Buffer, an app that stacks up your tweets and automatically publishes them at the best times for engagement, just launched its free Android app. The app allows you to add any Web page to your Buffer, which you can then edit, manage and view analytics. It supports multiple accounts, which you can navigate with a swipe.
Buffer analyzes social data and automatically publishes your updates at the times when most of your followers are awake and clicking. This summer, Buffer studied its user data and found that it increases clicks on Twitter links by 200% and doubles the amount of retweets …
Presenting Web video using HTML5 technology has a few obvious advantages. The one that comes most easily to mind is cross-device compatibility. As long as Apple refuses to support Flash on its smartphones and tablets (read: indefinitely), anybody who sticks with that format for Web video is going to be missing out on a serious number of eyeballs.
Using HTML5 for video also satisfies that little open Web standards advocate in all of us. In addition to all that, it enables a new level of interactivity and allows video content to be integrated with, and enhanced by, outside data sources using APIs …
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Today, Adobe іѕ launching a nеw tool called Adobe Edge whісh wіƖƖ allow creative professionals tο design animated Web content using Web standards Ɩіkе HTML5, CSS аnԁ JavaScript. Nοt Flash.
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Last week Microsoft issued a blog post stating that Internet Explorer will not support WebGL because WebGL is inherently insecure. The post was based on research conducted by the firm Context, which showed that WebGL could be used for denial of service attacks or use the GPU to run malicious code. Microsoft complained that WebGL is too reliant on third parties (ie, GPU vendors) to secure the Web experience …
Microsoft is now offering features for Internet Explorer 9 for developers wishing to work with parts of HTML5 that have particularly unstable specifications. This allows Microsoft to keep Internet Explorer 9 consumer friendly by keeping only the parts of HTML5 that are “site ready” while giving developers the tools they need to learn about new technologies and give feedback. The features can be downloaded from a new site called HTML5 Labs.
HTML5 Labs is offering two prototype specifications: IndexDB and WebSockets. WebSockets support was recently pulled from Firefox and Opera due to security concerns. This is exactly why Microsoft is choosing to make features like this opt-in and for developers only …
When we think of how technology has revolutionized business, we tend to think first of examples that exist primarily online: Web-based CRM, online storefronts, search advertising and the like. But much of what businesses do in the offline world is being turned on its head – and made much more efficient – by digital technology.
One prominent example is supply chain management (SCM), which is the process by which businesses acquire physical materials and resources, assemble them and deliver them to customers …
The home phone service is the most important phoning service throughout the world. People always wish to stay in touch with their friends and family members on regular basis. That is why a number of advancements took place in the modes and modules of home phone service. In this modern world, where man has reached different planets, the long distance calls are still a problem for many consumers. The biggest reason for this is that people do not want to change their existing home phone service.
The advent of the internet has revolutionized many things. Similarly, the home phone service has also transformed with the help of the internet. The voice over internet protocol home phone services is its valid example. The VoIP phone service has allowed the users to make and receive calls to and from all around the globe. This is done through the high-speed internet connection. So, why are you wasting your time on your traditional home phone service? If you have a high-speed internet connection at your home, then use VoIP home phone service for making international and local calls anywhere in the world.
Let us discuss some of the basic advantages of VoIP phone service over other home phone services.
E911 service
Many people want to keep their traditional home phone service because of 911. Almost all of the VoIP phone services have the feature of E911, which is exactly similar to the traditional 911. What you need to do is to tell the address of your home to the VoIP home phone service provider. When you sign up for the first time, the VoIP service asks your home address and later use it as the E911 address. If you move from this home, you just need to tell your phone company about your new location. So, you can still have the 911 with your VoIP home phone service in the form of E911.
The value added features of Caller Id, Call Waiting
A number of VoIP phone service providers offer the service of Caller ID to their consumers. Not only this, the VoIP service also offers call waiting, conference calling and features like Do not disturb to their clients. Amazingly, many VoIP service providers offer all of these value added features free of cost.
The feature of Voice Mail
The voice mail feature is also an important advantage of using VoIP as your home phone service. This can keep a record of all the calls that you have missed. This is also an additional feature over the traditional phoning services.
The VoIP home phone service is a cost saving phoning system
The most important advantage of using VoIP as a home phone service is that it is the most cost effective calling service as compared to all traditional calling services. There are different calling plans provided to you by the VoIP phone service providers that are flexible and affordable. Some of the plans are unlimited, while others are Pay as you Go.
So, these are some of the basic differences between traditional phone services and VoIP that will convince you to change your traditional phoning system into the VoIP home phone service.
Once upon a time, smartphones were mostly about connecting busy professionals with their email accounts while on the go. Now that smartphones have reached the mainstream consumer market, however, people are looking for more than just email access – and a surprisingly large number of smartphones hardly ever leave their owners’ homes …
Mark Fletcher builds software, that’s just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop making software. And it’s not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples’ lives.
Fletcher will unveil his newest creation, a lightweight group communication tool called SnapGroups. You probably going to like it a lot: it’s easy, it’s clear, it’s got good social design and it’s real time. Check out the screenshots below …
