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There’s a reason people don’t bother backing up their computer: thinking about the task of doing it properly becomes too difficult. The thing about backups is that it’s not a question of if data loss will strike you, but when and how severely. Backups have long been considered to be incredibly complicated, because it meant you’d have to somehow ship your data around, but not anymore. Thanks to the advent of unlimited cloud backup services and ever increasing storage at ever decreasing prices, it’s easier to backup all your content than it was in the past. There’s one very basic rule to follow when you’re setting up…
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Noticed that none of the links on Twitter are working today? It’s not just you! It looks like there’s a very serious problem with the .co top-level domain today, causing the t.co URL shorter to break. Twitter shortens all links on its service using the t.co URL, which is affected by a problem on the .co domain that seems to affect a select number of people. For those affected, they’re unable to load anything on Twitter since all links require that domain. Our engineers are currently investigating an issue that might cause http://t.co/an43r331zM and http://t.co/UDFkg2wpqn links not to load. —…
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Just over a year ago, Twitter launched a new analytics tool that allowed website owners to track links tweeted to their websites and how many users clicked on them. That tool was recently retired from the site without much fanfare. The website analytics tool originally appeared under the analytics option in Twitter’s ad product, but is no longer appearing. The old website analytics tool To our knowledge, Twitter hasn’t announced the withdrawal of the website analytics tool, just as it never formally announced its introduction. You can still get detailed analytics about your website’s most popular content, the most-clicked Twitter links to…
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Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea LLC, a mobile app consultancy helping healthcare and fitness tracking startups in creating experience-rich mobile apps. Subscribe to his free email series on growth hacking mobile apps for distribution. The rise of popularity in health, medical and fitness tech has everyone wanting a piece of the action. New fitness wearables continue to frequently hit the market, Apple has built a HealthKit ecosystem and Google had made inroads through its Google Fit platform. Many startups have attempted to enter this new market, but few are able to secure the funding needed to successfully bring them to market. If…
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