Tag Archives: Facebook

Brand Personalities

The discussions on anonymity are back in full force on the web, mostly courtesy Google’s stance against pseudonymity on Google+. Google has its reasons and is supposedly working on it.Considering that I represent myself as ‘manuscrypts’ and an icon/logo on … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s updates include Zynga’s tie up with Gate2Play, its entry into China with Tencent, lawsuit against Vostu and Orkut, Angry Birds in China and a patent case against it from Lodsys; the end of Old Twitter and the beginning … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Amazon’s Kindle Textbook Rental, expansion of endless.com’s free shipping, S3 data, Amazon Prime’s deal with CBS, Amazon.com’s acquisition of ParAccel; Zynga’s IPO filing edits, Google’s stake, revenue sharing with Facebook, failed PopCap bid, merger of Lolapps … Continue reading

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Consumer Tracks

I heard a very interesting quote recently, attributed to Rishad Tobaccowala – When consumers hear about a product today, their first reaction is ‘Let me search online for it.’ And so they go on a journey of discovery: about a … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s updates include Zynga’s privacy policy gamification, acquisition of Five Mobile, investment in server infrastructure and IPO filing; Google’s new version of Android Market and the downloadable maps, investment in Wingu and purchase of Punchd, and YouTube’s Cosmic Panda … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s updates include iPhone’s 4 years of existence, Skype’s announcement of an iPad app, Fring’s video chat on iPad, Apple suing Samsung; Twitter’s Promoted Tweets in the stream, Twitter for Newsrooms, the Obvious Corporation; Facebook’s growth, Winklevoss disputes, new … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Apple’s patent headaches, change in in-app subscription guidelines, Blackberry Playbook new market launches, upgrades and patent fight with Dolby, Facebook’s IPO and valuation speculation, acquisition and hires, the reported new iOS app, Google’s search moves on … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Apple’s announcements on Lion, iOS 5, iCloud and updates on iWork, Android woes centred around malware and Lodsys, Facebook’s latest statistics, arrangements with online music and video providers, and tie up with Paypal, new features on … Continue reading

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Brands & Niche Networks

For a while now, I have believed that one of the inevitable consequences of the sprawling social networks we see around today, would be niche networks. This is not something we don’t see around already – in fact, most of … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s roundup covers Apple’s record label deals, the OS X malware, the Foxconn factory explosion and patents from Freescale; Groupon’s deals with Loopt and possibly Foursquare, Foursquare and INQ, HTC’s foray into location based coupons; Amazon’s Kindle records, Lady … Continue reading

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