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Now Upload Photos To Orkut From Picasa – A Move Towards Killing Orkut?
Google has launched a new feature (which is not a copy of it’s competitor) on their social networking website Orkut by which you can directly upload photos to your Orkut profile and albums right from Picasa – Google’s desktop based photo editing and management tool. Social networks like Orkut are the best place to put [...]
Priyanka Chopra Tweets Her Way To Twitter HQ – Will Bollywood Drive Twitter To The Top?
One of the most active of the “Twitteratis”, Priyanka Chopra added another feather to her illustrating Twitter journey by visiting the Twitter HQ at San Francisco following a special invitation. At the time of writing this article, she had already crossed 200,000 followers on Twitter, a first for a Bollywood celebrity.
Reports have it that she [...]
It’s Official: Twitter To Make Money Online via Ads
Head of product management and monetization at Twitter, Anamitra Banerji told MediaPost that Twitter will have ads in the near future as they are working on an ad platform which only in the test phase. In the next few months Twitter will start rolling out it’s ad platform in phases that is one region [...]
Twitter Shining: 50 Million Tweets Per Day, Dalai Lama Joins Twitter
Seems like very good things are happening to Twitter this week. First, they announced that Twitter has now reached a mark of 50 million tweets per day on Twitter – A great achievement for Twitter indeed. Secondly, the spiritual leader of Buddhists – Dalai Lama has joined twitter!
50 million tweets per day on Twitter
Twitter, the [...]
Brand Wars: Facebook, Twitter, Google and Coke? Well, Uh… What?
There was a time when companies used to have brand wars involving commodities. But things and times have changed now and to a great extent. Everything is gradually moving to the web and now we have brand wars between companies which are mere websites! Enough said, you must have already started thinking so as to [...]
Webwalks.com – One Point Access To All Accounts
Have you ever thought that how much time you spend on internet browsing, remembering different username/password or logging into different sites for checking mails etc… or performing regular internet activities.
A website – webwalks.com has been launched to save our time spend on all these activities and improve work efficiency and save your time as well [...]
6 Hours A Day Spent On Social Networking Globally! What About India?
Social Networking has become such an essential part of people’s lives that it seems difficult to imagine how people actually managed to keep in touch without the Facebook poke or that once-in-a-while @ tweet. It should come as no surprise that social networking is on the rise and is growing at a phenomenal rate. What [...]
Tweetdeck Must Install For Sky News Staff – How Twitterful Are Indian Journalists?
According to a news source, Sky News has asked all it’s news staff to install Tweetdeck – Twitter’s most popular desktop application in a hope that it will motivate the journalists to use social media for newsgathering and reporting. Julian March – executive producer of Sky News says “The big change for [...]
Hallmark Cards Launches Twittermantic – The First Twitter-Only Romantic Writing Contest
The season of love is getting close and how can social networking gimmicks keep away. For some it might be too cheesy to flaunt their affection only on one particular day, but for others it’s just another day to celebrate love. Social networking giant Twitter has just the platform what it takes e-greetings and love [...]
Twitter Looks To Ca$h In On Tweets!..Celebs too..
Everybody has heard of twitter. A lot of people are on Twitter. Like it or not, too many talk about twitter. So when a company has as much fame as twitter, they really couldn’t ask for anything else. Could they? Well ofcourse they could. Profits!
Ever since this buzz has surrounded the microblogging site, pundits have [...]
‘Anti-Social Media’ – Has The Rebel Movement Begun?
All you Digital Media enthusiasts and Social Media catalysts won’t be impressed by seeing the title of My First Post in 2010. True, this is a ridiculous term, ‘Anti-Social Media‘, but the bigger truth is that it looms large over our head as a concept or a practice which can create a rebel wave amongst [...]
Twitter Plays Saviour For Drunk Drivers – What Else Will It Carry Through?
The new year’s eve has always been associated with drinking and joyous revelry. The police in most cities try their best to keep drinking and driving cases in check.
In Mumbai there have been 720 cases of drunken driving were held this year, being the highest number of revellers booked by traffic cops. Now most people [...]
Recap 2009 – Facebook vs Twitter
2009 – Was it a Facebook’s or was it Twitter’s year of grace?
Every single morning when you log into your laptop and all you can read on the WATblog’s and Techcrunch’s of the world is some or the other thing about Twitter or Facebook, isn’t that enough to dedicate a whole section to the round up 2009 [...]
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 craze is reaching office desktops and in turn affecting the overall productivity of the companies.
Note: The survey was conducted in 13 major cities [...]
Twupdates – Tata Sky Launches Twitter Enabled Banner Advertising, Forbes Interviews Ravi Bajaj on Twitter and Yahoo Integrates Twitter to Search
Twitter trends apart, Twitter itself was sort of trending in our news feeds here today, with as many as four or five news stories on it. The following three provided an interesting mix of news on Twitter being used in third party marketing moves. They also in a way shed light on how Twitter (and perhaps similar social media products) might begin to get integrated in advertising and marketing efforts in future.