4 Insights Into Social Media Innovation

December 17, 2011

In a sense there is nothing new in this world.

Communication is communication whether it is by smoke signal, telephone or blog!

So we can all shut down our computers and relax, if there is nothing new to say

..however we know that people have choice, we know that people are using the internet more and more to research and make their purchase.

So if there is nothing really new to say, why bother to use social media?

Because the new is not necessarily inventive…instead…

…it lies in the innovative way we express what we do and the innovative way we show our values – the innovation of expression!

…it lies in the innovative way we m...

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The Government in India Asks Social Media Companies to Screen Content

December 14, 2011

The Indian government met with social media companies including Google and Facebook to discuss prescreening user content before it goes live on their respective websites. Executives from the companies organized a dicussion with telecommunications minister Kapil Sibal in order to negotiate the possibility of removing “disparaging” and “inflammatory” content before users are allowed to put it online. Microsoft and Yahoo representatives were also present at the meeting, although no consensus was reached. The Washington Post reported that the government claimed the companies completely ignoredtheir request for screening. According to eWeek, Sibal said about the government’s proposed screening plans: “...

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New Facebook app for Android is now available in Android Market

December 10, 2011

One of the very first things now a day people used on their mobile phone is Facebook. So it’s the concern of everyone to make it easier to use the Facebook. And the best way to do it is built a nice Facebook app for mobile. Though Android Market has a Facebook app for a very long time but many people think it need an upgrade. At last the updated version of the Facebook app has finally hit the Android Market. With this new update, Facebook has introduced a new UI that should make your life a lot easier.

The new app also makes loading photos and albums twice as fast. They have also made it easier to share photos, view comments and edit captions through the app. You can now get real time push notification. There is now a bar at t...

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Netflix Predicts Internet-Streaming Videos Will Overtake Cable in a Few Years

December 8, 2011

Internet-streamed video will overtake cable to dominate home video viewing within three to five years, Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings predicted Tuesday, with stiffer competition to come.
Hastings said that the rapid growth in high-volume home internet links over fiber optic cables will boost consumer use of on-demand viewing services over traditional cable viewing.

Streaming “is all people are going to care about” in a few years. “People are in love with broadband, in terms of click and watch.”

Hastings also told an audience of investment analysts that his company, making the shift from a trad...

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Wikileaks Exposes Surveillance Industry Containing ‘The Spy Files’

December 3, 2011

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website known as WikiLeaks, has made an announcement on the latest project his website is dealing with currently. Dubbed the Spyfiles, the project centers released the files that prove how high-tech companies of the West and the East are in competition against each other with a view to acquiring lucrative contracts with the support of most oppressive regimes of the world.

“When citizens ousted the dictatorships in Libya and Egypt this year, the listening rooms have been uncovered where electronic devices from the British Gamma Corporation, French Amesys, South African VASTech, and Chinese ZTE Corp have been used to monitor every online & o...

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Facebook Plans Record IPO Worth $100 Billion

November 30, 2011

Facebook Inc. is planning to raise more $10 billion as an initial public offering adding values to the largest social-networking site of the world, a person concerned with the offering said.

Facebook may file for IPO well before the year ends, said the same person declining to reveal his identity. Actual timing for filing remains undetermined yet, the person added.

Facebook’s valuation of approximately $100 billion will be doubled very soon, as announced by the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as well as other backers. So far, the IPO is adequate as the details may encounter change, said Lise Buyer, head of the Class V Group (IPO advisory firm).

“It’s too early for predicting accurately the position of...

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How to Build Free Traffic – Consider SEO

November 26, 2011

This is the world of information technology. Every business is now getting online as this is the age of online competition. One of the greater concerns here is to have the website that would represent your business over the web. Having website is specifically considerable in this regard as being registered with a website online, your business will be more than public to the people. Even if you are running the business on a local basis, you will still have chance that you would get international clientage. After that, you might think to change the mode of your business.

After when you have registered a domain and developed a website for your business, the very first and considerable matter of concern is...

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Google co-founder, his wife donate $500,000 to Wikimedia

November 23, 2011

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife have donated $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

According to AFP, the grant was made by the Brin Wojcicki Foundation founded by Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genetics company, the Brin Wojcicki Foundation said in a statement on Friday, November 18.

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched its annual fundraising drive this week and visitors to Wikipedia.org are currently met with an appeal for donations from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

Google donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation last year.

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Facebook Teams Up With Warner Bros. to Stream Movies

November 19, 2011

In its march to become a portal to the entire internet, Warner Brothers will begin streaming movies on Facebook to test out whether the social network’s 600-plus million users will be willing to pay to stream new movies from within the social networking site’s virtual walls.

Warner Brothers will start the trial with The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie from Christoper Nolan, and Facebook users will have to pay 30 Facebook credits (about $3) to watch the movie. To rent the movie, Facebook users in the United States have to visit the movie’s Facebook page, and start watching the movie from there. The rental period lasts for 48 hours — twice the standard from other ...

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Facebook Hacking Problem Has Been Resolved

November 16, 2011

There was flood of porn on the Facebook for past few days. Facebook authorities say that it happened due to a hack and some web browsers lead to this flood of porn and violent images and more graphic content which should not have been there.

Spokesman of Facebook Frederic Wolens said that their security team had worked overnight to know the cause of the spam and by Wednesday all those spam has been eliminated. The images that were being shown include hardcore porn, Photoshop edited images of celebrities including Justin Bieber and they were all exposed in sexual positions. There was also a violent image of a sexually abused dog.

Facebook authorities said that their ...

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