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image thumb71 Yext Makes Online Reputation Management For Business More Realtime

Search Engine for local businesses, Yext which enables people to find services in their locality as well as assist publishers and ad networks find these businesses. The startup also launched Yext Calls which can rightly be called the Google Voice for businesses last year. With the Web getting more about realtime management, the startup, keeping it in mind is launching a realtime reputation management software for businesses.

With almost all the consumers relying on reviews on products and business online, it is imperative that these business are better with managing their online profiles. This includes managing user feedback, monitoring it and responding to comments left by users. Keeping the same in mind Yext has launched Yext Rep to help you monitor all that with a free solution. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, the dashboard ensures all this is made available in the Yext Feed.

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07032010431 thumb Facebook, Pakistan And The Ban: The Percentage Division And An Underlying Opportunity….

While the page might have been taken off Facebook, we in Pakistan have been without access to Facebook since May 19, largely. Why largely? Because there are other ways you can access the social network and while 70% of the population is in favor of the ban and another 15% accepts the ban till May 31 there is another 15% which is very disapproving of this ban. Why? Come on, you don’t want me to narrate the hues and cries all over again.

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image thumb69 Manymoon Brings Contextual Gadget To Gmail: Making Task Management More Efficient

Manymoon, a startup founded in 2009 which is a social productivity tool that enables users to plan and accomplish the launch of products, building a house or simply planning an event launched another useful app last week. The idea was to bring similar functionalities to Google’s Gmail with its new gadget.

The gadget available for Google users helps them complete their tasks, manage projects. All this is done right within their email. Simply add the gadget to your Gmail account and it lets you transforms your both your contents and contacts from being static to more actionable. Lets say you are sent an email that requires you to complete a task before the week ends. You can simply have it updated as a task with the Manymoon gadget, you can then simply add a due date to the task and the gadget reminds you about it a day before the deadline.

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image thumb68 Mark Zuckerberg: Alright I Admit Facebook’s Privacy Policy Is Wacky

Am I reading it right? While I have definitely been out of touch with Facebook ever since the ban on the social network in Pakistan, but this news is worth sharing. Mark Zuckerberg sent Robert Scoble an email admitting that there is something wrong with privacy and Facebook; the two just don’t go together.

It really takes guts for a company’s CEO to stand up and admit the faults in his firm and Zuckerberg is definitely not one of those who would admit the faults. No matter how much truth there is in allegations, he just wont budge. From the email:

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image thumb67 Dear Readers Please Vote For Startup Meme And Help It Win Pakistan Blog Awards

As you might be aware that Startup Meme has been improving and growing over time. The growth has been in both in Pakistan and across the globe with our blog being ranked in the top 15 blogs on Startups and Entrepreneurship worldwide, just to name a few. The reason for sharing the post here today is that the we have been nominated as the International Technology Blog in Pakistan for the first national Blog Awards and we are looking forward to your help here. How?

Simply click the image below and you will be taken our page where you can vote for us by selecting the golden stars and sharing the link with you friends. We look forward to our dear readers spreading the word out and get Startup Meme enough votes before May 26 to win the awards. We believe firmly that our readers will help as usual. Thanks!

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image thumb66 Update: YouTube And Wikipedia Unblocked In Pakistan: A Relief To Heightening Frustrations

I know many people in Pakistan were frustrated by the government banning access to YouTube and Wikipedia but there is good news for them all. People can access both the websites for now and I can bet everyone will be rejoicing this, I am to say the least. While this is good news for sure, Facebook still remains blocked, something that has made the liberals feels frustrated and left out.

I have no idea whether the accessibility is temporary or the ban has been lifted for good. But if you happen to be one of those detesting the bans in Pakistan, please do record and upload your video comments on the Online Video sharing site, chances are quite high that your view points might get a few hundred views of the 2 billion that YouTube gets each day.

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image thumb65 Try As You May, Your Data Keeps Dripping Off Social Networks: User Data On Facebook, MySpace Leaked To Google And Yahoo

I guess no one should be surprised enough hearing this that social networks are leaking user information to a agencies. The news caught my eye earlier today that social networking sites, Facebook, MySpace have been caught leaking user data to ad networks like Yahoo’s Right Media and DoubleClick of Google. Weren’t these social networks vowing that they will never share user data with third parties, especially ad networks? I guess someone hacked into the social networking and sold data..

Putting the joke aside [if it passes as a joke], the social networks have released usernames and IDs to the ad platforms. Now if that is true by any means, these ad networks have more than just your username; access can be as deep as your employment history, location, etc. Upon being informed Facebook was prompt at taking action and altering the software to prevent such leaks and so are other networks which include MySpace, Digg, etc.

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image thumb64 Startup: InfoDome Making Online Database Management And Sharing Easy

Managing a database is always a major issues for everyone and in my case, a task that has always given me nightmares. Perhaps its just the word itself or how poorly my teacher back in high school tried to teach me creating one with FoxPro, I can’t stand it. Of course the methods have now been simplified with services that have made Databases a mere drag and drop thing and InfoDome is a new entrant to it.

To put it in its own words, it’s a simple and powerful online database, a startup that helps you share, analyze, collect and manage any data that you come across in your day to day life. It can be employee’s payroll or simply import their existing spreadsheets to the utility and add designs, charts to make it visually appealing. And the best part, it is entirely a Web based application, thus removing the tiring process to download and install the software on your system at the same time making it accessible from any where in the world. Worried about losing data or it being hacked? InfoDome, I guess is aware of that and provides users with secure methods of data protection.

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image thumb63 Molly Norris Apologizes Muslims For The Facebook Page: It Was Never My Intention To Promote Hate..

Reports are coming in that the creator of the Facebook Page that promoted Draw Mohammad Day, Molly Norris has apologized the Muslim world according to Dawn News. This is quite a good sign to cool off the angry Muslim population of Facebook, especially in Pakistan where the social network has been blocked.

The page currently has close to 90,000 users and Molly has very clearly stated that she has nothing to do with the caricatures being drawn and that most of the images there are obscene and insulting to the Muslim Faith. In a statement, she said:

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image thumb62 How to Generate Sales in 30 Days Using Social Media

When you ask someone with a successful social media presence how to build your own audience, the answer most often is, “Write a blog post, Tweet it to your following, and share it on Facebook and LinkedIn.” But what if you do not have many followers on Twitter or Facebook Fans?

A few weeks ago, we decided to start a process to answer the question:  “How can a business that does not have many hits on their website, has no followers on Twitter, and no Fans on Facebook, generate sales leads using inbound marketing in only 30 days?”

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