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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Mar09

by Sindy Cator on March 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

Monday’s here, the weekend’s over and it’s hours until the internet is swallowed by Apple Watch chat. Before that, there’s time to catch up with everything that happened in the world of tech over the past two days. We’ve collected all the news and features you missed over the weekend into this handy list. It’s the perfect selection to help you power through the day. Stick your phone on silent, select a delicious hot beverage and take 10 minutes to catch up on this weekend’s tech goings on. News from The Next Web over the weekend Apple Pay On The…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Mar09

by Sindy Cator on March 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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What we found when we analyzed the top 1,000 posts on LinkedIn

Mar09

by Sindy Cator on March 9, 2015 at 10:04 am

Posted In: analysis, Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, linkedin, Social Media

This post first appeared on Percolate Distributing compelling long-form content on LinkedIn can be a powerful way to build your company’s brand, showcase products, demonstrate thought leadership, and boost your own career. Marketing automation company HubSpot has also found that LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rates compared to Facebook and Twitter, where leads were almost three times higher to convert than Facebook or Twitter. We scraped LinkedIn to collect one of the largest datasets of top performing long-form content across the LinkedIn Pulse network. This is what we found. For Title Hacks, Lists, “You” or the 6 “W”s Work It’s…

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Crowdfire brings Twitter stats comparison to its iPhone app

Mar09

by Sindy Cator on March 9, 2015 at 10:01 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Twitter profile management service JustUnfollow has now rebranded as Crowdfire and revamped its iPhone app to let you compare your stats on the social network with other users. The new Eagle Eye feature allows you to compare your Twitter mentions, followers, unfollowers, retweets and favourites from the past day, week, month and year with any users you choose. It displays the data in neat line graphs and you can drill down to find out more detailed info, such as followers vs. unfollowers, and the number of hashtags used. The tabbed interface is easy to navigate and shows stats in a clean…

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Here’s how you create a website that self-destructs when Google indexes it

Mar09

by Sindy Cator on March 9, 2015 at 9:36 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, How-To's, Insider, Matthew Rothberg, Shareables, Unindexed

You know we’re dealing with something unusual when we write about a site that we can’t actually link to anymore. Unindexed was an experiment by Matthew Rothberg that created a website which continuously searched Google for itself. When the site finally discovered itself in the search results, it was permanently deleted. That happened on February 24. Rotherberg describes Unindexed as “an experiment in the nature of ephemerality and persistence on the Web.” The link to the Uninvited site was shared by word of mouth and postal mail initially. Visitors were encouraged to contribute posts to the site and share the link with…