Twitter Trials 280 Characters: Good, Bad or just Ugly

Well, what I really liked about twitter is that, with the constraint of limited word count one had to really be to the point without hiding behind long winded posts. However , see the post below by Jonathan Davies, editor, Digital Marketing Magazine.

 

Twitter has announced it is trialling a 280-character limit on its tweets for some users.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was the first to trial the doubled character limit, explaining that it is “a small change, but a big move for us”. He said the social media giant was addressing a “real problem people have when trying to tweet”.

The change will be tested in all languages aside from Chinese, Japanese and Korean – three languages which convey more in a single character than their international counterparts.

In a blog post, Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen, said: “Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain.”

“We understand since many of you have been Tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too.

“But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint,” she said.

 

 

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10 SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS TO BLOW YOUR MIND.

This lovely little one was designed by Kathryn Wheeler and brought to you by MainStreetHost.  Interesting way to visualise the data I must say.

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Google Campus: LONDON – Planning Your Growth: Scaling Your Team

Just saw this event happening at the Google campus in London. Sound quite interesting. As one of the biggest challenge for any startup these days is to have a clear vision of how to scale and grow your business properly.  I have seen many fail at this stage by trying to grow too quickly without planning or being to naive about the need for steady growth and gets eaten up by a competition. 

I might actually go on this one.. If you want to come and network with me – Let me know, it will be fun. 

Here is the Link for the event page: 

When start-ups are founded, the talent is probably the biggest asset it has and as time goes by that won’t change: Attracting, retaining and nurturing the right talent in your scale-up is crucial for its success.

But growing a team isn’t easy – when is the right time to hire? Which roles should you hire for first? How much should you pay? How do you find the best talent? And how do you attract it to your scale-up?

If these questions are of interest to you, then you should come to our event on 28 September. The event is free, and you will hear:

– Bill Boorman, recruitment tech guru, giving a talk on the recruitment technology industry and startups and scaleups can benefit from it

– Hung Lee from Workshape, Alex van Klaveren from Kandidate and Alex Charradaudea from Linkedin, talking about considerations when growing your team, particularly with regards to new technologies which exist

 

Event location

Main Event Space

Event language

English

•  A COMMUNITY-RUN EVENT

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When Facebook goes shopping. 65 Facebook Acquisitions – The Complete List (2017)! [INFOGRAPHIC]

Good people of TechWyse – produced this infographic last year. Its a few month old but still so much relevant as Facebooks race for word domination keeps getting stronger.

 

Facebook or should we say, “The Facebook,” was created by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Initially created solely for college students attending specific schools, Facebook reached one million users in just 10 short months after its inception. Eleven years later in 2016, Facebook has nearly 1.7 billion users! And this doesn’t include its other properties like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger just to name a few.

During this wave of extreme growth, Mark Zuckerberg has acquired 68 companies till date. Facebook’s largest acquisition so far has been WhatsApp Messenger, which they purchased at $19 billion in February 2015. Other notable acquisitions include Instagram ($1 billion in April 2012) and Oculus Virtual Reality ($2 billion in March 2014).

Some of Facebook’s smaller purchases include the domain fb.com, which it bought for $8.5 million in November 2010 and the hosting and sharing platform Drop.io, which it bought for $10 million in October 2010. Just a few million dollars each, no big deal for Facebook, whose IPO started out at $38 per share (in May 2012), which sits at roughly $93 per share in mid/late-August 2015.

This infographic contains the complete list of companies acquired by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from August 2005 till date.

A big thanks to the TechWyse Team who helped to design and manage this infographic. Well done guys!

 

 

 

• AboutFace, August 2005 – $200 K
• Parakey, July 19 2007
• ConnectU, June 23 2008 – $31 Million
• FriendFeed, August 10 2009 – $47.5 Million
• Octazen, February 19 2010
• Divvyshot, March 2 2010
• Friendster, May 13 2010 – $40 Million
• ShareGrove, May 26 2010
• Nextstop, July 8 2010 – $2.5 Million
• Chai Labs, August 15 2010 – $10 Million
• Hot Potato, August 20 2010 – $10 Million
• Drop.io, October 29 2010 – $10 Million
• FB.com domain name, November 15 2010 – $8.5 Million
• Rel8tion, January 25 2011 – Undisclosed
• BELUGA, March 2 2011 – Undisclosed
• snaptu, March 20 2011 – $70 Million
• RecRec, March 24 2011 – Undisclosed
• DayTum, April 27 2011
• Sofa, June 9 2011
• MailRank, June 9 2011
• Push Pop Press, August 2 2011 – Undisclosed
• Friend.ly, October 10 2011 – Undisclosed
• Strobe, November 8 2011 – Undisclosed
• Gowalla, December 2 2011
• Instagram, April 9 2012 – $1 Billion
• Tagtile, April 13 2012 – Undisclosed
• Glancee, May 5 2012 – Undisclosed
• Lightbox.com, May 15 2012 – Undisclosed
• Karma, May 21 2012 – Undisclosed
• Face.com, June 18 2012 – $100 Million
• Spool, July 14 2012 – Undisclosed
• Acrylic Software, July 20 2012 – Undisclosed
• Threadsy, August 24 2012 – Undisclosed
• Atlas, February 28 2013 – Less than $100 Million
• Osmeta, March 2013
• Hot Studio, March 14 2013
• Spaceport, April 23 2013
• Parse, April 25 2013 – $85 Million
• Monoidics, July 18 2013
• Jibbigo, August 12 2013
• Onavo, October 13 2013
• SportStream, December 17 2013
• Little Eye Labs, January 8 2014 – $15 Million
• Branch, January 13 2014 – $15 Million
• WhatsApp, February 19 2014 – $19 Billion
• Oculus VR, March 25 2014 – $2 Billion
• Ascenta, March 27 2014 – $20 Million
• Liverail, August 14, 2014 – $500 Million
• ProtoGeo Oy, April 24 2014 – Undisclosed
• Pryte, June, 2014 – Undisclosed
• PrivateCore, August 7 2014 – Undisclosed
• WaveGroup Sound, August 26 2014 – Undisclosed
• Wit.ai, January 6 2015 – Undisclosed
• Quickfire, January 8 2015 – Undisclosed
• TheFind, March 14 2015 – Undisclosed
• Surreal Vision, May 26 2015 – Undisclosed
• Pebbles, July 16 2015 – $60 Million
• Masquerade, March 9 2016 – Undisclosed
• Two Big Ears, March 23, 2016 – Undisclosed
• Nascent Objects, September 19 2016 – Undisclosed

The total cost of Facebook’s acquisitions to date is $ 23,124,700, 000. And that’s just from the acquisition costs they disclosed!

 

 

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How to find really cool icons and similar images for FREE!

Ok folks, when I posted that other post about how to find free stock photos one of my clients called me up and he had an interesting question.

He asked “all good about typical stock photos but where can I find some really cool icons.” I obviously told him where to find them but also thought you lot could also benefit from it.

There are two places where I usually go hunting for icons. Both has paid and FREE options. If you are using the free option make sure you always cite the actual author / designer.  Its just good Karma people.

Oh by the way – I am NOT an affiliate of either! haha

Iconfinder

Flaticons

Have fun!

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21 Amazing Sites With Breathtaking Free Stock Photos

Ok, it has been a while since my last post. Been otherwise engaged in another project that has been taking a lot of my time. However, fret not, I promise to be a bit more regular from now on. 

Yesterday, Schnell, a of colleague of mine asked me if I knew any sites where she can get a few nice images for free. She is actually working on a pitch deck. So I can only understand why she wants it to look nice. So, I looked around a little and found this amazing post at Snappa. I hope it helps any one who is also looking for the same. 

 

Photography has always been an integral part of design. Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing crappy stock images of people in suits shaking hands. Not only are a lot of these stock photos tacky, but they cost a lot of money!

Thankfully, there’s been a growing number of websites with beautiful stock photography popping up all over the web. Best of all, they’re free!

In this post, we’ve curated a list of awesome websites for free stock photos.

Quick Note About Licenses

Many of these photographs are free from copyright restrictions or licensed under creative commons public domain dedication. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

However, some photos may require attribution. We’ve done our best to identify which license they fall under but we still advise you to do your own research and determine how these images can be used.

With that out of the way, let’s dive into our top picks for free stock photos.

 

StockSnap.io

StockSnap.io has a large selection of beautiful free stock photos and high resolution images. The site also has a very handy search feature making it easy to browse through the thousands of images available. In addition, the site tracks views and downloads so you can find the most popular photos available.

StockSnap adds hundreds of images on a daily basis and all photos are released under creative commons public domain – no attribution required.

Unsplash

Unsplash offers a large collection of free high-resolution photos and has become one of the best sources for stock images. The Unsplash team combs through new submissions and features the very best photos on their homepage. All photos are released for free under the Unsplash license.

Burst (by Shopify)

Burst is a resource from Shopify that provides free stock photos for entrepreneurs. All photos are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 and can be used as you see fit.

Burst was launched to help entrepreneurs make better products, websites, and marketing campaigns. Most of the pictures are original photos that were taken in-house and are themed around trending business niches — everything from DIY beard oil to Aliexpress LED sneakers. You can also find more general photographs as well.

FoodiesFeed

FoodiesFeed offers thousands of beautiful realistic free food pictures in high resolution. It’s the perfect stock photo site for food bloggers.

Gratisography

Gratisography offers free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New awesome pictures are added weekly and are free of copyright restrictions. All pictures are captured by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design.

Negative Space

Negative Space provides 20 new photos every week released under Creative Commons CC0. The photos are searchable and can be sorted by category, copy space and color.

Freestocks.org

Freestock offers a wide range of high quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0.

Picography

Picography contains beautiful free stock photos submitted by Dave Meier and various other photographers. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

MMT STock

MMT Stock is a collection of high resolution photos provided by Jeffrey Betts. Jeffrey likes to share photos of computers and workspaces as well as flowers and nature. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

SkitterPhoto

SkitterPhoto offers a wide variety of free stock photos and are released under Creative Commons CC0. All pictures are authentic and created by Skitterphoto’s owners.

Life of Pix

Life of Pix is a resource created by the LEEROY creative agency offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. New pictures are added weekly.

Little Visuals

This mention comes with a bit of sad news. The owner of the site Nic passed away but his photos remain in his memory. All photos that have been posted were released under the creative commons license public domain dedication.

Death to Stock Photos

Every month a photo pack of 10 photos within a certain category will be delivered to your inbox. The goal of Death to Stock Photos is to bring you a variety of options in which to use for your mockups, blog posts or social media.

Death to stock photo uses their own license which you can read on their webpage.

Picjumbo

Picjumbo is a collection of totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. New photos are added daily from a wide variety of categories including abstract, fashion, nature, technology and much more.

IM Free

Photo by Kevin N. Murphy

A curated collection of free resources, all for commercial use. Since the photos are curated from various sources, some photos may require attribution.

New Old Stock

Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions.

Pixabay

Pixabay offers a large collection of free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

Jay Mantri

7 new photos released every Thursday under the Creative Commons CC0 license. Jay Mantri posts some really nice photos with a variety of different themes.

Kaboom Pics

Kaboom Pics offers a wide variety of high quality free stock photos including abstract, city/architecture, fashion, food, landscapes and more. Photos can be used for commercial purposes but cannot be sold or redistributed.

Epicantus

Epicantus contains free original photography by Daria. You can use these hi-res photos for your landing pages, blog posts & designs. All photos are released under creative commons CC0.

ShotStash

ShotStash offers a broad range of photos; they add new images every day under a free for commercial and personal use license.

StyledStock

StyleStock offers free feminine stock photography for every woman entrepreneur. The collection is totally free for your commercial & personal works.

 

Conclusion

As you can see, there’s a growing number of fantastic resources for stock photography. These websites have become a blessing for designers, marketers and bloggers. No need to rely on cheesy stock photos anymore!

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