Adobe vs. Apple: Is Website Development Dead with Flash Dead?

Last month, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will no longer be using Flash on its devices like the iPad, iPod touch or iPhone. He then went on to give 6 reasons to back the statement.

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11 Tools and Tips for Social Media and Business

There is no need for you to spend excessive amounts of time researching, tracking and analyzing your sites; rather begin using these 5 social media tools:

• MajesticSEO offers link analysis and acquisition counts.  Site owners can get full reports on their website. There is also a paid version that gives you link details on your competition and helps you find high impact links for SEO.
• Andy Beal's Trakur monitors social media sites giving you insight into what others are saying about your brand, identifies their influences and shoes where they are commenting
  
  
• SocialMention is a free Real Time and social search tool that crawls social media sites. It has a variety of options, outputs and tools that help you create spreadsheets to track your progress.
• PostRank shows you what topics are hot, so you can include information about the most popular search queries.
• bit.ly is a URL shortener that allows you to create a domain name for Twitter and Facebook that is recognized as your own.

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14 Tools and Applications for Combining Business and Social Media

Now that you have set up accounts at a few (or several) social media profiles, you will want to use it to its full potential. Of course, maintaining a social media listing takes time, so learning how to get the most of your efforts is important. Fortunately, making your company's social media profile profitable can be done through the effective use of tools and applications that can increase your business while decreasing the number of hours you spend on your Facebook, Twitter, Buzz or other social media profiles.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media to Promote Your Business

Reasons to Use Social Media for Business, Part 1

As few as 3 years ago, the use of social media sites and their relevance to business was unheard of. Today, however, savvy businesses are approaching their advertising and marketing resources with a bend toward social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Buzz and others. In fact, according to the observations by the Center for Marketing Research, the Inc. 500 companies are outperforming Fortune companies largely due to the use of social media. In addition, Facebook recently topped Google as the most visited website on the internet. If you are not using a social media website, then you are missing out on a large customer base-and who wants to do that?

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