Twitter Hacked, Animated AdSense, Content Generation, Speedlink 5:2013 – iBlogzone.com

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week. This week, one of the most noteworthy buzz is that from Twitter. As reported by MarketingLand.com, “Twitter says a group of “extremely sophisticated” hackers may have recently accessed limited user information for about 250,000 users accounts, prompting the company to reset the passwords associated with those accounts and remind all of its users to create a stronger password.” So, in case you receive an email from Twitter, you may want to head over your account to check if it was affected.

On a different note, Google is reportedly testing a new animated ad format for AdSense. These ads start to “animate” when a user hovers over them. At this point, Google is apparently only on test mode, but I’m curious to see if they will eventually roll it out. What do you think? Here’s a video that shows you how it looks like.

Finally, and as “content generation” becomes more and more a precious commodity, Rand shares his tips on entering the content arms race and what you can do to come out victorious in your space. Content marketers, to your battle stations!

As usual, in no particular order: