The recent exponential growth of social networks has led marketers to focus largely on this sector, as it is widely believed that users will trust the opinions of their friends easily. While this did actually happen, to begin with, a recent study by Edelman’s Trust Barometer, shows that things are now changing. (Read more...)
As social networks and other forms of online communications continue to expand, Google has launched a new service to try and do their bit to help users enjoy and share their online experiences better. Currently, ‘staying connected’ means having to check status messages, tweets, update streams etc. all of which can be (Read more...)
Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for a while now, and they have now decided to expand the scope of their working relationship. Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, will now be providing Facebook users with a more detailed search experience. Facebook users will now have full access to several features that are available (Read more...)
A study conducted by the Pew Research Center, has shown that the once popular blogs are now unsurprisingly taking a backseat, while social networks like Facebook are taking centre stage on the Internet. The survey was answered by 800 teenagers between 12 to 17 years of age and 2,253 young adults between (Read more...)
A survey of 250 U.K. marketing professionals has found that social media is still not being given enough importance by marketers. The survey, which was conducted in Oct – Nov 2009by by Creston plc, found that 80% of the respondents felt that social media does not have any impact on their brands at (Read more...)
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. Social search started as an experiment in Google Labs, undertaken to try and make search more social (Read more...)
Someone asked about the following problem: I read your article at: Disguise Any Folder to Recycle Bin. I have sort of a reverse problem. While right clicking on a folder to change the icon from default manila folder type, to a tree icon, I accidentally…
