Facebook, Twitter or Google Buzz- What do you choose?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Adithya Ramesh

So are you confused to choose the social network that suits you the best? No problem. We are here to help you. Its very difficult to select between Facebook, Twitter and Google’s latest product Buzz.

Facebook, Twitter and is chosen because they are the top 2 social networking service. Buzz is chosen because it is the latest product and people might think is this good or bad?

The other services might have been listed here. MySpace is probably on a decline. Linkedin is a business tool and the other services don’t give a global platform with all the features.

1. Facebook

This network is the best of all. Well organized and has all the features you will need. The best way is to connect to a person is just become friends. A recent survey done shows that people who use Facebook are most addicted to it.

Another interesting feature of facebook is that you have messages same like mails and direct chat with your friends. This means that you use less of your mail and more of Facebook.

And one of the important feature of FB is that it gives you an advertising platform where you can advertise your products.

The main drawback of Facebook is that the chat and messaging feature takes a lot of time to load and mostly connectivity is bad.

2. Twitter

What makes people attract towards Twitter is its simplicity. It is a place for you to microblog with just 140 characters. Its the right place for you to share your views or even earn money from tweeting.

The friendship method is not followed in this. Twitter has followers. Making friends means following people.

This platform is for sharing tweets for all people who follow you but it won’t reach to a particular person. Even if you type @….. it will mention that person but others will be able to view your tweet. It has messaging system where its up to useless. If you follow people and they follow you, you just receive junk of spams in your mail box.

But twitter to has its worth. You can promote anything you want and it wil reach audience.

3. Google Buzz

This network is too soon to be explained. This doomed into the INTERNET with a heavy promotion from Google. This one interestingly automatically comes with your Google Account. All those who you have in your contacts automatically will become your followers.

With Google promoting it, Buzz has skyrocketed. This is because it has been included in GMail. Buzz has integration with other medias like Flickr, Picasa and even the Twitter.

It has easy use and simple interface. People can just send their messages privately or even publicly. But Google Buzz is only up to Gmail. You cannot find friends and follow them if they are not on the contact list. The features are surely not like other social networking site but has some content in it.

Image Credit : Mashable

Google Buzz to Buzz up your social networking experience online

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Monik

Google rules all the market except one, Social Networking. They did try to tap it using Orkut which worked out only in Brazil and India and few other parts of the world. Facebook gained 400 Million users this week which proves Social Networking is a massive market and Google does not want to leave it.

There they come. No, not with a new product, but with new features! It’s Google Buzz that is making all the buzz in the town. Google buzz is a new Social Addon to Google’s existing product Gmail which is used by masses.

I would term it a very smart move, and the biggest reason being that Google doesn’t need a new user base to make up for the social network, they already have the Gmail users. So existing users can get into the network. Another great concept of Google Buzz is that it’s directly from the Inbox so no hazzles of logging into seperate websites. Just log into Gmail and you are there!

Social Web is huge and every second there is something or the other to know. Too many tweets, messages would make one go haywire. Google claims that it will cure all the problems, or perhaps the social disease and sort it the right way. Google Buzz will arrange all the social happenings in the timeline systematically and the best feature is that you can integrate it with service like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader. (Where’s Facebook?)

Everything here is real time, so no F5 required. Your content can be private or public, as simple as this. Another key feature is the inbox integration of this service. Comment’s are sent into your inbox so you can easily keep track of conversations. This is photo friendly and will show all thumbnails and full screen pictures for service using them.

It’s like a huge timeline with updates from people you follow. You can comment, like and email a reply too. Seems like a mashup of all service around! Google’s timeline aggregater promises that it will include only the stuff you might care about and neglect crappy useless stuff like “brb” messages.

Google Buzz would be surely concentrating on the mobile market too so they are iPhone, Android ready from the beginning. As we said, the location aware internet is on the rise and geo tagging with every post is automatically done with every post. Now this is the complete mashup of all good parts of the best services on the web!

Facebook planning to provide Webmail service with Project Titan

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Monik

It’s been up for a while and seems like folks at TechCrunch have partially confirmed it. Facebook could be possibly working on a Web Mail like service which would replace the current messaging system on Facebook.

This would feature a User@facebook.com email, POP and IMAP access and would give users the feature to send non-users a message too. Facebook did revamp it’s current Facebook messaging systems adding feature to search messages and a better interface to interact with the data but that’s not enough.

We all know that, the most preferred mode of communication on the internet is Email and perhaps with Project Titan (Codename for the Facebook webmail project) they hope to replace the current mode and make facebook the central mode of all the communication.

Facebook already has about 400+ Million users and about 175+ Million users who log into the website everyday and penetration into the email market for facebook wouldn’t be much of work and in short time they would be able to capture large audience.

Your current Vanity URLs (facebook.com/VanityUrl) could be your username for the Webmail i.e VanityUrl@facebook.com. Could this be a huge challenge to other Web Mail providers? You never know! Facebook already has made a lot of “impossible’s” possible so this could be it.

Facebook and Twitter to be school subjects soon!

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Adithya Ramesh

As I said, it is exciting to know, its a superb news for the School students in Britain. The Government is planning to include Facebook and Twitter to their curriculum.

The subject is called ‘English Studies: Digital Communication’ where students will have to study the websites as per school curriculum plans for a new English GCSE.

“This qualification builds on students’ interests in digital texts and proved to excite and engage both boys and girls in our pilot. It reflects the changing needs and interests of learners,” a government spokesman said.

Students could take on the subject as stand alone or study it along with English and other subjects.

Editors Note (Monik Pamecha) : This is surely very interesting because students, i mean most of writers on our blog, Etiole are youngsters from age 13-19 so if we get a chance to study them, we would surely score pretty high marks as we spend most of our time on it! Another advantage of teaching students such things would be actually preparing them for the practical world and if one knows how to use social networks properly, one can surely build a strong PR!

Via Telegraph and image credit : thebrandbuilder.

FaceBook Crosses 350 Million users, 1000 employees and 400 Million Unique visitors

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Monik

What a day it is for Facebook! If you did log on to Facebook today, you would have observed a small box on top of your page and if you did take the pains of going to see what it was about you know what i am talking about. If not, then read on.

350 Million users is no joke. A month back they had about 325 Million users and now its a 25 Million user jump and let me mention, Facebook had 200 Million members during April 2009 but in 7 months and 150 Million members more? Amazing! Seems quite a surprise to us but not to them.

They have also crossed over the 1000 employees mark and are hiring more people. More Dataservers [Currently 30,000 and growing!] and stuff like that is being worked on. But apart from that a lot of development is being done on the front end.

The user interface is being worked upon and if that’s not enough, Facebook is also soon going to roll out their new Privacy Policy. You know what that means? Last time their one change created a hell lot of Ruckus over the web, people fighting to get the old policies back.

Here’s a quote from their blog post,

The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model forprivacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

They policies coming up would give you better control over the content you upload online and share, who will be able to access what kind of information, etc. I think this is what was needed, after all Facebook gets 400+ million unique visits every month.

If the predictions are to be believed Facebook will cross the 375 Million users before the end of this year.

Credits : AlltheFB

Paypal Wishlist : Make free money on Facebook

Posted on November 25, 2009 by binoy

PayPal Wishlist is a Facebook Application that lets you earn free money on the most popular social networking website, Facebook. All you have to do is add this networking App to your profile and start inviting your friends.Everytime your friends join by clicking your referrel link,you earn free bucks.

Still don’t believe us? Shown below is a screenshot from the official App site , explaining HOW IT WORKS.

Steps required to setup the Facebook Wishlist :

1. Login to your Facebook Account
2. Add the Paypal Wishlist app here.

3. Type your paypal email address on Enter Email Address box
4. Create your Wishlist by adding gadgets,books etc and share your paypal wishlist to friends.

NOTE : PayPal account holders registered in India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore or Vietnam will eligible to earn cash back. This promotion is valid until December 31st, 2009 or until funds last.

FaceBook has 30,000 servers and serves 600,000 images per second!

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Monik

FaceBook Data Centre View

FaceBook could be termed as the fastest growing Social Networking Service history has ever seen. Well, to support the Fact here are some numbers which will make you surprized.

30,000 servers! How?
Before 18 Months back Facebook had about 10,000 servers but in those 18 months, the company has seen lot of growth an had borrowed a sum of $100 million which was probably for setting up 20,000 servers.

600,000 Images served every second!
Facebook, has 300 Million Active users which have stored 80 Billion Images in their servers and they are accessed at the rate of 600,000 Images per second!

25,000 GB Log Data saved Daily!
Well, with 300 million users and growing Facebook stores 25 TB of data daily and when this is compared to U.S postal mail service, it’s 1000 times more!

[Via DataCentreKnowledge]

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