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Dublin Web Summit is an Irish technology conference that has grown from 400 people to 20,000 people in 4 years.
This year there were well over 1,000 startups with stands and many of them were social media tool startups.
A lot of the startups were very early stage and were looking for funding from Investors.
In the list below I have picked out 7 tools I discovered at the conference.
When I go to Disneyland, I race to the famous rides first: Splash Mountain, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Indiana Jones. They're the biggest and best. But there are many attractions I miss in my sprint for the headliners.
Social networks are like the rides at Disneyland. There are so many social media sites and features that some are bound to slip through the cracks.
Which Facebook, Twitter and the other major social network features have slipped under our noses? Here are 41 tricks and tools for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.
Screen Recorder is convenient and safe software that allows to take PC screen video capture of high quality, with or without sound. The program has no viruses, spyware and unwanted applications. Screen Recorder has been tested by the advanced antivirus systems that proved it is absolutely secure software in its segment.
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Create interactive images with multiple soundbites using this free iOS app
Social media related activities can take up hours of your time.And let’s face it, your time is precious.
Fortunately there are plenty of tools on the market that can help save you time when it comes to managing your social media marketing.
By utilizing these types of tools correctly you can spend more time doing other things that can help your business.In this post I am going to show you a selection of these tools that cover off a number of different social activities that you can use to boost your productivity...
If you sit down with any experienced graphic designer, they’ll happily talk to you for hours about the importance of typography. It’s everywhere you look, from huge billboard ads to the front of your favorite t-shirt. Type can reflect many emotions, but most of us rarely notice its profound impact.
Notegraphy is an iOS and Web app that wants everyone, regardless of their experience in Adobe Illustrator, to have fun with typography and create vibrant, sophisticated examples that can then be shared with their friends online. Just as Instagram made photo-editing dead simple and accessible, Notegraphy wants to do the same with type....
Twice this week I've been asked for alternatives to iBooks Author that students can use to create multimedia books. This is probably a good time to share the three options that I usually recommend. These are listed in the order in which I typically recommend them...
Animated videos can now be created easily using software. Check out these 5 tools and save a lot of money producing these videos.
The initial idea from this post on animated videos came from Nick from List.ly. I love when people share great ideas for posts!
So here goes, here are 5 animation video tools that we have reviewed.
This evening I received a question from a reader who was wondering what I use to create the annotated screen capture images that you see in the guides that I produce. I create those images by using Jing which I have installed on my Mac and Windows computers. There are other services that I have tried from time to time. Those services along with Jing are described below....
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August 17, 2013 5:48 PM
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List of the best free PR tools: Includes news syndication, free media lists, social sharing apps and methods of sourcing media opportunities.
The company behind the .co domain has been working to associate .co websites with startups and innovation. Now its founders are trying to make it as easy as possible to start a business online with a new company called Pop.co.
thisBasically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services that should remove any barrier between coming up with a cool idea and building a web presence around that idea. This approach is particularly important in a future where entrepreneurs run “three or four micro-businesses at a time, easy come, easy go, and you don’t have to keep the domain forever,” said CTO Tom Lackner — he suggested you should even be able to set all this up from your smartphone.
Lackner and CEO Juan Diego Calle gave me a quick demo of Pop.co. You just pick the .co address that you’re interested in (assuming it’s available, and if it’s not, Pop.co will suggest alternatives), then the company automatically claims it for you, and you can either use Pop.co’s simple web page editor to create the page with just a little bit of typing, or use its simple DNS editor to point the website to a page you’ve created on another service like LaunchRock or Barley....
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July 24, 2013 9:11 AM
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Somewhere between a PowerPoint presentation and a full-fledged video is the audio slideshow. Creating audio slideshows can be a good way to add meaning to slides that otherwise might not mean much without a presenter. Here are some ways that anyone can create audio slideshows.....
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July 18, 2013 3:11 PM
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What is Fargo? Fargo is a simple idea outliner, notepad, todo list, project organizer. It's an HTML 5 application, written in JavaScript, runs in any compatible browser, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft IE 10.
Files are stored in Dropbox, using the Dropbox API. They are accessible anywhere Dropbox is. You can share files with other users, or publicly.
How much does Fargo cost? There is no charge to use Fargo. We don't want any limits on the growth because we think outlining is vitally important to the growth of the net as a thinking person's platform. We will eventually offer for-pay services to Fargo users.
Where can I try it? http://fargo.io/
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Instead of sacrificing sleep and leisure time, the answer to your growing responsibilities is to be more productive. And that boils down to two major adjustments to your work day: a) minimizing the time spent on tasks; and b) performing those tasks better and more efficiently, so you earn greater results for less time investment.
The following 50 tools are designed to boost your productivity on everything from contact management to social media analytics. But with productivity in mind, remember that while all these tools are helpful to marketers, you should focus on only those that offer real value to your day. After all, an unneeded productivity tool is the antithesis of productive....
Online Voice Recorder is a free simple application which records sound from microphone.
After recording you can trim the sound and save it to your computer.
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In this collection, we are presenting more than 12 useful online signature maker websites for you. These websites will help you in electronic transactions that are increasing day by day because of the increased trend of business transactions on the internet. Electronic signatures have made it easy to approve online contracts without the fear of having original content being imitated as documents.
The listed websites in this collection let you create your own electronic signature easily without requiring any installation. So here is the complete list after the jump. We hope you will find this collection useful. Do let us know what you think about this compilation....
Are you looking for some new social media tools to add to your arsenal?
Every day, we come across new tools and, each quarter, we write a post where we share some really interesting tools that we have come across. Some of these tools are new, some are in beta and some have been around for a while but we have only recently discovered them.
I’m sure you’ll find something in this list that will help your business!...
Free stuff is great. Free stuff that helps your business is awesome. While there are many free business apps screaming for you to play with them, I’m going to focus on 8 of my favorites.Here are 8 free online services that a small business can use to make life a little less complicated
Code free web brochures. Publish, post, pin, tweet, embed, email, print and share everywhere.
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A primer on the photosharing service that Facebook reportedly offered to buy for $3 billion.
.... How does Snapchat actually work?
Once you've found your friends on Snapchat, you can simply start taking pictures and sending them out to as many friends as you want.The app has a couple of distinguishing features in terms of photo taking. One, users can draw on their photos. So that's funny sometimes. Two, you can caption any photo. Three, you get to set how long — from 1-10 seconds — the photograph will be visible to receivers. Crucially, too, the app tells you when your snaps are opened by the receiver. You know they saw it....
Browser based presentation platforms are quickly gaining ground as HTML5 has made it possible to create robust presentations online without the need for applications like PowerPoint or Keynote.
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Adobe’s Photoshop is the gold standard when it comes to photo-editing software – the preferred tool for many graphic designers and photographers. But many of the complex features that once only a Photoshop pro could do, can now be achieved using basic, free software that comes with your computer or downloaded from the Web. Think cropping, resizing, color adjustments, filters, red-eye removal, and automatic enhancements.
In fact, a lot of useful photo-editing features are built into online photo-sharing sites like Google+ and Flickr. However, what if you want to quickly apply one or two effects without having to become a Photoshop guru? We’ve found and tested a few online alternatives that won’t require you to fire up any photo-editing apps....
Images tend to receive better engagement metrics than regular posts when shared on social networks, so what if you could add underlying content to images in order to further drive brand engagement? Thanks to PassionTag, you can do just that.
PassionTag is a mobile app (currently only for iOS) that essentially allows users to attach content to images via ‘SmartTag’ functionality. The images, along with their SmartTags, can then be shared on Twitter and Facebook, as well as through email and SMS messaging. By leveraging the app, users have the ability to turn static images into interactive photos that contain actionable tags that extend the story they want to tell....
With YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen made publishing videos easy. Now they want to make it just as easy to create them.When Google wanted to boost the quality of YouTube’s content, it gave out $5 million in grants to select creators. YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who sold the service to Google in 2006, are now tackling the same problem, but with a different philosophy.
They hope that a new app they are launching on Thursday, called MixBit, will make shooting quality video scalable and accessible to everyone.“Unfortunately I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content,” Hurley told Fast Company. “I can understand, it’s great to stimulate the community and make money available to them. But I feel that’s a more traditional approach to solving the problem. It’s basically replicating the studio model...I’m looking for something that doesn’t necessarily alienate any group of people, but gives them all equal access.
”That apparently includes people who never shoot any video. With MixBit, as with Instagram video and Vine, users touch their phones’ screens to take multiple video clips that the app combines into one video. But only MixBit allows other people to use those clips, if they’re public, in their own videos....
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July 22, 2013 3:01 PM
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Snapzu is a new social media and curation tool. It feels like a combination of Pinterest and Scoop.it. Basically, you set up a profile, choose a bunch of "tribes" to follow, search and discover content, and create and share posts from your curation as well as new posts you create. It's now in beta stage and is worth exploring though the number of topics and members is still small.
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Ian Cleary shares seven new social media tool discoveries.