LinkedIn Becomes The Preferred Medium To Develop Professional Brand

Social networks have filtered into every sphere of our lives and our professional lives are no different. Facebook is a great medium to connect with people but the casual air is not the perfect medium...
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Google’s +1 Button Comes To India

Just a day before Google+, Google’s third or fourth attempt at social networking was publicly announced, the company made the +1 button available websites all over the world. Looking back at the...
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Orkut Lets You Edit Your Pics With Picnik

Google has added a new feature to its once popular social networking platform: Orkut. The new feature enables users to edit photos in Orkut photo albums using Picnik, the online photo editing tool. The...
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Will Content Discovery Make way for Product Discovery Engines?

It wasn’t more than a year back that I wrote people come online for information. That that’s why Google, social networks and social bookmarks are popular because they constant feed people with...
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Social Networking Craze Affects Productivity @ India Inc

Social networks are turning into time wasters for Indian employees as revealed by a latest survey from Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry). The report points out how the social media...
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US Social Networking Stats

Compete.com served up some new numbers about Social-Networking stats some days back. They have put Facebook in the lead with about 68 million unique visitors, while MySpace is at 58 million. Total Visits:...
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Recap 2008: Social Networking In India

Social Networking which some may term as the big bubble of the web as besides for a few social networks like facebook, myspace and possibly bebo few others have seen that kind of even half that kind of...
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Funding Updates!

A lot of mergers and acquisitions have been happening in the ICT space. Newer companies have been raising investments to fund their operations and expansions. Below are some of the investments done by...
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How to make money on Facebook?

Monetize your  API’s – Use a Social Ad Network: Social Media – www.socialmedia.com/networks Cubics – www.cubics.com Rock You!  – www.rockyou.com   There are people making $8,000...
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Brand Communities: Can they Work? 2008 Beckons

As we near the year-end, one trend that seems to be catching up with marketers is that of building communities online through brand related social networks. The question is – will they/ can they be...
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After MentosHelpline its time for MentosFriendsLine!

Not too long ago Mentos had launched a campaign through an interactive site mentoshelpline.com. If you have been a regular watblog reader since the last 6-8 months or so then you would have surely read...
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Facebook, UNICEF Team Up For “Charity Gift”

  Social networks are all over the place. Yesterday, we blogged about Facebook launching Little Black Book, which provides the base for dating on Facebook and Match.com.   Earlier we had blogged...
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New Developments at Facebook – A Change in the Social Media Marketing Scenario

In the past few weeks we have been generating a lot of discussion on Facebook, its valuation ($15 billion), why Microsoft has probably paid such a huge sum to acquire a minority stake, et al. Here are...
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29,000 Sex offenders DELETED on MySpace – Orkut are you listening??

Wow, Searching 29000 fake or pornographic profiles must be really tough, but they (MySpace) managed to delete all of them. Although it may have taken initial push from the users (or parents), MySpace...
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Orkut becomes a little indian

Orkut has changed the faces of the people on its homepage. So what you may say?? well whats important to note is that now there are a few indian faces unlike before. Which like orkut’s diwali logo...
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KLM goes social

KLM Airlines have created a customer centric(only for frequent flyer club members)social networking website where than that connect people doing business in China and Africa. Memebers of the club can network...
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