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Top 5 Questions to Ask your Internet Service Provider

Switching Internet services providers can be a difficult decision for many people. We are bombarded with advertisements for numerous plans from a variety of companies, each claiming to be the best for one reason or another. You are probably paying a lot for your Internet access, and you want to make sure you get the best possible deal out of it.

It seems like many of the companies involved don't have great service or like to hide details in the fine points of contracts that allow them to provide a lower quality Internet connection than you expected. Here are some questions you can ask a potential service provider to make sure you really understand what you would get with their service.

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Top 3 Outsourcing Needs for Small Business

Small businesses tend to focus solely on a set of skills in their niche, usually due to a lack of time, resources or man power, which means little-to-no in-house teams to perform specific skills, such as marketing, design, content creation, social media management, strategy development, etc. The list goes on, but small business owners most likely can’t keep track of everything themselves.

The solution to these overwhelming needs is outsourcing. Outsourcing and freelancing allows small businesses to not only operate properly, but to succeed in the long run.

The following are three top outsourcing needs for small businesses that assist in and determine the functionality, look and outreach of small businesses. With a combined effort, these outsourcing needs define their overall success and integration.

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Facebook's New Developers Live Video Channel

Google started a Developers Live Video channel for developers and now Facebook is following in its footsteps with the development of Facebook Developers Live video channel. Effective today, this channel will showcase news updates, speaking sessions, tutorials and much more.

According to Facebook, people will be able to view live broadcasts as well as previously recorded videos. This enables developers to access the latest information and make contact with product designers and engineers. Doug Purdy, director of product for Facebook, shared that the first broadcast will be on February 19.

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Pitch Me Aims to Streamline Freelance Journalism

A great place for freelance journalist to give previews of their ideas to editors to read over is Pitchme.org.

There is a new listings site for freelancers that was started by journalist Kabir Chibber who feels some of the industry is "stuck in the 19th century." This site goes from pitch to payment.

Chibber hopes to create a space where journalists can pitch their best ideas. Editors can log in and read them and commission these journalists to write for them.

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Graph Search, A New Facebook Development

A new Facebook development has been announced. Graph Search is an innovated, internal search engine with clear-cut precision developed by the Facebook team. At an event held at Menlo Park campus, Mark Zuckerberg presented the three segments of Facebook which are the timeline, newsfeed and the most recent Graph Search.

Zuckerberg held this press release to disclose a new Facebook development to let everyone know what exciting changes are in store for Facebook. In an explanation of exactly what Graph Search is, Zuckerberg portrayed the new feature as an internal search engine that is different from a regular online search engine.

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Networking At Affiliate Summit West

It may be 2013, but it seems as though nothing much has really changed. Obama is still the President, and in Las Vegas, the hotels and convention centers are still full of those attending various events, seminars and conferences.

One of the most well known of the affiliate marketing conferences is Affiliate Summit, founded by Shawn Collins and Missy Ward in 2003. This year's conference is at Caesar's Palace and around 5,000 people are expected to attend and learn about such subjects as generating leads, tracking performance, SEO techniques, social marketing and effective networking.

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How Much Does Cell Phone App Development Cost?

One of the most common questions surrounding app development is “how much does it cost?” Unfortunately, the answer is not as clear or direct as the question. Zco Corporation has developed apps costing as little as $5,000 and as much as $1 million. The overall cost to develop an app depends on a number of factors throughout the development process.

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Make WordPress Run Faster

Many Internet users rely on WordPress as the platform for getting their written work on the Internet. One concern that all users face is how to make wordpress run faster to enhance the user's experience. Improving your websites performance does not have to cost a lot of time and money when you use jsdelivr.

What is jsdelivr?

MaxCDN sponsors jsdelivr and is a free CDN service for webmasters and developers to link their plugin files to save bandwidth and improve website performance. It also gives users the ability to route the programs that use the plugins to the links destination, making the websites load faster. Increasing your websites loading time will help to make it user friendly, and in turn will be search engine friendly too.

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Considering The Future Of Article Spinning

I have read many articles lately indicating Google will start penalizing sites containing spun articles. In 2013, you will have to alter every word in an article to spin the content. If I have to spin each word manually, I might as well create an entirely new article. Readers can easily identify poorly spun content and I believe the experts working for Google will have no trouble writing a program capable of doing the same thing.

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Sponsored Tweets : Making Money on Twitter

Paid tweets are not a new concept. The issue of spam posts and spam users in our followers list and twitter feed is not uncommon, but the attempts are painfully apparent and easily dismissed. Ted Murphy, owner of IZEA, has begun a new venture at IZEA called SponsoredTweets. The founder has a good stream of celebrities, conventional as well as online to back his sponsored tweeting venture.