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Android Gets An Official App From Twitter

Posted April 30, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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When Apple app is in full sway why keep Android at bay? That is exactly what Twitter must have thought when it saw its apps – unofficial ones making it big on devices like the iPhone, Blackberry and Android and though it was time to roll out an Official one. This time for the Android.

To be honest there is nothing better for a user to see that a trusted site has rolled out an app for them. Won’t do wonders, but you are sure it will be pretty trustworthy and worth having since it comes from a name you rely on. I am not able to test this one but from the pictures it looks pretty cool.

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Be Prepared To Get Scholarly Updates From Book Lovers As Kindle Adds Facebook And Twitter

Posted April 30, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb126 Be Prepared To Get Scholarly Updates From Book Lovers As Kindle Adds Facebook And Twitter

Hey we all need to be social! And so do devices, rather devices need to have more social features/applications if they are to be any useful for the consumer. Am I wrong? Just tell me if iPhone or the HTC Hero had no social app or support for networks like Twitter, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc would you still love these devices? Just a thought and there is nothing of the sort shaping up.

Today Amazon, got a step further with its eBook reader, the Kindle by adding more social features. Users will now be be able to make full use of the social media services with a free update. This would enable you to update your status on Facebook and even Twitter right from the device. I welcome the move big time, though I feel the Kindle would soon be eaten up by the iPad.

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HootSuite Isn’t Giving Up On iPhone: Integrates Translations, Geolocation And Facebook To The App

Posted April 30, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb125 HootSuite Isn’t Giving Up On iPhone: Integrates Translations, Geolocation And Facebook To The App

If one wins the game the others find it harder and the best option they have is to give multiple things to gain some traction. Lets get real and talk sense. We all know that Tweetie 2 is gaining grounds to be fairly called the default choice for the iPhone’s Twitter client and competition is finding it hard to grab shares. There are always ways and HootSuite has one.

The makers of Twitter apps for business are adding more features to their client to give users more options like language translation, support of geo-location and more importantly the integration with Facebook. Businesses would find it very useful as they will more features to roll their dice on and leverage the Twitter app. Facebook is just one feature but the winning addition was the option for these businesses to translates tweets in more than 50 languages and do the obvious: help them understand what tweets in various languages say.

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Explorer Eric Larson Is The First Man To Tweet From The North Pole: Stop Global Warming

Posted April 23, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb83 Explorer Eric Larson Is The First Man To Tweet From The North Pole: Stop Global Warming

I know many of you are going to come back at me and mock me writing about Twitter, Google, Microsoft, etc. I take that positively and honestly there are things that you can’t turn a blind eye to. Especially news that matters and should be shared.

Eric Larson, the arctic explorer became the first person in the history of the world to send a Tweet from North Pole. The exploration was a part of his one year project called Save the Poles, the purpose of which is to raise awareness about Global Warming. The man is in high spirit after trekking through the isolated and icy region and tweeting from the Pole:

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Facebook f8: If You are Lucky Watch It Live Stream at Feightlive Or Follow Updates on Twitter [#f8]

Posted April 21, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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If reading about the f8 on a blog appears to be slow and time consuming you can have a richer experience with the Feightlive App for Facebook. You can watch the Live Stream, read Live Blog or simply chat with other f8 enthusiasts. Other than that if you are bogged down with a snail paced Internet connection simply head over to Twitter and follow all updates at #f8.

I was having this conversation earlier today with my colleagues about how we live in a totally revolutionized world. Things have become far more convenient. Think of it, how many of us could have been cursing of not being able to make it to the f8 conference? Almost everyone who cares about it, you couldn’t have done that 2 years back but now its catching all the flames. I personally think soon they would start charging for this, a very meager amount but they will. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a live audience at events such as these?

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Addicted To Facebook And Twitter? Buy These Mousepads For Constant Reminders

Posted April 15, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb41 Addicted To Facebook And Twitter? Buy These Mousepads For Constant Reminders

Drug dealers would do anything in their power to keep addicts hooked to their addiction. Facebook in my opinion is exactly that dealer and social networking is the drug its getting you hooked to with all its features and applications. While all that needed you to be online and logon to your profile there are some people who have brought you mousepads that would keep reminding you about Facebook or Twitter.

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Video: What Would Social Networks Be Without Internet?

Posted February 3, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

I seriously don’t want to imagine the world without Internet, primarily because it would cut me off from the entire world and blogging. The second reason being it would make my job as a researcher in my channel a very tiring task. No matter what horror it brings for us all, some find it pretty useful to think over and actually produce segments. I particularly liked the way how it has been put up, especially the Facebook guy. Watch the video below and let us know what your life will be if there was no Internet in comments.

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Facebook Continues To Walk The Road To Twitterfication

Posted January 16, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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And it keeps happening; the integration of Twitter like features into Facebook as the social network today introduced a function similar to Twitter’s ReTweet. With the new feature that is currently in test mode, Facebook will automatically acknowledge the the source of the article, relieving you of the task. The option is presently available on the stories you share and I bet it will soon be default on whatever you share on the social network.

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Facebook Reigns Supreme: Is There Anyone To Beat It? Anyone?

Posted January 6, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb9 Facebook Reigns Supreme: Is There Anyone To Beat It? Anyone?

350 million users on Facebook might just make one estimate what massive number of pageviews the social network actually generates. According to stats provided by Royal Pingdom the social network generates a gargantuan 260 billion views a month. That dwarfs almost anyone else in the category of social networking sites and many others that exist. MySpace which is its major competitor generates a meager 26 billion.

I think the social network has taken such a massive lead now that it will be next to impossible for any other competitor to come any where close. The numbers are least surprising given the amount of time each user spends on the social network and amount of data that is being put up the site and exchanged every day. Plus there is so much activity that users can be a part of on the social network and I bet if one puts our time on site Facebook would out hour any site that exists.

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Twitter ‘The Broadcast Of Broadcasts’ Might Never Be Annihilated By Facebook

Posted January 1, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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I just finished talking about why Facebook got the better of Google on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Summing it up, it simply meant that users look forward to more engaging content, apps for which Google is so not the obvious choice to spend your time on during holidays. I also talked about trends changing as you move across and time and again one name or the other would come stronger than another. Welcome Twitter, which has snatched popularity in mentions on the television for 2009. Facebook, is a close second.

Once again there is no link to either of the brands on the Web, (and they are way ahead of the third placed MySpace). But what’s important is the fact how and why do the rankings/traffic stats differ. While Facebook has taken the bite away in the year past, Twitter has held its reign firm where it matters. It has been quick in breaking news, spreading links virally, etc and it’s quickness is one major reason why it still has a lot to offer for users despite Facebook desperately trying to be like Twitter.

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