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Thursday, 31 December 2015
The Top Ten Facebook Posts of 2015 - http://bit.ly/1MIvsrh
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Jonah Peretti on how BuzzFeed is like an early movie studio and why he encourages 'crushes' - http://bit.ly/1MIio4Y
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015
How humans use apps via @SimilarWeb http://bit.ly/1QYPBRT
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How you can help people impacted by the #UKfloods, including great people helping in Leeds, Cumbria & York: http://bit.ly/1IDXAkc
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What The Guardian learned from its first WhatsApp live chat - http://bit.ly/1MGrPly
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015
The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI http://bit.ly/1IBSTaP
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Google acquires Wireless Patents from Acatel-Lucent http://bit.ly/1PvOky5
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Behavioral and Neoclassical Economics Doesn't Understand Happiness http://bit.ly/1JH5AvH via @Quibb
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Wireds 2016 predictions just in emojis 🙌 http://bit.ly/1IAZBhd
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203 Billion Emails In A Year. -The Untold Growth Story Of @MailChimp - http://bit.ly/1Puunrj
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Why Not> Google Uses Homepage to Pitch New Android and iPhone Owners on Its Apps - http://on.recode.net/1IAWGFn
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2016 Predictions from leaders at Google, Tinder, the BBC & more http://bit.ly/1YP4vsP
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5 Ways Publishers Are Using Instagram - http://bit.ly/1YP2YD2
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Monday, 28 December 2015
7 Stolen Content Marketing Ideas You Can Use Today http://bit.ly/1mLQAYP
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What happens when the economics of everything meet the internet of things? http://bit.ly/1Pt87OE
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Google losing money on their 'bets' in non search business - http://bit.ly/1JF7wVM
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Ouch! Yandex employee sentenced for trying to sell search engine source code http://bit.ly/1Ovatzr
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Come and join me on @Quibb founders and CEO's network - http://bit.ly/1IyE9ta
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Big company vs. startup work and pay trade offs - http://bit.ly/1QRVHn1 via @quibb & @nireyal
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15 unknown features for your iPhone. Do not disturb is my favourite - http://bit.ly/1PspO0V
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The @Stratechery 2015 Year in Review by @BenThompson http://bit.ly/1Psa9ys (Well worth the sub fee)
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15 facts you probably didn't know about Coca-Cola http://bit.ly/1QRKfb8
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Hubspot Report How Much Time Do Marketers Spend on Routine Tasks? = http://bit.ly/1QRKYcd
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Jeff Bezos: 'I want Amazon to win an Oscar' http://bit.ly/1IyuFOv
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Snapchat is the 'one to watch in 2016' & likely at the expense of Twitter http://bit.ly/1NKWSka
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Games CEO Suggests Kim Kardashian & Katy Perry Are ‘Living and Breathing Intellectual Property - http://on.recode.net/1OTOvk6
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Amazon: 70% of customers shopped on mobile & report record christmas - http://bit.ly/1YMCGkR
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#VR The Next Life Changing Technology Shift - http://bit.ly/1NKUPMV
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THE WIRED GUIDE TO THE BRAIN IN 2016 - http://bit.ly/1OoGP8W
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Sunday, 27 December 2015
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story http://bit.ly/1OnljkP
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Something tells me this wont go well for Sky) Sky porn filters 'turned on automatically' by 2016 http://bit.ly/1QPVfpb
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“Q&A with TripAdvisor CMO Barbara Messing” http://on.mash.to/1QPzrdr
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The Days After Christmas Are the Real Christmas for App Makers - http://on.recode.net/22twtPk
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Jack Dorsey reveals the most important question he asks when hiring new Square or Twitter employees - http://read.bi/1JCdG91
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My Year In Reviews: Food And Drink Blogging In London — http://bit.ly/1YJY8a1
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Saturday, 26 December 2015
See some of the world’s most breathtaking drone photography in 2015 http://bit.ly/1MB2XeO
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Pinterest Mobile Web Traffic Still More Dominant Than App Install Campaigns - http://bit.ly/1YDHbDA
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Google to get aggressive in the cloud services space in 2016 http://bit.ly/1OPI8OL
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Here are 10 of the most popular 360-degree Facebook videos - http://read.bi/1Porqsq
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LOL> The best one-star Yelp holiday reviews: http://bit.ly/1Olyx1p
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“What we learnt by testing our MVP on Medium And lessons on how to test your product without writing code” http://bit.ly/1QRTW9d
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Thursday, 24 December 2015
Apple brought Topsy to understand search indexing and search behaviour not for twitter data http://bit.ly/1RIxUWk
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Discovery and Inspiration: The top ten searches from around the global on @Pinterest - http://bit.ly/1VbJd8w
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Google ordered to pay $115k for defamatory search results - http://bit.ly/1OoGidp
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I found this @wta 🎾 emoji video really funny - http://bit.ly/1RHwUlr
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UK Police Are Using Hacking Tools, But Refuse to Say How http://bit.ly/1O9BUge
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The 4 Take Away’s For Digital Marketing From Behavioural Economics - http://bit.ly/1SboKkx
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50 Things Buzzsumo Learnt About Content Marketing This Year http://bit.ly/1TZyrAV
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Facebook 360-Degree Videos Are The Future - http://on.recode.net/1OJDf9L
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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has 10 hours of meetings every Monday http://read.bi/1O7NF6L
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Google will reportedly challenge Facebook with an intelligent messaging app http://bit.ly/1O7NRDc
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“8 Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching Your App” http://bit.ly/1YyE5eF
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Here is an internal Google email to staff about time management strategy - http://bit.ly/1YtnfmX
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Monday, 21 December 2015
Tekken 7 in virtual reality won't be what you expect - http://bit.ly/1PgsXki
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"Here's Where You Should Put Product Marketing Inside Of Your Organization" - http://bit.ly/1S57A8a
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Are Facebook’s Instant Articles Actually Beneficial to Publishers? http://bit.ly/1JotxYM (via @MattNavarra)
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21 questions you should ask to understand your target audience => http://bit.ly/1OiKwmK
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The Early Pitch Decks Of Billion-Dollar Startups - http://bit.ly/1RAflUn
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Contently Playbooks: Why Building a Content Stack Is Like Making a Sandwich - http://bit.ly/1S4kpQc
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Sunday, 20 December 2015
14 of the most intelligent AI scientists working on Google's DeepMind project - http://bit.ly/1QzJcMJ
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Inspiring: The 15 biggest 'Shark Tank' success stories of all time - http://read.bi/1OEJrjg
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"Contextual Runtimes" The Real Mobile / Web Future - http://bit.ly/1OEJP1n
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London taxi company Addison Lee is battling to stay relevant in the age of Uber - http://bit.ly/1OhemrH
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Looking to buy a new phone with your Christmas money? The Nexus 6P is a must buy - http://bit.ly/1OgqOIn
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Saturday, 19 December 2015
Just $350million to buy Mashable - http://politi.co/1k9j90i
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Time to get serious about chat apps - http://bit.ly/1k93PAO #journalism
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Meet the dolphins who support the livelihoods of more than 200 fishermen bit.ly/1QxE4Zy
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Handpicked Must Read Articles From This Week - http://bit.ly/1Rwal37
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The Product That Defines Our Age The iPhone => http://bit.ly/1Ph84aw
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Meet the People Pretending to Be Celebrities on Social Media | Broadly http://bit.ly/1QxhfoV
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Infinite Scroll: The Web’s Slot Machine – Nir and Far http://bit.ly/1k8JKdP
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Truth> "Don’t write 800 words when only 300 and an Instagram embed are necessary.” http://bit.ly/1NuVyBN
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The Must Read Articles From This Week — http://bit.ly/1Rv5nU9
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“Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.” http://nyti.ms/1RYSwc8
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The 16 mobile theses by @BenedictEvans - http://bit.ly/1MmUkVd Supporting podcast http://bit.ly/1NYXP9O
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Thursday, 17 December 2015
Luxury Brand Marketing Is All About Authenticity: http://mklnd.com/1NAoar0
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I'm sharing slightly different stories over on @Pocket my profile is - http://bit.ly/1Jf1k6H
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The Product That Defines Our Age The iPhone => http://bit.ly/1Mjigc3
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State Of Social Media Going Into 2016 From Social Media Editors - http://bit.ly/1MjcdEn
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Why Consumer Intent Is More Powerful Than Demographics - http://bit.ly/22ap3AC
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Facebook will officially enter China & Other Top Predicitons by @glennsolomon http://bit.ly/1Mj5wCb
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Podcasting has a viable business model - http://bit.ly/1QOz94B
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“Not Every Startup Is Killing It Why & How to Speak Up During Tough Times” http://bit.ly/1P9XaDs
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Novelty is the new normal - http://bit.ly/1OwFkpi #journalism
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Slack and the State of Technology at the End of 2015 - @Stratechery http://bit.ly/1O6U2Ty
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5 Things You Need From Your Mobile App Data Provider (Free RFP Template) - http://bit.ly/1P7InHj #mobile
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Anti virus biz model) Adblock Plus reveals how it’s charging companies to let ads through your ad blocker - http://bit.ly/228fEJz
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Black Friday Was Handled Wrongly In UK) Discounting hits record levels as pre-Christmas sales disappoint” http://bit.ly/1m715Fe
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Spotify Party Is Your New Algorithm-Fueled Soirée DJ - http://bit.ly/1lPiiU7
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google crack down on hate speech in Germany - http://bit.ly/1P7IKUj
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bit.ly/1lPi4MT Shares Insights for Adapting to the On-Demand Traveler - http://bit.ly/1lPi4MX
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Compelling Q&A With Google's Eric Schmidt = http://bit.ly/1QLGHVI
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The Current State of Machine Intelligence — http://bit.ly/226ssjU
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Google Sheets 101- http://bit.ly/224rXqz via @zapier
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The Content Marketing Trends You Should Leverage in 2016 http://bit.ly/1m3HQwp
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Monday, 14 December 2015
How to Adjust for Google Play's Ranking Stickiness When Promoting Your Android App - http://bit.ly/1QHNrnJ
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The Best Steve Jobs Insults Gave - http://bit.ly/1RkynxP
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A year of innovation: BBC News and Social Media in 2015 http://bbc.in/1RNRb7U
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The 4 Mobile Messaging Apps Marketers Need to Know About in 2016 => http://bit.ly/1m1qssa
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Nice Idea) The NHS hopes joining forces with Tinder can help ‘normalise’ organ donation - http://bit.ly/1P2kanU #marketing
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The 1-Hour Documented Content Marketing Strategy - http://mklnd.com/221NWhK
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"How to Decide If You Should Go Wide or Deep with Your Content" http://bit.ly/1P2e1rN
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Sunday, 13 December 2015
The Essentials of Hiring An Exceptional Startup Team - http://bit.ly/1lXGpzC
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Inside deep dreams, how Google made computers crazy - http://bit.ly/21YMX1N
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The 8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016 - http://bit.ly/1OZRR9u
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Surviving being senior (tech) management & some useful tips - http://bit.ly/1Ri0AFx
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Saturday, 12 December 2015
On Instagram, brands' most-used emoji in captions is the 📷 camera - http://bit.ly/1YbqcTD
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Instagram Analytics: 6 Metrics You Must Track (And 2 You Don't) http://bit.ly/1lWubqT
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Here's your weekend must reads - http://bit.ly/1OYDKkF
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Some Google employees feel intimidated by their genius coworkers - http://read.bi/1lWsERv
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Why Coke cans are red and white, why Starbucks picked a green logo, and why 10 other brands chose their colors http://read.bi/1O1UcSo
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16 Creative Email Subject Lines To Help You Restart Stalled Conversations - http://bit.ly/1Z5fIrl
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A MailChimp Record: 1.2 Billion Emails on Black Friday - http://bit.ly/1lVGdRb
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Friday, 11 December 2015
Here are the two most important pieces of technology at Arsenal FC - http://read.bi/1ReB189 #business #feedly
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If you want to work for Amazon, you'd better be able to answer these questions = http://read.bi/1Z3D7cr
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How Very Wechat) Kik’s Plans to Get Us to Ditch Our Browsers for Chat Apps - http://bit.ly/1NKWvHo
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26 content amplification triggers to help increase engagement = http://bit.ly/1OVzHWk (good job @lakey)
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Thursday, 10 December 2015
No mobiles allowed: TED wants to teach us to pay attention again = http://bit.ly/21S0gkx
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The Content Marketing Handbook - http://bit.ly/1NOnmhC
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The Future? The Dark Side of Getting Intimate Through Technology - http://bit.ly/1TCG7c7
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Top App Predictions of 2016: From tvOS and Google Now on Tap, Apps Are Eating the Web => http://bit.ly/1RbG3m3
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3 insights from the science of giving - http://bit.ly/1IWF9Sy by @lizkessick on @JGcauses
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Content Marketing in the UK 2016 - Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends via @CMIContent http://bit.ly/1OSTYvS
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Could Facebook be the next big platform for podcasts? http://bit.ly/1lR5Wu7
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Google AMP likely to see 16,000 New Pages Each Day - http://mklnd.com/1NWVQ7S
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Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Cortana taking on Siri and Google now with iOS & Android - http://bit.ly/1RaQyGe
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The Messaging Phenomenon Has Hardly Begun - http://bit.ly/21PXTPh
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Getting to “technical enough” as a product manager - http://bit.ly/1lQae4Y
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Scientists say this simple psychological shift can help you achieve your goals - http://read.bi/1RaQMgu
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The question that Mark Zuckerberg inspires Facebook employees to ask themselves http://read.bi/1IVNA0e
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Tuesday, 8 December 2015
News Agencies>"Buzzfeed and Vice are ad agencies with news organizations wrapped around them" - http://bit.ly/1PW9CI6
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Smart Content Move) Disney Doubles Ownership Stake In Vice to 10% - http://bit.ly/1N9FgOA
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Pretty Cool> How Would Brands Look as Bottles of Wine? - http://bit.ly/1TyTSbN
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What Ex Googlers Should Know When Entering the Startup World - http://bit.ly/1XSPL11
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Redesigning your team meeting - Top Job @yaellevey on @Digestuk => http://bit.ly/1ICknwx
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Instant Messenger & WhatsApp Is How Facebook Will Dominate the World - http://bit.ly/1PUFJIj
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Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With #AI - http://bit.ly/1PUGiSq
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ICYMI> The 21 questions you should ask to understand your audiences - http://bit.ly/1lLVLXC
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Podcasts Your Secret Advantage - http://bit.ly/1HSA3fg
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Podcast of the week @dickc joined @karaswisher on decode radio talking twitter & the future http://apple.co/1XSmjbc
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ICYMI I Reviewed The Best Android On The Market; The Huawei Google Nexus 6P - http://bit.ly/1SLHJ3f
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Interesting Take) Snapchat's Crowded Publisher Platform Is Starting to Feel Like 'The Hunger Games' http://on.recode.net/1Nfo2gG
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Monday, 7 December 2015
Why Brands Are Ditching Twitter’s 6-Second Vine App - http://bit.ly/1OLFBcE
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X Marks the Spot That Makes Online Ads So Maddening = http://nyti.ms/1LZoz4k
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Speed Is Key: Optimize Your Mobile Experience @ThinkwithGoogle http://bit.ly/1N6o3FH
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Sunday, 6 December 2015
A Google director explains how your smartphone will look in 5 years - http://read.bi/1HP1jLw
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These 15 retailers dominated in 2015 - http://read.bi/1NzI9d3
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'Shark Tank' investor Daymond John explains how his dyslexia helped shape him into an entrepreneur ➖ http://read.bi/1SHqq3b
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Power) All the Product Reviews Money Can Buy - nyti.ms/1SHi0ci http://nyti.ms/1SHi0cj
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Saturday, 5 December 2015
Video Of The Week: The Unbundling Of Education - http://bit.ly/1OMN8pG
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LinkedIn CEO reveals why so many founders struggle to scale their companies - http://read.bi/1NxH19z
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VR Web browsing might ultimately be one of Samsung and Oculus’ best tricks - http://bit.ly/1OMN5dB
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Different Content Categories, Completely Different Facebook Interactions - http://bit.ly/1HNcGUk
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My Articles For New Start Up The Digest - http://bit.ly/1lE68wJ
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Friday, 4 December 2015
Kendall Jenner, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and Cara Delevigne charge a cool $230,000 per social media post - http://bit.ly/1RucRG2
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Free blogging and publishing platforms you and your business can choose from - http://bit.ly/1RtMuA3
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My handpicked stories of the last week including the must read SEO articles, Facebook tweaks and podcast of the week http://bit.ly/1TGw0DU
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Peak Content. A storm of information, and an opportunity of a generation - http://bit.ly/1NuZoMt via @Quibb
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The manager breakdown task - the task every manager should do (on @digestuk) http://bit.ly/1O7jYi5
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The simple 21 questions you should ask to understand your audiences - http://bit.ly/1QjzLim
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Thursday, 3 December 2015
Which Football Leagues, Websites & Social Media Are Biggest Online? - http://bit.ly/1NtaaTx
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The 25 Most Disruptive Brands Of 2015 http://onforb.es/1lzGtoU
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The brain’s miracle superpowers of self-improvement http://bbc.in/1IGMjdj
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Black Friday 2015: Another Year of Growth for Retail Apps - @AppAnnie http://bit.ly/1XCDb5N
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Impressive from Google - http://bit.ly/1RpWnyJ
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Deeper Dive on Siri Usage and the Big Picture for Voice - http://bit.ly/1QhD8GK
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South Park Sets Its Sights on Advertising Yet Again, Blasting Branded Content and Targeted Ads - http://bit.ly/1SzLOY5
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Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive - http://bit.ly/1Q2OkZ5
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Facebook’s Page Plugin Now Lets Users Chat With Messenger & Subscribe To Events - http://mklnd.com/1RpuarR
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"Why not be all the way in?” How publishers are using Facebook Instant Articles - http://bit.ly/21y7oSW
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Most Targeted Websites in Copyright Complaints to Google http://bit.ly/1Oo1lsV
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The 7 Core Social Features Of Successful Apps - http://bit.ly/1Q2xjyq
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Is Facebook Driving Less Traffic to Publishers’ Sites? Well That Depends => http://on.wsj.com/1HHTjMb
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Jose Mourinho is the football world's Don Draper. That's a brilliant thing until it isn't - http://on.si.com/1LQU00A
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Running a good meeting isn’t rocket science! http://bit.ly/1lxHmhI
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Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Some 10,000 schools worldwide use Minecraft to teach subjects from maths to engineering econ.st/1lwIRwK
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Teens still don't think Facebook is cool but they use it more than any other social site - http://read.bi/1Q1keoZ
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In My Latest @TheLDNDiaries Feature I Reviewed @fishsoho Hair Products (2 Clear Winners) - http://bit.ly/1LOmFDq
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Must Read: Beyond Disruption (weekly article on @stratechery) http://bit.ly/1TkHMTN
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Email marketing: how to tempt back the emotionally unsubscribed » http://bit.ly/21uzXkl
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Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Ryanair launches legal action against Google & eDreams http://bit.ly/1IBP7IS
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Predictions: The online marketing trends that will rule 2016 – http://bit.ly/1ltqHfd
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Good New Feature) Publishers can now link to their @Snapchat channels and content on Facebook and Twitter bit.ly/1Xw0aiR
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Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to get more actual humans writing articles http://bit.ly/1ODzu8i
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RIP Flash http://adobe.ly/1lrRAQC
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