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India's first satellite sent to orbit the Red Planet is tweeting @MarsOrbiter. 

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Just hit 11,111 on Pinterest. Next target 22,222 followers. 

Thank you pinterest-uk for featuring me to new users. 

Please drop by if you are on Pinterest - http://www.pinterest.com/firdaushaque/

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8 year old runs Evan Tube and earns $1.3 Million a year by reviewing toys. 

via: http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-evantubehd-2014-9

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Cat on the Car

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Look at this fucking hipster

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Wednesday in ReadWriteWeb, Jon Mitchell posted a very pointed opinion on how Google's social network, Google+, is leading to gradual, though noticeable, adjustments in how all of Google's services work. In his article, Jon provided evidence that Google search results appear to favor recommendations on Google+ that link to an article that meets the search criteria, over a direct link to the article itself.

Writes Jon, "Google used to be about organizing the world's information. It was a service to the entire Web. But this social tangent is changing that. It's turning the Web into a Google+ popularity contest." However, he also writes that other Google users in his Google+ circles tell him they get different results.

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Small businesses use QR codes to give more information to customers and prospects on their smart phones. Although they have been around for almost 20 years, few businesses have discovered the “superpowers” of this new version of the bar code. Here are 10 superpowers that QR codes can provide in the marketing of your business.

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QR Code Wedding Cake

Cake Studio in Winnipeg used a QR Code to promote “Win a Dream Wedding” as Contest Cake Sponsor at The Wonderful Wedding Show in January 2012. 

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Did you know that almost half of the TV shows that are recorded are played back on the same day? How about that the average Netflix customer watches five TV shows and four movies a week? Or that (no real surprise here) visits to video streaming and sharing sites continue to climb?

A new infographic from the Gerson Lehrman Group shows these and a few other interesting trends too. For example, Dell was able to cut service calls by posting video how-tos on its support site. This and other TV oddities can be found below.

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Google Chrome made a booboo, and now its own company is punishing it. Yesterday, the news broke that bloggers were being paid to use SEO spam tactics to boost the Google Chrome website's page ranking in search. Hundreds of paid articles, many of them totally incoherent, were used to promote Chrome. At least one of them violated Google's policy against paid links. As Google's search guru Matt Cutts wrote in 2009, "paid posts should not affect search engines."

So that was awkward. Fortunately for Google, the infraction could be blamed on Unruly Media, the third-party company Google hired to promote Chrome. Links from the paid posts were supposed to use the rel="nofollow" tag, so they wouldn't affect page rank. At least one blogger didn't, even though Unruly "advised" them to. In order for Google to get out of this mess, it would have to punish itself as it has done to others. Sure enough, Google says it will reduce Chrome's page rank.