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YouTube Ventures Into Live Streaming With Certain Partners

by Shabbir Akhtar on 10. Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized

YouTube has announced in a blogpost, the roll out of the live streaming business. Being the largest video sharing site on the web, YouTube musters more than 2 billion views a day. But the videos we see on YouTube are previously recorded. Over a period of time, users have been asking for videos that show [...]

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Google Overhauling The YouTube Experience With Twenty New Channels

by Shabbir Akhtar on 07. Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized

Google is about to revamp the YouTube experience in the coming months. The videos that we see on the site are uploaded by users. A video is likely to go viral and become popular depending on its content. YouTube’s overall revenue is not dependent on individual videos, rather because it musters [...]

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Microsoft Office 15 To Include Facebook Integration

by Shabbir Akhtar on 18. Mar, 2011 in Facebook

Microsoft had posted a new job opening yesterday, which revealed a lot about Office 15. It is expected to include Facebook integration for messaging and presence. I had initially overlooked this piece of news, but with Microsoft removing the post within hours, tells me that it was a slip-up at the companies [...]

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Facebook To Cross Yahoo In Display Ads Revenues In 2011

by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Mar, 2011 in Facebook, insights

In 2011, the largest share of the display ads in United States will go to the social networking giant, Facebook. eMarketer published a report that shows Facebook’s income from display ads in 2011 will touch $2.19 billion and their overall growth in display ad revenue will be more than 80 percent. The most interesting part [...]

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Bing Brings Facebook Likes To Search Results

by Shabbir Akhtar on 25. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

Just days after Google upgraded its Social Search including shared content from Twitter, Flickr and Quora, Bing announces that it will include URLs, liked and shared by users on Facebook, in its search results. Initially Microsoft had announced the Liked Results for Bing which promoted links which were publicly shared and liked by a users [...]

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Facebook Places Crushes Foursquare As Facebook Takes Down Google

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter, social media marketing

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing the so called pros in the arena like Foursquare and Gowalla.

That’s what Financial Times points out in their official blog. The [...]

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Facebook Chat In Hotmail Released Worldwide, Unleashes War Against Gmail

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook chat within Hotmail account was made available for Hotmail users by Microsoft on 23rd September 2010. Till yesterday, it was available only to users from Russia, Germany, Brazil, United Kingdom, United States and France. Microsoft today announced that this integration will now be available to all users worldwide.

This step was preceded by making this [...]

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Facebook Friendly Bing Bar Rolled Out by Microsoft

by Shabbir Akhtar on 19. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

Microsoft announced that the new toolbar of Bing — Bing Bar 7 — encompasses Facebook functionalities. The Bing Team announced in the official blog, “Today we are excited to announce the launch of Bing Bar…We took a look at what makes our customers happy, how people use our products, and where they spend time online. [...]

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Google Upgrades Social Search, But Where Is Facebook?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 18. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

In 2009, Google introduced some changes in its functionalities as a search engine. It made its search algorithms social media friendly. Information shared by your friends on various social media sites started showing up at the bottom of the search page. This was done using the accounts connected to your Google Account. Now, Google has [...]

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Twitter Is Not For Sale: Biz Stone

by Shabbir Akhtar on 17. Feb, 2011 in Twitter

The most important people (co-founders) have to take care of less important things (rumours). Just a few days back we had reported that Twitter is having preliminary talks with Facebook and Google about acquisition. Dick Costolo the CEO of Twitter answered this rumour at MWC 2011 which left us even more confused. Now, Terry Gross [...]

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