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iTunes Match via Apple Music isn’t an improvement, and may ruin your existing library

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by on July 1, 2015 at 10:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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Apple Music was designed to give us a central place for all of our music. A big part of that missive is iCloud, and the fiddly iTunes Match, which now resides in Apple Music. Did iTunes Match improve, though? The jury is still out. Though Apple never outright said as much, slipping iTunes Match into the juggernaut that is Apple Music seemed to be the plan all along. It was one part rebranding a conceptually popular service that worked poorly, and one part helping us forget it ever even existed because — well, it works so poorly. Did iTunes Match…

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Twitter is testing an ad campaign manager for Android and iOS

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by on July 1, 2015 at 9:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter’s mobile apps could be getting a notable upgrade for social media guru’s: Some users are spotting new way to access ad campaigns on Android and iOS right from their profile page. If you update to the most recent version of the app on either platform, you might spot a new graph icon sitting atop your profile that lets you directly access a mobile version of the Twitter Ads manager. Twitter for iOS made minor UI changes today. New pin and weblink icon + Ad account selection button pic.twitter.com/z51otKc61I — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 1, 2015 From there, you can check your campaign performances, optimize your…

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PowerPivot Stats

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by on July 1, 2015 at 8:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, PowerPivot

Here’s what a recent PowerPivot process looked like

  • 14,512,074 Rows
  • 7 Columns
  • 14:09 to load data from SQL Server at 30M
  • 5:36 to save file
  • 129MB file size
  • 0:14 recalc time
  • 1,559,700KB used by the EXCEL.EXE process

On this client machine:

  • Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
  • Excel 2010 64bit
  • 36GB RAM
  • 2.4Ghz Xeon processor

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Google now lets you create and share custom maps from Drive

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by on July 1, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google Drive is getting a little more powerful today by integrating custom Maps. Now Drive users can create, share and manage Google’s custom My Maps right from Drive. You can even import data from your Drive documents, such as addresses from a spreadsheet or form, to pinpoint them on the map. The change should make it a little easier to mange all your custom mapping, as these will now be accessible from the same place you find your documents and spreadsheets. It also makes it easier to share custom maps with coworkers and team members, as you can simply drop the map…

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Facebook set to offer video creators revenue split with new Suggested Videos feed

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by on July 1, 2015 at 5:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Facebook is set to offer video creators a cut of revenue from ads that display before or during their videos. It’s the first time Facebook has shared video revenue, and may challenge YouTube for the attention of creators. Speaking to Re/Code, Dan Rose, Facebook’s VP of partnerships says “A lot of [our partners] have said this will be a big motivation to start publishing a lot more video content to Facebook. That’s exactly what we’re hoping for.” Revenue sharing only comes via a new Facebook feature called Suggested Videos, a sub-section of NewsFeed. If you were to click on a…

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