Archive for the “Social Networking” Category

Twitter’s New “Retweet” Feature for More Social Users

Retweet feature introduction

Twitter is testing a new feature called “retweets” on a small percentage of accounts currently. I felt lucky to see my account has been included in to this Beta Retweets testing so I can write about it promptly.

November 7, 2009 Posted Under: Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter   Read More

Use Social Media to appear in Real-Time Search

Twitter Google Partnership
Google and Bing revealed their integration to real-time search and social media by announcing their agreements with Twitter during the Web 2.0 Summit on October 21. Google is aiming to give a better real-time search experience by including real-time Twitter updates in their search results hence users will be able to learn what others are saying about what they’ve been searching for under the same roof. Consider you perform a search about “x brand of freezer”. You will not only see relevant search results but also public opinion about your topic that will give you quick and better understanding about your query.

October 30, 2009 Posted Under: Google, Search Trends, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter   Read More

Google Wave: How It Can Help Online Marketing and Communication

Google Wave: How It Can Help Online Marketing and Communication

Google unveiled Google Wave, a communication and collaboration tool in Google I/O conference last week. Since I was not there :) I searched on the internet and found out what Google Wave is all about. First of all, it is something we all need to wait and experience to understand how much difference it can make in our business and daily communication needs. It seems to be a combination of email, instant messaging and micro-blogging all under the same interface. There are some terminologies which we all will become familiar with as we use Google Wave. Ok, lets have a look at it.

June 1, 2009 Posted Under: Google, Social Networking   Read More

Yahoo Image Search Filter

Yahoo Image Search Filter

This week, Yahoo has announced a very helpful image search filter called Creative Commons license filter.
Users are able to filter their image search results from Flickr according to availability for reuse commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.
Yahoo is the first image search engine to offer this capability. Let’s wait and see what Google will do about it :)

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May 28, 2009 Posted Under: Social Networking, Web Design, Yahoo   Read More

Tweet via SMS

Twitter

Twitter made a deal with major mobile operators Telus, Virgin Mobile, and Koodo Mobile in Canada that enable two-way SMS support for mobile phone users in Canada to send and receive Twitter updates without any additional fees from their mobiles via SMS.

Mobile tweets are treated as standard messages and are charged with standart rates. Twitter says they want to extend real-time networking experience to mobile devices everywhere through the simple technology of SMS and are working on this service on the rest of the world right now.

May 12, 2009 Posted Under: Social Networking, Twitter   Read More

More User Engagement with Google Get Answers Gadget

Last week Google launced a new gadget for Google Friend Connect called “Get Answers”. The gadget provides community interaction and engagement to websites such as users can ask questions to website’s community, answer questions asked by other community members and vote answers. Also they can see automatic answers by Google for their questions. The good thing is as long as you become a member to any website which is very easy, other community members can see your profile and visit your website so the gadget is helpful in terms of driving traffic to community members websites as well. I have just added Get Answers Gadget on this site and can’t wait for your participation :)

April 28, 2009 Posted Under: Google, Social Networking   Read More

On-Page SEO Poll in Linkedin

I wanted to find out how other SEO’s prioritize their on-page SEO strategies so I created a poll on my Linkedin Profile.

The topic is: “Which one of the following is the most important factor in on-page SEO?”

If you would like to vote and see results, please go to my Linkedin poll now!

Thank you for your participation in advance. Keep in touch.

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April 7, 2009 Posted Under: Polls, Social Networking   Read More