'Game of Thrones' Social Media Fandom: As Big as Westeros

OK, Game of Thrones nerds, we know: there is no official population number for Westeros. The books, which thoroughly inhabit their medieval world, tell us that no census has been taken, though you can sort of figure it out from the sizes of cities. “The population of Westeros extends into many millions:” that’s the best estimate over at the Game of Thrones wiki.

Well, the size of its fan base on social media has now also been estimated in the millions — only it’s a little more census-like. There are 5,493,248 of you nerds, according to Facebook likes and Twitter followings gathered by analytics firm SocialBakers Read more…

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'Game of Thrones' Social Media Fandom: As Big as Westeros

13 Essential SEO Power Tools

Looking for a nice selection of SEO power tools that will help diagnose technical issues and optimize your website, or perhaps gain insight on what your competition is doing? Here are 13 helpful SEO tools (many of them free) worth your time.
13 Essential SEO Power Tools

Google AdWords vs. Yahoo Bing Network – A PPC Performance Comparison

AdWords is the logical first choice for paid search advertisers for its superior impressions and click-through rates. However, YBN’s advantages – lower CPCs and CPMs and less competition for ad position – offer a ripe, incremental opportunity.
Google AdWords vs. Yahoo Bing Network – A PPC Performance Comparison

Tweet Your Black Thumb Issues to Britain's Oldest Gardener

You're never too old for Twitter. Britain's oldest gardener, 104-year-old Ralph Hoare, is using his green thumbs for more than pruning by answering horticultural questions on the social network

Furniture Village, a UK retailer, identified Hoare as the country's oldest active gardener to coincide with the launch of a new collection of garden equipment. His gardening answers will be posted on the company's Twitter account, @OfficialFV

Hoare has been gardening since 1914 and says he considers the hobby the key to his long life. Roses are his favorite, with more than two hundred bushes in his yard Read more...

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The Story Behind the Hashtag: #BestLieEver

Trending topics hit Twitter every day. In this recurring series, "Behind the Hashtag," we take a look at the most intriguing ones — of any nature — being tweeted across the web

One of today's most popular hashtags, #BestLieEver, is all about stretching the truth to friends, family and, yes, even yourself.

It started early Thursday by Jai Brooks, one of five members of Melbourne, Australia-based YouTube comedy group The Janoskians. The original message, below, was retweeted more than 5,500 times

#BestLieEver of course i read the terms and conditions!

— Jai J.D Brooks ⚓ (@JaiBrooks1) April 4, 2013 Read more...

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comScore: iOS Further Eroding Android’s U.S. Market Share

On Thursday, comScore published new data from the comScore MobiLens service for the three month average period ending in February 2013. As of late February, 133.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, which represents 57% market penetration. Since November 2012, smartphone ownership in the United States has grown 8%. And judging by today’s update [...]

comScore: iOS Further Eroding Android’s U.S. Market Share

New Infographic Reveals How We Use Social Media

According to the findings of a new study on social media usage, the time spent on major social networking sites ballooned between 2011 and 2012, expanding by approximately 30 billion minutes. “While Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest remain popular with users aged 30 and over, it’s the formerly niche social platforms such as Reddit, Github and [...]

New Infographic Reveals How We Use Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg Moonlights as a Middle School Teacher

In case this Facebook thing doesn’t work out, Mark Zuckerberg can always fall back on his second job: middle school teacher.

The Facebook CEO disclosed to Wired that he teaches a class every week to a middle school in East Menlo Park, Calif. Zuckerberg says he was influenced by his wife, Priscilla, who went into teaching after graduating from Harvard. Zuckerberg says the class is “on how to build a business.”

“Every Tuesday we go over one skill, and each group has a side project,” Zuckerberg told Wired. “When the class ends, they’ll come to Facebook and sell the products they’ve made, like they’re marketing them.” Read more…

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Mark Zuckerberg Moonlights as a Middle School Teacher

Roger Ebert Remembered as a Tech and Social Visionary

On Thursday, Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner, sadly passed away at the age of 70. Although most fans recognize Ebert’s iconic body of work in terms of his equally famous “thumbs up” accolade, the venerable Chicago Sun-Times columnist was also a visionary in technology and social networking. A prolific early [...]

Roger Ebert Remembered as a Tech and Social Visionary

Facebook Home: A Really Nice Screensaver

We came in to Thursday’s press event in Menlo Park expecting a “Facebook phone,” and in the HTC First we got one. Kinda

But there was a reason Mark Zuckerberg devoted little more than five minutes at the end of the event to the First. He wants us to focus on Facebook Home. The $99 First is little more than a low-cost LTE Android phone with Home pre-installed.

And what is Home? How would you describe it in a few seconds to someone who knows nothing about this kind of thing and hasn’t read a dozen posts on it already?

Having played with Facebook Home for a while, here’s how I would summarize it: it’s a screensaver for Android phones Read more…

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Facebook Home: A Really Nice Screensaver