FaceBook Shop In India

(Reuters) - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.

The Indian social networking space which was ruled by Google owned Orkut till recently has now been replaced by Facebook. According to Alexa, Facebook is the fourth most visited site in India after Google.co.in, Google.com and Yahoo.com
As on FaceBook Blog :
As more and more people share and connect on Facebook, we are growing our operations and teams to support them around the world. Just last week, we announced plans to invest in a new Austin, Texas, office, and today in India we unveiled our intentions to open an office in Hyderabad.
Both of these offices will allow us to better serve the more than 400 million of you now using Facebook worldwide, as well as our growing number of advertisers and developers. We are now hiring people to join the online sales and operations teams that we’re forming in these new locations.
By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support.
India is a large social media market and though Facebook has a a real firm position in country, there are even more possibilities that remain unexplored. The challenges and competition is on a rise with newer sites coming up. India has been a development base for most of the top tech players for a long time now. The availability of talent at affordable rates has lured many to have multiple offices at various parts of the country.

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FaceBook new location feature coming next month

Facebook is growing with a great revenue stream and going to touch the $ 1 billion mark soon. Here is an another feather to Facebook success. Faceook’s location based services will turn live next month with lot more for the developers to relish.

Facebook Inc.is holding its yearly developer conference  f8 in April at San Francisco. This will mark the official unveiling of the new location feature along with the API’s for the developers. The feature will enable the users to share their location information with friends. The set of APIs on the other hand will give the outside developers an opportunity to offer their own location-based services to Facebook users.

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Facebook prohibits ‘Free iPad’ Ads

Facebook announces that it will not approve ads individually. The ones which mention factors which apparently have nothing to do with the subject of the ad like age, sex, and feelings about Eddie Izzard in the case of a “free iPad” ad are banned and will be deleted as and when they’re found

Google Index FaceBook Pages

The new update from Giant "G" is to Index pages from FaceBook 

FaceBook pages are now come in Google real time search result. Facebook pages are not similar to individual profiles, those can be used for companies,organizations,celebrities, businesses etc.  

Google is also planning to Index Jaiku,Friendster and Identia.ca but this will take some time for "G".

Twitter is already twitting in google real time search.

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Twitter Coming up with advertising platform by March 2010.

The long awaited Twitter likely to roll out an official advertising platform by March 2010.

Anamitra Banerji, the head of product management and monetization at Twitter,Said "We are working on an ad platform, but it’s only in the test phase. There is no exact date as off now for Twitter add platform but as per the sources it will be expected next month.

600 Tweets every second place Twitter pretty close to the Facebook’s popularity meaning that the advertising revenue could be very high if Twitter strikes with just the right strategy. Also it will be interesting to see how the third-parties like Ad.ly and Izea that insert ads in the twitter streams will be affected by Twitter’s own advertising model. And how will Twitter users respond to the advertisements popping in their streams? If you are a regular Twitter user, what will be your reaction? Do share with me.

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Time For Yahoo Tweets

Hi Friends

Tweets Tweet Ton's ! Yahoo and Twitter announced a deal to put Twitter feeds on Yahoo homepages, e-mail accounts, Yahoo Sports and other sites in a broad content-sharing agreement that also includes Twitter in Yahoo search results.

The Yahoo-Twitter partnership would be bigger and more encompassing than Twitter’s partnership with Google and Bing.

Yahoo has entered into a partnership with Facebook earlier and has offered to provide the services of Facebook from inside the Yahoo pages. Facebook is currently the second most visited site in the world after Google. Twitter is the most popular micro-blogging platform, with an average of 50 million tweets per day.

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Iran Bans the Giant "G"

Iran has banned Google’s Gmail service from the country., saying that it was launching a national e-mail service for Iranians which help government and people to build better relation..

The Gmail ban comes amid high tension between the government and the opposition, with the regime increasingly tracking the efforts of opposition supporters on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The report said that Gmail is one of the most popular of the western mail services in Iran, especially among young people who are among the strongest supporters of the opposition.


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Welcome to Google Buzz

Hi Friends

Google never allow any one to be in news for long time, So Google come up with its new product "Buzz" and now its time for Google Buzz.

Twitter was the most popular word for 2009 and i believe BUZZ will be for 2010. Google Buzz will be the new star of Social Media Foray.

Let try to find out more in detail about Google Buzz.

Google Buzz is specially designed and created for Gmail Users where they can easily sharephoto, links and status update without visiting sites such as FaceBook or Twitter.

In present, Invitation is required for Gmail user to use Google Buzz but within a week time all Gmail user can use the Google Buzz. Google said it may open Buzz for outside users also in future but for now its for Gmail users only.

Google also launched special mobile phone apps for Buzz for Apple’s iPhone and for smartphones powered by its own Android operating system.

Social Media Analysts said the move by Google was designed primarily to head off FaceBook's advantages in the huge amount of user data or in other way we can say its going to be the FaceBook Killer.

Facebook boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in December, according to tracking firm comScore.

Yahoo! added a similar feature to its email program, Yahoo Mail, last year, allowing users to see whether friends have uploaded a photo to a photo-sharing site such as Flickr.

Product manager for Google Buzz, "Todd Jackson" -a new way to communicate within Gmail.Buzz will be an entire new world within Gmail.

Some Key Features of Google Buzz are :-

• Auto-following

• Rich, fast sharing experience

• Public and private sharing

• Inbox integration

• Just the good stuff

As is the case with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, Buzz lets users "follow" people that share updates with the world.

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A LOOK AT GOOGLE SOCIAL SEARCH

Overview
With Google Social Search you can carry out search based on content published by your friends and contacts.

Important dates
26 October 2009. Google Social Search goes live. But only as an opt-in Google Labs feature.
27 January 2010. Google Social Search is released in beta status, and becomes a standard feature on Google.com for signed-in users

Features (highlights)
My Social Circle: shows your extended network of online contacts and how you're connected.
My Social Content: shows your published content as it appears in other people’s social search results.
Google Images: you can view pictures from contacts in social circles

How does Google Social Search find content?
Mainly through your social Google profile. You can select what information you want to share.

Facebook
One of the most contentious issues with Google Social Search at the moment is that most Facebook content is outside the reach of Google Social Search. Google has expressed an interest in indexing and returning Facebook status updates in its search results. But it’s not up to Google as this is part of a bigger issue concerning Facebook and its approach to members’ privacy in general.

Any Good?
I found everything I wanted / expected, really, in its features. The Facebook issue has to be, surely, significant to the overall appeal of Google Social Search in general.

The main Google Social Search Demonstration video
(here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWJxgp-_mU) did make me think about social search in general. The video brings up the scenario of visiting another country, and finding out what content your friends have published on that subject. Sure, this is an interesting use for Social Search, but it made me think that people are still going to depend a lot more on traditional, algorithmic search (i.e. Google takes them to a website such as Lonely Planet, or to web sites where travellers in general recount their experiences etc ..) than social search for a particular topic like this. In their next example, they discuss finding information about moving from blackberry to iPhone. I would have thought it would be much more effective – for people in general – to use traditional search to find good advice on such an issue. Lastly, they give an example of using Social Search to find out information about local restaurants. Of the three examples, this, I thought was the best one (surely, recommending restaurants – and other similar types of local businesses - is very usual amongst friends in life in general?).

How will Google Social Search fare in the world of business? The demonstration video didn’t refer to its use in a business environment at all. I can imagine people in businesses seeing Google Social Search as, potentially, another channel for marketing their business (compared to those who use social media for personal use and are more apt to keep their content private – between friends) as well as being a useful search tool in general. But it’s early days yet to say anything more concrete than that.

Stop Micro-blogging - Malaysia Warns !

The Malaysian Goverment has warned internet users for excessive use of micro-blogging sites like FaceBook,Twitter,Orkut etc, arguing that they could erode the country's culture.

The Information and communication minister Mr. Rais Yatim said that Muslims and other religious groups must be away of the internet as it was introduced by the west.

"We are not saying they cannot use Facebook or Twitter, but when using such facilities, they must upkeep the values taught by Islam, Buddhism or Christianity to maintain our culture,"

Rais said users must not be influenced by what they see and hear when using the Internet."We must be strong in our belief and culture because the identity and image of our country depends on us,"

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Social Media Calander 2009 -Review

Searchology

Google Searchology 2009

At its annual Searchology event at the Googleplex headquarters San Francisco, Google announced exciting new features that unveiled that “communication, knowledge, health, education and understanding people” is the next frontier of their search tool. This signature search tool is governed by its ability to search by sight, a mobile translator and everyday real-time search of more than one billion social media pages. The real time search technology of Google is a product of partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and Twitter.

This time Google is working to bind its search service more closely to cell phones. The search engine giant unwrapped a new search option called “Google Goggles” that allows users to submit pictures in place of key words as queries, allowing for identification of images taken via cell phones. In his statement, Google’s vice president engineering Vic Gundotra unveiled that “It’s our goal to be able to identify and recognize any image. It represents our earliest efforts in the field of computer vision”

Gundotra also said that the company is also capable of integrating facial recognition into the technology but due to the consideration of privacy implications it is holding up the implementation. In their effort to support all the major languages of the world, the company’s vice president also showed off the search engine’s capability to translate a spoken phrase from English to Spanish using a mobile phone. This feature is planned to be launched early next year.

The search results in future would also feature the company’s “near me now” technology prioritizing location-based items. Google’s new advancements and technologies are sure to provide a new search that will roll out worldwide in the coming days. Hats off to Google!

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