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34 Stunning Infographics To Understand The World Of Social Media

Akhter — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:26:09 +0000

Infographics is a new way of showing information through graphical representation. We recently posted some interesting posts on infographics that you can also find on the net. Infographics not only show the information in a neat and clean manner but also is very easy to understand. Through inforgraphics, a large amount of information can be presented in a well summarized format.

At the moment, we are going to demonstrate you how infographics can increase your understanding of the interlinking world of social media and it’s impact on the global internet users.

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The Social Media Effect

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Word of Mouth Visualized

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China’s Social Media Map

Conversation Prism

Inside the Political Twittersphere

Popular Site Demographics

Twitter’s Meteoric Rise Compared to Facebook

The Boom of Social Sites

Web Trend Map

Most Viral Brand of 2010

The New Marketing Trifecta

Social Media : Facts and Figures for B2B Sales

The Revised Social Media Effect

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Infographic: Killer Facts And Statistics About Google Plus

AN Jay — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:16:16 +0000

Google Plus is the most talked about social nework these days and is considered to be the NEXT BIG THING! It’s launch and the thirst for invites is visible on almost all other social networks, between users. So today i will share this awesome infographic with you which contains some killer facts you may not know of! By the way, we are on Google+ too, please feel free to add us in your circle to get updated with latest free resources on the web.

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40 Examples Of Creatively Integrated Social Media Links In Web Design

Akhter — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:24:43 +0000

Social media is progressing extremely enormously and is becoming a crucial aspect of marketing as more and more business taking advantage of it. Integrating different social media networks with your website not only drives a huge traffic from these sites to your own website but also lets you promote your goods and services on almost at negligible cost. The key is to do it right!

Here we are showcasing a collection of some excellent examples of websites that have very well-integrated social media links to their web designs so that they appear as the integral part of their own web design. We hope that this collection will inspire you a lot to integrate social media links to your website as well.

Daniel Marques

Makeshifters

Wild Bills Soda

Who is Leon

Ribena

Cornerd

Me in Motion

Denise Chandler

Ryan Scherf

Carol Rivello

Pineapple Thief

Whats Up Cupcake

Giovanni Rana

Healthy Harvest Hydro

Edgepoint Church

Ectomachine

Freshlime Soda

Aran Down

Carl Rosekilly

dConstruct

The Many Faces Of

Ricky Ryan

Fully Illustrated

Andrina peric

Icon Moon

Intrinsic Studio

Monterail

Empire State Recordings

Born with Design

Simple Art

Minervity

Limpfish

Taming the Wolf

Tapbots

Envira Media

Carsonified

Zee

Foxtie

They Makeapps

Veerle Duoh

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Big Day At Digg, New Digg (v4) Launched Today

AN Jay — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:39:09 +0000

After long wait and excitement it seems the new digg launched. Yes! you read it right digg releases their version 4. People have too many reservations with digg’s new version but today is a day when every one has to accept it with it’s all pros and cons. At the moment, there are some deployment issues and implementations of the new version is going on due to which digg is responding very slow, but digg’s administration is working very hard to get it rolled out successfully. Guys, you can follow us on digg by going here.

This is how new digg looks like

They also shared picture of the digg office to show the world what is going on there.

No doubt it’s a great news for digg community and now everyone is waiting to start exploring the new digg as production version. Will it give more surprises, to find out this we have to wait and keep using the new digg. I am hoping that this new digg will be as lovable as the old one for the community and it will be a much greater place for everyone. Good luck Digg.com guys.

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Backup Data Stored On Email Servers And Online Social Networks With Backupify

Umar Anjum — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:01:44 +0000

Through emails and online social networks, you share a lot of information with your friends. This includes photographs, videos, documents, and a lot more. All this data is stored on the website you are using. In case of a website glitch or a mistake by you, the data is removed you would lose many important things. Take Facebook for instance; if your data was removed from there you would lose photos, videos, notes, wall posts, event dates, and probably even more. Backupify is a tool that prevents such situations.

Backupify is a web service that can be used to backup the data you store on email servers and online social networks. The site offers free and paid packages, with the free package offering 2 GB of backup storage. A number of websites are supported including Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, FriendFeed, Blogger, Hotmail, Picasa Web Albums, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar.

After signing up for an account and logging in to it, you can start adding your accounts from the abovementioned websites to be backed up. If you are using the free package you will be able to add only one account per service.

To view the backups you can access the “Archive” page from where you select an added service.

Once the service is selected, your backed up data is shown in a simple interface.

The “History” page records all successful and unsuccessful backups.

If you want to view your account details, simply enter the “Profile” page which is also where you can upgrade your account from.

Overall the service is a great way to secure the data store on your online email and social networking accounts. The free package will suit most internet users; if not, the paid packages are quite economical and provide great storage capacity.

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Plenton: A ‘Cloud Sharing’ Website With Wonderful Social Media Potential

Umar Anjum — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:13:17 +0000

Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and all similar sites are a part of something called online social media. Social media is what we use to promote trending topics, websites, products, and interesting links on the web. The sites I just mentioned dominate the social media arena. But there is an up-and-coming competitor to these sites. I am referring to Plenton.

Plenton is a ‘cloud sharing’ website with wonderful social media potential. I remember when I first visited Digg, it took me a while to get used to all the links and controls. In contrast, Plenton was a breeze to get used to. All I had to do was create a free account and start sharing.

After you create an account on Plenton (and optionally upload a display picture) not only can you share links to interesting online content, but you can also upload media (images and video). Whatever you share on the Plenton network, the Plenton community will vote and contribute related media material to your link thereby making it bigger. This process turns your share into a cloud and this is the ‘cloud sharing’ concept.

People who simply want to browse the site to see what happening on the web and everywhere else, Plenton offers a great site layout. The categories bar lets you view articles categorically.

The homepage of the site has “clouds selection” which always contains very interesting material.

“The Spotlight” section features latest shares.

Most popular clouds can also be viewed on the site’s homepage.

A section called “Upcoming Clouds” helps social media enthusiasts know about the upcoming trends and topics on the Plenton network.

The network’s features add up to a great social media site, one that has immense potential.

Try out Plenton yourself and leave a comment letting me know what you think about it.

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Now Manage All Of Your Social Activity From One Place With Kazle

Umar Anjum — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:34:35 +0000

Online social networks are quite abundant on the web now. There is a good chance that many of you reading this have multiple networking accounts over Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Checking and updating those accounts is surely time-consuming and you could use something that integrated everything into a single package. That is exactly what Kazle achieves.

Kazle is a online social network aggregation tool. It merges your accounts over numerous social networks and provides you a single dashboard; through this dashboard you can check notifications from any account, reply to messages, and update your accounts.

At the moment Kazle supports a wide range of networks including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and others. You can simultanesouly manage these accounts easily. Kazle lets you update your status through all added accounts in a single step, saving you a lot time. The feedback your receive on all accounts is monitored by Kazle live – you get the notifications as they happen.

Moreover Kazle is a social network within itself i.e. Kazle users can communicate with each other even if they do not have accounts on any other online social network.

Whether you have accounts over many networks or are looking for a new online social network to join, Kazle will serve beautifully.

Check out Kazle

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Enlarge Facebook Photos By Hover Mouse Pointer (Firefox+Chrome Plugin)

DB — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:30:21 +0000

I find Facebook’s picture viewing interface inconvenient. When I am viewing a friend’s album, I can view the pictures as thumbnails in the main album page. To view a picture’s true size I have to click it. Then I have to go back to the album (photo thumbnails view) and select another image to enlarge. The process can become quite time consuming. But thanks to two browser extension, I no longer have to click back and forth while viewing pictures on Facebook.

The first is Facebook PhotoZoom (there is no space between the words Photo and Zoom).

This is an addon for Mozilla Firefox and can be used while viewing Facebook photos. Its function is a simple one: it shows you the true size of an image thumbnail in Facebook. Whether that thumbnail is in a photo album or the thumbnail of an image shared on your wall or news feed, you simply place our mouse pointer over the thumbnail and view its enlarged version in a hovering view.

The second extension is Facebook Photo Zoom (there is a space between the words Photo and Zoom).

This tool is an extension for Google Chrome and works much in the same way. In addition to enlarging your Facebook photo thumbnails in a hovering window view, the extension places an icon near the bottom right of Facebook i.e. next to the Chat bar. You can toggle Facebook Photo Zoom on / off from this icon.

Hence it is up to you whether to use the hovering window photo enlargement or use Facebook’s original interface.

These extension are absolute must have for all Facebook accountholders using Firefox or Chrome. They have certainly saved me the umpteen clicks required to view a photo album. I am positive they will be as helpful to you as they were to me.

Click here for the Firefox Addon and here for the Chrome extension.

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StickyBits: Attach Unlimited Content to Barcodes On Any Product (iPhone + Android)

DB — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:36:13 +0000

Computer users share content in multiple ways. In addition to emails, file hosting sites, and social networking websites, there are other innovative ways being created to share stuff with your friends. One such new innovative sharing technique makes use of barcodes on products.

Barcodes have unique patterns to them that can act as a code. This code can be used to store any information and then be provided as a key to access that information. This is what Stickybits takes advantage of.

Stickybits is a free application for iPhones and Android-running smartphones. Imagine uploading a file on the web and giving its URL to your friends so that they can download the file. Stickybits lets users scan or print barcodes to attach information to them. This information can be in any form; you could attach a video to the barcode, a text file, photos, etc. When other people will scan the barcode using their Stickybits app, they will be able to see all that is attached with the code.

According to Developers:

What is stickybits?

stickybits allows people to attach digital content to barcodes. When those barcodes are scanned (via our iPhone or Android apps), you’ll see all the content that has been attached. What makes us unique is that all this is done in a social and fully open read/write way.

What does that exactly mean?

Imagine putting a barcode on your business card that when scanned showed your resume. Or put a stickybits sticker into a birthday card and record a personal video. Then when your friend scans it, they’ll see the video. Take that one step further and have all your friends attach videos to the same card. You’ll also get notified when it gets scanned.

It doesn’t just stop there. Something unique and strange is happening with the barcodes all around you. People are scanning soda cans, cereal boxes, beer bottles, etc. and adding digital content to them. Since each unique product shares a barcode, little communities are popping up around each of these products.

You probably had not thought that barcodes could be used as keys for our information – that is exactly what makes Stickybits so unique. On a box of a cooking ingredient, the barcode could have many recipes attached to it. A user could attach a detailed résumé to a custom barcode and then print that barcode on each of his business cards. These are only few of the endless possibilities of Stickybits.

Click here to visit Stickybits’ website . Get Stickybits for iPhone or Android.

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Streamd.in, A Browser Based Twitter Client With Google Maps Integration

DB — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:16:27 +0000

Twitter has become a huge sharing source online. Accountholder on the social networking giant keep their followers posted of each and every thing that they experience. It cannot be argued that Twitter is a great way to know what people are talking about, what the trending topics are, and what is concerning Twitter users the most. This information keeps people well informed of their surroundings and the people in them.

Recognizing this and the value of knowing what people nearby us are discussing, Streamd.in was created.

Streamd.in is a free to use online Twitter client. Visitors to the Streamd.in site need no additional account; they can simply link their Twitter account with the site to start working.

The purpose of Streamd.in is to spread awareness about the topics being most discussed in a particular area. Suppose you are a Twitter user from Moscow, Russia. When you start Streamd.in, you will see a Google Map of you location.

The left pane shows us the latest tweets. We can choose to close this pane to expand the map view. On this map you will see the Tweets of the people you follow and others. Their display pictures will be in the form of thumbnails. When we hover our mouse pointer over these thumbnails we can find out what was the Tweeted text and when was it shared.

When we click on these thumbnails, the left pane provides us with detailed information about that particular user.

We can browse over to different locations on the globe to find out what is being Tweeted about there. This way we can quickly find out the trending topics on Twitter in any part of the world. This information can be highly useful particularly when it comes to targeted online marketing campaigns.

In conclusion, Streamd.in is a great Twitter client that usefully takes advantage of Twitter’s geo-location ability. If you are a Twitter user, you should not overlook this client; click here to visit Streamd.in.

If you like this Twitter tool you might want to have a look on our Twitter Power Tools list.

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