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Google gives its Play Newsstand app for Android a Material Design makeover

Oct02

by Sindy Cator on October 2, 2014 at 2:46 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

Google today updated version its Play Newsstand app for Android with a Material Design makeover. It follows the Play Newsstand app for iOS, which Google released less than 10 days ago as a successor to Google Currents. If you’ve tried Play Newsstand for iOS, or at least looked at the screenshots, you’ll have a good idea of what to expect. The design is flatter than before, with larger images and playful animations. Scrolling up and down reveals a smooth stream of article cards with interesting photos, in addition to smaller rows of square icons for specific publications. Tapping any one of…

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5 unique ways to measure and evaluate a social media campaign

Oct02

by Sindy Cator on October 2, 2014 at 2:41 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. We share, share, share to social media. How can we tell what works? This is a question I ask myself each week as I review the Buffer social media stats. How can I evaluate and optimize my best social media content? Where do I even start? Having asked the question myself so many times, I’ve found a few different options for analyzing how social media content performs. I’m still experimenting with which way is best, and I’m happy to share with you all the many different ways I’ve tried so far. 1. Kaushik’s…

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Roku players will soon support Android, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 screen mirroring

Oct02

by Sindy Cator on October 2, 2014 at 2:20 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

Own a Roku 3 or Roku Streaming Stick? You’ll soon be able to mirror the screen from your Android, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices. The feature is rolling out in beta today for select Android and Windows 8.1 hardware; the company expects it to be available to all customers, with support for all three platforms within “the next few weeks.” Similar to Google’s Chromecast, it means you can beam exactly what’s on your screen – not just specific apps or content – and display it for everyone to see on a large-screen TV. To enable it, you’ll first need…

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Where there’s muck there’s brass: Why domestic services startups are cleaning up in 2014

Oct02

by Sindy Cator on October 2, 2014 at 1:59 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Investigations, Profiles and Interviews

The idiom ‘where there’s muck, there’s brass‘, quite simply, means that if there’s a dirty or unpleasant job to be done, there’s money to be made. While the notion of ‘brass’ meaning money has been around since the 18th Century, and the essential elements of the expression were penned by John Ray in A Collection of English Proverbs in 1678 (“Muck and money go together”) that actual saying is a 20th Century creation that grew from the 19th Century expression “Where there’s muck, there’s money”. History lesson now over, the idea of paying someone else to take care of the…

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