Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

How useful is Digg?

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Digg is a social website where users can share their new ideas and stories and allow others to comment on that. You can not do marketing in Digg. If you try to do marketing in dig your content will be ignored and your account will be banned. Most digg users are people who want to read and share some interesting stories with friend. If digg users like your article then they can digg your submission to increase its popularity. Same way they can burry the submission to decrease the popularity. If more people like your article then that article may come in front page of digg.

You can also give thumbs up or down for others comment about some articles. You can add a link in digg which provides all information about you which helps the users to contact you easily. You can import your friends list from another website and connect them in digg. You can share the article only with some of your friends in digg. This can be done by clicking share icon. Sharing will not allow everyone to read the article. Privacy settings in digg allow you to make the settings according to your requirements. Digg search provides the popular content for your search topic. Thus digg is more useful than other searches.

Success Known as Twitter

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site. It is developed by Evan Williams. It allows you to post content up to 140 characters called tweets. It allows people to stay connected through followers, text messages and @replies. You can create an account in twitter with your name and add your photo and other details. Tweets can be shared with public or you can make your tweets private. Twitter allows you to follow updates on your friends list. It connects more than 14 million people in world. It allows you to interact with each other.

Twitter can be used to connect to your family and friends with tweets, share your hobbies and passions, you can brand yourself as expert in your field by sharing your ideas, and you can connect with your potential clients. News agencies use twitter to provide news updates. Celebrities also use twitter to reach the public. Companies and public services also use twitter to publish about their products and services. You can add link in tweets which provide detailed description about your company, products etc. You can use tweet deck the desktop application, tweetie for iphone. Twitter has become one of the most used social networks.

Yahoo Meme English Edition

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Yahoo Meme English edition has been launched on 01 September, 2009. Yahoo meme is the place to share the content, videos and music which you find interesting. It is a micro blogging site. Meme means multiply and distribute the information. Yahoo meme is same as twitter with some advanced features. Since Yahoo Meme is similar to twitter, if you are using twitter you feel comfortable with Yahoo Meme. Yahoo meme has cool look, it allows us to post and read Video, photos, content text and music. You can upload videos from YouTube, also it allows you to add link of music files. You can not upload music files directly. It does not have character limit.

Yahoo has plans of integrating meme with yahoo mail. Yahoo meme is available in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Yahoo meme does not allow external applications to access the username and passwords. You can create an account in Yahoo Meme and start writing content in blog. Apart from content you can create comment thread under the content which you have posted. Also you can add comment on our own content. You can also repost your content. Yahoo has not yet succeeded in social network, let us wait and see whether Yahoo Meme will succeed.

Facebook Application Farm Ville

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Farm Ville is an application in face book. Farmville is one of the very popular application in social network. There are about 60 million people playing this game and many of them are addicted to this game. In Farmville we can plow plant and harvest crops and earn money in terms of animals and fields which helps us to expand our virtual farm. Farmville allow us to create our own farm which gives good experience for our creativity. The motive of almost all the players in Farm Ville is to buy villa which cost one million dollars. When the player buys the villa then he will be one of the best players of farm Ville.

If you are able to login frequently, you can plow crops with short harvesting time. If you login once in two days, then you can plow plants accordingly and earn money. The players plant crops to earn money and points which helps them to buy the prestigious villa. If you grow soy bean you can earn more money and your money will be added up. After this level you will get chance to grow broccoli which gives more money. You can also earn points by helping your neighbors. Neighbors can be added from friend list or from forum.