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Empire Avenue “Missions” are a great thing. They are nothing short of terrific and flexible in their configuration, and provide a very rapid collection of reactions for those who are crowd-sourcing.

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25 Unmissable Social Media Articles Worth Reading This Weekend

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As always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture of the week’s news a…

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Safe Gaming

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Infographic detailing why gaming and gamers are becoming more acceptable.

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The Secret to Getting Highly Targeted Traffic from StumbleUpon

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Since late 2010, StumbleUpon has been one of the top sources of social media traffic in the US, even surpassing Faceboook as a referrer.

In fact, using StumbleUpon to drive traffic to your site can produce some amazing results. According to Shell Harris, StumbleUpon basically built her website TopTenz. Here are some of her stumble numbers that she shared:

That’s huge traffic that can create some pretty lucrative income stream. The only problem is that traffic isn’t very targeted and your conversion may suck.

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New Social Curation And Visual Research App: Vilize - Official Release: 16th April 2012

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Giuseppe Mauriello: Vilize is a new italian-based free web application created to improve the research phase of creative professionals: from the collection of inspiration to the creation of moodboards in the same environment.

SAVE THE DATE: Official Release 16th April 2012.

This platform is for users:

1) Creative Professionals: visual research & moodboarding;
2) Students: discover, track & work in team;
3) Bloggers: share to a collective visual platform.

“Here are some features:

- Collections & moodboards are ready for all devices. You can download them in high-resolution PDF and share them via Mail, Facebook, Twitter & Google+.

- Drag & Drop is the way you save, upload and collect the materials. Drag & Drop to design your moodboard.

- Save time preparing the inspiration for your team project: give your partners the ability to add and remove materials to your collections.

- Vilize’s database is designed for the world of inspiration & creativity. We care that our files contain all the useful information like author, source, project description.

- Choose the order between the newest and highest rated files. Rate each file you see with one click and decide for its position.

- Choose the visualization mode you prefer: HD image or thumbnails.

- Vilize is the first platform that gives you a selection of streaming channels. Track the online-status of your favorite channels directly on your console.

- Follow the user that are publishing material you love. Get informed by the notification system about user published files, ratings, collections & moodboards.

- Share your discoveries on social platforms and with people you follow on Vilize. Comment each profile, image, video, collection or moodboard.”

Source and read more here: http://vilize.com/launching/

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I requested and received an official pass for the preview of Vilize.

I just created my profile: http://vilize.com/pinomauriello

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