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web 2.0

Birth of Microblogging and Death of Free Email

March 20, 2008

Is free email dying and the growth of blogs is slowing down? If the social networking using Facebook and Bebo has exploded in 2007, the year 2008 has started with the growth of a different type of communication medium. It is microblogging. Using short texts, and sometimes pictures and videos, you share your thoughts and [...]

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2008: The Year of Twitter

March 9, 2008

2007 was the year of Facebook. According to people count statistics of compete.com, Twitter has registered a 1200% growth over the last 12 months compared to 119% increase for Facebook. While people are getting fed up with Facebook zombies and hugs, some have started realizing the value of Twitter.

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Arrival of Social Mapping: Google’s My Maps is Now Our Maps

November 28, 2007

Google maps product manager, Jess Lee, has posted about Google’s social mapping feature in My Maps. Tagzania also offers collaborative mapping. However, there are few differences in the two offerings.
To enable the collaborative feature of My Maps, you click the collaborative link and add email addresses of people who can add and modify the map. [...]

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Facebook Social Ads: A Sophisticated Referral Program

November 9, 2007

Facebook has unveiled the Social Ads system that enables advertisers use your friends’ endorsements to woo you in purchasing their products and services.
Businesses will create their Facebook pages just like Facebook users and slather those pages with texts, photos, videos, and applications. Members will interact with these pages, e.g. booking a hotel room or uploading [...]

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OpenSocial – What is in there for You?

November 7, 2007

Social networking is a rapidly growing web phenomenon with more than 100 million participants worldwide. Thirty percent social networkers have a Facebook account. Within a few months of opening up of Facebook platform to application developers, there was an avalanche of applications developed to lure Facebook members in installing them. And the Facebook members did [...]

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8 Steps to Facebook Adventure

November 1, 2007

Once a social platform for college students, the 40 million active membership site facebook is the latest buzzword in social media marketing. However, most members are extremely online savvy and they smell blatant advertisements from miles away. It is important to know some basics and gain experiences in utilizing the site and interacting with its [...]

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Social Video Remixing – 7 New Kids on the Block

October 29, 2007

The year 2006 saw the emergence of the social video market with the mass adoption of YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, etc. The 2007 has shaped up as the year when the hoi polloi finally takes control of the video editing functionality that was once the guarded secrets of only a few experts.
A bevy of [...]

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Travel Organization Site Tripit: The Begining of Web 3.0?

September 18, 2007

Tripit is a travel organization site that just came out of private-invitation-only memberships. It is now open for anyone to sign up. It is an interesting site for do-it-yourself trip planners. You organize all your travel related website bookmarks, travel plans and itineraries in one place. In addition to printing your itinerary, you can also [...]

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Social Network for Targeted Age Group – Good Idea?

September 16, 2007

Read/WriteWeb has a post about massive layoffs at Eons, a social networking site targeted to baby boomer generation. Bernard Lunn at Read/WriteWeb concludes that a site should connect to its visitors around contents rather than age. On the surface it seems to be a good suggestion.
If you are running a blog around personal development, your [...]

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Traffic From Niche Social Web

September 14, 2007

Are you tired of submitting your posts to digg and reddit? Are you upset that you only got a few diggs on an article that you spent hours researching and writing? This happens to many bloggers.
AjaxNinja says to stop submitting articles on the most popular sites like digg or reddit and he recommends submitting to [...]

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