BackUp & Download Instagram Photos from Instaport

Instagram users are uncertain as to what will be the fate of their photos and the app itself after Facebook acquisition, although Mark Zuckerberg has promised to keep Instagram as an independent app.

25 Innovative Facebook Cover Photos For Creative Inspiration

Today we have got a collection of Facebook Timeline Cover Photos used by various users from around the World. They have done creative work with there Cover Photos. Here are 25 Facebook Users who have full creative advantage of there Timeline. If you would like to do some clever with your cover photo, but are lacking inspiration, then we're here to help you! Check out the Cover Photos below.

View Your Facebook Photos in Pinterest Layout

Pinterest has an attractive Image layout using panels, which makes browsing the pinned images a pleasure and highly addictive. Friendsheet is a Application that will help you view your Facebook Photos in similar way like Pinterest.

Emma Watson- Most Dangerous Web Celebrities of 2012

It is dangerous celebrities time! Be AWARE of that links promising provocative photos and videos of celebrities particularly Harry Potter star Emma Watson.

The popular Security Software firm McAfee revealed the names of the most riskiest & dangerous celebrities to search for in the web. Emma Watson is the Super Celebrity who has received the No. 1 Spot in this year's Top 10 list of Most Dangerous Celebrities.

How to post Photos/ Pictures in your Blog.

Posting pictures

You can now upload photos to your blog(s) using Blogger Images; just click the image icon in the post editor's toolbar.

When you click this icon, you'll get a window that allows you to select an image or multiple images from your computer. Click the Browse button to locate the ones you want. Alternatively, you can enter the URL of an image that's already online and insert it into your post.

Google gets Makeover: Google+ Improves it's features

While Facebook's Timeline is rolling out to users in time for the new year, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is fitting a handful of features into its own social network in time for Christmas.

Over the next few days, Google+ users will be able to access a noise filter, a redesigned photo application, administrative designations for Google+ Pages and improved notifications.

First, the noise filter is a control that lets users fine-tune their Google+ Stream so that they don't miss posts from people they enjoy following most on the network. The tool sits atop the Stream as a "slider" that lets users tell their Stream to show no posts, fewer posts, most posts or every post from a specific stream.

Google Inc’s vice president of Google+ products Bradley Horowitz said, “Today we’re pleased to announce a goodie basket full of Google+ features and functionality for you to unpack and enjoy over the holidays. Some of these were on nearly everyone’s wishlist… and some we hope will be welcome surprises. These features will be rolling out over the next couple of days, and we hope you’ll find them useful this holiday season and beyond”.

Watch the video to know How to Adjust the volume of Circles your Stream ?

Google also significantly improved the Google+ Photos application. When users view a photo in Lightbox, a JavaScript application that lets users click an image to have it magnified in a window, they will enjoy better navigation and comments.

Moreover, a new photo-tagging experience lets users "quickly focus on the people in your photos," according to Horowitz. See the Lightbox and tagging improvements in action here.

Google launched Google+ Pages for business brands in November, allowing companies, celebrities and organizations to tout themselves on Google+.

Thanks to user feedback, Google is now allowing brands to delegate as many as 50 managers as administrators who can lord over a brand Page. There is also a new "notification flow" so that managers of brands can gauge all the activity that takes place on a page. Think of it as a social media monitoring aid for Google+ business users.

Google said it will also show an aggregated count of users who have engaged with a brand page by +1  it or by adding it to a Circle. The idea is to give brands some quick and dirty feedback about who is visiting and engaging with their brand page.

Finally, Google added "sneak previews" for notifications that alert users to what's new and why it might be important, as well as the ability to see +1s and posts that have been shared since the user last checked.

Google plus is determined to end the year on a high note.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares were at 621.83 at the end of the last day’s trading. There’s been a 14.5% change in the stock price over the past 3 months.

Google Drive Is Live With 5GB of Free Storage

You must have heard of GOOGLE DRIVE before and this time the most awaited rumor is live.Drive is a free storage system for photos, videos, documents, PDFs and will also allow users to 'drag and Drop' their files from Macs or PCs instead of storing them on their own hard drives. The system works cool with phone apps on both Androids and devices such as iPad or iPhone.

Facebook Boosted with the LightBox Viewer for Photos

After rolling out the Timeline feature for its users and several apps, reports suggest that Facebook will bring out the new lightbox photo viewer feature for all its users by the end of this week.

Pinterest Now 3rd Most Popular Social Network

Pinterest is now the third most popular social networking site in the U.S. and could help foster "meaningful connections" between retailers and consumers. That's according to a lengthy new 2012 Digital Marketer report from Experian.

Retailers should also consider advertising on Facebook. The report found that retail advertisers saw conversion rates of almost 50 percent through Facebook ad campaigns in 2011.

According to Experian, Pinterest attracted 21.5 million visits in the week ending January 28, 2012 – nearly 30 times the number of total visits six months before giving it a larger audience than LinkedIn. As reported by other firms, Pinterest skews female; 60 percent of the site's users are women, and 55 percent are between the ages of 25 and 44, according to Experian.

Californians and Texans made up the largest share of visits to the site, and its users over index in visits from Midwestern, Northwestern, and Southeastern states.

"This data indicates that Pinterest visitors have a different profile versus their counterparts visiting other social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube," notes the report.

Pinterest users post photos of "Products They Love," from L.K. Bennett shoes and Kate Spade purses to iPhone cases, laptop bags, and Reyka Vodka. So, it's no surprise Experian sees the site as full of potential for retail marketing. "As communities become less about friends and more about common interests, retail brands in particular need to take note if they want to make more meaningful connections with their customers," the company states.

Retail brands that ran at least four ad campaigns on Facebook in 2011 drew some of the highest conversion rates as measured by Experian. Retail Facebook ads resulted in a 49 percent conversion rate, compared to 40 percent for travel advertisers and 58 percent for consumer goods brands. In contrast, auto brand ads on Facebook generated just 18 percent conversion.

Facebook ads can be a "significant source" of company site traffic, added the report. Twitter remains the second largest social site in the U.S.

Obama's Celebration Photos Becomes Facebook's Most Liked Photo In History

Barack Obama after winning the Presidential election second time, Obama shared a photo in Facebook which suddenly became most liked photo in Facebook. The picture shows the president Barack Obama embracing his wife Michelle Obama with caption, 'Four more years'.

Obama's most liked Facebook Photo

Google Affliate Ads for Blogger Launches in United Kingdom

Earlier this year, Google launched Affiliate Ads for Blogger in the US and added new enhancements in June. The positive results and feedback received are very promising, and Google launched this gadget to Blogger users in the UK!

Niche Blogging for Mommy Bloggers

The Mommy Bloggers or generally Female Bloggers' has been around for more than several years now. These are the most important people in the world. The mom blogging community comprises of a wide range of blog topics. Mommy Bloggers are those with at least one child in their household and has contributed to a blog or turn to a blogs for advice. 14% of all American mommies are Mommy Bloggers. In a study conducted by Scarborough Research, Out of 3,900,000 mom bloggers in United States 500 mommy bloggers are considered influential among other mothers.

Tweetbot released in Apple IPad : A Client with Personality

The Tapbot team introduced a new Twitter app for the iPad users which had a revolutionary user interface with unique sound 

features, and with other EXCLUSIVE features which the

 others where not able to provide.

Last Year  the same team had come with a Twitter app for
the iPhone Users.

The allowed the users to do more with Twitter that you thought was possible by taking the APIs to its full potential.

BO.LT VS Pinterest : Is BO.LT better than Pinterest?

The Internet is full of fascinating material, things we know we’ll need now or in the future. Sure, you can bookmark a page, but your browser bar can only hold a half dozen or so and the overflow can be unwieldy. And worse, pages can just disappear any time and all you will see is the dreaded “404 Page Not Found ” Error message.

Eating App Tells You How Healthy Your Meal Was

Most people have a pretty good idea of what it means to eat healthy foods, but few manage to do it. A new app called the Eatery aims to change that by having users rate one another's meals and providing slick data visualizations of a person's habits over time.

The app's users have rated more than two million meals so far. When overlaid on maps, this data reveals patterns in healthy eating in cities like New York and San Francisco.

Eatery users snap a photo of a meal, and that photo is automatically tagged for location. After users take a photo of a meal, they are prompted to quickly rate the healthfulness of other users' meals by looking at their photos, in a quick process intended to be fun. This process ensures that each user's meals are rated by other Eatery users.

The app uses those meal ratings to provide users with statistics, including changes from week to week in what they ate, the places where they ate the most healthy and least healthy meals, and their best and worst meals of the week.

Tweet to get Scholarship

Not too long ago, students had to craft an essay if they wanted to win a scholarship. Now, they just can craft a tweet.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation is asking eligible high school seniors to tweet a photo that illustrates their commitment to education and enriching their communities. The KFC Colonel's Scholars winner, announced December 15, will receive up to $5,000 per year to pursue a bachelor's degree at a public university in his or her home state.

KFC started the Twitter contest last year as a way of reinvigorating its scholarship program for the social media age. The competition saw over 2,800 applicants, with the winning tweet coming from California high school senior Amanda Russell: "#KFCScholar Hey Colonel! Your scholarship's the secret ingredient missing from my recipe for success! Got the grades, drive, just need cash!"

Other organizations, perhaps weary of wading through applicants' lengthy essays, also are offering eager students ways to turn a 140-character message into money for college. Last summer Scholarships.com awarded a "Short and Tweet" $1,000 cash prize and Amazon Kindle e-readers to three students who tweeted winning answers to questions like, "What would an extra $1,000 for college mean to you?"

"No lengthy essay, no pile of paperwork -- just your thoughts, in real time," promised the contest's website. "To enter, simply log on to Twitter ..."

In place of an essay, the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business offered a full $38,000 scholarship to its MBA program for the best tweet from a prospective student. "That's right, it's a 140-character application that pays $271 per letter," said the school's website.

Why a tweet? Jodi Schafer, the University of Iowa's director of MBA admissions and financial aid, told USA Today that application essays were "becoming unoriginal." She said "we're hoping that incorporating social media in the process will help bring back some of that creativity." Applicants were encouraged to include in their tweet links to blogs, videos or Facebook accounts.

The college plans to bring back the tweeting scholarship next year to international applicants.

Competitions like these are done more for marketing purposes than finding qualified candidates, said Sree Sreenivasan, a digital-media professor who teaches classes on Twitter at Columbia Journalism School. He cited a scholarship sponsored by Dr. Pepper that was awarded to a girl who threw the most football passes into a giant Dr. Pepper can at the SEC Championship game.

"How is that better or worse than Twitter?" he asked. Sreenivasan believes these scholarships get buzz because they are "marketing to the extreme." He said he would not be surprised to see more competitions like this in the future, because marketers are very imitative.

This year's KFC scholarship competition explores students' creativity in a different way by asking them to tweet a picture instead of just a snippet of text. The ideal image should capture their high school experiences and collegiate dreams. KFC Public Relations Manager Rick Maynard says snapping pictures and sharing them online comes naturally to this generation of students, and the scholarship is a new way to connect with social-networking teens.

"The Colonel was a lifelong learner, reinventing himself at the age of 65 when he turned a $105 Social Security check into what would become a global chicken chain. He would have been thrilled to see how KFC continues to adapt to fit the changing consumer landscape," Maynard said.

Maynard said KFC is watching for new technological trends to help the company decide what to do for next year's competition. In the meantime, students may submit photos until December 13, and the winner will be named around December 15.

The Social Media Tools that you'll Love

The time has come to publish the top Social Media Tools of 2011. The end of the 2011 is arriving and We’re about to unveil the Top 20 new Social Media Tools of 2011 after having served up tools twenty through to six over the last two weeks.

It wasn’t easy narrowing down the tools that would occupy the top spots but we got there after much deliberation and discussion.

So, without further wasting your time here are the top 20 new social media tools of 2011.

1. BufferApp.com 

 

It is now time to crown our most useful tool of 2011. BufferApp works by scheduling content you find online and adding into your Twitter or Facebook stream. It then publishes the tweets at regular intervals without flooding your followers. Pure genius.

2. AppMakr.com 

Talk about doing what it says on the tin! AppMakr helps you make free apps for the iPhone. Seriously cool.

3. YouTube.com/create 

YouTube has been ramping up is creation tools in 2011 and the animation tools located at YouTube.com/create are a great example. GoAnimate is a great example allowing you to make animated videos in less than 10 minutes!

4. Wanderfly.com 

This is a personalised recommendations engine that helps you discover new and exciting experiences based on your budget and interests. And, it integrates with Facebook to bring all of your social preferences together. This is a great example of niche recommendations portal and what Google+ is aiming to achieve on a wider scale.

5. MyNewsDesk.com 

This ‘news exchange’ startup out of Stockholm has become one of the most talked about social media tools of 2011 thanks to its robust analytics system and easy-to-use interface. Try it now if you haven’t already.

6. Contax.io 

You may have stumbled across MyTweeple in the past (a Twitter specific contact management system) but in 2011 it evolved into Contax.io and also added Facebook functionality, giving you a central place to manage your fans and followers. It really is a beautiful thing.

7. Pokki.com 

Here’s another wonderful tool that you may not have heard about in 2011 but you probably should have. Pokki helps you create web apps for your desktop, giving you easy access to your favourite sites without having to open up a web browser. The Gmail desktop app is especially sweet.

8. Zooshia.com 

One of the more silent tools of year 2011, Zooshia allows you to create your own widgets for blogs and websites. You can create a ‘Zoosh’ of your Facebook or Twitter feeds or from a combination of sources. Best of all, embedding the code after you’ve tailored your widget is incredibly easy.

9. SocialBakers.com 

Another great analytics tool that has leaped into prominence in 2011 is SocialBakers.com. The site features every imaginable social media statistic you’ll ever need and is especially robust when it comes to geographic and demographic breakdowns for Facebook. A Superb stuff.

10. PRINT social media performance analysis service 

While this was only launched a month or so ago, its potential in helping brands and organisations make insight-led decisions about social media strategy is plain to see. Your PRINT score is a combination of your social media channel and attribute performance and is based upon data measured against your pre-defined competitor set. It’s a really useful enterprise tool.

 

11. Knowem.com 

This is primarily a social media username checking tool but is also a great place to start when identifying online communities relevant to a subject / topic. Simply visit the networks tab and scroll through the categories to discover new places to be active and / or monitor.

12. PeopleBrowsr.com And Kred.ly 

PeopleBrowsr is a social media analytics tool which includes 1,000 days of Twitter data at your disposal. Kred, from the same team, is an influence measurement tool that is provides a very transparent analysis of user activity. Both of these tool combined can make your life a helluva lot easier.

13. GroupHigh.com 

If you haven’t tried GroupHigh yet, the next sentence might encourage you to do so. Ready? GroupHigh.com is the best blogger outreach research and engagement tool on the planet. The latest update (version three) makes it even easier for you to discover the most relevant blogs by keyword, style and receptiveness. Brilliant.

14. Quixey.com 

This is a search engine for apps (Android, Mac, Chrome, Facebook, web and more) which takes the pain away from those endless searches for apps via general search engines. Bookmark this one!

15. Unilyzer.com 

If you are responsible for measuring how well your social media channels are performing, then this is the analytics hub for you. Simply plug all of your details in (Twitter account, YouTube channel, Google analytics etc) and Unilyzer will give you all of your data on one screen.

16. Lubith.com 

WordPress theme generation tool which is easy-to-use and will save you time (and money!)

17. Conversocial.com 

Conversocial helps brands manage customer service on a large scale across Twitter and Facebook.

18. FBsearch.us 

Powered by the Facebook Open Graph API, FBsearch.us helps users search across posts, photos, people, pages, groups and events without the need to login or have a Facebook account.

19. Panabee.com 

A domain name checker with a twist, helping you brainstorm new ideas based on URL availablity.

20. SiteTrail.com 

An easy and free way to track the performance of competitor websites with similar topics etc. And most viewed sites are all available in this SiteTrail.com