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Robin Good: Here is a useful guide to fifteen online payment systems like PayPal, their management and transaction costs, alongside a simple introduction to basic terminology (ACH payments, payment gateways, payment processors, etc.).

Useful. 8/10

Full article:  http://sixrevisions.com/tools/online-payment-systems/ ;

Using its own Natural Language Processor, Thirst filters, organizes, and and presents your Twitter stream in an engaging way.

Facebook hit 488 million mobile users which is absolutely amazing! There is no other app in the world that would have that many mobile users. Facebook has 50% of all its users on mobile phones and ...

If you care about your Klout score, but tend to struggle increasing the number, this is for you. Here's more on Klout if you're new to the platform.

Nearly half of Americans believe that popular social networking site Facebook is a passing fad, a new study suggests.

Now your business or brand can make your Facebook page pocket-sized and send it home with clients and potential customers – all for free.

Google Plus recently adds cover photos to profile page similar from Facebook Timeline. If you add the amazing cover photos to your Google+ profile page your profile page looks nice. Here the 10 sites to find amazing Google Plus cover photos...

There's no Google Drive iPad app, but with GoodReader, iPad users can access all their Google Drive files and folders from the iPad.

Jeff Lebow starts the definitive book of GoogleCasting.  Can a GoogleCast Academy be that far in the future?

Google has introduced the "Knowledge Graph" — or semantic analysis — to its most fundamental tool, search. Here's what that means.

Google’s Knowledge Graph will roll out across the U.S. (and on all Google platforms: desktop, mobile, tablet) in the coming days. Eventually, it will go global. Give it a try and let us know what you think of the brand new Google Search in the comments.

I think we have all seen the decline of interaction on Twitter, and how the service has become somewhat a little less, well I wouldn’t want to say interesting, but it surely has become less of what it was a couple years ago. Personally, I think Twitter lost out on a lot of users when they started messing around with the way that retweets work. The way that the direct messages are not working correctly is also a big culprit in the decline of the service, or at least that is my own experience. I don’t know if the redesign of the website has been all that well received either since I have seen numerous users complain about it since it was launched. However, that is nothing that I feel is one of the biggest annoyances with Twitter.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten wants to plug Pinterest in to purchasing, after confirming that it would lead a $100 million investment in the social pinboard curator.

Learn how Facebook Insights reports and public data sources can help you understand, at a granular level, the way your community consumes the stories you create, your fans demographic information, and how users are engaging with your competitors.

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Viewbix lets you add interactive apps to your videos that engage viewers and drive calls to action.

Read how to use Viewbix in education - http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2011/10/viewbix-easily-add-captions-and-titles.html

“If you’re like most college students, chances are good that you spend more time on Facebook than you do on LinkedIn. But if you’re concerned with furthering your career (and you should be), it’s time to switch over to a more professional network. We’ve shared 20 great reasons why you need to be spending your time on LinkedIn much more than Facebook, and we hope they motivate you to make a change for the better.