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The New York Times wisely blocks staff from viewing its desktop homepage

Jun12
by on June 12, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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The Grey Lady is changing. She’s becoming a modern woman, one who enjoys a 4.7-inch retina display more than her 28-inch desktop monitor. Over at The New York Times, staffers received an email letting them know the desktop site for The Times — you know, the site they all write for — would be blocked. To view www.nytimes.com, they’d have to do so via a smartphone or tablet. The “experiment” begins Monday, with the aim of making sure staff understand how crucial mobile is to the future of The Times. The emailed dictum also notes that “over half” of The Times’…

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The new MacBook is my dream machine and I don’t care about the compromises

Jun12
by on June 12, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hunting for my dream laptop. For years — since the advent of the ultrabook — I have dreamed of something as light as a magazine to throw in a bag, with a high resolution screen, decent build quality, great battery life, good enough performance and a good trackpad. Is that too much to ask? (Probably). That perfect laptop has been attempted by computer makers, but manufacturers haven’t yet managed to nail down the magic formula. I’ve had laptops that promised something along those lines, like the HP DV2 or the MacBook Air, but all of them have had…

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How I grew from 700 to 3,000 email subscribers in 2 months

Jun12
by on June 12, 2015 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, email hacking, Growth, Insider, newsletter, subscribers

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When I started building JustReachOut almost a year ago I knew that my email list for my blog would be a big part of its success or failure. At the time I only had 90 email subscribers to my blog but I saw that 60 percent of them were paying users of JustReachOut. I knew I needed to grow my email list if I wanted to grow my revenue. I watched a webinar from Tim Paige on how they built LeadPages from 0 to 15,000 paying customers in 12 months and was hooked on the idea of replicating their efforts.…

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6 easiest video editing tools

Jun12
by on June 12, 2015 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, best tools, Insider, video editing

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The surge of videos on social media and content marketing channels has come quickly. In the past year alone, Facebook has averaged more than a billion video views each day. Video has become go-to visual content for a huge number businesses and brands. And I’d love to share how you can do video, too, no matter your resources or skills.  I researched all the best and easiest video editing tools that are ideal for novice video producers with limited budgets and busy schedules. I tried each one out and am happy to share here how things went and what I ended up creating. I’d…

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French privacy regulator demands Google make ‘right to be forgotten’ global

Jun12
by on June 12, 2015 at 9:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has ordered Google to remove results from every version of its search engine, not just the European versions. The call comes a year after the European Court of Justice’s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. It gave European residents the ability to request that search engines delete results related to them that they consider out of date, irrelevant or inflammatory. Google has an online form to allow individuals to request de-listings, but when accepted they only apply to the European search engines, not globally. The CNIL’s statement says it will move to impose…

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