Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
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Mar 28, 2009

Social Networks that knited the global friendship's fabric

My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter...Image by luc legay via Flickr

Popular social networking sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Facebook, hi5, twitter, bebo, and etc. are changing the human fabric of the Internet World and have the potential to pay off big for investors too, I am one of the heavy user of Orkut and Facebook. Since then, I have made hundreds of firends from all over the world. Some are from the western side, some are from the eastern side and some are from the middle east. The more i know, the more i like them. These social networds, besides binding the social fabric, they also change the vast world into a global village.

Some of the well kown social networks which i often come across on internet are. Orkut, facebook, hi5, bebo, twiter, LinkedIn,

Orkut:

Orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. Orkut's social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before.

Orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes.

Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can read their profile and even see how they're connected to you through the friends network.

To join orkut, simply sign in with your Google Account and you can begin to create your own profile right away. If you do not have a Google Account yet, they will help you create one in minutes.

Its Mission is to help you create a closer, more intimate network of friends. They will put you on the path to social bliss soon.

You can register here: ZOLENGTHE.NET

Country wise top users as of March 27, 2009

Brazil = 49.67%
United States = 20.80%
India = 17.17%

Source: http://www.orkut.com/Main#MembersAll.aspx

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facebook | http://www.facebook.com


Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Facebook Principles

We built Facebook to make it easy to share information with your friends and people around you. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.

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Hi5

Launched in 2003, hi5 is now one of the world's largest social networks — ranked as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in over 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to comScore, more than 56 million individuals every month visit hi5, which is currently available in 37 language options (with more to come). We are a privately-held company, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

hi5 is the most globally diverse social networking site in the world, with over 80% of our users from outside the US. The hi5.com site was designed for this global audience from the beginning, and was the first in-language social networking site in many countries around the world. The site has been translated to over 40 languages and dialects (with more than 60 planned by the end of 2008). Whether delivering locally relevant applications and feature translations, offering in-language customer support, or securing regional media partnerships, we strive to provide services that are inviting, useable and meaningful for people in many different countries and cultures around the world.

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BEBO

Bebo is a popular social networking site which connects you to everyone and everything you care about. It is your life online - a social experience that helps you discover what's going on with your world and helps the world discover what’s going on with you.

Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways.

Bebo has sites all across the globe - US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.

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TWITTER

Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends

Why do so many people seem to like Twitter?

Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

Twitter's core technology is a device agnostic message routing system with rudimentary social networking features. By accepting messages from sms, web, mobile web, instant message, or from third party API projects, Twitter makes it easy for folks to stay connected.

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MYSAPCE

MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.

Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!

See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.

MySpace is for everyone:

* Friends who want to talk Online
* Single people who want to meet other Singles
* Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends
* Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree
* Business people and co-workers interested in networking
* Classmates and study partners
* Anyone looking for long lost friends!

We are a new site, developing new features as fast as we can. If you have suggestions or comments, please mail them to: contact.

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Jan 17, 2009

Tell a friend | One button redifines sharing

Dear friend, I hope you would be interested in telling your friend about your writings. Here I found one easy and handy way of doing so. Tellafriend.socialtwist.com and socialtwist.com (collectively referred to as "Site") owned by Pramati Technologies, Inc., ("Company") helps you to use Tell-A-Friend widget on your website or blog. Your use of Site will be subject to these Terms of Use below. We ask that you read these legally binding Terms of Use carefully before you select 'accept' because if you breach any of these Terms of Use, your authorization to use Site automatically terminates. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use please discontinue use of the Site services immediately. Site reserves the right to change or modify these Terms of Use, such change or modification will be effective upon the posting of new terms on the Site. You agree to be bound by any such posted changes. It is important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes.


















Implement in minutes You really don't need much technical expertise to use it on your blog. Bloggers and web administrators can do it in minutes. Login, customize (using a guided wizard), and add your code snippet to your site. That's all.

Versatile embedding of Tell-a-Friend Easily embed Tell-a-Friend in most blogging platforms and popular Content Management Systems (CMS). Currently supported platforms are: Wordpress engine, Wordpress.com (free accounts as well), Blogger/Blogspot, TextPattern, JRoller, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal, Joomla, Pligg, Mambo, and OSCommerce.

Highly customizable You can quickly customize the button type and size, the widget look and feel, the announce message per service, and the behavior of the widget. You can quickly choose from the wide range of buttons, select the widget color scheme, edit message templates apart from other changes that suit your site.

Light, speedy and compact Imagine using a widget that is light, loads faster than others, doesn't burden your site's performance and yet offers you a compelling UI which is liked by one and all. That's Tell-a-Friend.

Inviting button and intuitive user interface Everyone understands Tell a friend; buttons are designed to catch user attention. Mouse over on the button shows the range of services to communicate.

Sharing goes beyond bookmarking Unlike other sharing utilities, Tell-a-Friend stands unique to give you a single button which enables both one-to-one personal recommendations and social broadcasting. Tell-a-Friend is the only sharing widget to support Instant Messengers (chat) and personal messages to friends on social networks. That's clearly the best of word of mouth marketing rolled in one.

One-to-many broadcasting through social sites Sharing through social bookmarks, blogs, Content Management Systems (CMS), microblogs, and social networks is only possible through Tell-a-Friend.

Over a 40 services through which you can reach out to friends:

Email GMail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN/Windows Live Mail, Type Email Address.

IM Y! Messenger, GTalk, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM.

Blogs WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, MovableType, Xanga, Expression Engine, Joomla, Drupal, Textpattern

Social Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Indenti.ca, FriendFeed, MySpace

Bookmarks Del.icio.us, Digg, Slashdot, Technorati, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Buzz, Google, Blinklist, Facebook, Newsvine, Furl, MySpace, LinkedIn, Propeller

Go local. Make referrals more personal. Have Tell-a-Friend in the language of your site. Give your community of users the power to share and recommend your site and its content in their local language.

Analytics to monitor activity Find out how your viral campaign is doing through the usage statistics of your Tell-a-Friend account. Get details of the number of announcements made, which service is most popularly used, the spread of the usage of the various channels, and also daily, weekly and monthly usage trends.

Addressing privacy concerns Tell-a-Friend can access your contacts list from any of the services. However, usernames, passwords, and contact lists are not stored on our system or shared with anyone. Tell-a-Friend is also unique in transparently showing you a preview of the email that your friend will see before you send it.

Secure and scalable service Tell-a-Friend is hosted on Amazon's AWS and care is taken for it to be secure and scalable. Currently several thousands of sites are served and millions of messages have been announced.

Branding Tell-a-Friend to match your site Skin your widget, button and email template to look native to your site to give your user a seamless sharing experience. Don't lose the opportunity to promote your brand with each announcement that users make from your site.

Context-rich messages = Effective referrals Let users share a specific search result, a favorite movie, a liked product, or an interesting news story rather than just generic information about your site. As a publisher, give them more opportunities to share and help them make their announcements a lot more engaging and alluring for their friends.

Incentivize inviting friends Tell-a-Friend can power viral campaigns for product launches and other promotions. Enable rewards/loyalty programs, invite 'n' win contests. Give your users more reasons to spread the word.

Source: TELL A FRIEND SOCIAL TWIST



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