Buffer: A minimalist web app for people who like to tweet a lot. [Free Premium Memberships]

TNW Quick Hit Bufferis a quick no-nonsense web application that lets you designate fixed times for your tweets to go off. When you stumble upon anything interesting during the day, you can fill up your Buffer with tweets and the app schedules them for you. Simply keep Buffer topped up and you will then be tweeting consistently all day round, all week long. Hits: Misses: Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

4 min · 712 words · Charles Barber

BugHerd offers visual issue tracking for web designers

Angry Monkeys, the Australian startup behindUsabilityHub, has released another service for web designers.BugHerdis a bug tracking service that is embedded into websites so that issues can be flagged and reviewed on the page. BugHerd’s inception occurred when the Angry Monkeys developers realized existing bug tracking solutions weren’t adequate for visual problems, making those solutions useless for web designers. If someone wanted to ask for changes, they’d need to take a screen shot, mark out the problem area, add description, upload the image, fill out form etc etc....

2 min · 326 words · John Johns

BugMuncher makes Google+’s feedback tool available to the masses

Google+’s feedback tool caused a lot of fuss in the first days of the network — many people hadn’t seen anything like it before. The tool allowed users to annotate a page, black out personal information, add comments and ship it off to the Google+ team. It’s the same tool used across the Google network accessed via the less prevalent “Report a bug” menu item. A new tool that brings Google+’s feedback tool to the masses has arrived....

2 min · 311 words · Audrey Torres

Building a brand? Social media not the answer, says Yahoo Canada study

According to a study from Yahoo Canada, if you’re building a brand then using social media as your sole method for communicating isn’t likely to help your cause. TheFinancial Postreports that the study, released on Tuesday, revealed that 43 percent of those surveyed were more likely to trust discussions with friends about products, compared to only 12 percent who trusted what they had read on social networks such as Twitter or Facebook....

2 min · 357 words · Mrs. Anna Flynn MD

Building a startup in a developing country: The pitfalls and opportunities

The Internet has completely changed the landscape of entrepreneurship and perhaps the ones most affected by this are the startups. Being a startup can be fun and rewarding but it also entails countless challenges. For Internet and tech startups, there is no place like Silicon Valley, the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development in the US. It’s like the Neverland of tech entrepreneurs where there exists a robust, active community of early adopters and a healthy pool of investors ready to pour cash into promising companies that could potentially be the next big thing....

7 min · 1438 words · Lindsey Sanchez
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