Posted in Social Media, tagged business, Social Media, strategy on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Social Media is fairly new and there’s no ’sure win’ strategy. Social media doesn’t really work with a grand strategy and campaign launch. It is somewhat organic. It’s not selling or spying. It’s about understanding people, potential users, being a friend, finding some truth on thoughts and perception. It’s not an online survey where you [...]
Posted in Microblogging, Social Media, tagged ecosystem, short url, Twitter on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Popularity of twitter is spawning support systems around it, latest in the line being short URLs.
We’re all familiar with TinyURL, but with only 140 character to work with there’s a need to shorten it as much as you can. Enter is.gd
BHC3 demonstrates via an example in his blog
Full URL: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/friendfeed-rss-is-a-fantastic-discovery-tool/
82 characters
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6qhk4n
25 characters
is.gd: http://is.gd/7oc
16 characters
So [...]
Posted in Microblogging, Social Media, Social Networking, tagged Microblogging, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter on April 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
When I first came across Twitter, I couldn’t understand it. So I can put 140 characters on a web site to tell the world what I am doing at the moment… Who cares? And why would I want to know what others happen to be doing at the exact moment they decide to share it [...]
Posted in Social Networking, tagged Facebook, Google, India, Social Networking on April 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
With international favorites like Facebook, Orkut (yes, it’s back) and MySpace gaining traction in Indian markets, it’ll be really difficult for the “me too” websites with a “follow the leader” mentality to hold out in this space. In a product where the content is 100% user created, a country specific product seems out of place.
Big [...]
Posted in Mobile, tagged web 2.0 on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Stumbled upon this interesting response to a question posted on LinkedIn
“It is really hard to define exactly what Web 2.0 is about, isn’t it? It can be about creating online content or about social applications or about collaboration or about AJAX or about reusing existing services in order to create brand new services. That’s why [...]
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