Flickr Can't Go Back To What It Once Was-And it's a shame

The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable. There will be little white space on the homepage. In the new version, photos will appear four times their current size. They will lie on the page, scattered about like puzzle pieces slipped together without overlap. Flickr is repositioning itself to look more like an app, which is right in line with Yahoo's "mobile first" strategy. But this is a Web-only photo community - and if Instagram is showing us anything, it's that the future of photography is in smartphones.

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[STUDY] Facebook Defriending is on the Rise-This means the remaining friends are a more intimate group

If you've been defriending a lot lately, you're not alone.

A new study out from Pew today confirms what we already know: People don't want to collect as many Facebook friends as possible. Social networkers are becoming more selective, managing their accounts and "pruning" people from their lists. More users are untagging themselves from photos, deleting comments and unfriending others. Women and younger users tend to prune more than others: 67% of women with social network site profiles have deleted users compared with 58% of men.

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Supercharge your social media strategy by getting back to basics-Including a simple strategy to get back on track

Kenichi Ohmae, known as Mr. Strategy, spent 20 years at McKinsey, the management consulting titan, honing his craft. His most notable achievement was the creation of the 3Cs — a deceptively simple framework for businesses to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

It so happens that it’s a nifty tool for building a social media strategy too.

The 3Cs are Customer, Company, and Competition. Focusing on what makes you special in each of these areas is the secret sauce.

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Social Media Key Influencer in Multi-Exposure Purchase Path-Social Media may not make a sale, but it can make it bigger

The study found that when consumers were exposed to social media in addition to other online ad formats or marketing channels, such as search, email and display, the average revenue per order for US advertisers was $280.71—more than double the order size compared to the average of all digital channels.

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Caffeine Zone 2 Tracks Your Caffeine Usage and Tells You if Another Cup Will Do Any Good-I really need this app

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Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever-Say good-bye to link building

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How Pinterest Is Becoming the Next Big Thing in Social Media for Business

Perhaps the most powerful business application is the ability to post images of your company's products on your Pinterest board and link them back to your website. It works as a sort of virtual store catalog.

But remember that this is social media. If you simply display images of your products without contributing other content or sharing other users' pins, you'll likely find that people don't pay much attention. After all, no one likes a self-absorbed blowhard.

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Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers-Here's another good reason to become interested in this site

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