Facebook Credits Come To India

Previously, Facebook had instructed third party developers on their platform to use Facebook Credits as the only virtual currency. Today they announced that Facebook Credits will now be used as payment methods and payout workflow for developers.

This will be introduced on or within first week of July. A blogpost on the Developer Blog by Facebook [...]

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Foursquare Reaches 10 Million Users

Foursquare now has 10 million users. Amongst all the location based social networks, Foursquare is the first one to achieve this mark. In the official blog post, Foursquare released an infographic to celebrate this feat.
The infographic shows how the user base of Foursquare kept on increasing over the time. In march 2009, there were only [...]

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LinkedIn India Now Has 10 Mn Users; Are You LinkedIn?

The world’s largest professional network LinkedIn just reached 10 million users in India. It’s no surprise. Throughout the last year, many new people joined LinkedIn to stay in touch with the connections they make in their professional lives. As time has kept passing by, LinkedIn’s popularity in India continued surging.

The news was revealed by LinkedIn [...]

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Facebook Promotes Private Sharing With The Launch Of Send Dialog

Facebook launched a new feature called ‘Send Dialog’. This is the second attempt on a row by them to increase referral traffic to the publisher’s websites. The first attempt, ‘Send Button’, introduced on 25th April 2011 was quite successful and Facebook is hoping that ‘Send Dialog’ will also live up to expectation.

Some websites have added [...]

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The World Belongs To Facebook

The June 2011 edition of world map of social networks by Vincenzo Cosenza shows that Facebook still holds the number one slot in most countries around the world. Canada and United States are in this list. So are United Kingdom and many other countries across the Western Europe. In some countries however, Facebook hasn’t been [...]

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More Facebook Shares Lead To Better Search Ranking: SEOmoz

SEOmoz published their annual report called ‘2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors’. The report demonstrates the correlation between better search engine ranking and Facebook shares. The correlation hasn’t been put up flatly though. The way the entire matter has been dealt by SEOmoz, there raised the philosophical segregation between correlation and causation.
If it’s only a coincidence [...]

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SMBs Warming Up To Facebook Ads: MerchantCircle

The quarterly Merchant Confidence index survey by MerchantCircle shows how SMBs are handling Facebook marketing. The survey considered 5000 small and medium enterprises. Most of those business owners (94 percent) are cognizant about targeted ad offering on Facebook but a very small percentage (22 percent) has actually used them. The good [...]

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Twitter’s Self-Service Ad-Buying Solution Coming Soon

Twitter is going to roll out its own automated ad buying platform, according to a report from Mashable. Presently, if marketers want to buy Twitter ads, then they will have to fill up a form. The form then will go to Twitter’s sales team. After this, Twitter’s sales representatives get in touch with the advertiser. [...]

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Facebook Testing Real-Time Feature: Happening Now Feed

Facebook will soon roll out a new feature — Happening Now. Currently, it’s accessible by a very small number of users. The feature gives a user real time updates of what his friends are doing on the social network — whom they are adding as friends, what they are sharing, etc.

TheNextWeb reported that Amit Misra, [...]

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Online Sharing Dominated By Facebook: ShareThis

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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