Diffbot’s API uses visual learning robot to instantly identify page content that lies behind any URL. Telesocial releases an extension to their API. Plus: Facebook announces their upcoming World HACK tour, details on the TwilioCon 2012 Workshop Day and 16 new APIs.
Today in APIs: Diffbot’s New API is a Decoder Ring for the Web, Telesocial Releases Social Calling API and 16 New APIs
How to Force Google to Recrawl Your Site
There are plenty of reasons why you'd want Googlebot to recrawl your website ahead of schedule. Maybe you've cleaned up a malware attack that damaged your organic visibility and want a clean bill of health so rankings recover faster; or maybe you've implemented site-wide canonical tags to eliminate duplicate content and want these updates sorted out quickly; or you want to accelerate indexing for
QR codes gain popularity in social media marketing
With the growth of smart phones and accompanying apps, quick-response codes are starting to fill an important social media marketing role, some avocado marketing agents say.
Social Media Expectations Should Influence Businesses: Gartner
The rise of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others means businesses run the risk of irritating customers, who are becoming used to the instant contact such platforms provide, if they don’t adequately respond to their requests and complaints, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner.By 2014, organizations refusing to participate in customer-based social media would fac
101 Ways to Link Build in 2012
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me more frustrated than seeing people online whine about how, “It’s sooooo hard to build links these days!”Really – if anything – the number of link building opportunities available today has only increased as new and different types of web properties have proliferated online!So if you’re one of those people on the link building fence, take a look at the f
5 Low-Cost Social Media Marketing Strategies for Authors
Writing the great American novel? Penning the next transformative self-help book? If you’re in the midst of developing one of the more than one million books that are published every year, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to market your book ... because in today’s publishing environment, it’s up to you to build and sustain momentum for your work.“Publishers launch many titles pe
Digg is Back With New App and Site Re-Launch
Social bookmarking website Digg launched the first version of its new site on Tuesday after going back into startup mode to rebuild the site from the bottom up. V1, for version 1, was built on “fresh code” and the team says they plan to build it out quickly.The new site features more images and stories selected by editors. It is free from ads and appears to have space for bigger stories.On July 2
Watch out Instapaper: Facebook is adding its own “save for later” feature
Bookmarking services like Pocket and Instapaper better watch out, because Facebook is about to step on their toes.The social network is introducing its own answer to the services with “Save”, an update to its website and mobile apps that allows users to save interesting links for later reading, the Verge reports.The implementation of the feature is pretty simple: As with the current Share and Lik
For future growth, Facebook focuses on mobile business
Social networking major Facebook made waves few months back when it became the first American company to enter the stock market with a value of more than $100 billion. It is also looking at entering the smartphone business.
Bitly Announces Realtime, A Search Engine For Trending Links
Today Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword “startups” in technology on Twitter:As you can see, it’s not perfect yet (why is that article on hidden Moun