What is Twitter Translation Center- crowdsource?
The world’s second largest social media website, Twitter has on Monday released the Twitter Translation Center to crowdsource translations from its users. It taps into the language skills of the more than 190 million users in order to add Russian, Turkish, Portuguese and Indonesian to its expanding repertoire of translation options.
Twitter also needs people who know Indonesian, Russian and Turkish, the next three languages the site [...]
How to earn AAdvantage miles with American Airlines through Twitter and Facebook?
American Airlines Inc has launched Facebook and Twitter account with wide range of opportunities to earn AAdvantage miles. American Airlines is the first U.S. airline to launch dedicated social media channels focused on earning miles.
AAdvantage Facebook and Twitter account Followers can see a variety of posts detailing ways to increase their mileage balance, including special mileage offers and promotions. The channels also encourage followers [...]
How to create your own app for nokia ovi store?
Create your app for Ovi Store in minutes- Now anyone can create an app for Ovi Store in just a few minutes. It’s fast. It’s easy. And it’s free. No programming skills are required and it’s open to all individuals and businesses, with no registration fees. After you’ve created your app and registered as an Ovi store publisher, it will become available to millions of Ovi Store customers within 24 hours of your [...]
A massive network of employment Web sites launched by DirectEmployers Association this week
The Indianapolis-based nonprofit DirectEmployers Association launched massive network of employment Web sites this week, and by the end of the month will have 40,000 worldwide. The 40,000 sites, with Web addresses that all end in “.jobs,” have the potential to upend jobs classifieds online companies such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. A so-called Sponsored Top Level Domain, .jobs was created in 2005 at the behest of Employ [...]
Why Facebook and YouTube co-founders Eduardo Saverin & Jawed Karim Invested $8M In Qwiki?
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim are among the leading investors in an $8-million round of financing for a Silicon Valley start-up Qwiki. Qwiki is a startup that responds to search queries with interactive multimedia presentations rather than links, co-founded by entrepreneur Doug Imbruce and Internet industry pioneer Dr. Louis Monier (founder of AltaVista). The site is currently in invite-only alpha [...]
Top 10 Social Media Tips for Job-Seekers- I wish I had started sooner
Today’s social media websites, simple web content editing tools, and easily created blogs and personal website applications give job seekers the ability to add content and manage their personal brand and search engine results as never before. Remember that every time you use social media to communicate, you’re developing your personal brand. Think about how you want potential employers and clients to perceive you before you post. [...]
Impact of social media- Facebook and Twitter on judicial system
The 51 year-old chief justice Robert J. Torres Jr. of the Supreme Court of Guam spoke on “Media and the Courts” before a full-house crowd which included his Philippine counterpart, Chief Justice Renato C. Corona, and other jurists, law practitioners, and developmental aid partners at the Supreme Court Hall in Padre Faura in Manila, GMANews.TV said.
For instance, he cited the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee’s prohibition [...]
Top 10 Tips on Microblogging sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr…
When you start participating in the Microblogging community, be careful When and what you share, no one wants to know a person with absolutely no social etiquette. It takes time and effort to build up your number of followers but if you are in any way offensive, it’s easy for people to just stop following you.
1) Update several times daily.
2) Link your Microblogs together to save time.
3) Be authentic and personal
4) Be able to express, [...]
Web discovery engine StumbleUpon rolling out new features
Popular social web discovery engine StumbleUpon that returned to startup status in 2009, is making a strong comeback. StumbleUpon, the company that recently surpassed Facebook to become the number one website for generating social media traffic in the U.S, just broke a new record with 27.5 million stumbles yesterday, according to a recent tweet from StumbleUpon CEO and Founder Garrett Camp.
The metric was shared via Twitter on Tuesday. StumbleUpon; [...]
Facebook temporarily disabled Address And Number Sharing On Hold
The social networking site Facebook has courted a fresh privacy row, when Facebook announced that it had expanded the information users are able to share with external websites and applications, to include home addresses and mobile phone numbers.
On Friday night at exactly 9:00 p.m. Jeff Bowen posted a new entry on the Facebook Developer blog, that it would give developers of applications access to the contact information of users who install [...]
Goldman Sachs to allow only non-US investors to buy shares in the Facebook
Goldman Sachs (GS) which had already invested $450 million in social networking site Facebook, decided to restrict its scale of shares to investors outside the United States. Goldman Sachs is expected to raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook. Facebook would certainly benefit from not being seen as a totally US owned company.
The Goldman said, “the shares will be restricted to non-US investors because, the level of media [...]
Groupon in talks to partner with Chinese internet major Tencent Holdings
US group buying company, Groupon is in talks with Chinese internet major Tencent Holdings Ltd. for a partnership, Terms of the deal weren’t clear, but it was likely to involve some sort of co-branded joint venture. Tencent is the dominant social network in China, thanks to its instant messaging platform QQ, which it monetizes with virtual goods like avatars. Both companies are confident the JV will lead in the industry by May this [...]
Be careful- Third-party Facebook apps will now be given access to a users phone number and address
On Friday night at exactly 9:00 p.m. Jeff Bowen posted a new entry on the Facebook Developer blog, that it would give developers of applications access to the contact information of users who install their apps. “These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs,” Facebook’s Jeff Bowen said. “Please note that these permissions only provide access to a [...]
Facebook VS ConnectU- Divya Narendra, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
A settlement Facebook Inc. agreed with Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss for a package of cash and stock worth about $65 million two years ago, but they have sued to upend the deal, they charge the deception cost them millions and now want more money.
In a courtroom in San Francisco, lawyers for the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Mr Divya Narendra asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow them to re-open a $65m settlement forged [...]
CEOWORLD Live!- Tips and Techniques for Online Marketers
CEOWORLD Live! is a social network and micro-blogging platform enables you to discover and discuss the interesting stuff your friends find on the web and it takes just a couple clicks to post anything or to start a discussion. With posts on CEOWORLD Live!, you can let your friends know what you’re up to, share links and cool resources, communicate with your customers, drive traffic to your website, and much more.
And this post can [...]
What does geolocation-based Google HotPot do- Yelp-And-Foursquare Killer, share place recommendations?
Google have announced on its blog their new location based recommendation engine called Google HotPot. Google Hotpot is a local recommendations engine powered by you and your friends. You start by looking for a certain place category in your area – or any other area you’re interested in.
Results are displayed as cards, including a picture of the place, the average rating so far and links to save them for later or hide them from results [...]
Sina Corp (SINA) launches $301 million developer fund for its Twitter-like microblog, Weibo
Sina Corp (SINA), a leading Chinese online media services provider, launched $301 million fund for developers to create applications for its highly popular Twitter-like microblog, Weibo (pronounced ‘way-bore’). Sina is one of the few micro-blogging services still around in China after the government banned Twitter and other competitors for refusing to monitor their content.
The developers will use an open platform interface to create [...]
How to make a Facebook application in Ruby with Heroku?
Leading cloud application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Heroku has launched a Facebook App Package and guide for building Facebook applications on Heroku’s PaaS. If you’re in the market for building Facebook apps, Heroku a new Facebook App Package may be worth checking out.
Facebook is the most popular social platform for these applications. Facebook applications are being used to reach new and prospective customers and [...]
How Hulu will generate $240 million in revenue this year CEO Jason Kilar?
Popular Online video site Hulu should more than double revenue this year to $240 million, up from $108 million the year before and $25 million in its first year, its chief executive Jason Kilar said. Launched three years ago, Hulu is now the second-largest Web video service behind Google’s YouTube in the United States. All of the top 25 U.S. advertisers now run spots on Hulu’s site, Kilar said.
Today Hulu is estimated to be worth [...]
