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Love is in The Air and on The Web: WATBlog's Mini Survey on Online Dating Sites & Users

Love is in The Air and on The Web: WATBlog’s Mini Survey on Online Dating Sites & Users

The online dating market is surely huge and has a great potential. But I personally feel that the future is about Social networking sites and second life. Whether love or jobs, I personally feel that people would be searching it on popular social networking sites by being part of various communities and participating in group activities. Specially the second life where people can edit and give a new look to their online face. Besides that you would also have options to select your background where you can carry out conversations in parks, bars, libraries, etc so that you can relive the old moments. A lot more will be done in second life.

Funding Update: MIH, investment arm of Naspers, has invested $10 million in BuzzCity

Funding Update: MIH, investment arm of Naspers, has invested $10 million in BuzzCity

Dr. Fung further adds, ” I expect BuzzCity will expand in Africa, Middle East and Latin America, and strengthen our operations across Asia, Europe and US.” BuzzCity which is a Singapore based mobile content and services company, also owns myGamma a mobile social network, received $10 million from MIH.

Online Tools for Personal Finance and Tax - Where and What to Look For..

Online Tools for Personal Finance and Tax - Where and What to Look For..

It is said that if you want to manage something (Girl friend, Money, Relations, etc), you must be able to understand them first. In other words, if you can’t understand them properly, you really can’t manage it well. Your personal finances & tax also falls within the above concept. How do you know whether you [...]

Updated: What’s Up! When Twitter Is Down

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 [...]

Hello, Twitter Calling. Are You There?

There are various ways to access twitter. But the most common way people access their tweets is through mobile. One can really get pissed of replying to their friends via SMS again and again. Therefore a service that could convert voice to text and then post it on twitter would be a huge hit. Twitsay, Twittergram and others have realized this and grabbed the opportunity. And now it’s an Irish Entrepreneur, Pat Phelan who has joined the league. He launched a beta service called TwitterFone.

Tech, Sex And Romance!

Tech, Sex And Romance!

Tech, sex and romance has a great bonding. In near future I won’t be surprised if tech companies send their executives to a sex or a romance conferences/gatherings rather than a boring client meeting. Sex conventions are always considered to be medicinal/clinical and pornographic in nature. Now, social-media has given it a new dimension. It has helped people to create smaller, targeted gatherings that treat sexuality and technology as inseparable. In near future such sex conferences would gain more popularity and will drive more and more people.

Chinese Social Networking Site QQ.com Beats Facebook Almost 4:1 Revenue Wise!

Chinese Social Networking Site QQ.com Beats Facebook Almost 4:1 Revenue Wise!

QQ7 a Chinese SNS has announced its 2007 earnings. In the year 2007, QQ made $523 Million while the other popular SNS like Mixi had $100 Million, Facebook $150 Million, Cyworld $(200 Million). While their operating profits are as follows:

Father of Internet Preaches Against Online Public Sharing!

Imagine that everything you are is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Social Networking Sites: The Anti National Elements?

Social Networking Sites have caused a communication revolution. But we should also remember the famous quote from the film Spider Man “With Great Powers, Come Great Responsibilities.” What I mean is the potential of social networking sites are growing and so are the threats.
 
 
And Canada Defence Department seems to be taking the issue [...]

Orkut Reveals Stats Behind The Scraps!

Orkut Reveals Stats Behind The Scraps!

Today almost everyone is aware about the power and potential lying in the social networking sites. When talking about them I can never miss out the name “Orkut “being one of my favorite. Since the time it was introduced in late January, 2004 there has been a significant rise in the number of people [...]

Now Start Dating On Facebook

Dating is exciting. Online or otherwise. At least, that’s the case with me. In off-line dating, the person whom we date is either known to us or it maybe a blind date where you haven’t seen the person but you know about him. Off-line dating is so much of fun, but it is restricted to [...]

Local Search Engine Gains Ground On Online Advertisements

Online marketing is taking up the Internet space. An increasing number of web pages now display ads for marketing different product. Today the local advertising is taking over the Internet space. Plenty of Indian startups like Guruji.com, Asklaila.com and many others are getting into the online advertisement business.
 
 
In my yesterday’s article you read about Google [...]

2 Lac Attempts To Hack Facebook

Hacking websites and personal information of the users is one of the favorites among the hackers. Now a days we hear a lot that a girl’s personal information is hacked and the photographs are used to create a porn MMS and so on. Few months back a Canadian Porn company Istra Holdings Inc trading [...]