Social Media

4 Reasons a Business Should Invest in Social Media

January 19, 2012

Social media is proliferating across all walks of life and is increasingly infiltrating everything we do. Business owners should realise this as they stand to gain many benefits from engaging in social media marketing and utilising methods such as facebook marketing to increase online profitability as well as drive traffic to their retail store fronts. [...]

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How To Update Your Twitter & Facebook Status With Siri

January 6, 2012

Having a jog in the morning and want to respond to a text, travelling to a distance place and want to know the weather condition or trying to locate your favorite restaurant and you do not know the directions, Siri is there for your rescue. Even when you’re driving or you need a break from [...]

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The New Twitter

January 4, 2012

As an example of how to finish the year strong and make 2012 a fresh start, Twitter rolled out the microblog’s most extensive overhaul ever last month. TweetDeck got tweaked, the website’s been reorganized, the iOS and Android apps were updated, and some new icons have popped up. Unlike the mass revolts that take place [...]

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Affects of Google Plus Pages in SEO

November 24, 2011

It has come to many people’s realization that recently, Google plus has increased a lot in relation to its growth. Since the implementation, Google plus has been able to receive millions and millions of users including Facebook as well as an option that enables businesses to have profiles. In the past, it could only host [...]

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What Does the New Facebook Interface Mean for Google+?

October 5, 2011

As a Facebook user, you’ve probably noticed by now that Facebook has launched a new newsfeed interface as of last week. For many Facebook users, this came as a shock and even an unwelcome interruption. The new Facebook newsfeed interface shows top stories that you may find interesting and also has a side bar newsfeed [...]

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4 Important Reasons Why Twitter Marketing Is A Must

October 4, 2011

You can grow faster and easier, when you use twitter as a marketing system. I want to share with you some amazing discoveries about twitter marketing. If you take action and apply these secrets to your marketing campaigns, the sky is your starting point. When you incorporate the 3 giants of social media like Facebook, [...]

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5 Steps To Promote Your Blog Using Social Media Marketing

September 29, 2011

Social media marketing has evolved in this new age, and promoting your business with this powerful system has become necessary, if not mandatory. A lot of people shy away from social media marketing, because they don’t know how to to it. It all boils down to your knowledge of the web, and how people react [...]

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Netflix’s Most Recent Social Media PR Debacle: Meet Jason Castillo

September 20, 2011

Pretty much all of the recent news surrounding Netflix has been bad. They have increased the price for subscribers to both of their services from $9.99 a month to $15.99 a month. They are imposing a limit on the amount of content users can simultaneously stream. They are also facing harsh negotiation deals from major [...]

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Import your Facebook friends into Google+

July 14, 2011

Facebook must be scared since they shut down a Google Chrome plugin that would allow you to export your Facebook friends and import them into Google+. Luckily, there are other ways of doing it – and here’s one method: Use Yahoo contacts to export your Facebook friends, then export Yahoo contacts into a CSV file [...]

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Get your free Google+ invite here! [Google Plus]

July 13, 2011

CLOSED!! After sending out almost 200 Google+ invites over the past few days, I’ve decided to close the giveaway for now, as I’ve already spent so much time doing this Hopefully Google+ will be made available to the public soon enough, so stay tuned! I did a few invitation-giveaway posts back in the Google Wave [...]

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Will Google Plus Prove Itself A Social Networking Game Changer?

June 30, 2011

With each passing month the Social Networking world grows even further. As societies become increasingly techno-centric, people are more and more driven to share and exchange ideas, concepts, and personal feelings over a growing social network. Facebook, currently, holds the top spot among user-ship and popularity but other networks are hoping to cash in on [...]

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Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

May 26, 2011

Facebook and Spotify teams up to provide a new music service to Facebook users. The new service will probably be named “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook” and is said to be launched in as soon as just two weeks, according to Forbes. Apparently there’s no money shifting hands in this deal, Facebook doesn’t pay [...]

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Are you Facebook addicted?

May 4, 2011

The immense popularity of the social network Facebook has generated a lot of additional business, including the celebrated book and movie, but also some other activities that are less widely publicized, like the study regarding the Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). While the study is still in the works and other psychologists go rampant on dangers [...]

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10 Tips for Using Facebook in the Office

February 10, 2011

Are you addicted to Facebook? Can you make it a full nine hours without needing to find out someone’s status or play Mafia Wars? If not, you are not alone. Here are some ways to keep up with your Facebook page without getting caught. Rearrange your desk: People need change within their workplace. If you [...]

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Facebook sets a new Photo upload record

January 5, 2011

Randi Zuckerberg (Mark’s sister) who leads Facebook’s consumer marketing team, wrote in a tweet that 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years Eve weekend. The previous record was during Halloween 2010. In July 2010, Facebook said more than 100 million photos are uploaded to their site – each day! It’s unknown [...]

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Get Safe Online – How To Identify If You’re At Risk Online!

November 18, 2010

Problem: Suspect e-mails and attachments Most people are aware of the dangers of opening e-mail attachments from unknown senders; a security risk that received a lot of press when e-mailing became ever more essential to our day to day lives. Opening an e-mail attachment sometimes involves running executable code that could be used to install [...]

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Facebook launches “e-mail” service: Facebook Messages

November 16, 2010

As rumored yesterday, Facebook would be announcing a new web based “e-mail” service soon – and now they have. They call it Facebook Messages. Actually, it’s not really like the e-mail we know and use every day. Here’s how Facebook put it on their blog: We are also providing an @facebook.com email address to every [...]

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Facebook to launch webmail service? Would you trust them?

November 12, 2010

Facebook has been working secretly on a project known as Project Titan which the public first heard something about in February. According to TechCrunch, Facebook will announce the project on Monday. But TechCrunch knows more than that – they claim that according to reliable sources, Facebook is about to launch a webmail client, a “Gmail [...]

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Facebook: Even bigger photos for even better viewing

October 5, 2010

Facebook last increased photo sizes from 604 pixels to 720 pixels back in March 2010. Despite being a 20% increase, 720 pixels photos are not just that big here in 2010. Apparently, Facebook agrees. Facebook is now increasing sizes even more, from the 720 pixels to 2048 pixels. Much better – good job, Facebook! They’re [...]

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Open Source Facebook Competitor, Diaspora*, Launches in Two Weeks

August 30, 2010

Diaspora* is an open source project that was launched a few months ago where they initially tried to raise just $10,000 via Kickstarter.com so that these four guys could develop their Facebook competitor. They ended up getting around $180,000 instead – including some money (apparently) from Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg. The deal with Diaspora is [...]

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