Buzz about Google Buzz

February 14th, 2010

Thia is  a guest post by Moksh Juneja, Social Media Catalyst and Founder of Avignyata. Follow him on twitter @mokshjuneja

The choice of integration of Google Buzz with Gmail was a good choice rather than creating a whole new application cause as per ComScore pegged Gmail at 176.5 million unique visitors in December 2009. Google Buzz has been the talk of town, Google learnt with Google Wave that creating something abstract and building and hyping it up and if the product does not live up to its expectations. But then they took the same learning, integrated Wave to Gmail, put status updates from Gtalk and Twitter, Gmail users can share Videos from Youtube and Photos form Flickr.

Google Buzz has been buzzing all across Buzz 9 million posts and comments, since last Tuesday. At the same time, tweets on “Google Buzz” within every 11 seconds, technology forums were all discussing with more than 1000 posts per day, since Tuesday (check here & here).

Post Facebook acquiring Friendfeed, Facebook got an easy integration to most of the social media platforms. So, the dominance that Google had over the internet was fading away. Plus, a recent report, stated that people would start using social networks as the primary source of communication on the internet than email by 2015. Internet users would evolve in their communication over the social networks. Google may not be seeking dominance, with Google Buzz will surely be getting enough prominence on the internet.

Google Buzz will surely be reduce on the time people spend on bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon. For a Social Media Marketing perspective, the (more…)

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Social Media Pillows for the geeks

August 12th, 2009

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Be it Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Z or these Social Media Pillows, the designers just don’t get tired designing them. The latest ones are the social networking pillows which features Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, FriendFeed, Tumblr, MySpace, and more.

The pillows are designed by twitter user @craftsquatch, and are available for $18 each at CraftQuatch’s Etsy Store.

BTW – Won’t it fun if the twitter pillow could tweet your dreams?

via [Mashable]

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Now you can BUY followers on Twitter

July 6th, 2009

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What do you do when you don’t have enough followers on Twitter and don’t have time to search for people of similar interest on Twitter? Simple. You pay £50 to uSocial and they bring 1000 followers to you.

The Australian social media marketing company, uSocial has launched this new service to track followers for you on Twitter. The company tracks 1000 followers for you at a fees of £50. uSocial searches for people who have common interest to those of their customers. Then uSocial recommends those users to follow their customers. It depends ultimately on the user to decide if he/she would want to follow the recommended person or not.

An estimation from uSocial says that each potential follower on Twitter is worth (more…)

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Apple rules social media!

May 31st, 2009

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Apple certainly is the most talked about tech company on the internet. With a unique charisma and a real charm in whatever it does, the Cupertino giant manages to stay in news 24×7x365. An interesting observation (and really surprising to me) at Mashable shows how Apple beats the rest by a huge margin in Social Media conversations.

Consumers talk about their favourite gadgets, the gadgets they own and their dream gadgets. Apple scores with its touch of class in everything it does, right from designing the product to its features / usability. Another shot below shows breakup of Apple products (no doubt – iPhone leads).

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