In Find It Fast, business research guru Robert Berkman offers authoritative advice on how to locate the best information sources, connect with the experts behind those sources, and combine expert techniques to do fast and effective research on any subject.This fully updated sixth edition goes beyond Google, detailing the use of Big Data and social networks for research. You'll find a wealth of practical guidance on evaluating information, using precision search strategies, and making the m...

With Windows 8, Microsoft completely reimagined the graphical user interface for its operating system, and designed it to run on tablets as well as PCs. It’s a big change that calls for a trustworthy guide—Windows 8: The Missing Manual. New York Times columnist David Pogue provides technical insight, lots of wit, and hardnosed objectivity to help you hit the ground running with Microsoft’s new OS.This jargon-free book explains Windows 8 features so clearly—reveali...

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide—now in its fourth edition—provides essential concept...

Get on Google's front page with easy SEO tips for online marketing. Simple SEO (search engine optimization) can get any site to the top without spending money.Discover ways to use keywords, meta descriptions and tags, categories/labels, titles, link-building and more.Step by step instructions to help your site get on Google front page. Anyone can do this. It costs nothing but a little bit of time.You'll discover:the best keywords, both short-tail and long-ta...

YouTube has changed the viewing habits of millions around the world and it was pioneering vloggers such as Zoella Sugg, Jack and Finn Harries, Caspar Lee, Marcus Butler and many others who built their channels up from scratch, that broke the mould and put their lives online for all to see. They used to be called 'the most famous stars you've never heard of', but since then they've gone on to win worldwide fame (by popular demand, Zoella and Alfie Deynes even have their own waxworks in Mada...

WordPress For Beginners: Everything You Need to Know & More…What experts Jack Davies and Sarah Wylie teach you in this easy to understand WordPress Kindle eBook:• Exactly how to register your own domain - and the mistakes to avoid.• How to get the best hosting – we reveal the hosting companies that WordPress actually recommends you use.• How to get WordPress installed and up and running with a few mouse-clicks.• Exactly how to design...

Facebook is the most popular online social network. Originally developed to connect college students, Facebook is used by different people from around the world amounting to its 1.39 billion users. The website gained popularity by providing an easy means of communication between people. Instead of having to send several messages to different people about how you are doing, you can post one update on Facebook to alert everyone. It also allows you to share pictures and other media with multi...

In this fully updated fourth edition of The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, award-winning writer and internet trainer Ran Hock covers strategies and tools—including search engines, directories, portals, and social networks—for all major areas of internet content. Readers with little to moderate searching experience will appreciate Hock's helpful, easy-to-follow advice, while experienced searchers will discover a wealth of new ideas, techniques, and resources. Anyone who teaches the i...

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is gaining serious traction among web and mobile developers, but as new PaaS providers emerge and existing vendors upgrade their features, it’s hard to keep track of what PaaS has to offer. This thorough introduction takes you through the PaaS model from a developer’s point of view, and breaks down the types of services that Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Cloud Foundry, and others deliver.Whether you’re an entrepreneur or part of a large ente...

The objective of ASO Ninja is to make the understanding of App store Optimization easier and more accessible for app developers and future apptrepreneurs.Search and app discoverability are one of the biggest challenges in this industry, and understanding the right strategies of App store optimization is not only going to be a must, but a vital part of any app marketing strategy.

The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services.T...

Is the founder of WikiLeaks the ministering angel of press freedom as his pale appearance might suggest? Or is he the demonic leader of the most dangerous hacker collective on the web? As one outspoken critic suggests, is he “worse than the Stasi,” o r does he represent hope for those struggling against oppression? Either way, by the end of 2010 it became clear that a hitherto unknown organization had forever changed the global media landscape. Within a few months, some of the best-known n...