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Obama praising Google, Twitter, Facebook, iPhone but not Xbox

Monday, December 14th, 2009

President Barack Obama’s words in his recent speech to the school children in the United States didn’t seemed to be controversial especially to the tech companies and/or products mentioned to the new generation. Perhaps, there are good things being said and indirectly quoting a gadget for bad side.

Quoting from his prepared speech, President Obama said ‘I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.’ This gives negative impressions to Microsoft.

All other companies got praises as Obama quoted saying ‘Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.’

Obama also quoted for positive remarks for Apple’s iPhone ‘Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine.’

Looking on a brighter side, Microsoft should still be proud as Xbox will not be mentioned if it’s value is not marketable giving users the desire to buy for it.

Facebook to tag Friends on Status Updates like Twitter

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Another Twitter-like service is going to be rolled out on Facebook.

The continuing battle between Facebook and Twitter led the first to imitate another feature from the latter. This time, the use of the ‘@’ sign to tag member friends.

Although it has been an amazing feature for a social networking site to tag friends thus notifying them about an uploaded picture, video or note, the latest with Facebook allows its users to update their statuses at the same time tag their friends on it by using the ‘@’ sign.

Like any of the first tagging features of Facebook that sends notification to tagged friends, tagging individuals on their statuses through ‘@’ sign also sends notification to that particular person. You too can receive notifications once you were tagged on your friends’ updates using the same symbol.

According to Facebook, the immediate advantage of the new service will directly affect brands or businesses who are also engaged into their social networking page in Facebook.

This plan of tagging friends through their updates will be available in the coming weeks.

Twitter 101: Know your Tweets

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Twitter is so addicting for it offers various reasons to tweet. You can talk to your far away friends, have a conversation with your officemates or update everyone absolutely everything.

But, having a freedom without limitations has negative effects. So learn how to limit your tweets. Know what to tweet. Don’t be fooled with the magic of posting your life on your timeline. It’s quite terrible to tweet all your private meetings, private activities and/or private sessions.

Quality tweets do not necessarily equate with factual tweets. So, don’t release information that will harm you and your career. Try to make it balance. Tweet something like you’re updating your status but not providing all the necessary information. Anyways, you’re followers may not like to know where you’ve been if it’s not interesting on their part.

Twitter 101: Tweet a Lot, But not too Much!

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

On the early period of being in Twitter, the process of getting used to it might end up, being addicted to it.

Yes, it’s true! Like any other social networking sites, Twitter is addicting once you get familiarized with it. Plus, the fact that Twitter is a micro-blog, you’ll surely post updates of your life from time to time therefore flooding your timeline.

In Twitter, there’s no limit on how many tweets you’re allowed to send every day. But to make sure that you’re giving your followers the quality posts they needed, tweet an average of 20-30 messages a day. That will do. Or else, you might want to be tagged as a human spammer.

Twitter 101: Be a Good Conversationalist

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Twitter not only gives you power to announce to the whole world what are you up to. It also gives you freedom on how to be a good conversationalist.

In order to make new friends, it is nice that you’re also interested with them. So, try to be a nice guy to everyone. Check their posts and if you find them interesting, reply. There’s no other way to befriend someone than approaching them. And here on Twitter, replying on their tweets is the nicest approach.

But be careful in replying here and there. Just reply with those tweets that are answerable. Or, give a response to clarify something on someone else’s tweet, to give your feedback or to offer a help. Don’t just reply as if you’re an automated response application. It’s a big NO! NO! to someone misinterpreting your account as a spam. So please, avoid that! Try to mix up your tweets with daily stories, then replies to your Twitter friends and also some links that you might want to share with your followers.

Twitter 101: How to get rid of Spammers

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Newbies in Twitter all wanted to have numerous followers so, by analysis; they follow everyone across the world wide web that they encounter.

Well, that’s pretty horrible. Spammers are always around the corner. For sure, you don’t want to follow a spammer’s account so better yet, follow these simple lines:

If you’re really into Twitter, wanted to gain new friends and be updated every now and then with what’s the world is going on, then, follow everyone in a condition that you check first their timelines.

Check if their tweets are not spams. Check if they are really humans not machines that send automatic tweets to spam your network. Check their bio and their networks – their followers and followings.

And for you not to be tagged as a spammer, tweet interesting stuff, share links and reply to other’s tweets.

Twitter 101: Think First Before Tweeting

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Building your network in Twitter is just like building your network on other social networking sites. The only difference is that, here in Twitter, you’re always answering the magic question ‘What are you doing now?’

So, to attract more followers and to make new friends, make sure that you’re giving them quality updates. Prove to them that you’re a human and not a spammer that uses this tool to get into your accounts. Talk about something you like or something new to you, something cool. Feel free to use Twitter as if it’s your river of thoughts. This is, primarily, an advantage in having a Twitter account.

But, make sure that you’re not giving them pertinent information. Stalkers are out there. You might want to know how obsessed they are in getting important information. So, while knowing well your followers, think first before tweeting.

Twitter 101: Follow Everyone, But Not All

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Everyone who’s online is in Twitter. So why not join the bandwagon?

It is understandable that it is hard to cope up with the twitting lifestyle. So, understanding how to tweet better and what to tweet is something that you should first learn.

Like every newbie to Twitter, it is advisable to you follow a lot of people. By doing this, you’ll realize the magic of timeline and the news that it brings through your network’s tweets. But following this advice is somewhat deceiving.

The process of following everyone is like spamming your own account. You don’t even know what their tweets are all about because you only follow them for the sake of getting a number of tweets on your timeline. But you forgot to check the quality of these tweets.

Follow only those accounts that are in your fields of interests, your circle of friends and family. You may invite more people to join Twitter if you haven’t seen some of your buddies on your network. In this case, you’re getting the point of what Twitter is all about – building social networks with timeline.

Remember, quality tweets are more important than having numerous of spam tweets that are not helping you grow in this cyber niche.

Google expands YouTube Partnership Program

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

To continuously gain more profit from YouTube, Google finally extends the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to other people.

In a recently released report from Google, they explained that they are offering a revenue-sharing deal with people who has videos gaining popularity on YouTube. In this way, its like Google is offering a win-win solution to both YouTube and its users.

According to the said report, Google will send out emails regarding the ‘Enable Revenue Sharing’ message next to their videos the users videos. Again, this is only applicable to those who have uploaded popular videos on YouTube in a condition that the number of views are accurate, frequency of the video being popular and its compliance with the site’s Terms of Service.

This project is said to boost YouTube’s revenues as its users will now start campaigning for their own videos. Though YouTube is one of the popular sites in the US, after Google’s acquisition to the site, it is expecting to gain back its $1.65 billion stock deal within the three years.. Hoping for a positive result, Google said that these will promote YouTube well to more users and visitors.

Facebook versus Canadian Privacy Law

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The world’s most famous social site is facing criticism in Canada. Facebook, being the most successful networking website that provides various features for its users to enjoy such as millions of applications, faces the Canadian Law – the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

The investigation came upon request last year after a group from the University of Ottawa called The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic to look of Facebook’s privacy policies.

Anne-Marie Hayden, spokesperson for Canada’s privacy commission, said that Facebook was doing something to address this concern upon request of the Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to the company to submit proposal and timeline regarding their policies.

The five-year-old Canadian act affects Facebook’s almost 12 million users from Canada since the company keeps user’s personal information indefinitely, even if they closed their accounts on the said website.

To address the said problems, Stoddart suggested that Facebook should clarify its privacy policies, to make it easier for Canadian users to remove their profiles and to curb the amount of personal information that Facebook collects from its users. Giving the company a 30-day period to implement the suggestions, Facebook said that in order not to face the same liabilities in the future, they will also introduce a number of new features addressing privacy concerns.