The Guest Post is written by Daniel Offer who writes and is also the owner of the Facebook chat program Chit Chat for Facebook. Chit Chat is essentially a Facebook client that facilitates sending Facebook messages from ones desktop.
Google has recently launched a free service, ‘App Inventor for Android’ and it is causing a big stir. This is a program that claims to allow people with no Java programming experience to design their own apps for Android OS smart phones.
Something remarkable happened on the Web during the last few years. Initially the Web was like a spectator sport where millions of us sat around the stadium and watched the creation of a small number of people. That picture started changing a few years ago when a large number of us got off our seats and walked into the playing field. We were not passive spectators any more, and quickly realized while it is enjoyable to watch the game, it is lot more fun to play it too. Today many of us actively change the Web almost every day by writing blogs, commenting on them, exchanging notes through Facebook and Twitter, posting our photographs and videos, writing product reviews, or simply by voting on something. What was strictly a read-only medium became a read-write medium. What was a passive activity became an active one. The growth of Web 2.0 has been phenomenal and spectacular.
During all this time the number of people on the web has been growing steadily. According to internetworldstats.com, the number of web users across the world is 1.7 billion in 2010, and Facebook, by far the most popular social media site, have nearly 500 million users. Therefore, the percentage of web users who are on Facebook is about 29%. The web metrics company Alexa also estimates that 34% of all web users are on Facebook. This is a jaw-dropping number, and far exceeds any other social media site, including Twitter, which enjoys less than 7% of all Web users (see Alexa graph).
The guest post has been written by Henry Wong, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adgregate Markets, Inc. Adgregate Market took another step forward towards social commerce as they announced a closer integration of ShopFans platform with Facebook.
Web 2.0 was just the beginning of the shift from the rigid “destination web,” where content was isolated in discrete websites, to a “distributed web” where content is now consumed across the web. While this phenomenon is firmly underway in the case of content, the distribution of commerce is just beginning.
This is a guest post by Helena Rebane and Kai Lemmetty from Moogo. Moogo is an online website builder. With Moogo, users can quickly and effortlessly create a professional site using blog, photo albums, event calendar and more, without having any previous knowledge about programming or design. Post about Moogo from Sardar Mohkim Khan.
