Tag: social media

New Game Controller Makes Gaming More Social & Physical
Imagine yourself in front of your computer or your gaming console for a moment. Even though you are playing a game that is considered to be social gaming, you are still playing it by yourself on your own joystick, controller, keyboard or virtual keyboard. Even with the Wii or the Kinect, you are sti ...
![How Smartphones & Social Media Fit Into Our Schedules [Infographic] How Smartphones & Social Media Fit Into Our Schedules [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/daily-life-connected-consumer-infographic-optimized.jpg)
How Smartphones & Social Media Fit Into Our Schedules [Infographic]
I just wrote an article yesterday about some of the trend predictions for the coming year, and one of them had to do with how we use our smartphones. Although our smartphones and our social media sites might seem like an extension of our daily lives now, apparently that is going to become even more ...
![10 Top Trends For 2013 In 2 Minutes [Video] 10 Top Trends For 2013 In 2 Minutes [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/online-trends-for-2013-1-optimized.jpg)
10 Top Trends For 2013 In 2 Minutes [Video]
I remember at the end of 2011 when everyone was talking about the up-and-coming trends for 2012, and increased mobile technology and mobile use was at the top of almost every list. Now that we are quickly approaching the end of 2012, we know that prediction was spot on. It seems like we've written d ...

Twitter Analytics: Why Aren’t These Stats Offered To Everyone?
Back in late 2010, news about Twitter’s Analytics platform started heating up. Twitter had begun to invite influential users to try it out, and according to an article on Mashable, analytics were supposed to debut before the end of the year. I had the opportunity to test out the tool when I took par ...
![How To Get Maximum Exposure For Your New App [Infographic] How To Get Maximum Exposure For Your New App [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/maximum-exposure-for-new-apps-optimized.jpg)
How To Get Maximum Exposure For Your New App [Infographic]
We write a lot about how to get maximum exposure in social media for your personal and professional brand, but what about getting the most exposure for your new app? With over 558,000 Android apps and well over 700,000 apps in the Apple App Store (according to Wikipedia), it can be understandably ea ...
![2012 Top 20 Social Platforms By Unique Monthly Visitors [Infographic] 2012 Top 20 Social Platforms By Unique Monthly Visitors [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/top-social-media-site-stats-optimized.jpg)
2012 Top 20 Social Platforms By Unique Monthly Visitors [Infographic]
Statistics can be ridiculously misleading sometimes. Not only that, but they can be skewed beyond their actual value, and that is something we're working really hard here at Bit Rebels to prevent. It's common practice for people with websites to trust whatever tracking services they are using. They ...
![Santa’s Naughty Or Nice Online Marketing Reminders [List] Santa’s Naughty Or Nice Online Marketing Reminders [List]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/good-bad-online-marketing-list-optimized.jpg)
Santa’s Naughty Or Nice Online Marketing Reminders [List]
2012 has been a big year when it comes to online marketing and SEO. There were so many things that changed, and many brands and individual people rethought their strategies over and over in an effort to find the most effective way to get their message out to the world. We've learned that it is possi ...

Social Jeans: Blue Jeans With Twitter & Facebook Built Right In
How addicted are you to social media? I mean, for real. Do you think it's enough to have Twitter and Facebook on your smartphone or would you like it built into your blue jeans also? It may seem like a silly question, but as of next month, it will be something a lot of people may be asking themselve ...
![Social Stereotypes: Are You What You Share? [Infographic] Social Stereotypes: Are You What You Share? [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/social-stereotypes-statistics-yearbook-infographic-optimized.png)
Social Stereotypes: Are You What You Share? [Infographic]
I personally think we could debate social media and networking for eons if we so desired. We could go on and on about what network is the best one, the most engaging one, the most popular one, etc. It would never really end. And with the constant stream of new and more efficient clones, it would be ...

Your Social Media Presence Could Be Hindering Your Job Search
Like it or not, hiring managers these days are browsing candidates’ social media accounts before making a decision to bring on board a potential employee. According to a recent study by CareerBuilder, 34% of hiring managers reported are seeing negative information that “caused them not to hire a can ...

Introducing The New Imgur (Is It Like The Old Digg For Images?)
Imgur, the popular photo editing/sharing/analytics site, is about to launch their redesign, which means the well-sought after gallery is about to change. Prior to the new imgur, the gallery was calculated on an image's virality score, which was based on its popularity across the web. As of October 2 ...
![How Technology Changed Our Workplace Communication [Infographic] How Technology Changed Our Workplace Communication [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/social-media-mobile-tech-infographic-optimized.jpg)
How Technology Changed Our Workplace Communication [Infographic]
There is no question technology and mobile devices have changed the way we work and workplace communication in general. What I'd like to write about today goes far beyond employees being available to their bosses on the weekends via their company-paid smartphones and people getting busted on Faceboo ...
![Social Discovery Tools Will Rejuvenate Any Following [Infographic] Social Discovery Tools Will Rejuvenate Any Following [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/soaicl-discovery-networking-tools-infographic-optimized.jpeg)
Social Discovery Tools Will Rejuvenate Any Following [Infographic]
Social media is an ever evolving technology. The tools available today are way more advanced than what they were at the beginning of the social media era. This collaborative technology has become the backbone of the Internet, and it drives hundreds of millions of people to continuously get updates, ...

IFTTT: A Solution For Flawlessly Connecting All Our Social Networks
Advancements in technology have revolutionized society in too may ways to count in the last decade. From smartphones to social media, everything has become faster, smaller, thinner, and better. Our lives are so ingrained in various devices nowadays that it's hard to imagine life without them. It's a ...
![Android vs. iOS: Which Users Are More Social? [Infographic] Android vs. iOS: Which Users Are More Social? [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/android-vs-ios-infographic-optimized.jpg)
Android vs. iOS: Which Users Are More Social? [Infographic]
For years now, people have jokingly compared Android users with iOS users. I remember a couple years ago I published the results of a study which revealed that Android users are not only happier with their smartphones, but they also have a lot more sex than iPhone users. The companies that do these ...