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Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs: Get your business to the next stage

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:11:07 +0000

As social media gets integrated into our lifestyle, its significance as a platform and a tool for marketing has increased manyfold. Social media offers a cost effective mechanism for interaction with customers for the purpose of product and brand communication, product promotion or effective customer service management. The lack of a financial obligation adds to [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs: Get your business to the next stage

How To Get Started With Twitter In 2012 – A guide for Small Businesses ?

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:33:47 +0000

Twitter isn’t losing any of its marketing power. Even though the service has been around for quite a number of years Twitter continues to grow. That growth should be a sign for you to either hop on board already, or improve your Twitter marketing campagins. If Twitter is a service you haven’t been using to [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at How To Get Started With Twitter In 2012 – A guide for Small Businesses ?

Impact of social media on non-profit organizations

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:08:55 +0000

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and other social media networks are rapidly changing almost everything about our society. They’re impacting politics, commerce, dating and relationships, and most other ways in which people interact with one another. The world of nonprofit corporations – charities, activist and advocacy groups, and others – is no exception. The most obvious [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Impact of social media on non-profit organizations

BATTLEFIELD 3 – Console Vs PC

Husam Motlib — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:33:07 +0000

Gear up for the latest installment of the Battlefield franchise as the amazing Frostbite 2 Engine has been introduced to Battlefield 3. Dice have announced that the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of Battlefield will be running at 30 fps which has caused a disturbance in the console community. This is because the high quality [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at BATTLEFIELD 3 – Console Vs PC

See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:52:06 +0000

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

John Boehner to Answer Budget, Spending Questions on YouTube

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:43:55 +0000

Speaker of the House John Boehner will be doing a YouTube interview on Sunday, February 27 at midnight ET. YouTube is calling for questions from users. YouTube will use Google Moderator to determine which questions get asked. The ones with the most votes will be selected. “With many U.S. states facing budget crises, and the [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at John Boehner to Answer Budget, Spending Questions on YouTube

Does Web Conferencing Hurt Business?

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:14:45 +0000

I just saw a short online article summarizing results of a survey sponsored by CareerBuilder.com. The article had the provocative headline “Survey: Cutting business travel cuts business.” It opened with two bullet points in bold face on a highlighted background: Less business travel adversely impacts their business, say more than a third ‘Some companies are [...]

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Bahrain Protest Photos Flood Flickr

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:05:58 +0000

Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube often get a lot of the attention when it comes to social media spreading news of revolutions and uprisings in foreign nations, but Yahoo-owned Flickr is reminding everyone that it plays a significant role as well. Photos can say a lot, and Flickr has plenty of those. The company is highlighting [...]

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Orkut Badges for Power Users

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:14:24 +0000

Google has introduced badges in Orkut profiles to help you easily flaunt how active you are and how much you know of the social site. For instance, if you have been on Orkut for more than 5 years, you get the “early user” badge while if you are active on Orkut forums, you are awarded [...]

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Yahoo Introduces Its Contributor Network

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:50:53 +0000

Yahoo has launched the Yahoo Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content. Yahoo says its Contributor Network will bring contributions from more than 400,000 writers, photographers and videographers to media destinations, including Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and the Yahoo homepage. “The launch of the Yahoo Contributor Network is [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Yahoo Introduces Its Contributor Network

CareerBuilder Launches Facebook Referral App

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:10:24 +0000

CareerBuilder has launched a new application called “Work@” that allows employees to share their company’s job openings on their Facebook page. Work@ pulls open jobs housed on a company’s website or in their Applicant Tracking System. After an employee adds the Work@ application to their Facebook account, CareerBuilder’s job recommendation engine identifies matches in that [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at CareerBuilder Launches Facebook Referral App

Content Creation Slows On Social Networks

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:52:41 +0000

While the worldwide adoption of social networking is still increasing, other forms of social interactions, such as content creation, have experienced no significant growth in the past year, according to a new report from Forrester Research. “Social Technographics data can be used as a benchmark to help understand where certain social media approaches might work [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Content Creation Slows On Social Networks

David Fincher Shares Real Thoughts on the Facebook Story

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:10:49 +0000

David Fincher, the director of The Social Network shares some interesting thoughts about the story told in the movie – the founding of Facebook. In a press conference following a screening of the film in New York, Fincher lets loose on his thoughts about how the situation among Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at David Fincher Shares Real Thoughts on the Facebook Story

Facebook Likes Just Officially Became More Important to Search

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:44:57 +0000

Facebook announced a few Platform updates, including updates to the Live Stream Plugin, Liked articles appearing in search results, and improvements to real-time updates. The second one is in line with a feature the company was testing that we mentioned recently. “Consistent with how we treat other Open Graph object types, we’ve introduced the ability [...]

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Twitter Reportedly Set to Unveil "Promoted Accounts"

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:07:29 +0000

Twitter will reportedly announce another product for bringing in revenue tomorrow at the IAB MIXX Expo. Peter Kafka at All Things Digital says sources “familiar with the company’s plans” told him they will show off “Promoted Accounts”. These accounts would simply appear in the “who to follow” section on Twitter. It’s just that companies or [...]

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Why is Facebook so Blue in Color?

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:45:58 +0000

This is original design of Facebook when it was called thefacebook.com – you were required to have an .edu email address to even open an account on Facebook. This is Facebook now – open for all and 500 million people are using it already. Why is Facebook Blue? Facebook has gone through some major redesigns [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Why is Facebook so Blue in Color?

Movie Review: The Social Network (The Facebook Movie)

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:24:27 +0000

It’s not often I get the opportunity to write movie reviews for WebProNews, because it’s not often that major motion pictures are released about subjects within our general scope of coverage. I had the opportunity to attend a screening of The Social Network last night, so it seems appropriate that I offer my thoughts about [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Movie Review: The Social Network (The Facebook Movie)

Facebook Explains Outage

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:16:24 +0000

Facebook was down for over 2.5 hours for some users, according to a post from the company. A post in Facebook’s engineering notes says: The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition. An automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more [...]

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"Facebook vs. Google" May Extend Well Beyond Social

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:29:35 +0000

The Facebook/Google competition is getting more and more interesting. Last week, we talked about Google’s social plans and what “Google Me” will actually be. Basically, what it comes down to is that it will not be a new social network, but rather a “social layer” added to existing Google products. I made the case that [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at "Facebook vs. Google" May Extend Well Beyond Social

White Spaces, Verizon Tiered Data Plans & Facebook Troubles

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:28:22 +0000

The FCC voted today on rules that will enable the use of TV white spaces to provide wireless broadband connectivity. Google and Microsoft both issued updates applauding the ruling. “As more people access information via mobile and other intelligent devices, additional strain is being put on existing wireless networks,” said Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research [...]

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