Orkut (16%) and Bharatstudent.com (3%) has reported the slowest growth of all even though the social networking phenomenon continues to rise world wide at the rate on 25% and Indian social networking audience Soars 43% in Past Year. Orkut was way ahead of facebook last year but failed to make innovative changes and thus lagged behind facebook by a considerable margin this year. Other major Indian players are also striving hard to make an impact in the Indian market as they are getting stiff resistance from facebook alone.

Social networking worldwide visitors have grown over 23% due to strong growth in markets like India, South Korea, Brazil etc. India is now 7th largest market in the world and will cross UK soon to become the 6th biggest player.

Major social networking sites in India are:

1. Facebook
2. Orkut
3. Bharatstudent.com
4. Yahoo! Pulse
5. Twitter.com
6. LinkedIn.com
7. Zedge.net
8. Ibibo.com
9. Yahoo! Buzz
10. Shtyle.fm

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How to get Yahoo for Mobile ?

1. Visit the site here in your computer and enter the mobile number
2. Type this into your phone browser “m.yahoo.com”.

• Login to your wordpress blog (e.g. http://www.techwhiz.in/wp-admin/index.php) with administrator rights
• Goto ‘Editor’ from ‘Appearance’ menu in the left side-bar
• Click on ‘single.php’ from the list in right side-bar to open the file
• Locate the place where you wish to display the digg button (generally it is displayed after the title or after the tags in a post, i.e. search for ‘the_title’ or ‘the_tags’)
• Copy and paste the following codes at your selected location and save the file

Static Digg Button

This is a static button which enables user to bookmark particular post/page and is very easy to integrate with wordpress.

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink();?>&title=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100×20-digg-button.png”/></a>

Smart Digg Button

This will also display the number of times the particular post/page has been bookmarked in digg.com.

Normal	Compact

• Normal Button

<a class="DiggThisButton" /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

• Compact Button

<a class="DiggThisButton">(‘<img src="http://digg.com/img/diggThisCompact.png" height="18" width="80" alt="DiggThis" />’)</a>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

For further details read this.

Socio-blogio

Now two of the most popular and powerful tool of mass media interaction, personal literary and fun place meet head on and then supplement each other.

They bring together two communities together and increase the value addition being done to the websphere.

If WEB 2.0 is making change the way content is used to shared then it is also bring together the various content creation mechanism together so the relevant and the quality content is available at your fingers tips.

The various social media websites, bookmarking websites and being increasingly being integrated for better advantage of both the websites. The flow traffic and and information is two and no one is complaining about it.

Now this post is for all those out there who really like to blog and share the best things that have to and are ever willing for them in any one of the mediums but they never tried to integrate the both. This post is also for those bloggers who like their accounts and never play around with any… mind my words any thing related to code. They think that wordpress and blogger have made things enough simple and they do not want any type of complications.

I have been one of those bloggers who ignored the power of WEB 2.0 tools, applications for long and then came back and enjoyed the things that are being offered by different websites.

What you should integrate in your blog?

1) Make way for RSS feeds in the front and very visible space of the webpage. (Keep it above the fold)

2) A little effort and you will make the RSS feeds to be subscribed by your readers as emails as well.

3) Add those small ready made tools so that your blog can be shared, saved and sent as email.

4) Twitter – Integrate your blog with your twitter and let the whole world know that you are blogging

5) You can directly add the reddit widget in your blog.

6) Pay attention to digg, keep them updated what all you are doing.

7) Give an option to the readers to convert the same into pdfs and print it, if possible.

Integrate flickr (if possible/applicable) into your blog. Images are searched in lots and if you use your own images (not borrowed from other place) then you will see a lot of people coming in just because you have those wonderful images within your post.