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Twitter #MothersDay

Twitter Pushes You To Call Your Mom for #MothersDay

To celebrate Mother’s Day 2013, Twitter just published a funny public service announcement video pushing their users to call their mom for the occasion rather than dropping them a tweet. In today’s connected world, a social network producing a video asking people to disconnect sometimes and have more personal communication with their entourage maybe considered […]

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Unicef Likes Don't Save Lives

UNICEF: Likes Don’t Save Lives. Money Does.

UNICEF Sweden recently released its latest ad to raise funds for their children polio vaccination campaign. This spot reminds us, that liking the NGO’s Facebook page does not save live and that even if the page is expected to reach 200,000 likes this summer, it does not necessarily mean that the poor kids in the […]

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Marks Homepage

Mark Zuckerberg’s First Website

The first website built by the man who created Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is believed to be entitled Mark’s Homepage and saw the light in 1999 when Zuckerberg was only 15 years old. On his page, Zuckerberg had many sections: A java drawing tool, a tool that shows connections between people entitled “The Web” which seems […]

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Facebook NewsFeed New Look

What Does The New Facebook NewsFeed Look Like?

It’s been two years since the last redesign of Facebook and now the time has come for a newly redesigned News Feed! The most popular social network is giving a new look to what is called the News Feed where you can see all the content related to your friends, pages you’re connected to and […]

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Facebook Like

Facebook Likes Competitions Are ILLEGAL

I can still see some competitions running on Facebook pages in which the voting mechanisms is the like feature. The most common example is photo competitions: “The picture with the highest number of likes will win…”. Well, this is ILLEGAL according to Facebook Pages Terms. This rule exists for a long time now but it […]

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The JR Express 100th post: Your Opinion

. My dear readers, This is my 100th blogpost and for the occasion I’d like to get your opinion on The JR Express and what I should improve Please post a comment on this blogpost and express freely your opinion about the blog. If you prefer to do this by e-mail you can send me […]

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Tomorrow Twitter “Search” and “Discovery” Will Change!

Pankaj Gupta, an engineer working at Twitter.com, announced today in a tweet that the two Twitter sections, “Search” and “Discovery”, will change tomorrow! What do you think we should expect?

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The Future Is Ours

The Future is Ours: Does It Inspire You?

.“The future excites me so much, that is why I made this video. We need to be inspired by the immense possibilities of the future and work extremely hard to achieve them. We can do it, we just have to commit. ” Michael Marrantz. Visually beautiful, quiet inspirational and generating optimism, this is a video […]

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Facebook Olympics Page

Facebook Launches the 2012 Olympics Page

Yes you read it right, Facebook is launching a page and not someone launching a Facebook page. Today, the social network unveiled a special page for the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Click to access) A really cool idea offering a listing of all the official pages of the athletes participating in the London 2012 olympics […]

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Twitter Profile Jad Rahme

The Effective Character Limit – Why Your Tweet Limit Should Be Less Than 140 Characters

If you want to publish an effective tweet you should set a limit of less than 140 characters and here is why. . What is an Effective Tweet? An effective tweet is one that would generate an engagement with your community (Getting retweeted and receiving replies etc.). In a ReTweet, a certain number of characters is […]

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