A study from BrightEdge examining the prevalence of social plugins on the home pages of major sites shows that Facebook is still the most dominant social button on the web.

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Google +1 Button on More Homepages than Tweet Button

Webmaster level: Beginner Like any curious netizen, I have a Google Alert set up to email me whenever my name is mentioned online. Usually I get a slow trickle of my forum posts , blog posts , and tweets

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Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics

This title is a bit of a shocker, but it’s true, but before I can explain it fully you need to hear the background to my story. Back in December 2010 I bought a website off Anthony, the website is called Cockatiel Care, it’s a terrible looking static site that for some reason had been Adding Your Site To Webmaster Tools May Reduce Your Rankings is a post from: Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog .

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Adding Your Site To Webmaster Tools May Reduce Your Rankings

*FREE TWO-DAY SHIPPING* on orders over $100 Just in time for Xmas! Each of these gifty goodies ships free in time for Christmas! Leather Camera Satchel (new!) Lomo 360-Spinner (Full 360 deg 35mm pano cam) The Pocket Square Digi (Pocket-sized square-format film & video camera) The SLR Sloop Bag (Our original Sloop Bag for your DSLR, lenses, and more!) and more… Last week, Alexandre Oudin elevated the lowly Facebook profile picture to art form

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Create the Ultimate Facebook Profile Pic

Though it sounds like a coordinated organisation, the reality is that it’s more like a stampeding herd – and members are fearful of standing up and being counted “Just don’t use my name, OK, please?” said the person on the other end of the phone. “I don’t want this to get out.” His cause for concern

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Inside ‘Anonymous’: tales from within the group taking aim at Amazon and Mastercard

With Omega-3 for a smarter puppy. Pedigree

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Pedigree: Home Alone

Watching Google destroy Cr-48 laptops for fun can’t have been easy for any of you, but it turns out that the wily geeks of Mountain View had a clandestine purpose to their malevolence after all.

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Google hides mathematical puzzle in Cr-48 video, rewards its solver with a laptop

The plan is that a digital hub will provide fibre connections to every community in the UK by 2015 The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will today announce a further £50m of funding for new projects to push forward the government’s ambitions to get superfast broadband to every community in the UK. The intention is to get a “digital hub” connected by fibre optics in every area by 2015.

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Extra £50m pledged for superfast broadband everywhere in UK by 2015

Edward Horsford has taken a series of high-speed pictures that captures a water balloon…without the balloon. The shots are snapped at the point of explosion, when the balloon skin breaks open.

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Holding An Exploded Water Balloon [Photography]

Every now and then, I receive calls from publishers asking me which books I would like to review for you.  Some of them I turn down.  But when I heard the title The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done , I quickly said yes and asked them to send me a copy.

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The Smart Swarm: A Fun and Engaging Way to Learn About Bugs and Business