When most people think of invisibility cloaks, they think of something from Harry Potter, donning a fabric that makes you blend right into the background. That might help you sneak into the restricted section of your school library, but that won’t fool radarsA team of engineers a … | Continue reading
Social Hubs Bringing all of your social media together in one single place, a hub, will have a bigger impact and motivate your targeted audience to carry on your message to an even wider audience. A social hub is a digital property for you and your business where you can collect … | Continue reading
Sure, your Mac is pretty great on its own, but we could all use a productivity boost from time to time, whether to free us from distractions or sluggish system functionality. The 2016 All-Star Mac Bundle brings together 11 great opportunities to streamline your system to deliver … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced that it will no longer support the Windows version of its TweetDeck application. The company said that this change will take effect on April 15 and says that you can still use TweetDeck, but just on the web. No specific reason was given for the termination o … | Continue reading
Decision-making affects people in many different ways. Some are skilled enough to take on this task and handle it properly. Use tips to develop your very own decision-making process. | Continue reading
Cross platform mobile development isn't as hard as you might think. Here is a summary of how to develop for multiple mobile OSes and which tools to use. | Continue reading
Brands should create emotional content in order to connect with their audience. But which emotions are best? This post looks at when to use which emotions. | Continue reading
Learn how to use data to make better informed marketing decisions with this new book from Russell Glass & Sean Callahan of LinkedIn. | Continue reading
Sometimes there’s no getting around it – you need to hire someone great as quickly as possible. Let’s use lawyers as an example. Any entrepreneur will tell you that legal issues can arise out of the blue. Suppose I ran a company that was suddenly wrapped up in an intellectual pro … | Continue reading
For many women who are victims of domestic violence, the technology they use everyday can become yet another medium of abuse.The ubiquity of mobile technology, in particular, can allow perpetrators to stalk women, as well as constantly contact and harass them, whether through tex … | Continue reading
Oculus isn’t messing around, and has announced it will launch 30 VR games for use with Rift on March 28. Additionally, the company will launch Oculus Home for Rift, a central point of reference for finding all of your content on Oculus. Originally launched for Gear VR, Home lets … | Continue reading
The use of Bitcoin blockchain has been widely discussed among the community for a while now. Innovations in the Bitcoin sector have shown that the digital currency’s underlying technology can be used for applications beyond the digital currency. This realization led to the evolut … | Continue reading
The Apple Watch is (probably) the best selling smartwatch around, but it suffers the same problem other wearables do: there aren’t many compelling reasons to use it. A new app named parkOmator may be the best expression of what an Apple Watch app should be, though. It’s effective … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants developers to use Xbox Live to facilitate budding esports and pro-gamer scenes. The company announced today that it is incorporating a new tournaments feature geared toward developers into Xbox Live. Xbox product manager Jason Ronald took the stage at the Game Dev … | Continue reading
Storytelling creates a powerful, engaging and an interactive platform for both the readers and writers. These tips will help in incorporating storytelling in your blogs – niche or otherwise. | Continue reading
If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. To give publishers even more of an incentive to offer mobile-friendly pages, Google today announced that, in May, it will increase the importance of having a mobi … | Continue reading
The number of commercial drone operators in the US has soared over the last year. Since we published data on the first 500 operators last June, the number of for-profit drone pilots has grown to over 3000. And no category of use has grown faster than emergency services. Accordin … | Continue reading
LastPass, maker of one of the most popular password managers out there, is today announcing a new smartphone app to keep users more secure. LastPass Authenticator is meant to make it easy for anyone to use two-factor authentication on a multitude of accounts. If you’re not famili … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Some ski slopes are more dangerous than others, which is why mountain operators use designations like “black diamond.” Now, virtual reality is getting something similar. Oculus VR held a press event early this week as part of the Game Developers Conference, and th … | Continue reading
Trust in the way health data is used needs to be established if the potential of big data analytics is to be realised in the health sector and across … | Continue reading
The Growing Trend of Native Video Ads. Native Video Ads is a concept that you can find in almost every social media feed today, and it has become a more frequently used term among publishers and advertisers. It's not only an industry trend, used on all kinds of devices, but also … | Continue reading
Google’s making big efforts to offer secure products, as well as nudging the companies that use its infrastructure, so that you can use the Web without having to worry. But it’s revealed that it, and some of the world’s biggest websites, are failing to encrypt. According to its n … | Continue reading
The term “wearable” is misleading in its modern, technological use. Sure, a Fitbit can be worn, but it’s still just an accessory. A non-essential something you choose to wear like headphones, or a tiara. For technology to be truly wearable it should disappear into the things we a … | Continue reading
That’s what 21.co claims. “…We’ve built what we think of as the first micropayments marketplace: a marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to trade in digital goods using micropayments, initially specifically focused on APIs for developer use,” the company wrote on its Medium … | Continue reading
Mobile devices play an increasingly important role in the retail shopping experience. We already use our smartphones and tablets at practically every step along the way in the shopping process, from researching product details and comparing prices across retailers to checking the … | Continue reading
Content marketing is one of the fastest growing methods of digital marketing. Aside from the fact that internet users really value informational content, content marketing also makes you more findable on major search engines. There are several other benefits of content marketing … | Continue reading
Crytek, the makers of such fine games as the Crysis series, the original Far Cry and Ryse: Son of Rome, has launched the latest version of its 3D game engine and made it free for developers to use in their projects. Cryengine V works with Windows, Linux, PS4, Xbox One as well as … | Continue reading
Apparently you miss about 70% of your Instagram posts. The solution? They claim the best way to go about it is to apply a similar algorithm to the one we have seen Facebook use. | Continue reading
Consumers are regularly turning to their mobile devices to search, and personal assistants like Siri can help them in the process. But according to research, few mobile phone owners actually use a voice-controlled personal assistant regularly. | Continue reading
I don’t like to use words like ‘brilliant’ lightly, but seriously, the Irish Startup Wake at SXSW really was that. Failure is something that has become fetishized in the startup world. At some point in the past few years ‘it’s okay to fail’ became ‘failure is cool.’ But there’s s … | Continue reading
Andy Kelly, one of our project managers here at Ignite Visibility, noticed a new fetch as Googlebot option today, “Mobile: Smartphone – Upcoming.” Here we see the new option. New Fetch as Googlebot Option in Search Console This mysterious new option has the SEO community wonder … | Continue reading
Many claim that Pope Francis is the most liberal Pope to date, and with his decidedly left-wing stances on gay marriage, economics and the environment, it’s hard to argue. Now, Pope Francis is set to drop liberal politics in exchange for liberal use of hashtags and filters by joi … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Google released a new version of its Google Analytics product this morning, adding new features and bringing in existing offerings that previously worked separately. Marketers can use the suite to track and respond to their customers more seamlessly than ever before. Ab … | Continue reading
Google has finally embraced one of iOS’ most standard features: bottom-bar navigation. With a change to its Material Design guidelines, Google is now encouraging developers and designers to use navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen. Ahead of this change, all in-app navig … | Continue reading
Google today added a new section to its Transparency Report that focuses on the use of encryption on Google’s own sites and across the web. The company says over 75 percent of requests to its own servers are now using encrypted connections (though traffic to YouTube is not includ … | Continue reading
The new Fitbit Blaze is a good Fitbit. Like earlier Fitbit models, the $200 Blaze will track your daily activity, count your steps, monitor your heart rate, gauge how well you're sleeping, and put all of that data into an excellent, easy-to-use app on your phone. It will show you … | Continue reading
Today, Google added a new section to its transparency report, giving users a running tally of how many Google requests use HTTPS encryption. Groups like EFF have long pushed for wider usage of HTTPS, but implementation can be demanding, particularly for services as complex as Goo … | Continue reading
After years of unofficial demos and fan projects, you can finally use an actual, Lucasfilm-approved lightsaber in virtual reality — just not for very long.Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is billed as “a cinematic virtual reality experiment” from Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab, where members o … | Continue reading
Learn to use marketing content to create best-in-class customer experience journey that drives business growth, starting with Chapter 1 of The CX Management Guide. | Continue reading
Two weeks after its debut in Los Angeles, Uber’s on-demand food delivery service is expanding to three more cities: San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston. If you live in one of those areas, you can now use Uber’s newest standalone app to place an order from hundreds of partner rest … | Continue reading
Dan Moriarty, Director of Digital Strategy and Activation for the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, joins the Social Pros Podcast to share his approach to cohesively yet uniquely managing a global brand's social across different platforms. | Continue reading
If you're one of these marketers, here's a list of tools that let you find and share great content and help with time management. | Continue reading
We explore the gameplay and storytelling techniques that make video games so popular and discuss how to use them content marketing. | Continue reading
First Global Credit, the first company to make it possible to use bitcoins as margin to trade stocks is now adding Commodity Futures to the growing list of what can be traded on the website. “Commodity Futures is the next logical step in providing digital currency holders with th … | Continue reading
Uber has reached an agreement with Moscow transport officials that will see the e-taxi app formally given the green light to operate in the Russian capital. The news comes a little over a month after the Moscow Department of Transport (DoT) threatened to ban the app unless the Am … | Continue reading
Next Insurance today announced a $13 million seed round led by Zeev Ventures. The startup said that it plans to use the funds to launch its insurance sales platform for small businesses this spring — in a market in which “99 percent of small commercial insurance is sold offline t … | Continue reading
Finally there’s a use for dog drool: this spring, a new startup called Embark plans to launch a DNA testing kit for dogs that will tell owners about their canine’s ancestry, and disease risk. That’s not all the founders have in mind though; they may be aiming at human diseases by … | Continue reading
Growth in use of mobile bill pay has been fairly steady, and fast, over the last five years. The major shift in mobile device bill pay usage came from 2013—16% of those surveyed—to 2014—27%. | Continue reading