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Eventbrite and Swiftly offer event organizers a $19 professionally designed banner for their events

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by on August 4, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re an event organizer you understand the power of a well designed flier, poster or event page banner. But if you’re not a designer, your stab at creating art usually ends in a mish-mash of fonts and images. Global self-ticketing service Eventbrite and on-demand design service Swiftly want to help solve your design problem. Now when you create an Eventbrite event, you have the option to have a banner designed for $19 via 99designs‘ Swiftly service. Event organizers can describe what they want on Swiftly’s site and a designer will create the banner in an hour. The finished design…

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Confused with data analysis? The noob’s guide to creating conversion funnels

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by on August 4, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, Insider

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David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. You’ve probably been reading tons of articles telling you to start setting up metrics for your website, measure your website KPIs and take data-driven decisions. If you’ve already begun setting up metrics and tracking events on your website you probably know that it’s not easy. We spent quite a bit of time getting it right. In this article we’ll try to explain what you should be measuring, how to measure it and what types of tools you can use to…

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Twitter is testing showing you tweets from accounts your friends follow

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by on August 4, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter tests new features on unsuspecting accounts all the time. The latest experiment involves showing tweets to users from accounts that they don’t follow, but instead from accounts their friends follow. Twitter user @aleefbaypay posted the follow two tweets: WTF @twitter, why am I seeing tweets from accounts that I don’t follow but are followed by someone whom I follow? — aleefbaypay (@aleefbaypay) August 3, 2014 @EliLanger yup. The buzzfeed tweet is the one in question. pic.twitter.com/FTbHTXs2Z9 — aleefbaypay (@aleefbaypay) August 3, 2014 Apparently @aleefbaypay doesn’t follow BuzzFeed, but someone he follows does. As stated earlier, Twitter tests new features like this all…

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Facebook for Windows Phone updated with new design, Facebook Messenger integration, video upload, and more

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by on August 4, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile, Social Media

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Microsoft today updated its Facebook app for Windows Phone, bringing a bunch of new features out of beta, including a new design. You can download the latest version now directly from the Windows Phone Store. First off, you can see the updated design below. In addition to the overhauled user experience, Microsoft is promising “improved app performance,” but won’t elaborate exactly how much faster Windows Phone users can expect it to be. Additionally, the app now supports more languages, gains the ability to upload videos taken with your Windows Phone device, and integrates with Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone. Windows…

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Canalys: PC shipments up 14% in Q2 2014, laptops surpass tablets again, Apple first but Lenovo is gaining

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by on August 4, 2014 at 5:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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In Q2 2014, the worldwide PC market experienced 14 percent growth year-over-year to 123.9 million units, if you take into consideration desktops, laptops, and tablets. Laptops saw a slight resurgence in Q2 2014, with shipments all but flat on the same quarter a year ago. In fact, laptop shipments surpassed those of tablets once again (the last time this was the case was less than a year ago in Q3 2013). The latest estimates come from Canalys, an independent analyst firm which noted the market saw “effectively no sequential growth.” As such, the company concluded that the positive effect tablets…

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