Tuesday, April 29, 2014

4 Ways to Max Your Mobile for Diverse Demographics | NTEN

4 Ways to Max Your Mobile for Diverse Demographics | NTEN: If your website is mobile friendly, it means that you're reaching an audience that's not just behind their computers, but on the go. For international audiences, mobile might be the only way that they connect. In this article, learn four different ways to maximize your mobile presence for diverse demographics.

Mobile Trend Creates Cultural Shift in Micro Philanthropy | Be Korea-savvy

Mobile Trend Creates Cultural Shift in Micro Philanthropy | Be Korea-savvy: The mobile applications are revolutionizing the ways of charitable giving to fun, engaging and simple. Now users can engage in philanthropic deeds and have fun at the same time just by connecting to mobile.

“World Vision” has developed a mobile app called ‘My Kids,’ which is an overseas children sponsor application. The app, which was inspired by the application “Celebrity Look-Alikes,” will recognize the user’s face when the user takes or uploads a picture on to the app, and introduce a foreign child in need that resembles the user.

New to TechSoup: BetterWorld Wireless Mobile Devices and Service Plans - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup

New to TechSoup: BetterWorld Wireless Mobile Devices and Service Plans - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup: Need a new mobile plan or a donated smartphone? TechSoup has partnered with BetterWorld Wireless to bring discounted mobile services and donated devices to eligible nonprofits and public libraries in the U.S.

How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup

How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup: Telework By Any Other Name

Actually the names for telework are proliferating at a good clip. You can call us work-from-home employees, e-workers, iWorkers, teleworkers, telecommuters, web workers, mobile professionals, mobile workers, digital nomads, location-independent professionals, technomads, or workers 2.0. I suspect this is a phenomenon similar to Eskimos (actually Inuit and Yupik) having multiple names for snow. It’s a really big part of our world.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Users With Over 1,000 Followers Can Now Use Google Plus Post Ads

Users With Over 1,000 Followers Can Now Use Google Plus Post Ads: Now Google has moved Post ads out of their limited testing phase. The ads are now available to any Google Plus member with more than 1,000 followers.

Report: Google to end forced G integration, drastically cut division resources | Ars Technica

Report: Google to end forced G integration, drastically cut division resources | Ars Technica: n short, Google seems to be backing away from the original Google strategy. The report states that Google will no longer be considered a product that competes with Facebook and Twitter, and that Google's mission to force Google into every product will end. With this downgrade in importance comes a downgrade in resources. TechCrunch claims that 1000-1200 employees—many of which formed the core of Google —will be moved to other divisions. Google Hangouts will supposedly be moved to Android, and the Google photos team is "likely" to follow. "Basically, talent will be shifting away from the Google kingdom and towards Android as a platform," the report said. The strange part is that both of these teams create cross-platform products. So if the report is true, there will be a group inside the Android team making iOS and Web apps, which doesn't seem like the best fit.