With over 1 billion users worldwide sharing, updating, liking, and commenting on the social network every day, Facebook sits on mountains of data. That data is very valuable to marketers who can use it to serve better targeted ads. Ads are a lucrative revenue stream for a platform like Facebook. With an anemic stock price … Continue reading
New year, new beginnings. So, time to start up that list of areas we want to improve as 2013 starts. 2012 seems like a blur. I only started this blog last October, but I’m proud of the way it looks and the posts I’ve been publishing. Thank you to everyone that has read this blog! … Continue reading
Christmas is less than a week away! For those who still need to get gifts for their friends and family (like me), I’ve compiled this holiday gift guide for the techies, stylelistas, and other awesome, cool people in your life. Holiday Gift Guide for the Techies The iPad Released just a few months ago, the … Continue reading
Quora, the user-generated, question-and-answer site recently featured a question about women in technology, “What advice would seasoned women in tech give to younger girls deciding to make a tech career for themselves?” As a woman and as someone interested in the tech industry (though I’m not an engineer or a programmer), I found this question … Continue reading
…like every other reality show that revolves around people partying and getting drunk. Same shenanigans, different context. In this case, it’s within the world of startups. I don’t really know where all this interest in Silicon Valley started. Is it because of the so-called tech bubble? Is it because of all the hype and subsequent … Continue reading
Ever want to build your own website but don’t know how to code? Codeacademy offers FREE lessons with easy-to-follow tutorials that cover JavaScript, Python, Ruby, JQuery, and other web fundamentals. I have some basic HTML skills (which means I know how to use HTML tags, but that’s about it…) and I just finished one of … Continue reading
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