According to a repot from eMarketer online spending on digital ads will grow 20% this year to reach nearly $40 billion. More significantly it predicts that Online Ad revenues will overtake Print Ads this year. The reasons eMarketer cites are not surprising: people are spending more time online, a perception that online ads are more quantifiable, and a growing comfort by advertisers in ad campaigns that integrate multiple channels, including online. Another reason is [...]
The Intranet of yester years has evolved into Business collaboration software or Enterprise Social Software or Enterprise collaboration suite. It is software that can help bring a company’s clients, employees, vendors and management on the same network. Provide dynamic collaboration and information sharing across the company with features like file sharing, chat, blogs, events, internal mail box, events etc. More and more companies are replacing the email setup with an internal messaging system. [...]
Social networking has become a major part of everybody’s lives to increase internal communication. Social media are being used in a number of ways within the medical industry. Many Doctors, Medical Professionals and Hospitals are employing socially based, business-targeted solutions. In fact Medical Industry is experimenting new uses for social media are being developed every day. Social Networking offers physicians the chance to connect with others in their profession for knowledge sharing, networking [...]
Social networking has become a major part of many companies’ approach to their customers and to internal collaboration and companies are employing socially based, business-targeted solutions. IBM introduced new social, collaboration and mobile capabilities for its enterprise networking platform and cloud services. It also announced the beta of the next release of its industry-leading enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. Powered by analytics, IBM Connections delivers the widest range of capabilities, including wikis, [...]
Implementing SOPA strictly as per law would mean an end to several social networking sites, especially those with user generated videos and movies like YouTube. Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA is designed to tackle the problem of foreign-based websites that sell pirated movies, music and other products. The basic method is to stop U.S. companies from providing funding, advertising, links or other assistance to the foreign sites. The bills would give Justice Department [...]
In a surprise move Google Search Engine has started indexing and posting content within Google Plus social networking site. It now gives an enormous advantage to Google Plus as compared to Facebook or Twitter. Because it is presumed that Google Plus content will get favored over other social networking sites. According to Amit Singhal of Official Google Blog: We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. [...]
Paul Allen a Serial entrepreneur, Tech Blogger and founder of Ancestry.com created an online sensation when he predicted that Google’s social networking site Google Plus will have more than 400 million users by the end of 2012. According to Paul “If this rate of new signups – 625k daily, continues then Google+ will reach 100 million users on Feb. 25th and 200 million users on August 3. They will finish 2012 with 293 million users”. [...]
Social gaming refers to games that are played on social networks such as Facebook, featuring multiplayer gaming, and asynchronous game-play. With tens of millions of players actively playing social games every day, social gaming is one of the most popular pastimes for users on the internet. Games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Words with Friends are part of the zeitgeist of the internet. Zynga Games, the foremost company in social game development, is valued between [...]
Social media has changed forever how we interact and connect online. Simply by updating a personal page or sending out a tweet, users can let their network of friends know what is happening in their lives. People can also send out videos, pictures and lots of other content with just a few clicks of a mouse. Social networking sites enable connecting with people and becoming member of communities of like minded people. Social networking sites [...]
Zynga Inc. share price bombed on its first day of trading on December 16th, closing down 5% Zynga, maker of “FarmVille”, “CastleVille” and other online games, made its debut on the Nasdaq stockmarket, priced at $10 each. After trading started, they briefly rose to $11.50 before dipping below the IPO price, giving the firm a market capitalization of about $7 billion It may be a sign that the appetite for new issues of fast-growing internet [...]
