Twitter vs. Google+: ‘Search, plus Your World’ (A Twitter Overshot)

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Last few days, starting from 10th Jan, 2012, entire (social media & blogging) world was/is discussing the hottest topic of Twitter vs. Google+ on the battle field named ‘Search, Plus Your World’.

"Search, plus Your World’ immediately came under the rage of Twitter who fired back on this latest development calling it to be a monopolistic move towards a narrower social networking space.

The Top 5 Pure Social Media Trends in 2012

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“Top social media trends in 2012” would find at-least a quarter of the topics from outside the present social media niche up to a good extent.

While 2011 itself experienced the never before growth in tablets and the developments in mobile technologies, in my personal view, they never could be considered directly within the niche of social media. If it were so, we should have been covering all the developments from the companies like HP, Apples’ law suits against Samsung and other tablet makers in different countries, development of sandwich ice-cream Android etc. within the discussion of social media.

In an indirect manner, all the technological developments would surely contribute towards the enrichment of social media trends in 2012.

The trends supposed to dominate social media in the year 2012:

The Most Popular Games on Social Networks

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Most popular games on social networks… Ahem!! If you find yourself more often shooting the angry birds at those green piglets or creating a virtual city inside Facebook and/or Google+ then this article is for you.

If you are/were one of those millions of virtual farmers who loved creating virtual paddy fields and growing crops, defending their line of control on Farmville or among those who loved to create virtual cities on Cityville then proudly you belong to the 1/3rd of the entire online population (as per Nielsen Media Report) who plays social media games.

Where Does the Social Game Stand?

The Worldwide Introduction of Facebook Timeline and A Few Concerns

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Few hours back, Facebook has introduced the much awaited 'Timeline' publicly and worldwide. Earlier it was available to a few of the Facebook developers and to the people who tricked it out through their own kinda researches on the internet.

How to get your Facebook Timeline?

Facebook Check-in Badges: Quite possible with Gowalla’s movement

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Don’t get surprised if you soon get a pretty badge for your Facebook check-in or other activities.

Those who have already collected many pins on Gowalla and badges on Foursquare, would easily understand what a Facebook badge might look like. And with this latest hurtle of the Gowalla team joining Facebook, the badges on Facebook seems quite possible as of the years beyond 2012. Consider the fact that quality design work has always been the priority and specialty of Gowalla.

Starting from the ban on Google+ ads on Facebook, development of the ‘timeline’, counter suit on timeline.com, latest ticker ad development, then declaration of a new office in New York in the coming days the strategy of Zuckerberg’s team seems pretty much clear as they are lanning/moving in a real agile towards the IPO launch by April, 2012.

Google+ Trending Topics vs. Twitter Trending Topics

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Google+ trending topics list is the latest block structured by Google that floats exactly on the “keep changing” theory of social media waves. It was added to the Google+ bounty on 17th Nov, 2011 as per the sources.

As of 18th Nov, 2011, Mashable ennobles this latest addition by Google+ as a competitive move against twitter’s trending topics, whereas Webpronews.com considers the undeniable fact of the receding differences in between the social media giants Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

Facebook Sort Menu to Strengthen the Twitter Activity Dilemma

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Twitter may not be competing directly with Facebook with it's recently launched Activity tab, but to add to the new twitter activity feed opt-out/sort-out/manage dilemma (as I mentioned in my previous post), now Facebook adds the SORT MENU to its news feed.

With the introduction of SORT menu, right there on the right top of the news feed to segregate the recent stories and highlighted stories as per the user's choice, the comparison of twitter's activity tab to that of the Facebook news feed gets a long wild space in between.

Is the New Twitter Activity Feature Insane?

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Change is the law that rules the social media and the addition of the new twitter activity feature is just an analogue to the same.

Though the announcement for the brand new twitter activity tab was made as early as on August, 2011 on this blog post by twitter, yet it functionally came into being only on last Thursday 10th Nov, 2011.

Google+ Pages versus Facebook Pages

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Pouring forth into the new age of social media, the introduction of Google+ business pages brings the consideration of the topic Google+ pages vs Facebook pages.

On Monday 7th Nov, 2011 Google introduced its much awaited pages into functionality. Now, as a concerned user one can vauntingly alienate his/her personal stuffs from the business and the networking one in Google+.

The Age of Social Media in Future

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‘What next?’ Isn’t it the most happening, upbeat yet unsettling question of the modern times? Yes, indeed it is.

There is no point which could be collectively termed as the ultimate or final, as reaching a desired point means just a road sign towards the next. The popular American politics slogan “do more” marks the feel of this era.

The massive success of social media has forced people to consider its future. There have been many predictions trying to visualize what destiny has in the bet for it. The future of social media is still at large a matter of discussion among many.

Let’s gauge the future of social media and millions of users hooked to it.

Beginner's Guide to Foursquare - User Perspective [Slide]

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It's been almost 3 years (by the year 2011) that most of the blogs and sites are writing about geolocation based social media. The weird thing that amazes me is that very few of those blogs have tried to simplify the foursqure use. Most of the blogs would say and stress more on the point "What" from the user perspective rather than pitching the "How".

Within two years of its launch in March, 2009, Foursquare has topped the list of geo location based social media platforms, yet if you search the net for "how to use foursquare" you would find the complex verses only. So, in a small advent to present the simple version of how to use foursquare (from the user perspective) I am airing the presentation (slides) as below:

7 of the Best Free Facebook Monitoring Tools Ever

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Though it is being said that measuring the exact social media ROI is not that super-accurately possible, yet the social media monitoring is really important to be included into every social media strategy one employs. 

How Does the Use of Social Media Monitoring Tools Fit into the Scene?

Facebook F8 Conference: Latest Changes in Facebook

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“We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues.” – That’s what Mr. Zuckerberg said in his speech at F8 conference. Echoing the never ending tempo within Facebook, this statement somehow gives a clear indication of Facebook’s future intentions to rule the web.

F8 and the announcements coming out of it were weighed in different ways all over the globe. It was a kind of mixed reaction overall. While some of the users, analyzers and experts welcomed the new concepts yet rest of them are still in doubt that they might experience a great chao in the exact near future.

Facebook on Spotlight and f8 at Stock

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Thursday brings great relief to almost everyone worldwide, as it brings the weekend nearer, but not for Facebook this time.

WF this Thursday stores for FB?

Facebook to lift the Character Limit to 5000 words from 500 words

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These all days since I migrated from Orkut to Facebook, I have been wondering - why Facebook doesn't allow us to write more than 500 characters/words! Suddenly, with the evolution of Google+ I found a nicer platform to share my never ending feelings with more than 500+ characters/words. Yes, it was Google+ who introduced the the upper limit first.

Foursquare Versus Gowalla: A Comparison Revived

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If you ask the question – ‘is there a battle between the new avatar of Gowalla and Foursquare?’ My straight answer would be “NO”.

Gowalla or any other location based social network/platform like Whrrl, Yelp, Loopt, Sonar or Facebook Places never has risen to the level of Foursquare. The reason is simple; Foursquare simplifies the check-in process even if you are holding an old school GPRS phone. I just hope that you enjoyed Foursquare while you were using a GPRS phone down the memory lanes like me.

3 Things Facebook has learnt from Google+

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Incipient of Google+ has set Facebook high on its never ending fire of continuous change. Facebook’s latest changes once again prove the level of brooding it has for the Numero Uno spot on the web.

However, these alterations in privacy and other areas in Facebook are seen as an influence of the harbinger we call G+.

Here are the 3 things that FB has updated recently and are DIRECTLY being influenced by Google+: