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Google's Wave Is Here To Stay!

Google’s Wave Is Here To Stay!

First of all, brilliant Marketing again. Remembering the days when Gmail was launched and was of use to a select few through invites. Ditto is the case with Google Wave; but, the noise is much more.
Truly speaking, I find Google Wave to be a significant communication evolution in the web arena. The buzz all around [...]

The Big News: Friendfeed Gets Facebooked - Gets Acquired for $50 Million

The Big News: Friendfeed Gets Facebooked – Gets Acquired for $50 Million

The news is everywhere, Facebook has agreed to acquire Friendfeed for reportedly $50 million, and with it have set blog-tongues wagging on what the deal means for the social web. The Facebook announcement would suggest that the primary reason for the acquisition is the knowledge that the talented guys at Friendfeed hold – the guys behind FF made Gmail and Google maps after all. However its impact is felt at multiple points. The deal is stock and cash with the Friendfeed guys getting $15 million in cash and $32.5 million in Facebook (Facebook) stock.

WATExclusive: Now Get Orkut & Facebook Feed Updates Within RediffMail?

Well this probably looks like the most innovative feature that rediff has ever launched. And Im trying to still graple with the possibilities. In what looks like a testing of the feature rediff has launched the ability for users to add feed updates from their orkut and facebook accounts and view it directly off their rediffmail accounts.

Penance 2.0

Can Web 2.0 and Social Media Tools be used to create Penance Related Campaigns?

Updated: What’s Up! When Twitter Is Down

 
Entire last week people have been talking about Twitter being down and the reason behind it. Then we heard some strange news from the Twitter developer blog stating that Twitter was not designed as a messaging system. That had really put me into an enigma.
 
I also noticed that a post by Michael Arrington on Techcrunch [...]

How to Annoy Your Users Again and Again – By Twitter

They say ‘Out of Sight is Out of Mind’ – Well Twitter is always ‘in’ sight to most of its users. The good part is, when its down – it gets all this free publicity. So maybe thats a ploy to attract more users :p – unfortunately they aren’t in the Media Business where any publicity is good publicity.

Facebook Looks to Open the Walled Garden Further – Facebook Connect’s Scope Likely to Expand

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