Turn Off Google Buzz ! How and Why ?

I have turned off Google Buzz, if you have not find a reason good enough for this, let’s firs read this article on BusinessInsider and then read the rest of this post. The article mentioned above is a bit technical, let me explain the threat in simplest words and then I will show you how to remove it. The privacy threat behind Google Buzz: Consider the snapshot beow: I you have enabled Google Buzz and when you will click on anyone of your contacts you will see this a screen like above, pretty innocent, hmmm, No! If you click on the link on the “following” link, you will instantly get all my contacts! Imagine all my contacts, family members, business contacts,friends and foes etc. Everything exposed! and the best part is that all of this has...

New Opportunites with Google Social Search

Quite recently, I saw a video(embedded below) from Google on Social Search. Although it seems pretty impressive and good, but I have some questions/thoughts from Marketing/SEO point of view: Since users will now be able to see suggestions/blogposts/tweets etc from our contacts, so this opens are whole new platform for Social Media Marketing i.e. if you have established yourself as a friendly guy in any popular social media platform like Facebook, and you are an open Networker i.e. who adds other people as friends without any previous acquittance, then you have a very huge opportunity that you can influence and market a huge number of audience in many diverse niches, all you need is quality content on various topics with a touch of SEO and Google will do the rest...

New Search Engine from Microsoft

Microsoft has recently announced officially, the arrival of new search engine , called Bing. What makes Bing Different ? According to Microsoft’s spokesman “People do not need another search engine” rather “People need a decision engine.” and BING is a decision engine not another search engine. According to Microsoft BING will help people make decisions in shopping, traveling, finding best hotels etc. not just search them. People will be able to see comparisons and even predictions about price changes and climate etc. , and hence help them make better decision. BING is not live yet but Microsoft has created no much enough excitement about it. Previously, Microsoft has recently launched a new social media platform Vine and now this search engine or...

Twitter Retention Problem

Searchengineland Blog, reported twitter retention problems i.e. people do not show much loyalty towards Twitter as much as Facebook or Myspace. Although Facebook and Myspace both have the intentions of maximized monetization of their networks, Facebooks Apps Pages are one such example, the retention is much higher for twitter. I think the Twitter Boom is just because of extensive marketing rather than a common persons interest in Twittering every minute updates.

MS Vine – New Social Network from Microsoft

  Microsoft has recently launched a new social networking site, although still in beta phase, that allows professional to get connected. Microsoft Vine connects you to the people and places Stay in touch with family and friends Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved. Also: Information associated with the places you have chosen will appear on your map, including articles from 20,000 news and public safety sources. Information from people you care about, such as alerts and reports, will appear on the dashboard too For more info visit:...