Facebook, the leader in social media with over 750 million users, has made its first major acquisition. In a 1 billion dollar move Facebook bought Instagram, a photo sharing mobile app company boasting over 25 million iPhone users and 5 million downloads within its first week of being on the android market.

The sale is expected to close later this quarter and will mark the first, and possibly last, acquisition of this size made by Facebook according to Mark Zuckerberg, the man at the helm of the Facebook titanic. The move was announced on 9 April on Zuckerberg’s own “timeline” via Facebook. Facebook’s founder and CEO claims the acquisition is about improving the user experience for both Facebook and Instagram and not about integrating the two services.
“For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.”
Zuckerberg goes on to state his commitment to improving and building on the winning formula Instagram, giving them full use of his own engineering team as well as making use of theirs. What he describes is a very symbiotic relationship where the two remain separate entities but work very closely to their mutual benefit. Facebook will remain Facebook while improving on their photo sharing abilities, and Instagram will maintain as they have with their Facebook “opt out” option and well as their options to share with other social media.

If you’ve taken a foray into online dating and found someone worth getting to know, chances are, you’ll eventually want to call them on the phone for a date. Summoning the courage to make that first phone call can be intimidating. Here are some ways you can master your first phone call with a prospective date.

Take the initiative.

Men should know that even in modern times, some women enjoy being pursued not just because it’s romantic, but because it assures them that a man is genuinely interested. However, taking the initiative is not limited to men only. Ladies, if your online friend has said “Call me”, and you haven’t called, then what are you waiting for?

I just called to…

What’s your real reason for calling? Is it to make sure your companion’s identity matches his or her online profile? Are you calling to plan a date? Are you calling just to chat? Or are you completely smitten without knowing what your friend’s voice sounds like? Know why you’re calling before you call.

Have a plan.

If you’re calling to plan a date, suggest something based on your shared interests. Have you exchanged emails about a shared love of jazz music, tennis or Mexican food? You can call to ask if she would like to go to a jazz club, take in a tennis match or get dinner at her favorite Mexican restaurant. If you don’t seem to share interests and are the classic opposites that attract, you can create a plan to satisfy both of you. While making a plan can help you feel more confident, it’s also important to be flexible. Click here for more dating tips.

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With tens of thousands of people finding their sugar daddy online, you can assure that you’ll be able to find the man that can make all of your dreams come true. Imagine your sugar daddy taking you on lavish trips, spending money on shopping trips, exquisite dinners and so much more and you can see yourself with a sugar daddy! No matter your age there is a sugar daddy waiting to spoil you. He’ll be looking for the relationship that you are, as there are sugar daddy’s looking for women to take with them as their “trophy,” men looking for long-term relationships, dating and sometimes just a little fun on the weekends.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a top priority for online marketers these days. However, many people fail to understand what really influences SEO. It involves a lot more than just having the right keywords scattered throughout your Web site or blog.

One vital component to SEO is a Web site’s bounce rate, defined as the percentage of site visitors who only make it to one of your Web site’s pages before navigating away. From a sales standpoint, decreasing the bounce rate is obviously vital. The longer you can keep a person on your site and the more landing pages they visit, the greater chance they’ll become a customer. However, another key reason to aim for a low bounce rate is that search engines consider this percentage in their calculations that rank search results. How is bounce rate measured, how do search engines use this information and how can you improve your bounce rate? Consider the following answers.

How is Bounce Rate Calculated?

Bounce rate is based on dwell time, defined as the length of time a person is on your Web site before clicking back to the search results. Search engines look at the dwell time and divide results into Actual Bounce Rate and Standard Bounce Rate. Actual Bounce Rate occurs when someone chooses your site from a search results page and immediately clicks back to the results, only spending a few seconds on your site. Read more on the effects of bounce rates.

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They are from another world. The creatures are all around you. The creatures are floating by you, staring at you, like you are an intruder. Actually, they seem to know you are only visiting their world. You won’t be there long. So, they pass you up, and go on their way. You stare at them with awe and wonder, because they are so oddly shaped and beautiful. And you continue on your journey until another creature approaches you.
No, you’re not on the planet Jupiter. You are on Earth. But you are 59 feet below sea level. You are part of the Maldives Liveaboards trips. You are at the Maldives. They are an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives Liveaboards takes you on a vacation, that you cannot compare to any tourist vacation site on our planet.
You have your choice of 7 yachts, which softly carry you to this world within a world. The Maldives Liveaboards online website describes the trip as “liberating, exciting and diverse”. That is only the beginning. The English language does not have the words, to describe the exquisite and breathtaking world of splendor underneath the surface of the ocean. And Maldives Liveaboards brings you just a few feet from it.
Of course you must prepare for the dive. In order to enter the world of undersea life, you must have Padi open water diving certificate, or its equivalent.
In case you’re wondering, PADI stands for Professional Association of Diving Instructors. Back in 1966 two friends got together and decided to create a way for the public to gain access to the world of diving. Today, that’s Padi. After you take the course you are ready to be awed.

So, what are you waiting for? Get going!
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I had been having some trouble getting traffic to my blog. I had been using all the usual ways, like social networking sites and search engines. After a while my site’s popularity hit a plateau. One of my writing contributors told me about Blogbal.com. I decided to give it a try. So far, I’ve been happy with my results. On Blogbal, I’ve seen a substantial traffic increase to my blog.

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Placing ads on the Baidu platform requires that you localize your ad campaign. Start by translating your ads and website into the Mandarin Chinese language. The research process is the same on Baidu as on Western platforms: you must do your own keyword research to find the ones with high value and low competition. The research available on the platform for English readers is not the best, so do your own research for best results.

Another way to localize your websites to the Chinese market is to provide live chat boxes for real-time support. Although live help is nothing new to Western consumers on certain types of websites, Chinese consumers expect chat boxes on all e-commerce sites to help them with any problems in the shopping and buying process. Real-time support costs money, but it can bring conversions up three times or better for your advertising campaign.

Baidu’s ad platform does not automatically link with your Google analytics account. You will have to integrate Baidu ads with your analytics manually. It is not recommended that you use Baidu’s own analytics platform because they are readable only in Mandarin and wildly inaccurate at times. Google Analytics is much easier to use and it allows you to create highly customizable reports. If you can read Chinese, it will benefit you to use Baidu’s analytics in addition to Google. The Baidu version has its own reports on user behavior and also a heat map tool. Read more how to get the best of Baidu.

In social media, the more followers you have, the more outreach your business or company will have. This applies to not only well known sites such as Facebook, and Twitter, but to Instagram as well.

What is Instagram? Instagram is a photo sharing website that you can use to interact with people. You don’t have to have any experience with photography to use the Instagram service. It is as easy as choosing a subject, snapping that picture, doing a little editing and uploading it to the Instagram site.

With Instagram you can snap pictures of your company’s logo, or any other information that you want to share with the masses.

The hard part is to gain these masses. This is where Gigbucks.com comes in. You can go to Gigbucks.com, pay between $5 and $50 to gain thousands of followers on your Instagram. This will, of course, increase interest in your company, and will boost your profits! Read more about Instagram and SEO.