Google Wave killer, Nurphy.com

Recently I bumped into Neil from Nurphy at an event. He was telling us about his application Nurphy. At first you might think yet another start-up, although actually it’s truly a fantastic app see what New York Times and Read Write Web are saying. So what does it do? The application is puts your conversation [...]

Retweet (RT) soon part of Twitter interface

If you are a regular twitter user I’m sure you understand how important RT (Retweet) is to broadcast your message. Twitter is soon going to launch RT interface which will make it easy for users on Twitter.com to know which messages have been retweeted using an icon. Click to Expand addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2009%2F11%2F23%2Fretweet-rt-soon-part-of-twitter-interface%2F’; addthis_title = [...]

List of online communities to maximize recruitment potential

Often, finding the right candidates or customers require recruitment teams to go far and wide. For some customers or circumstances teams have to tap into communities which already exist e.g. Institute of Engineers, women in Space Research, CIOs in the insurance industry. Traditionally this could be an expensive, time intensive process and would require to [...]

Twitter v/s Google Offices. Does Google have an edge?

Twitter Employees unveiled their new office in San Francisco. There is certainly a resemblance between Twitter HQ to the Googleplex. Perhaps Google offices are still a bit cooler? Reception Team Space (Discussions and chill out) Twitter Google Workstation Twitter Google Twitter Google Foyer Twitter Google Canteen Twitter Google Conference Room Twitter Google Twitter offices from [...]

IT Consultancy shows no love to Piccolos Italian (Brighton)

I spent many interesting evenings at Piccolo’s Italian during my student days. Known amongst friends for good food at an affordable price. Their salads are to die for! Reviews on a Brighton Takeaway site. Today I followed a link to their website and was shocked to see: Clearly the restaurant didn’t pay for the website, [...]

Why Myspace (not Facebook) ideal for some advertisers

Approximately four years back (in January 2007) Myspace launched in the UK. Taking on the mighty Friends Reunited, having already given Friendster a run for it’s money. Along came Facebook, with richer user experience and ultimate privacy control, taking the social media market by storm, and hasn’t stopped user acquisition ever since. Facebook’s v/s Myspace [...]

New report suggests Twitter for pointless babble and lazy people! [kwiqq]

Whilst Twitter is growing day on day, people are discovering new ways to use it. Many organisations and individuals have signed up to Twitter to promote and collaborate but a report published by Pear Analytics suggests that 40.55% of tweets are actually just pointless babble. Another interesting fact is that 5% of the Twitterers contribute [...]

[Presentation] Social Network for Corporate Internal Communication [kwiqq]

During these difficult economic times, staff efficiency is an important consideration for companies. The presentation below looks at how social networking can improve staff communication, hence efficiency and profitability. The presentation below contains case study of IBM Intranet (W3) and IKEA, both making monetary gains from using social networks for internal use. Overall social networking [...]

How to setup LinkedIn group for Brand/Business [kwiqq]

LinkedIn is a pioneering business social networking website. One of the most popular social network for business professionals to connect with contacts and on some occasions make new contacts. In Europe its giving Xing a good run for its money. General bit of statistics on Xing v/s LinkedIn (source): Xing November 1, 2003 – 5 [...]

Evolution of the Internet: Whats next ? [kwiqq]

Internet now just 15 years old has gone through major transformations. As networks of networks has been growing in size it has also had a complete re-branding and found itself becoming more acceptable amongst people of all ages. It was only in early 90s that Internet actually became more freely available, before which it was [...]