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Amazon Student lands in the UK with discounted deliveries for six months and 50% off Prime thereafter

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by on March 31, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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Amazon today launched its Student-focused program in the UK, giving aspiring academics discounted delivery prices and Kindle tablets for a limited period. You’ll need to offer an ac.uk e-mail address, as well as your expected graduation date, academic level and chosen course to qualify. Once you’ve been accepted, Amazon will give you free one-day delivery for over 7 million items on its site, as well as discounted rates for Express and evening deliveries. From now until May 15, Amazon Student will entitle you to 20 percent off all Kindle Fire hardware in the UK, including the Fire HD and HDX….

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The 15-minute social media audit everyone can do

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by on March 31, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. The word “audit” deserves more love than it gets. When I hear the word, my mind goes straight to tax season and the manila envelope crammed with receipts and forms that I keep stashed away in the closet. Audits seem to equal anxiety, which is too bad – because not all audits are created equal. A tune-up at the garage is essentially an audit for your car, a check-up at the doctor is an audit of your health. You can learn a lot from regular reviews like these….

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Twitter increases its focus on social TV by buying analytics firms Mesagraph and SecondSync

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by on March 31, 2014 at 5:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter wants its social network to be the definitive place for advertisers and broadcasters to promote their shows, and to that end it’s just gobbled up TV analytics specialists Mesagraph and SecondSync. Mesagraph runs a web-based platform called Meaningly, which gives users the ability to pull “meaningful insights” around specific topics based on what’s being tweeted about in near real-time. The Mesagraph TV API then builds on that by offering custom streams and analytics based around live TV shows. That expertise could come in handy for Twitter, but it’ll also be eyeing up the partnerships Mesagraph already has with French…

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Twitter’s TV ratings service is coming to the Nordics, Russia, Africa and Southeast Asia

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by on March 31, 2014 at 5:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Twitter’s TV ratings are going to get a whole lot more global this year, after the company announced plans to expand its relationship with Kantar — one of its media partners — to bring the service to the Nordics, Russia, parts of Africa and Southeast Asia. To refresh your memory, the service adds a range of Twitter-related metrics related to TV shows to existing broadcast ratings data, making it easier for advertisers and ad agencies to follow conversations related to shows. It first launched in the US in 2012 in collaboration with Nielsen, and Twitter is currently working to bring it to the…

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Microsoft’s Bing expands Snapshot feature to surface doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate listings

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by on March 31, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft today updated its Bing search engine to show more information via the Snapshot feature, which pulls together connections between people, places, and the “things you care about” based on its understanding of the real world. Today’s release encompasses doctors, dentists, lawyers, and individual real estate properties. Bing already tracks billions of entities, as well as the billions of relationships between them, to show users relevant data while they search. Over the last few months, Microsoft has added an additional 150 million entities. The addition means that when you search for a medical professional, Bing now returns their Snapshot, which…

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