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Facebook becomes No.1 Social networking site in India

vikrant — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:47:00 +0000

Facebook took the No. 1 spot among social networking sites in India leaving behind Orkut for the first time in July 2010. In July 2009 Orkut was No. 1 with the 17 million users and has grown merely by 16% to 19.8 million in July 2010. In the same time Facebook which was at 7.5 million in July 2009 has rose to 20.9 million users, a very strong growth of 179%.

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:

Facebook
Orkut
Bharatstudent.com
Yahoo! Pulse
Twitter.com
LinkedIn.com
Zedge.net
Ibibo.com
Yahoo! Buzz
Shtyle.fm

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Yahoo Pulse for mobile

vikrant — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Yahoo is now concentrating on the mobile market with a series of new launches with Yahoo apps for messenger, mail and search for the android based mobiles. In its efforts to capture the mobile market now yahoo has come up with the mobile version of the Yahoo Pulse known as “Yahoo! Social Pulse”. This app will be one stop solution for all the social media like facebook, twitter, My Space, Flickr, YouTube etc. Mobile users will be able to update all the social media at once from this app and will receive all the updates and feeds from friends and contacts.

How to get Yahoo for Mobile ?

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

Reply to comments via email on Facebook

saurabh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:12:06 +0000

Facebook has recently announced a new feature update that lets you to reply to comments through email. You have to enable email notifications for comments to use this new feature. This new feature is very handy especially for those who can receive and send emails on their mobile anytime. Please read the official Facebook blog for more information.

Social Media explained in Plain English

saurabh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:07:18 +0000

‘Social Media’ has become a common jargon of web 2.0. But is this a new thing? Commoncraft explains ‘Social Media’ in very simple way with the help of an example of a town where everyone was able to make ice-cream. You can buy a licensed copy of the video from their store. (commoncraft.com)
You can view video on YouTube.