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The tech industry’s movers and shakers have been saying for months now that the HTML5 is very important. New data released Friday indicates that HTML5 is not just going to be big, it’s going to be huge — and it’s coming fast. More than 2.1 billion mobile devices will have HTML5 browsers by 2016, up from just 109 million in 2010, ...

Posted by randfishI'm embarrassed to say that sometimes, I really don't do a good job of putting SEOmoz's best foot forward. Case-in-point: this past week, our SERPs Analysis Tool, one of the most requested, most exciting and most useful projects we've ever crafted had a new release that now includes social data in the report. Thomas and Evan, two remarkable ...

At the end of yesterday’s Google earnings call, CEO Larry Page made a very interesting comment about data portability, Google+, and competitors (aka Facebook). In the call, an analyst asked Page what the most compelling reasons are to switch from existing social platforms to Google+ or if the company sees a future where people can be a part of multiple ...

Founded in October of last year, India-based Freshdesk aims to provide the best customer support platform in the cloud, specifically for small and medium businesses (SMBs). CEO and founder Girish Mathrubootham explained Freshdesk to Penn-Olson: Think of Freshdesk as the Salesforce.com of customer support. Freshdesk is an on-demand customer support platform that enables small and medium sized businesses to roll out ...

Facebook is the biggest and most preferred social media platform when it comes to driving web traffic but now give it a second thought. Apparently StumbleUpon is driving more traffic to US websites as compared to Facebook at least for now as reported by StatCounter. The company took Facebook's place late June 2011 and then over took it in the ...

Always a pleasure to find that there are innovative startups building really cool stuff in my own backyard. Meet Wondergraphs, a bootstrapped company that is building Web-based software that lets people do beautiful things with data. Suddenly, analyzing corporate – or publicly available – data and creating graphs for reporting purposes becomes much more exciting than what it sounds like. The ...

Applifier, which helps games get discovered on Facebook, has launched a new mobile discovery bar to make it easier for social games to spread on mobile devices. The bar is part of a cross-promotion network. Applifier chief exec Jussi Laakkonen told VentureBeat that the mobile tool will let users view a recommended game from high-profile spots such as the opening screen ...

Applifier, which helps games get discovered on Facebook, has launched a new mobile discovery bar aimed at making it easier for social games to spread on mobile devices. The bar is essentially part of a cross-promotion network. Jussi Laakkonen, (pictured far left in below picture) the chief executive of Applifier and a speaker at GamesBeat 2011 yesterday, said in an interview ...

A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia. Erik Zachte, a data analyst at the Wikimedia Foundation, takes it from the angle of those who are actually editing Wikipedia. The animated map shows edits from a single day (May 10, 2011, to be exact) when there were nearly 370,000 edits from around the world. Watch the edits ...

Today, LinkedIn passed Myspace to become the second largest social network in the U.S. LinkedIn has seen a surge in traffic since it went public in May and reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June. Taking advantage of the professional social network’s continuing growth, Roger Lee, the co-founder of PaperG, has built a cool little ...

It seems as though the minute the iPad was announced, innumerable light bulbs went off as developers and entrepreneurs everywhere came to the same realization: "We could totally use this device as a digital whiteboard!" Indeed, a search for the word "whiteboard" in the App Store returns a whopping 170 iPad apps. Although the device's 10-inch screen may not ...

Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen a resurgence of traffic after its IPO in May, reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June compared to Myspace, which saw 33.5 million unique visitors (that’s down ...

Facebook has removed the ability for Page admins to tag their friends when posting as their Page. Previously, Pages could use this ability to highlight people who authored content they were posting, or to thank admins and loyal fans. However, being tagged by a Page may have led users to receive unwanted friend requests. The change may be designed to push ...

The reason why WordPress is preferred by majority of bloggers is due to the number of plugins available for it. If you browse WordPress plugins database, you will notice that the number of plugins available for WordPress are endless. There are plugins which help you improve SEO of your blogs, integrate social networks, submit your blogs to different search engines, ...