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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

–Sean As more and more new sites hit the Web on a daily basis, the adoption of WordPress as a content management system seems to keep on growing. Do good plugins really slow down my site? If my WordPress site is slow, is it my host, my plugins, or my theme?

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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

In this post, we’ll share more than 20 different sources and tools for free images, covering searchable image sites, create-your-own-image tools, and more. Read over the terms and conditions of each site you try so you know exactly when and what type of attribution is required. A few things to know before we get started.

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Digging-in to the new Radian6 Dashboard Improvements

Dave Fleet

Nothing flashy; just the ability to refresh widgets by hitting a button instead of waiting for the next refresh or going into the widget settings, toggling a setting then coming back out. In a nod to people using Radian6 to produce regular reports, you can now include a comparison of time periods within your topic analysis widgets.

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[ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images

SocMed Sean

This is a group of bloggers who are making money with their sites, so they are always looking for ways to increase the performance of their sites in order in increase organic traffic and, as a result, increase their revenues. When a visitor comes to your site, their browser makes a request to the server for the contents of the page.

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Energize Your Fans and Followers with a Sweepstakes

Ignite Social Media

Sweepstakes Widget. This widget allows for you to ask your audience to take different actions to earn entries into your sweepstakes. Once you have your sweepstakes set up in within the widget, you can drive your audience to a landing page or embed it wherever you wish. What do I need to be aware of before running a Sweepstakes?

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8 Things I’m Trying to Improve with This New Convince and Convert Website

Convince & Convert

After a long gestation, I am delighted that we have launched the new ConvinceAndConvert.com site. A Real Home Page Since almost day one, the Convince & Convert blog has been the home page for the site and for the company. This new design integrates the email signup mechanisms with the site content at multiple points.

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