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HTC Hero: Contacts & Social Networking

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:39:41 +0000

phandroid.com – a look at social networking and contacts on the HTC Hero including Facebook and Twitter.

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Social Networking- the Revenue Generator

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:33:45 +0000

While responsibility some research on social networking domain, found some fascinating figures to share, which will surely drive the social networking development companies.

Market at a glance-

The market for the internet and social networking communities is estimated at about USD 1500M this year.

Social network/Community development and enhancement individually by 2006 stood at USD 700M and is estimated to touch USD 4000M by 2010.

The top 3 player in the market are Myspace, Facebook and Bebo with market shares 80.74%, 10.32%, 1.18% respectively.( data is based on custom category of 20 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of visits, which is the percentage of traffic to the site, based on Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. The percentages represent the market share of visits among the websites within the custom category.)

Growth Path-

Social networking sites are growing 47% year on year increasing from an audience of 46.8 million to 68.8 million in April 2006.

Social networking sites are the reality of the Internet; the content is relatively inexpensive for publishers to produce.

It will become more ingrained in mainstream sites, just as reality TV shows. MySpace.com, the top Social Networking site of all in terms of number of registered users, saw a staggering 367% increase. The graph is still increasing with many more Social Networking players jumping in; the web scene seems set just right for Social Networking.

The social networking sites that are considering strong growth have developed a unique online presence which is refreshed by user generated content. This promotes ongoing consumers interest and visitor loyalty. The market share of Internet visits to the top 20 social networking websites grew by 11.5 percent from January to February 2007, to account for 6.5 percent of all Internet visits in February 2007.

Mobile Social networking- The next Destination

Social networking is vacant mobile and is poised for spectacular growth over the next five years, mobile social communities will be attracting members in swarms, more than tripling in size from 50 millions to 174 millions by 2011.

For the moment, MySpace and Facebook are hot. News Corp. paid $580 million last year for MySpace as part of a $1.3 billion Internet acquisition spree. Facebook just received an additional $25 million in venture capital.

Both companies are plotting to extend their get to beyond the computer screen to cell phones.

Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless are starting a service that will allow users to post messages on Facebook’s home pages or search for other users’ phone numbers and email addresses from a cell phone.

MySpace has a pact with Helio, a wireless joint venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink, which will allow users to send photos and update their blogs or profiles by cell phone.

Advertising-

Social networks are an integral part of the cultural fabric of the internet and their rapidly growing and demographically appealing audience has attracted the attention of advertisers.

According to the latest forecasts, marketers will pony up an estimated $280 M in the USA to advertise.

By 2010, the online advertising spend will grow to $1.8 billion.

Marketer estimates that the social networking ad spend of the USA will rise to $260 million in 2007(up from $95 million in 2006), and by 2010 is expected to get to $665 million.

Advantages-

Advertising on social networks will teach marketers vital ways to get to newly-empowered consumers.

Social networks will have an incalculable shape on all advertising, both online and offline.

If companies can go even deeper to develop marketing efforts that fully embrace the “one-to-one-to-many scenery of social networks, ad revenues will soar. This way of advertising will spill over into other channels. The underlying concept will shape the way advertising is done in all media, not just online.

Social Networking- The revenue Generator

Advertisers delight- Advertisers can target local as well as international market at one place.

Social networks are becoming a excellent environment to sell products, especially if marketers want to cultivate a brand and get its loyal users to do the selling and evangelizing. That evangelism happens in a community.

Recruiters’ Heaven- Now a day, top MNCs are hiring from professional social networking sites like Linkedin. They can also check the social index and compatibility of the candidate along with the background check, which is helping them to save a lot of money.

The cost of gaining new customers is practically nothing because users join voluntarily and provide their own content through their profiles.

The interactive scenery of social networking sites keeps visitors coming back which helps the sites to retention rate high.

The cost of in succession the sites’ web servers is relatively low. If a classic advertising or subscription revenue model is used, low cost social network sites could be highly profitable.

All the above information concretes our philosophy that social networking as a domain for business is vacant to stay and grow in a rapid rate.

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Talking about SEO and small business marketing

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:16 +0000

These guys are starting a new SEO and small business marketing company that will be revealed next month, but here we discuss the state of search engine marketing with the founder George Revutsky of www.mynextcustomer.com

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Foster’s Beer – “Social Networking”

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:38:53 +0000

Fosters Beer presents: How To Speak Australian.

Which SEO agency do you recommend?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:37:28 +0000

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Arbitrator and answered many of them on video. Frank from West Virginia questioned: If I’m looking to hire an SEO agency, which one do you recommend?

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What Makes Social Networking Websites so Popular?

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:47:23 +0000

Question anyone who is using the Internet regularly about websites like myspace, yahoo 360 or classmates. Everyone will have one common answer that these are social networking websites. These social networking websites have increased in popularity through the recent years. People who have been using these kinds of social networking websites will be well aware of their popularity and also the reason behind it. Let’s see something that helps these social networking websites to draw the attention millions of people towards them.

EASE OF USE

With wide variety of social networking websites in use, there are different reasons for their popularity in the Internet. The fist feature prominent in most of the social networking websites like Myspace is their ease of use. Even one with very small knowledge about the Internet could use these social networking websites. These social networking websites are made so unadorned so that users can easily navigate through the pages.

EASE IN GETTING NEW FRIENDS

Second aspect is the easiness in making new friends with the help of these social networking websites. There are many people who really like to make new friends online. The reason being, social networking websites allow the users to get the information about the interests of the other Internet user before making any contact or conversation with him. Without these social networking websites we would have to connect to others through chat rooms, and gather about their interests by actual conversation before considering them as friends.

FREE TO USE

Another noticeable feature of social networking websites is that most of them are free to use. All we have to do is to make a free registration in these social networking sites. Once the registration is complete, we are all set to go. This free registration for a unique service is one of the main aspects that make these social networking websites more well loved. But, some of the social networking websites like Classmates offer only a free trial membership. You can try the website and choose whether it is value paying for. Since most Internet users don’t really want to pay for something that they can get for free, these paid social networking websites have only limited number of members.

MORE BENEFITS

Meeting new people and making new friends online is the basic use of these social networking websites. Apart from making friends, most of these websites have started including some additional features. The additional features they offer are, free webpage, free music, free videos, free blog etc for their members. There are people who use these social networking websites for business promotion.

Mentioned above are very few of a bunch of benefits of these social networking websites. These are the reasons why these networking websites are at the top.

The Author writes articles on social networking. More articles written by the author related to social network development, social network web design and social networking website design which can be found in the web.

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