Social Media
Now money can buy friends, followers, connections, fans on social media sites
I always thought Money can help you buy materialistic things but certainly not family and friends. Today I came across a company that helps you do just that and I was really amazed to learn that now you can buy friends. With the advent of social media and everyone is trying to establish their brand [...]
Do you have a social media policy for your organization
I am a firm believer of using social media to aid organizational productivity and I always advocate and encourage use of various social media applications like blogs, networking sites, wiki’s within my organization. Past couple of months I have been analyzing time spent by my employees on these social networking sites and measuring its effectiveness [...]
twitcam and camtweet to offer live video streaming on twitter
twitcam – developed by Livestream and camtweet – developed by Justin.TV are utilities where anyone using their twitter login details can start streaming live to its followers, create live chat rooms and archive each streaming event. This is not a ground breaking technological neither it’s an innovative concept. To me it’s smart thinking and right [...]
How to install IntenseDebate on wordpress 2.7.1
IntenseDebate – super charge your commenting system I installed IntenseDebate to offer highly interactive commenting system to the readers of GigaThoughts. As always it started with a lot of research, which led to final two competitors to choose from – IntenseDebate and Disqus. After testing both commenting system on local machine for a week, I [...]
Microsoft Bing – search and decision engine
This week has been excellent for social media enthusiasts. The second big news in of the week is the pre-launch of Microsoft Bing, its redefined version of search. The search engine will be launch officially on June 3rd. I have been using it for a week and as heavily as i use Google search and [...]
Digital Sky Technologies invests $200M in Facebook
Facebook has announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet investment groups globally with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated [...]
Google Wave – web based real time communication platform
During the Google I/O keynote, Google utilized the opportunity to launch its new communication platform called Google Wave. We all know that Google likes to surprise the world by developing application that changes the rules of the game. This time around they have raised the bar further by launching Google Wave as an open source [...]
My research and experience on how to manage multiple twitter accounts.
Twitter has already become an integral part of every marketer’s social media strategy. During the initial days of twitter people were not too sure on its business potential and only thought of it as a personal / social networking tool. The sheer volume of twitter follower and tweets has forced everyone sit back and have [...]
How to Upgrade WordPress version 2.6.5 to 2.7.1
Matt Mullenweg and a whole lot of creative and highly competent technology professionals came up with the most talked about upgrade for WordPress called Coltrane commonly known as 2.7.1 this version is named after legendary Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane . As the wordpress team puts it “The real reason Coltrane is such a huge leap [...]
6 part series – Topic 2 – Twitter
You can read topic 1 on LinkedIn here. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing ? Source – Twitter.com – Please feel free to follow me http://twitter.com/amitdesai Twitter is a micro blogging platform [...]
