Social Media

Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA. Skype is being investigated by Luxembourg's data protection commissioner over concerns about its secret involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy programme Prism, the Guardian has learned.

The Microsoft-owned internet chat company could potentially face criminal and administrative sanctions, including a ban on passing users' communications covertly to the US signals intelliigence agency. Skype itself is headquartered in the European country, and could also be fined if an investigation concludes that the data sharing is found in violation of the country's data-protection laws. The Guardian understands that Luxembourg's data-protection commissioner initiated a probe into Skype's privacy policies following revelations in June about its ties to the NSA. The country's data-protection chief, Gerard Lommel, declined to comment for this story, citing an ongoing investigation.

Microsoft also declined to comment on the issue. Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5bn (£5.6bn) in 2011. Pocket : 6 Things to Do Before You Delete Your Facebook Account. How to unfollow a Facebook post using the mobile app. You can unfollow a Facebook post from the Web site with little effort, but unfollowing a post from your mobile device takes some work.

Unfollowing a post on Facebook allows you to comment on friend or family members post, perhaps a birth announcement or a promotion, and not be bombarded with alerts from the 50 other comments on the post all saying "congrats" or "woohoo. " After you've done your social-media duty, do you really care what everyone else has to say? Take a look at this how-to for unfollowing posts on Facebook if this is the first time you've heard of the feature. Now, as for unfollowing a post from any of the Facebook apps on your mobile device is concerned, it's possible, but it's just buried in the settings menu. I would have never found this feature if it wasn't for Twitter user @NanPalmero pointing me to this post on the Wide Smiler blog. To unfollow a post from your mobile device, launch the Facebook app and tap the menu icon in the top-left corner.

How to Post Your Facebook Updates on Twitter. How many social networks you have heard of?

Think... Absolutely, you can take you time. Err... Seems like it takes more time. Alright, think about it later. Why Synchronize? Some days you are just addicted to Facebook or else spend most of your time on Twitter. How to unfollow a Facebook post using the mobile app - CNET Mobile. Pinterest Business (pinterestbusiness.

As Pinterest Grows, Startup Seeks $2.5 Billion Valuation. Social Media Greatness / #Socialmedia Monitoring. Why Every “Twitter Tips” Article You’ve Ever Read is Essentially Worthless (or Worse) There is a time for basic information.

Everyone needs to know what an RSS feed is, how commenting works on blogs, that guest posting is sometimes a viable strategy for gaining visitors and that WordPress is probably your best choice of content management system. You should also know when Twitter is important and that you can use a Facebook page to spread your message. Unfortunately, that information alone is essentially worthless (or worse) when it comes to actually building an audience. It is what I like to call just part of the cost of admission. Knowing all the basics and $2.25 will buy you cup of coffee but not much more. Great writing and great content are also just the cost of admission. And that’s where the typical basic information fails you.

If you subscribe to typical strategies, you’ll end up with typical results, and typical means failure online. When I resolved to write epic shit, I immediately knew the most important thing I had to do. Gmail's New Inbox Tabs. Gmail rolled out a new feature that puts TABS at the top of your Gmail.

These tabs are named Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums and Stared. To see if you have the New Tabs feature in your Gmail, Open your Gmail and Click the “Gear” in the Upper Right. Then you should see the text Configure Inbox. Once you click that, you can choose which tabs to show. These tabs come “pre-loaded” and by that I mean that Gmail has picked mail from certain people or places that it feels fits the tab title and placed them in there.

The only way to add to or remove certain emails as being listed in a tab is to “train” Gmail. The Social Media Salary Guide [INFOGRAPHIC] Social Media Week is upon us, so we thought it would be appropriate to delve into the social media industry and see how its salaries stack up.

Social media is an evolving and cutting-edge field, so it should come as no surprise that you can make a great living managing a brand's presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, Foursquare and other social platforms. In the infographic below, produced by OnwardSearch, you can see where the social media jobs are concentrated, the breakdown of job titles in the industry, and how much dough the average social mediate is bringing home each year. (The graphic shows the 25th and 75th percentiles for salary, pulled from Indeed). Does this stack up with what you've seen in the industry? Do you think these positions and the salaries make sense, given the rise of social media? Infographic courtesy of OnwardSearch Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities.