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One of the newest social networks, Pinterest, may be about to achieve something that neither Facebook, Google+ or Twitter have been unable to accomplish at scale. No, it’s not creating a social network made up almost entirely of women. Pinterest may be preparing to monetize all of those shared photos of things you wish you owned, which could make the social network one of the stickiest e-commerce destinations ever.

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Pinterest Edges Closer to E-Commerce Model with $100 Million Investment Round

Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser’s Do Not Track

Tag management systems (TMS) that automate the placement and management of digital marketing vendor tags can provide significant benefits, according to a new survey from Econsultancy and Tealium. Results of “The ROI of Tag Management” indicate TMS technology reduces cost and time-to-market of managing tags, while improving website speed and security.

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Tag Management Saves Money & Time, Increases Speed & Security

The Intranet is dead! Long live the Intranet! …so the refrain goes.

The promise of the Intranet was that it was going to liberate content and spread the wealth locked inside information repositories, closed networks, siloed file systems and even physical file cabinets. In many ways Intranets — when done well — have improved life behind the firewall.

However, we are far from the holy grail.

A Forrester Research survey found that just 43% of

Everyone knows the mobile web is growing at light speed, introducing new opportunities and challenges in web management. However, when I look at my client’s web analytics, the leading device accessing their website is not a smartphone, it’s a tablet. Apple iPad consistently ranks as the #1 device for viewing web content.

Adobe recently released some research that backs this up. Adobe’s “The Rise of Tablets” (pdf) projects that tablet visits will surpass all smartphone visits by January 2013 and generate over 10 percent of all website visits by early 2014. Tablet web traffic is growing 200 percent faster than smartphones. The iPad commands the tablet market. Last year Comscore reported that the Apple iPad accounted for over 97 percent of tablet web traffic.

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The Impact of Tablets on Web Publishing or the Riddle of the Sphinx