Online Social Life vs. Your Real Life
http://www.jimkukral.com How does your social media life affect your real life? Being social online is part of the new brand building, but at what point does your online social behavior effect your real home life situation? Duration : 4 min 18 sec
Unsubscribe: Breaking Up is Hard To Do
Email service provider ExactTarget has published a series of reports, the most recent (#8) of which details why consumers end brand relationships (permission-based email and social channels like Twitter and Facebook), how they do it, and "the impact of this 'social break-up' on consumers’ intent to do business with… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit […]
How Airlines Use Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
Interesting: There are more than 180 airlines using Twitter for marketing or customer services purposes. An average airline sends 4.1 tweets per day. 65 percent of the tweets are promo related while 24 […] Related posts: Twitter & The World Cup [INFOGRAPHIC] The year’s World Cup has broken many records. It isn’t… The Twitter Story […]
Russian Social Network Collaborates with Groupon
Groupon might have screwed it up in China but things still look rosy elsewhere. Mail.Ru recently announced a newly formed partnership between Odnoklassniki (a Russia-based social-network) and Groupon. The collaboration allows Odnoklassniki users […] Related posts: The Social Network The movie essentially takes you through Facebook’s rise to fame,… Twitter is now the Top Social […]
AdaDiskon is a Media Start-up on Deals and Promotions
Whether it’s bazaars or crazy midnight sales, AdaDiskon provides all sorts of deals in Indonesia for Indonesians. That’s how AdaDiskon’s co-founder Aswin Utomo describes his start-up. While everyone is fanatically into the group-buying […] Related posts: @EarlyBird: Great Deals Everyday, Starting Today Bargain searchers take note! @EarlyBird, a dedicated Twitter handle managed… Twitter to Publish […]
Crisis in Egypt in an Infographic… and China
The world is watching, especially in Asia where the same events could potentially happen. The Egypt crisis happened so quickly with news coming from various media platform: Twitter, Facebook, Renren, news media and […] Related posts: China’s Twitter sites Censor ‘Egypt’ Search The word ‘Egypt’ (??) was censored today by several micro-blogging… China’s Twitter sites […]
How AIMI Indonesian Moms use BlackBerry Messenger
AIMI is a Breastfeeding Association in Indonesia, founded by a group of moms who are willing to share knowledge on breastfeeding. Mind you, it isn’t like any other mommies association out there. AIMI is pretty tech savvy. Nia, Deputy Chairman of AIMI said BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is the primary communication channel within the association. The […]
Twitter for Android Becomes More Like Other Twitter Apps
Twitter has launched a new version of its Android App. The company says its designed to feel more like its other official Twitter apps to provide a more consistent experience. "You can use Twitter for Android even if you haven’t signed in or don’t have an account," says Carolyn Penner with Twitter Communications. "You can […]
Twitter Revamps Android App
Twitter has launched a new version of its Android app, revamping its interface to match the ones used in its iPhone and web apps. The entire int…
Embed Facebook Posts In Articles With SocialDitto
SocialDitto is a new tool designed to let content producers, such as journalists and bloggers, embed Facebook posts/status updates into their content. You can think about it like the Twitter BlackBird Pie tool, which lets you embed tweets. The developers of SocialDitto, part of iEntry (which also publishes WebProNews) thought a Blackbird Pie-like tool would […]
10 Successful Indian Brands in Twitter
There are about 5 million Twitter users in India. This figure is nothing compared to Facebook’s 20 million and Orkut’s 18 million. Despite Twitter’s relatively low user count, brands in India are starting to embrace the micro-blogging platform. Why? The reason is simple: Twitter is growing so quickly that it is poised to be the Next […]
This Week on Asia Technology
First, congratulations to India as the iPad was finally introduced to the majestic country on Friday. However, sales were expected to plummet because of its late introduction, 10 months after it was launched in the U.S. We had also seen how MTV India used Twitter to push ‘Roadies 8′ into Twitter’s trending topic list. Perhaps, the […]
Twitter Declares, “The Tweets Must Flow”
While protests rage on in Egypt, Twitter called for free expression and transparency in a manifesto published on its blog. Co-written by Twitter…
China’s Twitter sites Censor ‘Egypt’ Search
The word ‘Egypt’ (??) was censored today by several micro-blogging sites in China, the AFP reported. I did a search on Egypt on China’s largest microblog site Sina Weibo (in Chinese of course) and got the following in return: “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results have not been shown.” It was […]
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
This week offers a mixed bag of Twitter trends, and the surprising absence of one item we thought would certainly make the list. As we’ve…