Create a Soil Cake for Pie Charts and Infographics

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Infographics are an efficient and fun way to present data. You may notice, however, that infographics are often flat vector illustrations. What if you wanted to create something a bit more photo realistic? In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a soil cake using photographic elements for use in pie charts. Let’s get started!

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The fancy app and Twitter client Falcon Pro, which is still arguably one of the best and most popular Twitter apps for Android has received a nice new update. However, it is causing a few issues for many while also resetting the log-in and making users start all over. Twitter imposes a ridiculous 100,000 user limit for 3rd party apps, and as a result this app has already reached the limit multiple times. The developer has freed up a few unused tokens, but read on below for more details.

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Last night the developers behind the wildly popular Twitter client pushed out a nice new update that brings a new UI, tons of bug fixes, and new features. At the same time they’ve also updated the application on the Play Store with a new version that resets all 100,000 tokens.

The reason behind this is ...

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Facebook Claims Mobile Ads Cost More Than Desktop Ads

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CANNES, FRANCE — Bucking an industry trend, the price tag on Facebook‘s mobile ads are higher than those for its desktop ads, according to Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s VP of global marketing solutions.

Everson says CMPs — the prices for ads to reach 1,000 customers — are higher on mobile than on desktop, though she declined to specify the difference. The higher costs for mobile may reflect the fact that right-hand column direct-response Marketplace ads that appear on Facebook desktop don’t run on mobile. CPMs on mobile overall are $ 0.75 compared with $ 3.50 for desktop, according to a presentation from Wall Street analyst Mary Meeker in 2012. Read more…

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How to Leverage Investment in Video to Build More Links

Posted by PhilNottingham

Video can be an expensive and time-consuming investment. For small businesses especially, the cost of producing video will always have to be weighed against other marketing investments, and the sad truth is that video can be a tough sell — especially when the ROI from its significant expense is hard to predict or quantify.

I think part of the problem is that most marketers (including SEOs) don’t have a very good understanding of the value that video can provide for them; they see virality, branding, and perhaps increasing conversion rates as the extent of it. Video as a media type, however, has potential on which few people capitalise: the ability to secure fantastic, high quality links back to your site.

In this post, I want to outline nine ways in which...

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