- Five Common A/B Test Mistakes to Avoid, blog.crazyegg.com
- How to Squeeze Every Drop of Valuable Visitor Data from Your Forms, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Keep It Simple Stupid: Conversion Road Show Recap, www.searchenginejournal.com
- The Anatomy of a Successful Call-to-Action, www.compukol.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Design Principles: Compositional Balance, Symmetry And Asymmetry, www.smashingmagazine.com
- Key Elements of Website Redesign Best Handled by Experts, www.martechadvisor.com
- Trends in Digital Design, www.cmswire.com
Domaining
- 8 Naming Mistakes Investors Hate to See, www.thedomains.com
- Accountant looks to make a killing on .nyc domain names, nypost.com
- Problem With Buying via Domain Broker, www.domaininvesting.com
- Spamming owners of newly registered domain names, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
- 31 things I need to see on your ecommerce product page, econsultancy.com
- Business buyers buy more once they start purchasing online, www.internetretailer.com
- China’s Alibaba launches 11 country subdomain sites on Tmall, www.internetretailer.com
- EBay Board Approves PayPal Spinoff, blogs.barrons.com
- QSRs, retailers have highest commerce potential with Snapchat geofilters, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Email Marketing
- A Look at Features Past, Present and Yet to Come, www.verticalresponse.com
- Can Resending an Email Improve Your Open Rates?, blogs.constantcontact.com
- Email Client Monitor: Making the Most of Your Data (Part 2), blog.returnpath.com
- How to Optimize Your Welcome Emails, www.searchenginejournal.com
- Look Great in the Inbox: The 7 Don’ts of Email Design, blogs.constantcontact.com
- Online Shopping Trends Reveal Best Days and Times to Email Customers, www.remarkety.com
General Internet Marketing
- ‘Will It Blend?’ Company Embarks on New Influencer Marketing Program, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- Seasonality: Is it factored into your digital strategy?, www.branded3.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- LiveRamp Hires Luke McGuinness as Head of Data Partnerships, www.businesswire.com
- Ooyala acquires media logistics software company Nativ, www.ooyala.com
MarTech
- ‘The tragedy!': Cookie Monster endorses ad tech, sort of, digiday.com
- iProspect’s Global President: If You Can’t Deliver Art, Your Science Doesn’t Matter, adexchanger.com
- Making Marketing Automation Work, www.martechadvisor.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- 8 Must-Haves in a Mobile CRM, www.martechadvisor.com
- Five Ways to Use Location-Based Marketing Right Now, www.marketingprofs.com
- How To Tell If Your Business Really Needs A Mobile App, usabilitygeek.com
- Toyota Gets Local, Uses Geo-Targeted Snapchat Ads, Ad Age
Social Media
- 5 Benefits of Building Relationships With Twitter Influencers, www.adweek.com
- 5 Facebook Advertising Tools That Save Time and Improve Your ROI, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- A brief timeline of Facebook copying its rivals, digiday.com
- Build Channel Strategies to Get Ahead in Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
- Everything You Wanted to Know about Pinterest Business Accounts, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
- Facebook Is Opening Its First Office in Africa, recode.net
- Facebook’s Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More, techcrunch.com
- Finding Social Media Marketing Zen, blog.raventools.com
- How to Craft Instagram Posts That Drive Sales, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- How to Leverage News Stories on Social Media, www.ducttapemarketing.com
- How to Sell on Pinterest and Instagram with Buy Buttons, blogs.constantcontact.com
- Report: What Local Merchants Are Missing With Social Media, streetfightmag.com
- The Crash Course on Using Facebook Groups to Grow a Thriving Niche Community, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
- The Twitter Ads guide to following #CannesLions 2015, www.Twitter.com
Video
- AOL’s Digital Prophet Says Millennials ‘Are Freaky for Video’, www.adweek.com
- Could Facebook Video Be Serious Competition to YouTube?, smallbiztrends.com
- For Agencies, Targeted Video Ads Best at Grabbing Viewer Attention, www.emarketer.com
- Misdeclaration Creates A Transparency Nightmare For Video Advertisers, adexchanger.com
- Using Social Video to Engage Millennials, www.reelseo.com
- Video Content and Marketing Automation, blog.marketo.com
- Videos on Facebook: Native vs YouTube. Which Wins?, www.searchenginejournal.com
Photographers Are Shooting The Moon With This Camera's Insane Zoom
Trust us, you really don’t need a camera with a built-in telescope. But in the right hands, the insane 83x optical zoom on the new Nikon P900 is mindblowing.
"The Future Universe": When Audiences Attack
A new game show pits in-studio contestants against viewers armed with mobile devices as we inch closer to The Running Man.
The technology has been converging for years: high-quality, computer-generated visual effects; immersive interactivity in a 3D virtual world; motion-capture in live-action filming; real-time mobile apps; and a global network to tie it all together.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Buy This Actual Velociraptor Claw for Surprisingly Little Money
I’m sitting here trying and failing to think of a cooler desk ornament than a bona-fide velociraptor claw. I mean sure, you could have a Newton’s cradle, but that doesn’t subtly hint in quite the same way that you might just have a trained dinosaur waiting to wreak havoc under your desk.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch
A fourth attempt at creating a "reusable" rocket ends in a cloud of smoke.
Early this morning, SpaceX made a fourth attempt to successfully return a Falcon 9 rocket to Earth in order to earn the coveted "reusable" tag. However, something seemed to go terribly wrong during the first stage of flight—most likely an explosion of some kind—and the attempt was unsuccessful.
Job hunting? 170+ openings in New York, San Francisco, L.A. and more
Are you looking for a new career? The Mashable Job Board is the ideal place to search for your next big move. More than 3,000 employers in tech and digital have posted on our board, and they're looking to fill positions from Mashable's community.
Twice a week, we highlight five recently posted openings. Check out some of this week's newest, below, and be sure to read our Job Search Series for valuable career tips.
Position: Data Analyst - Marketing
Company: StyleSeat
Location: San Francisco, California
More about Communications, Social Media, Job Board, Business, and JobsStyleSeat is the leading marketplace & platform for service providers in the $78 billion beauty and wellness industry. We're continuing to experience hyper growth, and have processed over a billion dollars worth of transactions since being founded. Consumer-facing StyleSeat.com and the StyleSeat Apps are fast becoming the OpenTable/standard for beauty & wellness appointments. We're well funded by blue chip investors, including: Founders Fund, Lowercase Capital, 500Startups, Lightspeed, Ashton Kutcher, Sophia Bush and the founders of Uber and Path. StyleSeat’s environment is highly agile and fast-paced, but also balanced and highly collaborative. Read more...
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Watch The Darkest Planet In The Universe Transit Its Star [LIVE!]
Black Knight is an impossibly black exoplanet, a planet closer to its star than Mercury is to ours and blacker than coal. Today, it passes in front of its sun, and you can watch the transit live with astronomers using the world’s largest infrared telescope.
BBC Publishes List of Links Removed From Google Search Results
Broadcaster says move is a matter of transparency and public policy.
The BBC has published a list of links that have been removed from Google searches as a result of last year's controversial "right to be forgotten ruling."
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