Among internet’s big brothers Yahoo is the slowest to expend it’s presence to mobile market. Well it’s better late than never. Isn’t it? Now aiming to expand its presence in the emerging markets, Internet giant Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Indonesia’s location-based services startup Koprol. This announcement came one day after announcing an expanded mobile partnership with Nokia. Yahoo said it will be leveraging the Jakarta-based startup’s user-generated community information to further localize its content for its products. How much Yahoo did spent for buying Koprol still unknown. Koprol was …
Twitter, the 140 character trend we all love. We might miss or get tardy at work but never miss a tweet J . For the reason of user love and popularity, advertiser’s loves it too, to hook up into the stream. There have been numerous companies, startup grown up recently around Twitter’s timeline. Third-party paid Tweets was making money without even have to share a dime with Twitter, unlike any other Social platforms. Many of these third party company’s business model relies on Twitter API for brokers ads and places them in users’ Twitter streams. Most probably the time for these free riding business is about to come to an end, well not necessarily (if they change their business model)! …
400 million plus active users (well even if more than half of them are just active with Games) Facebook certainly dominate social network arena in every country. Hmm minus India (Orkut) and China (Renren.com ). Facebook is nice and all but it has a nasty habit of in the middle of Privacy arguments all the time. Excessive emails, too nosy news feeds, junks from everyone and friends, sneaky Ads etc. always have been there to irritate the hell out of most of us. If not all most Facebook user do complaint about these. Lately, most high-profile complaints involve recent changes to the company’s privacy policies. Social Media Giant Has Come Under Withering Criticism For Its Convoluted …
If you are familiar with web 2.0 arena you must know “Facebook Connect”, the service that allows people to log in to other websites using their Facebook details and interact with friends. That’s a way to expand social interaction across the web without the needs to create registration details again and again. Guess what! Twitter just jump onto the bandwagon of going Viral, with the announcement of its @Anywhere platform at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSW) this Monday (March 15th 2010). It hopes this technology will further embed the service into every corner of the web. It’s designed to make it easier for Twitter partner sites to offer Twitter links with just a few lines of JavaScript. …
There is commotion floating around the net that MyBlogLog will cease to exist next year (2010) January. According to ReadWriteWeb and Search engine land, “sources closed to project” said Yahoo will shut down MyBlogLog next month. Oh! That means just less than 30 days, and no one knows? That’s disappointing! I understand MyBlogLog isn’t hotshot it used to be, but still a significant amount of blogger does use it. It’s been 5 years since MyBlogLog started putting visitors’ faces and profile link on the blog/site. Those who are not well aware, …
There is no doubt that social networking is thriving, well in most parts of the world. It’s so popular that, even a six year old kid knows there is something like-bebo, MySpace, facebook (not in any particular order). Like most of the web 2.0 stuffs Social networking’s popularity relies on power to engage massive community. The enormous success of social network startup like-facebook, twitter, bebo, MySpace definitely attracting hungry businessman. Why? Off course they are trying to figure out a way to utilize this to gain profit.
To be honest 99% social network still lacks any business model that can produce cash, apart from advertising revenue. More …
There is no doubt now, Facebook is the hottest technology now. Why did I said-“Technology”, well Facebook is just more than a social network where people share media’s and get to know each other. It’s working more as tool to build network, presenting an environment/resources to manage, create better communication among networkers. So it’s not surprising a lot of power business users using Facebook now days, and here are three kickass applications that make their life a lot easier- FBlook A simple yet fabulous Facebook application essential for outlook users. well off course if they are facebookers. When installed this …
