The world's 1st social networking matrimonial site!

Check out this website called Youpid. This site claims to to be the world's 1st social networking matrimonial website. The concept is pretty cool. You log in through your facebook credentials. The search algorithms search for single status people in your or your contact's network and show it to you. You can then get yourself introduced to the single person through the contact. More like Linkedin.  Neat.

Google's high speed internet infastructure plans

And now google would be giving ISPs a run for their money. Google has decided to enter into ISP domain and has massive plans to provide ultra high speed internet connection across country. Cities across US are now bending themselves back to be amongst the coveted Google list for laying the optical fiber.

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Google goes shopping

Google has acquired yet another company. This time in the space of photo editing. The company is called Picknik. Read more about it.

Buzz catches gmail users unaware

The other day I was going through a thread on my Buzz and I was amused to read the conversation happening between 2-3 people (incidentally I just know one person from the list). The person in question was confused on this sudden flood of threads happening in his Gmail and the other two people took a dig on him on how easily they have entered in his email space and very soon based on next feature rolled out (by google) they would be able to open his emails too! A little far fetched but it highlights the main pain points which users like him and me are facing.  One of the main problems that I have noticed in Buzz is the sudden slur of threads that have started off without my knowing. One fine day I wake up to see 10 people following me and surprisingly I was also following somjavascript:void(0)e 20 odd guys! How did I follow them - I have no clue.

Hopefully Google will solve these. As I read, Google is already taking steps to fix this issue. But the bigger challenge for Google would be to make the entire 'gmail integrated' buzz thing less intimidating and more user friendly to understand what's going around. 

Building brands through Twitter

We all know how brands are focusing on social media channels to build brand presence and drive sales.More and more brands are closely following Twitter for pushing their brand to new markets and segments. As highlighted in this report Twitter demographics poses more opportunities for brand engagement. 

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The role of women in social media

My friend Sahana would love to read this. Expect some comments from her :-). Putting across some interesting posts on the role of women in social media. 

Jessica Carter, a columnist and developer of various social media tools is bullish about the role of women in social media. 

On the other hand in another column Maggie Mcgary questions whether social media really offers opportunities for women.  

What's your pick on this? Would love to know.

Accountability in Social Media

An interesting article that I read recently was on the need of Accountability in social media. How do you bring in accountability to your entire social media strategy? How do you calculate the ROI? What steps?

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