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There’s been quite a bit of talk in the international community with respect to Facebook Fan Pages. On one level they are the ideal example of decentralized Social Media Branding.
 
TechCrunch did an interesting post on ‘Can Google Trends Predict the Elections’. Well, if you look at Facebook Pages, then its quite clear that Barrack [...]

I am a BIG fan of Opera Mini and have accessed to more than 2,000 hours of internet on my mobile. Even, I created an Opera Mini Fanpage on Facebook & used to send regular updates for the same which had 130 fans till the last time I went through the page. But, today morning when I logged onto my Facebook account, I got a Warning Notice that the fanpage has been deleted.

How many of you are on Facebook and are tired of application request? Well, evidently a lot of Facebook users are.
  
Here’s a couple of screenshots of groups who are overtly pissed.
 
 
Facebook listened to it’s users and created an ‘ignore all’ button for ignoring multiple requests. It’s now looking at ways to make sure that [...]

In my last article, i had talked in length that for a web 2.0 to really build loyalty amongst its users, it has to device a model that is really web 2.0 ‘ish in nature. Taking a leaf out of my article( i guess they read that!!!) Facebook has quitely launched advertising feedback. With another of [...]

Saw a relatively sensational Title on LiveMint today – “Mapping Your Life”. Found it quite interesting but it basically spoke about the fact that the Indian Post is developing a directory that maps where you live, who you live with, how long you’ve been living there, what car you drive and your last five addresses.
 
“Mapping your [...]

Back in 2007 , a blogger had blogged that a black google would save 3000 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of [...]

IM updates from Twitter are currently down. On the site they say that say that it’s due to an overflow of IM Traffic. This probably, as Rajiv says, is a result of Twitter’s recent funding.
 
Twitter has caused quite a rage and it has taken microblogging to a level where it is chic. The model obviously [...]

Facebook is now allowing more options for ’social surfing’ - its looking at allowing you to import feeds from Multiple partner sites - this probably indicates what lies ahead. This is a rip off from the FriendFeed Model

orkut apps directory now lists more than 100 applications after a month of its launch in India & Estonia.

Over 25,000 Facebook applications’ installation crosses 1 billion mark on the eve of 1st anniversary of Facebook platform.

Mr. Steven Spielberg is set to launch a social networking site. So is this just another social networking site like Orkut or Facebook? The answer is no. It is true that a social networking site is meant for people to socialize on the web. But this site focuses on those users who have or had or are interested in sharing paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences. And it may also have original…

We blogged (2 weeks back) about Google Translate now being available in Hindi. Well you can add more languages to that list. 9 more languages are now being available courtesy Google. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
 
In more language updates, Facebook has also just launched its platform in 3 new languages [...]

When Facebook launched its advertising platform last year, there were a few issues  - ordinary members could create ‘Fan Pages’. So fans started creating pages around their favourite brands.
 
But there was a problem – when advertisers want to advertise with Facebook, they are requested to 1st create a fan page and then buy social ads. So [...]

We wrote about Dhingana way back in 2006 – they have just launched a spruced up version of their Social Network based on music.
 
They have the basic profile page, which gets updated automatically when you listen to some music. So for example if someone comes to your page, that person can see all the songs that you have [...]

MySpace recently announced the launch of a new service called “Data Availability” which will allows MySpace users to share their public profile data with other Web sites like Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay, and Photobucket and exercise a degree of control over what information is to be shared, as also, with whom. Instead of updating information on every site, MySpace users [...]

I just opened up my Facebook Account Today and on my Newsfeed Page I saw a sponsored Poll.
 
The name of the brand on this poll has not been mentioned. A few months back I saw ads by Mobango in my Newsfeed but I refrained from clicking through primarily because it seemed pissing off.
 
Facebook has an option where [...]