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J. P. Morgan Planning To Start Social Media Fund

by Shabbir Akhtar on 14. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

After Goldman Sachs investment into Facebook, the frenzy in the market about the company’s shares had gone up to an insane level. The demand not only continued growing as the time passes by, but other social media companies also became hot favourites for the investors. To handle this over-excitement from the investors, J.P. Morgan is [...]

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Reddit Touts 1 Billion Monthly Page Views

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

Reddit! They are on their way to become a hand-picked name in the realm of social media. Just a year back and they basically had no existence. And now they are dishing out the story of their achievement with the tag-line, “Our monthly Google Analytics page has a new comma that we’d like to show [...]

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Pope Blesses Social Networking But Warns Against Alienation

by Shabbir Akhtar on 29. Jan, 2011 in Uncategorized

Pope Benedict XVI offered his blessing to social networking in his speech, “Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age.” However, being a bit stingy as he advised us not to replace real human contacts by virtual friends. According to him, Facebook and MySpace are doing great jobs in building up “opportunities for [...]

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A Walk Down The Memory Lane Of Social Networking

by Shabbir Akhtar on 25. Jan, 2011 in Facebook, Infographic, Twitter, social media statistics

Did you know that first version of MySpace was coded in just 10 days? I didn’t… not until now.
Just like it’s important for every human being to introspect, social networking also needs to look back at its past. Keeping this in mind OnlineSchools.org has created an infographic, which depicts the evolution social networking has undergone [...]

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Online Impersonation Becomes a Misdemeanor

by Shabbir Akhtar on 02. Jan, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

Facebook has attained maximum growth through the year 2010. It touched 500 million users in July, adding 700,000 users everyday and analysts claim that by the end of 2011 the total number of users will cross a billion. With so many users, there is a high chance that there will be many pretending to be [...]

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Should Governments Restrict Use Of Social Media?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Jan, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

Back in 2008, nobody speculated that the importance of social media will reach almost to its extreme in such a short span of time. It started with social networking, which was a silly thing to many, thereafter it had undergone changes after changes. And look at it now; the way users approach to it, its [...]

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Social Media Usage is on the Rise

by Apoorvaa Deshpande on 05. Aug, 2010 in social media roi, social media statistics

The impact and extent of social media is surely on the rise. More and more people are signing up on social networking sites and spending more time online as well. Two-thirds claiming to visit sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, the social media traffic is up by about 230% from the 20% penetration in [...]

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Survey: Teens moving out of Facebook

Survey: Teens moving out of Facebook

by Pooja Naik on 21. Jul, 2010 in Facebook, insights, social media statistics

Facebook may be the most popular Social Networking site in the world where 78% teens have created a profile and 69% are still active, but the past few months have seen them delete their Facebook accounts feverishly.
The graph below shows the Google Trends result for ‘how to delete Facebook account which clearly seems to be [...]

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Social Media to connect Fans and Brands: BIG Time!!!

by Apoorvaa Deshpande on 16. Jul, 2010 in social media hiring, social media marketing

Are you on social networks just to connect with your friends? If yes then you will soon fall into the minority of Facebook users. According to recent reports users are increasingly coming on Facebook to connect with their favourite brands. Even marketers are making the most of this rising trend.
Until recently, most efforts have focused [...]

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Twitter- The World’s Fastest Growing search Engine

Twitter- The World’s Fastest Growing search Engine

by Pooja Naik on 14. Jul, 2010 in Twitter, social media marketing, social media statistics

Last year a study by Nielsen had concluded that Bing was the fastest-growing search engine in the U.S. after it had a growth of over 22%. Now it seems like Twitter has taken its place. With a whopping growth rate of about 33% over the last one year its co-founder might have managed to prove [...]

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