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Yahoo buys Mobile Social Network Service Korpol
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 always the second choice for Yahoo, Foursquare which was its first choice probably asked for higher price than what yahoo had in mind (US$100 million-plus offers). Koprol specializes in mobile networking, lets people make friends, share photos, and find popular nearby locations all on the go. This only indicates Internet giant’s rising interest in geo-location offerings, pledging to bring Nokia’s Navteq mapping service to Yahoo, and Yahoo’s email and instant-messaging technology to Nokia’s Ovi service. With the Yahoo buyout, Koprol will maintain its base in Jakarta, Indonesia and all employees will be converted to the Yahoo team. Koprol noted in a blog post that many of its planned…
Paid tweets business models, beware!
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)! Twitter has its own advertising system called Promoted Tweets, which launched about a month ago. It shares about half of the revenue with developers. Now the news break out that Twitter is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization. Official statement for this move is, to protect the relevance and integrity of the platform. But we all know what the real reason- It’s the Green baby! As our primary concern is the long-term health…
Facebook’s latest privacy dilemma
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 Privacy Settings, Which May Share More Than Users Realize. With over 50 different privacy buttons, inducing 170+ options for users certainly makes things drastically complicated. Facebook’s recent adjustments make it incredibly difficult to control your information in any reasonable way. Even after you go through all those you are not even 100% sure your information are safe. Nick Bolton of NY Times figured out that United States Constitution, without any of its amendments is 1,287 words shorter than Facebook’s privacy policy, go figure! In…
Twitter @Anywhere JavaScript framework
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. This new technology will allow sharing media and contents to twitter right from the publisher’s page in addition to authentication almost like Facebook connect. Just as Twitter @Anywhere just as described by their blog post: Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning. There isn’t any definite time table/ ETA announced when exactly…
No more MyBlogLog by January 2010 {updated}
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, MyBlogLog is a social network for the blogger community that is based in part on interactions facilitated by a popular web widget that many members install on their blog. Bloggers sign up for free accounts on MyBlogLog and can initiate a blog community for one or more blogs they author. Bloggers can then display widgets on their sites which show MyBlogLog online community members who have recently visited their page. MyBlogLog was originally developed by Cloudspace— an Orlando, Florida web applications development shop. It’s used to be very popular and looked full of potential. But after Yahoo acquired it on 2007 for more than 10 million dollars and with…
Social networking: where we are at?
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 scarcely only a very handful companies really have figured out how to capitalize on all that coveted word-of-mouth and networking. So clearly the problem lays within the social network nature such it is, where lack of room for business to fit in. For example—Twitter, a mighty social networking tool that growing in lightning speed and bagged couple of awards in recent years. Not only awards but as well they grabbed US$35 million in VC funding lately. But still now there is no sustainable business model. Social networking monetization is still just a topic…
Three kickass Facebook application for business users
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 tool let you update your Facebook status, track contacts status as well as notifications right within outlook. No need to open browser window or any other application while receive necessary notification right in your outlook while you are busy taken care of business. You can say this little tool by TechHit simply integrate Facebook into your outlook. Installation and initial configurations straight forward and 4 steps process, which require allowing permission to FBlook from Facebook. So far this program has no reported bugs or security threat. Professional profile Since business users need to show off their professional charisma and achievements,…
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