The rise of the new Social Media Smarphones

Social media and networking has become an international obsession, with Facebook accumulating more than half a billion users and microblogging site Twitter growing from humble beginnings into a powerful tool which can be used to build political movements or get its users in trouble with the authorities. Some analysts predict that social networking sites like [...]

Selling just under 300 books per week in just 20 days

I’m glad to announce that my book on recruiting with social media in just 20 days is now ranked 17,367 out of 424,793 Kiddle books on Amazon. According to fonerbooks.com that implies that the book is selling just under 300 books per week on Amazon.com alone based on the graph (below) and multiplying a factor of [...]

(Presentation) SMEs Grow your business using Social Networks [kwiqq]

I recently prepared this presentation for SMEs looking to grow their businesses though social networks. The presentation looks at the growth of social networking technology, social tools SMEs should use, features to include in social networks and a fun task on LinkedIn to get your hands dirty. Grow your business using Social Networks: Raj Anand [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks [kwiqq]

Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat We believe 2009 is the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly build content (on your [...]

Video Sharing website’s success relies on its API [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia Recently we conducted a research on the 15 top video API’s (Application Programming Interface). some interesting facts came out of the research: Most video APIs (actually all) allow users to embed videos in some form or another. Generally by copying a bit of HTML. (Second) most common use of the APIs is [...]

*Must Read* report on Social Software [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia It is impossible to imagine any marketing report nowadays without mention of social software. Although it is relatively a new field, a lot of work has already been done with fantastic results. This paper explores the major social software being developed or supplied. Summary The report talks about the different types of [...]

Facebook Connect MUST HAVE for future Social Networks [kwiqq]

Facebook Connect‘s latest evolution is a serious step forward in the way users will connect with niche online communities. FbC allows you to login or signup to a site using Facebook’s username and password. There are several advantages, our top five reason for using it for niche social networks: Login and Signup: As more niche [...]

The Future of Social Networks at Graphing Social Patterns [kwiqq]

Readwriteweb had an interesting article about Future of Social networks. Alex May has some view on it too: “The problem with the ubiquitous approach is that, like Facebook’s privacy policy, I suspect it’ll be nigh on impossible to opt out, thus limiting functionality for users who do not want to share their information. Of course, [...]

Comscore: More time spent on MySpace than Facebook [kwiqq]

Later today Comscore will announce stats regarding popularity of Social Networks. One notable statistic was: The average visitor spent 203.9 minutes on the site [Myspace] (a 13.7% month-to-month increase), while the average Facebook visitor was logged on for 172.1 minutes (a 1.6% month-to-month increase, but notably down from a high of 199.9 minutes per visitor [...]

Bebo now open for Developers [kwiqq]

Bebo has now opened its gates to the wider development community. Earlier I mentioned how Bebo would use Facebook’s platform, now it seems its adopting Facebook’s strategy to launch their product too. Nothing wrong with it, its great that developers can build one tool and it would work for both platforms. Although we should consider [...]