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Online Sharing Dominated By Facebook: ShareThis

by Shabbir Akhtar on 07. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter

The more the web is evolving, the more prominent is becoming sharing. In fact, it won’t be a hyperbole to say that the future of web lies in sharing. TechCrunch reported that in order to determine how much impact sharing is in the present time, ShareThis conducted a study in collaboration with StarCom MediaVest Group [...]

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Apply With LinkedIn Button To Be Launched To Facilitate Job Seekers

by Shabbir Akhtar on 04. Jun, 2011 in Social Media Tools

LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature to facilitate its users, according to a report by GigaOm. The professional social networking site will introduce a new button for employers’ websites. It will be named as the ‘Apply With LinkedIn’ button, which will help job seekers apply for a job directly with their LinkedIn profiles.
LinkedIn profiles [...]

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Google +1 Button For Websites Has Arrived

by Shabbir Akhtar on 02. Jun, 2011 in Social Media Tools

The proclaimed nemesis of the Facebook ‘Like button’ has finally arrived. Google has released the +1 button for websites. Since its launch in March publishers have been eager to use the +1 button on their websites. During the Google I/O conference, last month, the company had promised that the content sharing button from Google would [...]

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Twitter Introduces The Follow Button

by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Jun, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

Twitter introduced the follow button, a significantly new feature. The functionality of the follow button is to enable users to follow Twitter accounts by just one click. In a sense, the follow button will be the complementary of the tweet button — the tweet button is for sharing while the follow button is to build [...]

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Twitter To Launch Its Own Photo-Sharing Service?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 31. May, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

Today, both TechCrunch and AllThingsD reported that Twitter will launch its own photo sharing service to compete with its clients TwitPic and Yfrog. Neither of them cited any official source. AllThingsD however wrote that the launching of this new service will be officially announced at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Earlier this year, [...]

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LinkedIn Launches Connection Timeline To Help You Visualize Your Connections

by Shabbir Akhtar on 26. May, 2011 in Social Media Tools

A new feature has been launched by LinkedIn. Though a professional network, this new feature give users the feel of social media. The feature is called ‘Connection Timeline’ and it allows users to look at their career from a third person perspective.
LinkedIn’s developer Gordon Koo wrote in a blogpost that the new feature lets users [...]

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The Effect Of Twitter On Students’ Grades

by Shabbir Akhtar on 17. May, 2011 in Infographic, Social Media Tools, Twitter

Experts are now considering social media as an effective tool to be utilized for education. An infographic that master-degree-online.com has published, complies with this. A study was conducted upon 125 students amongst whom 70 students were in the first group and 55 were in second.
As both these groups were approaching to the semester exam, the [...]

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The Timeline of The Social Widgets By Facebook

by Shabbir Akhtar on 04. May, 2011 in Facebook, Infographic, Social Media Tools

Last April, Facebook celebrated the first birthday of its hallmark ‘Like’ button. On that occasion, Facebook shared the news that each day 10000 websites install this amazing plugin by Facebook. But ‘Like’ button is one of many sharing widgets, and the new ones, better to say, more evolved ones are taking Facebook to offering new [...]

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The Increasing Use Social Media By Teachers In And Out Of The Classroom

by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. May, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter

It’s not only students, teachers are also becoming increasingly addicted to social media. A website called Schools.com introduced an infographic that shows how social media is becoming pertinent in the realm of higher education. The infographic is based on a survey of 20000 professors. 80 percent of them refer to social media outlets and recent [...]

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