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📅 Oct 27, 2015 - More than One-Fourth of Brits Wish Social Media Didn’t Exist - A recent survey revealed that 26% of Brits wish social media had never been invented. However, the same survey showed that 10% of Brits admit they cannot live without social media.

Apadmi, a mobile app developer surveyed 1,124 people about what they wish had never been invented. Social media was near the top of the list with 26% of the vote. However, selfie sticks topped the list with 46%, while speed cameras came in second with more than 38% of the vote.

Other items taking a large percentage of the vote include freemium games with 26% and smart watches with 15%.

The same survey also revealed that 42% of Brits said they cannot live without tablets and mobile phones. Even 28% said they ...

📅 Oct 27, 2015 - Node.js Support to be Increased by Parse - Heroku, a cloud platform will soon be increasing support for Node.js code. They have reached a partnership with Parse to connect Parse apps to the Node.js code.

The integration between the two will add customization and flexibility to the platform. Parse has already released Node.js middleware to help make the connection. Users can even link their Parse account and Heroku account easily.

This is just one of the recent acquisitions including adding Node.js support. ...

📅 Oct 26, 2015 - Does Your Website Run Fast Enough? - In the online world, speed it everything. Nobody wants to wait for a website to load. In fact, you have about 3 seconds to capture each visitor's attention when they visit your site. If it takes 5 to 8 seconds for your site to load, they may already be gone.

Fast-loading websites are favored by visitors and by search engines. Both Google and Bing have admitted that load times factor into the overall ranking of websites with their algorithms. Anything more than three seconds is simply unacceptable.

Checking your Load Times


Before you start making changes to make your site load faster, check your load times with GTmetrix.com or Pingdom.com. Both will show you how quickly your site loads ...

📅 Oct 27, 2015 - 5 Content Marketing Tips Every Business Needs - Marketing is a vital and ever-changing thing for many businesses. If you want to build your business, you need to market. Those online can leverage content marketing to bring more traffic and better ranking to their website and blog. Here are a few tips to help you with your content marketing.

It all Starts with Quality

If you plan to use content marketing, you need to make sure the content is high quality. Low quality content will do more damage than good. Make sure the content you place on your website, blog and other sites provides something useful for the reader. If you can solve an issue or answer a question, you will be delving value, which makes the content high ...

📅 Oct 27, 2015 - HostPapa Named as One of the Fastest Growing Canadian Businesses - HostPapa, a Canadian hosting provider, was recently given the distinction as one of the fastest growing businesses in Canada. The business was established in 2006 and they are based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

HostPapa offers many different types of web hosting services including cloud-based packages. They manage over 500K websites and provides fully green hosting. The company was also named to the 27th Annual PROFIT 500 list. ...

📅 Oct 28, 2015 - User Error to Blame for Cloud Security Risks - According to a Skyhigh Networks Report, many of the enterprise security risks come from cloud user error. The report looked at many organizations with at least one employee account per month. It comes from usage data of more than 23 million cloud users covering many different industries.

Skyhigh pointed out that there is a connection between the risks observed by user behavior and the prediction from Gartner that 95% of cloud security failures will be the fault of the customer through ...