Are you looking for valuable tips, education, or inspiration on social media marketing? Here are 15 of the most eye-opening blogs to help you in 2021. 1. Social Media Examiner Social Media Examiner is one of the largest marketing communities in the world. They help businesses discover tips and tricks on using social media and digital to connect with customers, create awareness, drive web traffic, and generate ROI and sales. You can find a lot of inspiration and help from a range of prominent social media influencers via articles, expert interviews, original research, podcasts, videos, and news. Social Media Examiner…
Author: Loknath Das
In August 2021, Gartner released a report that located emerging technologies along what it calls a “hype cycle,” which illustrates the maturation of new industries and products. It placed nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, at the top of a curve termed the “Peak of Inflated Expectations”—a moment in time when a technology receives a great deal of publicity, both positive and negative, attracting some companies to embrace it while scaring off many others. However, I would argue that NFTs haven’t yet reached that point but rather are still at the “Innovation Trigger” stage, where the technology’s commercial viability is still being developed. This…
Instagram is getting a new feature that allows users to embed a miniature version of their profiles on websites. With the latest Profile Embed functionality, users can showcase their Instagram content on third-party sites or link to someone else’s profile. Alongside the Profile Embed, the social media company has highlighted the recently launched Playback feature for Instagram Stories and Reels Visual Replies. With the Playback feature, users can create an end-of-year collection of up to 10 Stories to share with their followers. The Reels Visual Replies lets to respond to comment with a Reels video of up to 60 seconds.…
When your debts become more than you can manage each month, especially your credit card payments, one option many people consider is a debt consolidation loan. Like every approach to managing what you owe, consolidation loans have pros and cons — including the chance that a lender may not approve your application due to your circumstances. If you’ve been turned down, you may wonder what factors lenders consider in evaluating a consolidation loan application, what you can do to improve your chances for approval in the future, or what other options you can consider. WHAT IS A DEBT CONSOLIDATION LOAN?…
In today’s digital world, we seem to be surrounded by news. Clickbait, anyone? Yet the pervasive and often intrusive nature of internet news articles belies the fact that many of these sites are behind a paywall, biased, or feature low-quality reporting. Still, online articles are a great starting point for all kinds of learning assignments across the curriculum. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best free article websites for students. Many of these sites offer not only high-quality topical articles on every subject, but also ideas for lessons, such as questions, quizzes, and discussion prompts. Student Article Websites…
Netflix has hired veteran video game executive Mike Verdu, signaling the video streaming service is poised to expand into another fertile field of entertainment. Verdu’s addition as Netflix’s vice president of game development, confirmed Thursday, comes as the company seeks to sustain the momentum it gathered last year when people turned to the video streaming service to get through lockdowns imposed during the pandemic. Netflix wound up adding 37 million worldwide subscribers last year, by far the largest annual gain in its history. But the landscape has changed dramatically now that the easing pandemic has allowed people to return to…
It seems so simple, but the Internet is a complex web of connections. And that web looks a lot like a medusa jellyfish, according to new research by scientists in Israel. Within the Internet, they say, there is a dense core of connections surrounded by lots of tentacle-like links. Until now, scientists have had a hard time mapping the structure of the Internet. That’s because it formed almost by accident in the 1960s and 1970s, when universities, government agencies, and companies first decided to link their computer networks so that they could share information. The Internet grew as new groups…
Ten teachers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, scrambled for $1 bills on hands and knees last week during a hockey game, spurring critics to call the event “dehumanizing” and “dystopian,” according to the Washington Post. The event was intended to help teachers pay for classroom supplies and other materials, according to the report. Schools had to apply to enter the competition, dubbed “Dash for Cash,” which featured $5,000 in $1 bills donated by a local mortgage company. The cash was dumped on a carpet on the ice rink and teachers raced to stuff bills into their pockets. “Teachers should never have…
A farmer using a mobile phone while resting in the back of a tractor trolley on a blocked highway during a protest against new farm laws, at Singhu Border (Delhi-Haryana) in New Delhi, India. Image by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images On January 26, Nidhi Suresh of Newslaundry travelled with farmers from the Singhu border to Red Fort but could not send any information back to her newsroom. The same day, Asmita Nandy of The Quint could not look up the speeches that protestors at the Singhu border kept referring to. On January 27, independent journalist Saahil Murli…
Video gamers are helping researchers discover methods to design RNA structures. The authors of a study published in PLOS Computational Biology on June 27 analyzed 1.8 million moves by players in a RNA design game. The players are given a target RNA structure and asked to change the RNA sequence to try to match the target. The developers of the game report that approaches based on those choices can be used to create algorithms for a computer to construct RNA. R.V. Koodli et al., “EternaBrain: Automated RNA design through move sets and strategies from an Internet-scale RNA videogame,” PLOS Comput Biol, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007059, 2019.…