I had never thought about this but today while browsing the internet and coming across the article written by The Consumerist about the facebook incident it got me thinking. Well the article about facebook incident was that Stephanie Bemister lost her brother. She contacted facebook requesting to delete his profile as he was no longer [...]
Google’s social networking platform, Orkut is in discussions with the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket to create brand positioning campaigns and even an IPL profile page for Orkut users. Mahesh Narayanan, senior industry manager, Google says around 10 entities, including FMCG, telecom and movie producers, will be the big-ticket advertisers for Orkut in 2009. The [...]
Gekko is a new and unique way to find places – spots – that you love based on your profile and your match with like-minded people.The startup is using the most blatant use of sex to launch. Unfortunately it’s not even funny. Check out the Viral Video here
Seth Godin talks about the power of permission-based email, being Google Friendly, social media and how the internet has changed everything. Filmed at Seth’s London Session on 17th Feb 2009. Check out the Video
Facebook says that it has removed ads for a get rich quick scam that appeared on the site for weeks before being noticed by staff. Users still report that some of the ads remain on the site and are being re-published at a rate faster than the site can review. The ads appear as signed [...]
YouTube has introduced a new feature for publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. People can now send a special link to their friends so that friends can easily add their own comments to videos. YouTube’s editor now has a link that you can share with your friends – or the to the world. [...]
Sharlyn Lauby authors a blog at hrbartender.com – http://www.hrbartender.com recently on Mashable she posted an interesting article that speaks about how to deal with social media conflict. When you encounter conflict in a work environment, you can go into that person’s office, have a private chat, talk out the matter then go out for a [...]
Social media marketing is specifically using social networks, blogs, social media to facilitate word of mouth marketing. Its not the same as word of mouth marketing. Its always great to visually view what someone is trying to say so i thought this video might help.
Twitter is working to convert its popularity into a business. Twitter has begun testing its search features on a few accounts prior to releases it in the open. The search is now please on the main Twitter.com page. This information was provided by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog posting.
Mike Butcher from techCrunch UK had a video interview with Travis Katz, international head of MySpace at Mobile World Congress to get his views about MySpace mobile traffic. Check out the Video
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
