The Best Websites for Backing Up and Sharing Your Data in the Cloud for Free

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We’ve been told many times how important backups are, although we may not realize it until it’s too late and our data’s gone. You can backup your PC’s data to external media, but free online backup services provide useful redundancy that could save your data.

We’ve discussed cloud computing previously, or running a web or internet-based application from a major provider like Google or Microsoft, but the “cloud” could also be used to provide an offsite location for your data backups.

5 Reasons People Aren’t Sharing Your Content

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Sometimes trying to get people to share your content feels like pulling teeth. There are only so many times you can hit up your closest friends saying, “Would you pretty please share this? I promise it’s awesome!” You shouldn’t have to hit them up at all because your content should speak for itself. If you’re finding that your content isn’t being shared, these are most likely the reasons why…

20 Viral Funny Animal Pictures Shared on Facebook

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If you are one of those Facebook addicts who spend more time on Facebook than doing any other tasks, then you may be one of those who always see funny pictures in Facebook. Just to admit the fact, I’m one of those Facebook addicts and one of my favorite categories of funny images in Facebook is the funny animal pictures. Those funny pictures always complete my day. In fact, it is a good stress reliever.

This Generation on the Web: Chatting, Sharing, Streaming, and Securing - Infographic

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Teens are immersed in video, whether it’s using video chat applications, shooting and sharing video, or streaming video live for others to view. That said, with more video use comes more security risk. Let’s explore just how much teens chat, share, and stream, and look at a few simple steps you can take to protect yourself.

The History Of Photo Sharing [Infographic]

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Photo sharing has come a long way. 20 years ago the process of taking, processing, and distributing a photo could take weeks or longer. Now, all you have to do is pull out your smartphone, snap a high-resolution photo, add a few filters to it, and you have a decent looking photo.

These sort of technological advancements create/destroy opportunities for entrepreneurs. Many small startup companies were stunned to see Istagram being bought for a billion dollars. Now we have an image sharing based social network pop-up every month or so. This kind of saturation cannot go on forever, the next market disruption is bound to happen very soon. The question is; who will it be?

Top 20 pinners with most reach on Pinterest

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Who dominates Pinterest?

The site doesn’t say; there’s no official “top pinners” list.

But PinReach, a site that does analytics on Pinterest, has a list of the users with the “highest reach.”

The scores come from a formula that takes into account pins, repins, and followers.

Why Did Facebook Buy Instagram? Introducing Facebook Camera

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UPDATE 2: Huffington Post has edited their original article. They now state that the Instagram app deal will close later this year, not the whole app.
In case you were as baffled when you heard that Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 Billion, you weren’t alone. But news today shows the reason. Facebook has announced their next product: Facebook Camera.

UPDATE 1: Facebook has said that Instagram employees did not work on the new Facebook Camera app as the acquisition is still in process. They also announced that it expects the Instagram app to close sometime this year. Wait, what? The purchase of Instagram looks more and more like just an action to remove a competitor. But because there are so many apps out there, if that really is the reason the purchase can look sort of unnecessary and, well, silly. Unless HuffPost made a major boo boo with their reporting…

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

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A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let’s dig in.

Instagram and Facebook Camera have the exact same promise: the easiest (and most fun!) way to share pictures from your life with people in your life. Both rely on the same general process: fire up the app, select a photo, add a filter if you’re feeling sassy, and upload to the world. But there are some serious differences that should make anyone using Instagram and/or Facebook to reevaluate how they spread photos around.

12 Free Online Creative Portfolio Community Sites

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A portfolio website is a good way to promote your designing skills online. You might be aware of the portfolio communities which the designers have in different social networking sites. These sites give them portfolio pages and also personal profiles. The portfolio communities do not have only professional graphic designers hovering around but also some users who are new and want to learn making a new portfolio.

There are some free platforms for the people where they can learn to be creative professionals and the output is really nice. Some dynamic portfolio’s can be built for the latest projects in your hand. They are insights for creative professionals and leaders from the creative industry use it to hire talented people. One can form groups, share content or receive the feedback from this network. Some sites let you manage and display your portfolio at the same time. They have a range of tools which lets you modify the work you wish to showcase. You just to signup and fill the form and you reach the personal dashboard. The about tab is clicked to fill in the personal details to make it the way you wish the portfolio to appear in public. You can add projects along with images, flash movies. The projects are to be grouped with details like title, description, client URL etc.