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GetJar Recommends NetQin Mobile Antivirus as the Best mobile security Applications

2009-10-16T03:03:00.000-07:00

Earlier this week, Getjar.com, one of the world’s largest mobile application stores, featured NetQin Mobile Antivirus as one of the six recommended downloads to launch their new web site- http://www.getjar.com . Ranked as GetJar’s 4th most popular productivity app, the NetQin Mobile Antivirus continues to improve and protect users from all the latest threats circulating the Mobile security with guaranteed customer satisfaction.

About NetQin
Established in 2005, NetQin has developed into the largest professional mobile security service provider in the world. Up to August 2009, NetQin has provided more than 25 million smart phone users, who are spreading in more than 200 countries and regions all over the world, with mobile security services including mobile anti-virus, anti-Spam message/call and privacy protection, and has provided commercial services in such regions as China, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. Being in the leading in the share of global segment market of mobile security and even holding more than 60% of market share in the field of Chinese Mobile security, NetQin has become the incontestable industry leader.

CCTV News Coverage about Mobile Security

2009-10-16T02:05:00.000-07:00

CCTV News Channel made further in-depth and all-dimensional report on the problem of mobile phone security.

Chinese country-level media CCTV telecasted this news in its mainstream news column "CCTV News" : The latest data shows that, the number of Chinese mainland users who access Internet by mobile phone has exceeded 155 million. When enjoying the convince in surfing Internet with mobile phones, users are also faced with the risk that their mobile phones may be infected with virus. The security services specially aiming at the mobile phone viruses are quietly rising.

Recently, CCTV journalists found in some mobile phone repair shops in Beijing that, except for the customers who ask for mobile phone after-sale service and maintenance, there are some other customers who ask for help since their mobile phones have failed in normal use after accessing Internet or being connected with computer. As introduced by technical staffs, accessing the Internet by mobile phone is equivalent to directly connecting Palm Personal Computer (PPC) with Internet, so that the probability of being infected with network viruses; In addition, if a mobile phone is frequently connected with computer, it may be infected with the mobile phone viruses that are existing in the computer, which can slow down the running speed of mobile phone or lead system crash and white screen. Some viruses can automatically send SMS, dial phone and even delete data and lay waste the SIM card.

Mobile phone viruses have emerged for quite some time. Since the first global mobile phone virus has appeared in Finland in 2004, more than 1000 kinds have developed and spread around the world. In June this year, virus Transimitter.C that broke out in Saudi Region has once caused panic. Later, its multiple variants that occurred one after another have damaged mobile phone users within different ranges, especially Transmitter-like virus that has outbreak in Chinese mainland recently. This virus utilizes China's famous SNS Website as the inducement for its dissemination. All round the world, there are many large-scale SNS Websites over which users can make communication using mobile phones, such as overseas Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and Friendster etc., and these websites are common in very high popularity, various interactional activities, great population of user group and high user loyalty. Upon receiving the virus SMS containing the key words of such SNS Websites, users are often induced without thinking first, so that this virus can result in that ten of thousands of mobile phones are infected in short time. NetQin is the globally first security expert that has captured this virus and succeeded in killing it.

In response to the spread of mobile phone viruses, the global leading mobile phone security service prouder NetQin has released mobile phone security services including mobile phone anti-virus (NetQin Mobile Antivirus), anti-annoyance from Spam message and call(NetQin Comm. Master) and privacy protection(Windows Mobile Professional). Up to June 2009, NetQin has provided mobile phone security services for more than 25 million smart phone users，who are spreading in more than 200 countries and regions all over the world, taking the leading position in the share of global segment market of mobile security and even holding more than 60% of market share in the field of Chinese mobile security

Relevant statistic data revealed that, in Chinese mainland there are have been more than 0.65 billion mobile phone users, and the number of users who access Internet by mobile phones also has exceeded 155 million. At present, a increasing number of domestic users who access Internet by mobile phones have subscribed mobile phone security service at monthly cost of 4～5 Yuan. As introduced by insiders, with the further popularization of smart mobile phone and the increase of users accessing Internet by mobile phone, mobile phone anti-virus and security services will form an integral industry chain ranging from development and application to after-sale service, and the scale of mobile phone security software market will develop at annual rate of 70%.

With the arrival of mobile phone & Internet era, the sharp increase in mobile phone users also gives a tremendous stimulation to such mobile phone viruses and malicious softwares developed with profit motive. The profit-making objectives of malicious software are mainly embodied in the following aspects: consume the tariff of users by means of automatic networking and automatic transmission of malicious short messages for fee reduction; In addition, few malicious softwares have turned to steal the privacy information of users. In particular, the privacy information in the users' mobile phones (short message, address list and picture etc.) will become the main targets of attack by malicious softwares and will be likely transmitted in the modes of short messages and networking, resulting in the disclosure of user's privacy. Driven by these interests, malicious softwares will, with the development of mobile phone sector, evolve to be more secrete and difficult for prevention, causing even serious damages to mobile phones. Once a mobile phone has been attacked by virus, its user will not only suffer from tremendous economic loss and prestige crisis,but even have to deal with the serious consequences resulting from the disclosure of individual privacy.

NetQin sincerely reminds global mobile phone users to pay close attention to mobile phone security problem, in order to avoid unnecessary loss due to mobile phone security shortcomings.

New product release from brothersoft: NetQin Communication Master

2009-06-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

A free powerful management product for mobile phones---NetQin Communication Master

It’s endowed with more powerful features, such as Spam SMS Blocking, scenario-based call firewall and polite call rejecting, etc. The software also supports private mode. The powerful features and user-oriented design of NetQin Communication Master make it the top product of call/SMS firewall and communication management in the market.

Key functional advantages of NetQin Communication Master include:
•Spam SMS Blocking:
•Accurate Spam SMS blocking function is enabled with Black List settings upon installation of the software. Your mobile phone will be shielded by blocking function from receiving Spam SMS.
•Call Firewall by different ways:
•Users are allowed to set different Profiles to specify whether to Receive/Reject the calls from designated contacts. It’s also allowed to choose politely rejections or auto replies with certain SMS, etc.
•Harassing calls Identification:
•NetQin Communication Master can present useful tips to users timely by its particular indentifying harassing calls function.
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•Private mode supports saving the information of private contacts, including call logs and SMS to a hidden and encrypted storage directory on local disk. Such information can be viewed only by entering the correct password, thus to effectively protect the individual privacy of users.

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A email:The Tomato Story

2009-06-25T02:33:00.000-07:00

A Jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. 'You are employed' he said.
Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when
you may start. The man replied 'But I don't have a computer, neither an email'. 'I'm sorry', said the HR manager. If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job.'
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $ 10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US ... He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his email. The man replied,'I don't have an email.' The broker answered curiously, 'You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e mail?!!' The man thought for a while and replied, 'Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!'

Moral of the story
Moral 1
Internet is not the solution to your life.
Moral 2
If you don't have Internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.
Moral 3
If you received this message by email, you are closer to being a office boy/girl,than a millionaire..........
(P.S - Do not forward this email back to me, I am closing my email account & going to sell tomatoes!!!

10 Things Maybe You Didn't Know About Google's Search Business

2009-06-03T20:05:00.000-07:00

We cover Google for a living, so we thought we'd read Steven Levy's feature about Google's search business in this month's Wired and learn nothing, absolutely nothing. We were wrong.
10 things you didn't know about Google's (GOOG) search business:

The people Larry Page and Sergey Brin tasked with figuring out how Google should make money in 1998 were a pair of know-nothings in their early 20s. Salar Kamanger, Google's ninth employee, had been a biology major at Stanford. His partner, Eric Veach studied computer science. Together they implemented Google's now $21 billion business, AdWords. Neat.
The first company to buy and run an ad through Google's automated auction business was a live mail-order lobster store.

The ads above the results on Google search results pages used to be sold by impression, not per click like they are now. Then, only the ads on the side were sold by cost-per-click (CPC) auctions
Many of the big advertising customers that bought these ads sold by impression were pissed when Google decided to switch and sell them based on CPC. Former Googler, now AOLer, Jeff Levick says one "threw us out of his office and told us to fuck ourselves." Yow!

In order to reassure bidders that they wouldn't be way over-bidding their competition for a keyword, Google used to guarantee the winning bidder it would charge them just a penny more than the next highest bidder. This immediately encouraged higher bids.

Now the price advertisers pay is determined by the formula P = (B2 X Q2)/Q1, with P = price paid by the advertiser, Q2 = Quality score of the next highest-placing ad, Q1 = Advertiser's quality score, and B2 = the next-higheset-placing ad's bid.

Obsessed with auctions, Google even makes its own divisions bid for servers by auction.
The order of ads on a Google search results page isn't determined by simply putting the highest bidder at the top. Something called a "Quality Score" also comes into play. Steve reports an ads Quality Score is composed of "relevance of the ad to the specific keyword or keywords, the quality of the landing page the ad is linked to, and, above all, the percentage of times users actually click on a given ad when it appears on a results page."

Google tries to forecast which ads will get clicked on based on the day's temperature. This makes sense when you start to think about queries like "ski boots" and "bikinis."

Berkeley professor Hal Varian, Google's "chief economist," keeps an apartment on campus -- the ranch house where Google got its start. Since Google HQ is called the Googleplex, Steven calls the apartment Hal's "pied-a-Plex." We hope Hal calls it that too.

100 social media blog

2009-05-21T23:05:00.000-07:00

Blog Title

ProBlogger

Chrisbrogan.com

Daily Blog Tips

Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media for Social Change

ReadWriteWeb

Social Media Explorer

Publishing 2.0

PR Squared

Chris Garrett on New Media

Pronet Advertising

CenterNetworks

Web Ink Now

Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English -

The Viral Garden

HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog

The Social Media Marketing Blog

Technically Personal!

Niche Marketing

GigaOM

Friday Traffic Report

/Message

Rex Hammocks weblog

Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm

Emily Chang

Greg Verdinos Marketing Blog

Movie Marketing Madness

Chris Pirillo

Being Peter Kim

Global Neighbourhoods

The Bad Pitch Blog

Talent imitates, genius steals

Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson

DaveChaffey.com Guide to Digital Business

Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter

Techno//Marketer

Communication Overtones

The Social Customer Manifesto

Community Guy - Jake McKee

360 Digital Influence

Ignite Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Diva Marketing Blog

::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon

Noah Kagans Okdork.com

Social Network Marketing

Community Building & Community Management

Nick Burcher

Gauravonomics Blog

Convergence Culture Consortium

Todd And = Marketing and Media

Techwag

The BrandBox

Stay N Alive

Collective Conversation

Tom Rafterys Social Media

Bruce Clay Blog

KDPaines Measurement Blog

The Harte of Marketing

11 Essential Social Media Stories

2009-05-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

here was a ton of buzz in social media this week. Twitter’s co-founder squashed acquisition rumors (for now), while Facebook relented under pressure to bring back some old features. Twitterrific 2.0 came storming onto the scene this week, and Seesmic added Facebook to Seesmic Desktop.

We also brought you some useful resources this week, from amazing designers and authors to follow on Twitter to different ways to create your own social media start page.

So without further ado, here are the key stories that made social media news this week:

1. Twitter Co-Founder: “We’re Not For Sale” - Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, made it clear on The View that Twitter is not for sale.

2. 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow - Cameron Chapman opens our eyes to a new level of web design with 85+ great designers to follow, including sample tweets from every person.

3. 7 Ways to Create Your Own Social Start Page - Turn your browser into a social portal with these customizable social media and Web tools.

4. Twitter Search to Become Real Search - Twitter search will soon start crawling not only tweets, but the links within them. Could this development make Google sweat?

5. Seesmic Desktop Fully Integrates Facebook: It’s Awesome - Seesmic released Facebook for the desktop. We review it and tell you whether it’s up to par.

6. Google Sets Contacts Free - Google has made Contacts its own product. Stan Schroeder explores the change.

7. 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools - I highlight some of the best ways to gather raw data and gleam new insights from Twitter and its millions of users.

8. Literary Tweets: 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter - Cameron Chapman turns you into a literary aficionado with a recommended list of Twittering authors, as well as sample tweets from each.

9. NIN App Gets Rejected by Apple, Reznor Threatens to Go Jailbreak - Nine Inch Nails’ application was rejected by the App Store, and Trent Reznor wasn’t all too happy about it. Read what he had to say on the matter. (Incidentally, Apple later backtracked and decided to allow the app into the App Store.)

10. A Small Piece of the Old Facebook Returns - Facebook has brought some old news feed features back from the dead, including relationship status and profile picture updates. Adam Ostrow explores Facebook’s decision.

11. Twitterrific 2.0 Makes Twitter Terrific on the iPhone - Pete Cashmore tries out Twitterrific 2.0 for the iPhone. What does it mean for the Twitter applications on the iPhone and especially Tweetie?

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2009-05-10T20:01:00.000-07:00

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10 Things Apple Should Do With Twitter

2009-05-07T22:32:00.000-07:00

There's no reason for Apple to buy Twitter, as rumor had it earlier this week. Apple's business is to sell more computers, iPods, and iPhones, and owning Twitter won't help with that at all.

But using Twitter more in Apple products could help, especially as the messaging/microblogging service picks up more steam.

Here's ten ideas for how Apple could work Twitter into its products:

Twitter support in iChat, Apple's messaging app.
Using Twitter for RSS-like feeds, such as featured iTunes songs, movies, TV shows, movie trailers, iPhone apps, etc.
Tweet new photos (and someday, videos) from iPhone, auto-uploaded to MobileMe, TwitPic, YouTube, etc.
Tweet new photos from iPhoto on Mac, auto-tagging your Twitter contacts.
Twitter contacts in phonebook on Mac and iPhone.
Baking Twitter sign-in into iPhone and iPod touch so all apps can access it via one API for things like tweeting game milestones, high scores, etc.
Read tweets on Apple TV while you're watching a video. (Sort of like Yahoo's new Twitter widget on some TVs.)
Twitter search built into Safari as an option.
Tweet the song you're listening to in iTunes or on your iPhone, with link to iTunes download.
Suggested iTunes playlists/purchases based on most-tweeted songs.

Do you have any other proposals?

Google's Next Social Step Screenshots

2009-05-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

We just received a screenshot of an iGoogle page, that appears to show a couple interesting new elements of Google’s ever-evolving social blanket. The screenshot supposedly comes from the developer sandbox version of iGoogle (where it tests out new features), and shows options to socially integrate Google widgets. The one shown in the image below is the Google Finance widget, which apparently will be able to access your Google Contacts and place its activity in something called “Updates.”
It’s worth noting that Google just recently rolled out a version of Google Contacts that is wholly separate from Gmail. Why a Google Finance widget would need to access that data, I’m not sure. Perhaps it has some kind of easy-to-use “share this with” functionality. Or more specifically, as our tipster notes, that data may be be used to filter who you share something with in your social sphere. But the more interesting element is the posting to the Updates area. One would have to imagine that this will be a river of information similar to Facebook’s News Feed, that will pipe in new information from you when you update something.
Where such an Updates area resides will be extremely important. I’d guess it will be on your Google Profile, but there needs to be a centralized place for a full contact stream as well — or centralized places. Maybe Google will simply make another widget for all of your contacts’ updates to place on your iGoogle homepage or maybe even in Gmail. That seems like a smart play as it would be taking on Facebook by doing something slightly different than what Facebook is doing — allowing you to choose the area you wish to view the social stream. There would only be a walled garden insomuch as Google itself is a walled garden — a giant walled garden that encircles most of the web. Of course, Facebook is attempting to at least somewhat do this as well by opening its data stream outside of its walls.
I’ve made my distaste for some of Google’s social stumbles very clear. But, if this screenshot is legit, it shows a broader picture that is starting to make some sense. The real question now will be if Google will be able to keep all of this relatively complex tangle of social elements (and the underlying social relationships) simple enough for any user to grasp. Facebook had been really good at that, but it’s getting more complicated. Keep it simple, Google — and it just may pay off.

Update: The iGoogle Developer site has a FAQ which answers more questions about the impending social features.
Here’s the key section:
Who are friends in iGoogle?
For development purposes, you can add friends through the friends manager gadget included with the developer tools. You can only share activities with other friends who have access to the developer sandbox. This is not the final network that will be used in iGoogle. Users will have full control over who their friends are and will be able to easily modify their list of friends. Stay tuned for details.Profiles
What are profiles in iGoogle?
For development purposes, you can modify your profile data (displayname and thumbnail) using the profile gadget included with the developer tools. This is not the final profile or data that will be used in iGoogle. Stay tuned for details.Updates gadget
How often can a gadget post an activity to the Updates gadget?
A gadget can post up to 5 activities per user per day. For gadget development and testing purposes, these limits are not implemented in the sandbox. Posting activities requires explicit permission from the user granted during the installation of a social gadget.
And here’s another screenshot:

A Way To Make Sense Of Twitter Trends

2009-05-04T01:52:00.000-07:00

For sure, Twitter Trends give visitors a great general overview of what the app’s user base of millions are talking about the most at any given time, giving some insight in what’s happening around the world.

It’s an awesome way for people to discover what’s going on, and more users will see the benefits of keeping track of trending topics now that the company has decided to integrate the top 10 trends in the right sidebar of the web version for everyone.

At times the keywords for the trending topics, often determined by many users using the same hashtag for something can be quite self-explanatory, e.g. today’s ‘Swine Flu’ and ‘#swineflu’. More often that not, however, you have no idea why a certain keyword is currently a trend, and figuring out what all the fuzz is about can be quite a pain. Enter What The Trend, which attempts to offer short blurbs about trending topics with a short explanation on why it’s in the top 10 list.

For example, I had no clue why ‘Jonas’ was in the top trends list, until I clicked through to this user-editable explanation blurb and learned that it’s a new show in Disney Channel. In addition, What The Trend shows me the latest tweets about the topic, and also attempts to fetch related pictures from Flickr as well as news through Google News.

You can directly tweet that there’s a trend explanation to your own Twitter account, with bonus points for another service boasting its very own URL shortening service (wttrend.com). The service has its own Twitter account which it regularly updates with new trends + explanations and also offers RSS feeds and its own API. I’m left wondering which desktop application provider will be the first to integrate the What The Trend explanations, and how quickly people will start abusing the wiki-approach the service is taking: my guess is we won’t have to wait long for either one to happen.

I can actually see myself going this website once and a while to get a feel of what’s trending on Twitter, although I wish I wouldn’t need to and Twitter would incorporate this into the web version itself. Until that happens, and I doubt it ever will, What The Trend provides the perfect alternative.

Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg?

2009-04-27T19:22:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, Mashable's Ben Parr noticed the same new iGoogle gadget I did: What's Popular. He also asked the same question as me: did Google just roll out its own version of Digg?

While the short answer is no, it's easy to see why people would think they did.

Have a site to share? Submit it as a "pop." Like a post? Vote it up and you'll see the pop count increase instantly. Plenty of other sites offer that kind of functionality so why not Google? After all, they've been trying it out in search results for quite some time.

There are fundamental differences, though. Google's service can also figure out certain popular items all on its own, thanks to the massive amount of metrics big G pulls in from all over the internet. Search, Reader, Analytics, GMail, YouTube - they're all providing Google with background data that can be used to compute popular items as well.

While that won't necessarily tell you who liked a particular page or video, it does provide a massive foundation on which Google can build What's Popular. There's also no discussion feature yet, but since we just saw that appear in Google Reader can it really be far behind?

Then there's the whole "Google Short Links service" that was recently added to App Engine. It's produced by Google Labs, and gives anyone the ability to do what PC World has been doing in their magazine for years (think "go.downloadsquad.com/12356"). If they're not already getting data about your blog from Analytics, maybe you'll start using Short Links. Now you, too, can easily brand your own truncated links on Twitter or wherever else you choose in exchange for a little data donation to Google.

Right now Google may not have a complete competitor for Digg, but it's clear that they have the pieces to put one together if they chose to do so. It will be interesting to see if Google decides to push What's Popular beyond its current incarnation.

EARTH DAY 2009: THE GREEN GENERATION

2009-04-22T00:41:00.000-07:00

Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of The Green Generation Campaign which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. With negotiations for a new global climate agreement coming up in December, Earth Day 2009 must be a day of action and civic participation, to defend The Green GenerationTM’s core principles:

A carbon-free future based on renewable energy that will end our common dependency on fossil fuels, including coal.

An individual’s commitment to responsible, sustainable consumption.

Creation of a new green economy that lifts people out of poverty by creating millions of quality green jobs and transforms the global education system into a green one.

100,000 people celebrate Earth Day at the National Mall in Washington, DC

Under the umbrella of The Green Generation, 100,000 people attended Earth Day on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 19th. Secretary of State Hilda Solis, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Representative Edward Markey, green celebrities like Chevy Chase and Matthew Modine, and other representatives of the environmental community addressed the crowd and encouraged the world to join The Green Generation™. The Flaming Lips, moe., Los Lobos and DJ Spooky added the soundtrack. Large-scale volunteer events in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Atlanta, and DC had been going over the weekend, in partnership with Green Apple Festival, followed by thank you concerts for those who participated.

Our partners in Cleveland, Columbus, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Manila, among others, also brought out hundreds of thousands of people and sent a loud and clear message to the world: The Green Generation is here to stay! Activities are happening all through April. Find one near you!

TopFans.com Adds Another Way To Worship Celebrities Online

2009-04-20T18:31:00.000-07:00

Pop culture’s obsession with celebrities is evolving along with technology. Ashton Kutcher reached 1 million Twitter followers and Oprah is now part of the Twitterati. And there is never enough news or information about celebrities to satiate the thirst of fans; they want more and more insight into celebrities’ lives, especially online. The startup that created Zivity, the adult social network and media site which debuted at TechCrunch40, is hoping to create the next-generation of digital fan clubs with its new site, TopFans.com. The site lets fans create celebrity “fan pages,” and then add content, such as images, video, and news, to the fan page. And the celebrities can also interact with their pages by adding their own content, commenting on content and interacting with fans.

The pages themselves are similar in theory to a MySpace page or Facebook pages for celebrities, but Top Fans hopes to differentiate itself in several ways. First, celebrities can directly import their Twitter feeds into their Top Fans pages. Like on a Facebook fan page, there is the ability to import RSS feeds into an activity stream. But Top Fans’ technology also crawls the web for news and images of the celebrity that will be imported into the main news feed on the page. Fans can also contribute comments and content to the site feed. The pages include a Digg-like button next to each piece of content that allows fans to vote whether they like the content or don’t like it. The highest rated content goes to the top of the feed. And unlike Facebook, where celebrities often have an “official” page and unofficial pages that have been created by fans, Top Fans ensures celebrities that they only have one centralized page with no duplicates. Pages can be created by fans or the celebrities themselves.

Fans are also rewarded when they contribute content to a Top Fans site, thus having the ability to differentiate themselves from other less-passionate fans. Fans are ranked, according to how much content they have contributed, which also gives celebrities a way to see who their biggest fans are. This feature can be especially attractive to a fan of a celebrity with hundreds of thousands of followers, who wants to stand out as one of the most loyal of all the fans.

Currently, Top Fans is launching with just “teen idols” and “professional baseball celebrities” (which amounts to 5,000 fan pages) but the end-game is to include Hollywood, internet celebrities, politicians, musicians, bands, etc. TopFans also also created profiles for the Top 1000 Twitterers, ranked by number of followers. This list includes Shaquille ONeal, John Mayer, Chris Sacca,, Ashton Kutcher and TechCrunch’s own Michael Arrington.

One potentially problematic issue for Top Fans is how to control the enormous amount of questionable content that’s on the web about celebrities, such as content that is taken by the paparazzi or speculative gossip about celebrities. Celebrities would most certainly not want this sort of content on a fan page. Top Fans CEO Jon Elvekrog says that all questionable news is flagged but said that many celebrities have the feeling that “any press is good press.” I’m not so sure that’s the case, considering the growing amount of lawsuits that celebrities are filing against publications that print misinformation.

Top Fans is run by Top Fans Inc., which also owns Zivity. Zivity’s adult site has been able to raise $8 million in funding from top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors and received widespread press since its launch at TechCrunch40, especially after its co-founder, Cyan Banister, bared all on the site.

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2009-04-19T18:46:00.000-07:00

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Will Twitter Be Acquired in 2009? You Can Bet On It.

2009-04-15T18:20:00.000-07:00

Forget the pundits. If you want to know the real odds of something happening or not, follow the money. And at least one online bookie is saying that it’s more than 50% likely that someone will acquire Twitter this year.
Panama based BetOnline is letting people place bets on whether or not Twitter is acquired in 2009. They’re paying even money on a Google acquisition, the most likely suitor. Facebook pays 5 to 1, Microsoft pays 10 to 1 and Yahoo pays 20 to 1. If anyone else buys them it pays 5 to 1. Think they’re staying independent? You’ll get $2.5 for every dollar you bet if you’re right.
These odds will change over time as bets are placed, so if you have inside information or just have a gut feeling you’re willing to bet on, get your wallet out now. And I guess if the Twitter guys decide not to sell, they can make a nice bit of cash on the side by placing the appropriate bets.
Company spokesperson TJ Kendrick says he expects “brisk wagering on their new Twitter acquisition prop.”

Google Really Control The News?

2009-04-12T20:21:00.000-07:00

Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry. This time it is Nick Carr doing the finger-pointing, describing Google as the most powerful middleman in news:

When a middleman controls a market, the supplier has no real choice but to work with the middleman - even if the middleman makes it impossible for the supplier to make money.

So how powerful is Google when it comes to parceling out traffic to news sites? If you are talking about Google News, the answer is that it is not quite as powerful as you might think. In the U.S., Google News is overshadowed by both Yahoo News and even the sites controlled by the New York Times (which includes NYTimes.com, Boston.com, HeraldTribune.com, and several other newspaper sites). According to comScore, Google News attracted 16.2 million unique visitors in the U.S. in February, compared to 42.3 million for Yahoo News and 46.2 million for the sites operated by New York Times Digital.

So Google News is not the middleman here. Let’s just put that notion to rest. Yahoo News is three times as large, and Yahoo sends even more traffic to newspaper sites from other parts of Yahoo through its online newspaper consortium.

The bigger question is whether Google as a search engine is controlling access to news sites. That really seems to be Carr’s main concern, although it is not clear because he uses a Google News search as his main example. Nevertheless, Google’s main search engine is certainly a major source of traffic to information sites of all stripes. At TechCrunch, for instance, it is the single largest source of traffic, accounting for about a third of the total. I have no idea whether this is representative of other news sites, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Google search is a very important middleman indeed.

Does that make Google like Wal-Mart, as Carr suggests, a middleman of such might that it squeezes everybody else’s margins? Does that give it “monopoly control over content distribution,” as Scott Karp tries to argue? Not exactly. Information economics work slightly differently than retail economics. Let me stick with the TechCrunch example. One third is a lot, but it is not a monopoly. Google sends us all of that traffic because many of our posts rank highly for the topics they cover. We don’t pay them for that traffic. We are not buying keywords.

Yes, Google makes money from other ads shown besides any searches where TechCrunch posts shows up as results. But the money Google makes from those ads does not detract from our revenues. Quite the opposite. Those searches send a considerable amount of traffic to our site, where we have our own ads. The more people who see those ads, the more we can charge for them. It’s all good.

Google does not control the news, it exposes it.

The retail/distributor analogy is all wrong. Information is not the same as a flat-screen TV or a blender. It does not become less valuable the more available it is because all news is not the same. Information dissemination is not a zero-sum game. Carr and Karp would have you believe otherwise. Karp writes:

The more content there is on the web, the less money every content creator makes, and the more money Google makes by taking a piece of that transaction.

Again, that is not how it works. Google doesn’t force suppliers of information to charge less for it as Wal-Mart does with suppliers of packaged goods. The money Google makes from its search ads is not necessarily money that would have otherwise gone to a “news” or content site. If Google didn’t exist, those ad dollars might have gone to an e-commerce site or a travel site or a real estate site or any number of other places. News sites have no claim to those search advertising dollars. It is incumbent upon each of us to attract an audience by having something original or interesting to say. When news sites do that, other sites link to them, and then they rank more highly in Google search results, which sends new readers their way.

And then once those readers do find a news source they trust, you know what? Some of them actually keep coming back on their own volition without Google telling them what to do. That is called direct traffic. Or they come through other sites. Google isn’t the only one who benefits from all those links. If you want to be known as an authoritative source of news, it is no longer good enough to simply proclaim yourself to be one.

The Mochis 2009,11 the best flash game!

2009-04-09T00:05:00.000-07:00

The Mochis is an award show recognizing the best Flash games in the industry. Nominations are now open for any Flash game created in 2008. Prizes will be awarded in eleven categories, and the winners will be evaluated by a panel of expert judges. The Mochis is sponsored by Nonoba.

Best Commercial Game
Corpse Craft by Three Rings

Best Indie Game
Fancy Pants Adventure World 2 by Borne Games

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Questionaut by Amanita Design

Best Multiplayer Game
Minions by Casual Collective

Best Strategy Game
Mastermind World Conqueror by Michael Swain

Best Puzzle Game
Totem Destroyer by GABS.TV

Best Family Game
Skywire 2 by Nitrome

Best Shooter Game
Bubble Tanks 2 by Hero Interactive

Most Creative Game
Auditorium by Dain Saint and William Stallwood

Sponsor Award: Best Nonoba Multiplayer Game
Starland Multiplayer TD by Wayne Marsh

People's Choice Award
Platform Racing 2 by Jiggmin

A Marketing Analysis: Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace

2009-04-06T19:46:00.000-07:00

Social networks are taking off in China. The following guest post by George Godula. David Li, and Richard Yu explores how Chinese social networks are pursuing different business models than their American counterparts, relying more on micropayments and the sale of virtual goods. George Godula is the co-founder of Web2Asia, an East Asian incubator and also a consultancy for Western startups trying to enter markets in China, Japan and Korea. David Li is a developer of social networking applications such as Growing Gifts, and he also was the developer of OnChat, an early in-browser graphical avatar chat system.

Despite China’s massively growing internet market, international giants like Google and Facebook are having trouble making gains with the 300 million Chinese online users. China’s netizens are on average very young – 66.7 % of them are younger than 29 years old and 35.2 % of them are teenagers—with social networking and entertainment applications being the most popular.
While companies like Facebook struggle to conquer market share in China and to create viable business models everywhere, their Chinese clones have built lucrative cash machines literally earning billions of dollars a year. Unfortunately, adopting Chinese methods may not help American social networks due both to cultural differences in Chinese user behavior and industry practices. Below is our analysis of the Chinese social networking scene.

Chinese Social Networking is Dominated by Local Players
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) have long played the dominating role in Chinese Internet life and still continue to be one of the most popular online platforms for social interaction. Registered user accounts, which are mostly anonymous, surpass 3 billion (users have multiple accounts) and 80% of Chinese sites run their own BBS. However in the last year social networking services, most of which require real name registrations, have shown explosive growth in China with 19.3% of netizens using them regularly.
Despite the popularity of social networking in China, the social networking market is dominated by local Chinese players, and Western networks have trouble adapting to Chinese culture and user expectations. Facebook does not rank among the top 15 asocial networks in China while MySpace has only 6 million users (vs. the goal of 50 million users after 2 years initially proclaimed by Rupert Murdoch).

Meanwhile, China’s leading social network Qzone, which is targeted at teenagers, may even be the largest in the world. Tencent, Inc., the company that runs Qzone, recently announced group revenues of over $1 billion in 2008.
As ad sales slump in the recession, only approximately 12% of Qzone’s revenue stems from online advertising with the rest coming from virtual item sales such as applications and avatars. Internet ad spending in China is expected to reach $1.7 billion in 2009, which is about 4% of total ad spend. In comparison, the US is estimated to spend $25.7 billion reaching consumers online through advertising. These comparably low online budgets in China are largely spent at four large news portals, which earn the majority of online ad revenue. This forces most “smaller” portals to find more innovative ways to monetize their traffic.

51.com, which targets working class adults from rural parts of China, is the second most popular social network in China with 130 million registered users. Concurrently, Chinese students flock to Xiaonei with approx. 40 million users. It is backed up with $430 million in funding from its parent company Oak Pacific Interactive and investors like Softbank. Kaixin001, which skyrocketed out of nowhere to 30 million registered users from the middle of last year, targets white collar workers in China’s largest cities by employing controversial invitation techniques and copying apps directly from Facebook.

Yet the astronomical growth of China’s social networks can be attributed as much to its massive market size as to its cultural norms and values. Social networking apps can hit hyper-viral levels in China due to a higher tolerance of intrusive app invitations. It is not uncommon for apps to essentially force new users to invite people and perform tasks before being able to join their friends online. Once friends have joined they are required to interact much more with the apps and advertisements than on Western applications. While this model is not replicable for the US market, certain aspects of this strategy/cultural mindset are necessary if companies like Facebook or Myspace want to compete in China.

Open Social Networks are Not So Open in China
In the middle of 2008, Myspace was the only social network to support OpenSocial in China. Despite Google’s effort, the adoption of OpenSocial was slow among the major social networks. Eventually, other platforms caved into the partnership with Google and gave half-hearted support to OpenSocial. Apart from some of the large social networks mentioned previously this included City!N, Yiqi.com as well as the business network Tianji and BBS Tianya. Other social networks such as Douban, Hainei or news portal Sohu had originally announced to join OpenSocial but then never implemented it, choosing an F8 style API instead. Today, only one of the top 50 apps in China’s social networks runs on OpenSocial despite the hard work put in by the Google team in China.

When Xiaonei and 51.com at first opened their own platforms, their terms of services outraged the developer community with clauses that practically blocked all monetization opportunities and a shared user base with their own websites. The developers launched several public protests against the social networks including the website http://www.anti-opensocial.com/ to rebel against hypocritical support for these “fake open” platforms. The executives from these social networks did respond quickly to the developers demands and changed the terms of service to more reasonable terms, allowing limited monetization opportunities for the developers.

Unfortunately, most social networks continue to ignore “Open Social” practices, opting for the more familiar “Guanxi paradigm” in business practices with third parties. The term ”Guānxi” describes the basic dynamic of gaining influence and receiving favors within social relationships, and is a central concept in Chinese society. For social networks, this means that rather than developing an open ecosystem, they focus on dealing with third parties individually and face to face. New Open Social Networking platforms (or better put, “selectively opened”) such as Yahoo’s Guanxi, Tencent’s Xiaoyou and Tianya court established third party app developers like Five Minutes while largely ignoring the wider developer community.

Additionally, ad sales are also strictly controlled by the social networks themselves even though 51.com set a threshold of a $35k fee to be paid for app developers to operate their own ad revenue -based applications (which until now no developer was willing to pay).

Keso, China’s most widely read tech blogger, who we asked to contribute to this article through China’s online expert panel BloggerInsight, summed up the situation by saying “Despite an open platform strategy, Chinese SNS are still competing with each other on the application level”.

Imitation of Facebook was only a Launching Point
Chinese sites are notorious for their C2C strategy, or “Copy to China”. This applies to the app market in the same way as it did to the social networks and all other Web 2.0 and eCommerce services. A year after Facebook introduced the F8 open platform, Xiaonei.com followed suit and announced its open platform in July 2008. The developer group xCube on Xiaonei attracted individuals and companies interested in third-party apps. Yet Chinese outsourcing developers such as Apptz and Ismole armed with experience working on Facebook applications made significant inroads by launching several apps and attracting millions of users in just a few short months.
At about the same time, the apps space also felt the power of C2C with copies of popular apps on Facebook such as “Friends for Sale” and “Parking War” popping up on just about every social network in China. Other leading social networks such as 51.com and Comsenz!’s Ucenter Home (similar to Ning.com) launched their own open platform soon after Xiaonei’s effort.

Chinas 51.com first social network in the world to open up payment API
While Chinese social networks started out as mere clones of existing sites, they’ve managed to innovate the business models to create a very lucrative market by cementing the relationship between application developers and the site’s user base. Happy Farm, the most popular app in China reportedly collects well over $75k a month through installations on various platforms, and according to Chinese application tracker, Appleap, the value of the total social network’s apps install base is approx. $4.5 million.

Opening up the payment system was one of the most anticipated announcements from Facebook’s developer conference F8 2008 but the company failed to create an integrated ecosystem for users to buy and sell apps. China’s socail networks took the great leap forward in this area when 51.com became the first social network in the world opening up its payment system to third party developers in 2008. Users pay money to 51.com and receive virtual coins which they can then again spend on third party applications. The revenue is split 50/50 between the social network and the developer.
Facebook on the other hand currently does not offer developers access to its payment system. If a third party application redirects Facebook users to their own website and payment processor, they usually lose the advantage of Facebook’s trusted brand name and the majority of potential revenues.
At the same time, companies like Becomedia are cooperating with 51.com to bring OfferPal-style cost-per-click/cost-per-action (CPS/CPA) for virtual currency models to China. CPS/CPA is one of the fastest growing sectors of Internet ads in China. This means revenues for the developers by trading their virtual currency for hard cash.

Season Xu from Five Minutes, the maker of China’s most popular app, confirmed the three basic revenue models for apps in China: shared ad revenues, income through virtual currencies, and customized development for branded applications. However he and Herock, a leading figure in the Chinese tech blogosphere whom we also spoke to, expect a consolidation in the app development market soon with larger companies taking over and benefiting from effects of scale, rather than individual developers still being able to produce top apps.

What can Facebook and Western social networks learn, if anything?
If monetizing a social network is so easy, then why hasn’t Facebook opened up its payment API to third party developers? While the aggressive and intrusive hyper-viral aspects of the apps in China may not be replicable in a Western Market, the problems for creating a more viable business model run deeper. Western companies cannot innovate in the same way due to institutional problems stemming from their own struggle for an identity and revenue.

Facebook has just recently announced a “credits” system, but it seems to miss the mark. The new system demonstrates little incentive for users to shell over money, and does not speak to the same need as paying for a social application that all your friends are already on and talking about. Facebook may be afraid to become a marketplace for applications, because they are reluctant to be labeled as a social gaming network or a social app store. Instead, they are a self-styled guru of dynamic human interaction. If they opened up their platform to become an apps store, their major revenue streams would put them into a pigeonhole, calling their $15 billion valuation into question. They obviously don’t want to be labeled as a “gaming platform” either, and don’t want to fully depend on selling digital trinkets.

Like during the American gold rush in 1849, where Chinese merchants prospered while most prospectors went bust in search of striking gold, it appears that building viable, scalable businesses for Social Networking sites may still be an ancient Chinese secret for Westerners.

Google In Late Stage Talks To Acquire Twitter

2009-04-02T22:37:00.000-07:00

Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.
Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just a few months ago for half a billion dollars, although that was based partially on overvalued Facebook stock. Google would be paying in cash and/or publicly valued stock, which is equivalent to cash. So whatever the final acquisition value might be, it can’t be compared apples-to-apples with the Facebook deal.
Why would Google want Twitter? We’ve been arguing for some time that Twitter’s real value is in search. It holds the keys to the best real time database and search engine on the Internet, and Google doesn’t even have a horse in the game. In a post last month called It’s Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine, I wrote:
More and more people are starting to use Twitter to talk about brands in real time as they interact with them. And those brands want to know all about it, whether to respond individually (The W Hotel pestered me until I told them to just leave me alone), or simply gather the information to see what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong.
And all of it is discoverable at search.twitter.com, the search engine that Twitter acquired last summer.
People searching for news. Brands searching for feedback. That’s valuable stuff.
Twitter knows it, too. They’re going to build their business model on it. Forget small time payments from users for pro accounts and other features, all they have to do is keep growing the base and gather more and more of those emotional grunts. In aggregate it’s extremely valuable. And as Google has shown, search is vastly monetizable - somewhere around 40% of all online advertising revenue goes to ads on search listings today.
If this is accurate, it’s a brilliant deal for Google - the value of Twitter is only going to go up over time. And it will be Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone’s second sale to Goolge - they sold Blogger to them just five years ago. But there’s one big question - where’s Microsoft in all this? Letting Twitter go to Google only hurts them, badly, in the long term search game. This is an asset they need to be competing for aggressively.
Of course, it’ll be sad to see Twitter become just another subsidiary of Google, if this happens. I would have liked to have seen the company spread its wings a little longer to see what it could do.
Updated: Yet another source says the acquisition discussions are still fairly early stage, and the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search engine.

MOSH evolves into Ovi Store

2009-04-02T02:25:00.000-07:00

As a registered user of MOSH and let you know that upon launch of Ovi Store you will automatically be redirected there for access to mobile content for your Nokia device.

This means that your MOSH account will no longer be accessible. Ovi Store opens at the end of the month, so please take these next few weeks to save any content you may wish to access in the future.

What is Ovi Store?
Ovi Store consolidates the best experiences from Nokia's current content services, including Download!, MOSH, and WidSets™ to a single channel. Ovi Store content will range from applications, games, and videos, to widgets, podcasts, location-based applications, and personalization content for Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices

You can also get content tailored to your needs based on location and social preferences. You will be able to activate social discovery with Ovi Store, which will automatically allow content from your social networks to be prioritized and made available for download and repeat consumption. Content will also be prioritized based on your location, so you'll always have the most relevant experience wherever you are.

Alexa Update Today! Fun New Tool From Alexa - Hot URLs

2009-03-31T19:16:00.000-07:00

Alexa just released their new Hot URLs or 'What's Hot on the Web' within the last 5 minutes monitor. It is a lot of fun to check out what people are looking at and provides what Alexa calls 'The hottest pages on the web right now'...according to the Alexa Toolbar.

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How I Use Twitter to Promote My Blog

2009-03-31T01:24:00.000-07:00

How Can Twitter be used to promote a blog?
Twitter is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it’s a virtual water cooler. For others, it’s a great way to get answers to questions. Since I started using Twitter, I have more than doubled my blog traffic over the last several months, and I can tell you how.

Some people just dump their blog posts into Twitter automatically, with a simple “New Blog Post: Money is Better Than Dirt” and away you go. I’ve found a way of using Twitter to encourage participation , and it’s better than easy; it’s tasteful.

Ask a Question
Instead of telling your Twitter audience that you’ve published a new post, ask them their opinion on the core topic you’ve covered. “Do you think banner ads are dead?” followed by a link to your site is much more appealing than posting to Twitter, “Banner Ads Are Not Dead.” Asking a question engages your Twitter followers and solicits their experience.

If Comments Flow, Remark on It
I genuinely believe that the comments section of my blog is better than anything I write on my own. To that end, when a topic seems to take off, I send a note to Twitter alerting people to the quality of the conversation in the comments. It’s not pitchy in nature. I’m simply sharing that the best stuff came after the initial post.

Sometimes, I Even Dare to Ask for a Stumble
My number two referrer to my site on most slow-medium traffic days is StumbleUpon. Because I seem to get “better” response from people who visit from that site than from other traffic sources, I sometimes will send a third post to Twitter, asking if someone thinks X post is worth a Stumble. Because I do a lot of sharing and promoting and helping others, I usually get a lot of willing people to Stumble something for me from time to time.
I don’t over-do it, and I know that not every day is a “killer blog post” day. With that in mind, when I do ask, it makes a huge difference.

Those Three Touches Help Lots
So in the end, I ask my following in Twitter for love three times: once when I post the blog, again if it takes off well in the comments section, and sometimes a third time if I want to really amp the traffic via StumbleUpon. I mix these requests in liberally with all the various ways I help others using Twitter, and so it doesn’t come off like I’m perpetually pitching my own stuff. My current monthly rate of pitching others vs. promoting my own site is 75 / 25 in other people’s favor. That sounds fair, right?

Have you experimented with Twitter in this way? How did it work for you? What other tips did I miss?

Google China Signs Big Music For Free MP3 Search Engine

2009-03-30T20:15:00.000-07:00

Google China has taken the beta label off its dedicated, free MP3 search engine now that the local Google branch announced deals with all four major music labels (Warner, Universal, EMI and Sony) at a press conference earlier today. The website, which had been in beta for over a year, can be found here, or you can try the translated version (note that you won’t be able to download or listen to songs outside of the country).
The site offers over a million music tracks thanks to a partnership with Top100.cn (a company co-founded by basketball start Yao Ming which Google has invested in), most of them Chinese but also foreign tunes approved by the government. For example, users can download the latest Metallica album free of charge, of which you can see a screenshot below. Apart from the four labels mentioned above, several major publishers and 140+ indie labels are said to be on board.

Do You have used Google For Vanity Searching?

2009-03-30T00:59:00.000-07:00

A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that 47% of American adult internet users have undertaken a vanity search in Google or another search engine.
The survey found that more people today have searched for themselves on Google (and others) than in 2002, when the figure was 22%. 53% of US internet users admit to having looked up information about work colleagues of someone they know, such as friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors.
Privacy online isn’t the big concern many TechCrunch readers would presume it was, with 60% of respondents saying that they are not concerned about information about themselves online. Interestingly the lack of concern would appear to be more focused on adult users, with the study finding that teens were more likely than adults to restrict who can see their private details online on sites such as MySpace.

Maye you should search your name....

Meebo Turns Into One Big Ad, But Users Seem To Like It

2009-03-29T23:56:00.000-07:00

Web chat service Meebo, always innovative with advertising, is trying out something fairly aggressive: full takeover ads that show a persistent advertisement in the background.
The company says that they already got 1% or higher click throughs on existing ads units on the site, which included rollovers at the bottom of the screen and another unit right in the middle. But the new units actually take over the entire background of the site, meaning users are literally slammed with the messaging. They are presented with an option of removing the add with a click.

And the users don’t seem to mind at all.
Founder/CEO Seth Sternberg wrote a blog post today on the new ads and asked for user feedback. Most of the 100+ comments to the post are very positive. Example comments:
“Awesome…Black is a really nice look for Meebo…The ad is really subtle, too — not all up in your face…“Did we strike a good balance between not disturbing your use of Meebo, while acknowledging the need to run ads?”…Hell to the yes!”“I read your message about why the background changed and everything, and I definitely agree with what you’re saying. (Especially the sucky, flashy ads that cover your page you’re trying to view). With that said, nice work! I actually really like the way the ad is incorporated into the background, and slightly opaque. It’s not too distracting, and if the ads are helping you guys out, by all means, keep doing it this way! : )”

“I think this is a brilliant way to put ads up without being obtrusive and annoying. No one likes banner ads or popups. This does look like a good balance. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but know the need for them to support your business, and the fact that you concidered your clientell in your design means a lot. It means my willingness not to click the ‘backtoblue’ button and get rid of it because it simply being there and me not clicking is paying you for a job well done.”
YouTube, ESPN, MySpace and others have tried similar ads in the past, and these things command great fees. If Meebo really has gotten the users to buy into this, we may be seeing similar stuff all over the place, and soon.

MySpace to launch MySpace Toolbar

2009-03-24T23:56:00.000-07:00

MySpace is making a number of announcements today. In addition to MySpaceID, the company will be announcing the launch of MySpace Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. For now only Windows users will be able to run MySpace Toolbar - a Mac version is promised soon.

The toolbar will effectivey let MySpace users stay logged in constantly, whether they are on the site or not. Authentication and data transfers are accomplished entirely through publicly available APIs and products, collectively known as the MySpace Open Platform.

Toolbar users will automatically log in to MySpace when they open the browser. They will also see a stream of MySpace data, including notifications, friend activity, and mood and status for themelves and their friends. The toolbar will also include a Google-powered bar to search the web and MySpace.

MySpace COO Amit Kapur says that any third party developers could have built this using the MySpace Open Platform, and the company will encourage experimentation.

The toolbar will first be available for users in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, and Ireland.

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Twitter’s Tweet Smell Of Success

2009-03-21T21:08:00.000-07:00

Twitter.com continues to grow in popularity and importance in both the consumer and corporate worlds. No longer just a platform for friends to stay connected in real time, it has evolved into an important component of brand marketing. Unique visitors to Twitter increased 1,382 percent year-over-year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009, making it the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for the month. Zimbio and Facebook followed, growing 240 percent and 228 percent.

Fastest Growing Member Community Destinations in February 2009

Twitter Most Popular Among Working Adults

Twitterers (a.k.a. Tweeters) are not primarily teens or college students as you might expect. In fact, in February the largest age group on Twitter was 35-49; with nearly 3 million unique visitors, comprising almost 42 percent of the site’s audience. We found that the majority of people visit Twitter.com while at work, with 62 percent of the combo unique audience accessing the site from work only versus 35 percent that accessed it from home only

Unique Visitors to Twitter.com by Age Demographic

Twitter On The Move

PC Web usage of Twitter.com doesn’t tell the whole story. The ability to twitter via a mobile phone-whether through the mobile Web or via text messages-is a driving factor in the social network’s success. In January, 735,000 unique visitors accessed the Twitter Web site through their mobile phones. The average unique visitor went to Twitter.com 14 times during the month and spent an average of seven minutes on the site.

Finally, text messaging offers a third platform for consumers and businesses alike to take part in the twitter craze. In the last quarter of 2008, 812,000 unique users sent or received Twitter text messages from AT&T or Verizon cell phones. There was an average of nearly 240 tweets per person for the quarter.

It will be interesting to watch the evolution of Twitter as it continues to gain momentum. In an unstable economy, it might prove to be an economical and important part of an employer’s marketing strategy that helps to keep consumers aware of and connected to their brand.

IE 8 is from Brothersoft

2009-03-19T19:45:00.000-07:00

Microsoft unleashed Internet Explorer 8 on Thursday.
The latest browser features "accelerators" to speed up performance, private browsing, "Web slice" updates, and smarter searching. Here's what to expect.

Download here:
http://www.brothersoft.com/internet-explorer-download-77227.html

More information:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Internet Explorer 8 will be published Final version in the tomorrow

2009-03-19T01:22:00.000-07:00

Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that's dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8.
If you've used the release candidate, or even the beta right before it, it'll be a mostly familiar experience, with nothing that seriously warps your fragile little mind. Microsoft does want you to forget about all of the Javascript benchmarks you've been seeing—they insist it's not about the Javascript performance touted by Apple or Google with their Webkit-based browsers. It's all about how fast pages actually open they say, and they claim IE8 is now "as fast or faster a majority of the time" than Firefox or Chrome (before the most recent beta). We'll see!

One cool UI bit, which you can see in the screencap, is that tabs are color-coded, so you can see where your trains of thought spring from—all of my Giz-originating tabs are one color, while all of the links I opened up in tabs from Fark are a different color, and so on. Pretty handy.
Accelerators are its version of add-ons in a way, or at least that's how they tout in them. In practice, they let you quickly jump to web apps, like Google Maps (or their own Live Maps) or translate something from Japanese or whatever language via their own service, or one of your choosing, like Google Translate. So IE8 is way more open in how you use embedded services—you're not stuck with Microsoft's own, which is good since a majority of the browsing public will be using this one day (probably, anyway). But without features like Firefox's add-ons and extensions, Chrome's rawer minimalism, or Safari/Opera's Top Sites, it still feels a few steps behind the rest of the pack.
You can grab it at noon eastern in the morning.

St.Patrick's Day Brothersoft Gift

2009-03-17T23:43:00.000-07:00

St.Patrick’sDay brothersoft gift
Green , useful freeware:

1.Theworld browser
TheWorld Browser is a tiny than opera , fast than firefox, yet free, secure and powerful web browser
http://www.brothersoft.com/theworld-browser-60652.html

2.Format factory
Converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
http://www.brothersoft.com/formatfactory-98431.html

3.Jalbum
A free gallery software that creates personalized web albums of photos.
http://www.brothersoft.com/jalbum-47121.html

4.AVG
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - trusted by 80 million users
http://www.brothersoft.com/avg-anti-virus-free-edition-60620.html

The Next Monster-Twitter?

2009-03-16T23:34:00.001-07:00

lenty of job seekers spend hours combing through listings on Monster or CareerBuilder but experts say that’s not necessarily the most effective way to hunt for a job. It turns out that only 12.3% of hires of candidates from outside the company come from those kinds of job boards, according to a February report about the hiring practices of large companies by consulting firm CareerXroads. In fact, the report says that Monster and CareerBuilder account for half the job board hires but both are losing ground to social networks and other niche sites.
Increasingly, both job seekers and companies are turning to social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and even Twitter to find and fill jobs. That may be due to the fact that referrals from both employees and corporate alumni make up 27.3% of all external hires, according to CareerXroads. In fact, the report suggests that referrals could be the best way for outsiders to land a job at a company. Today, software developer Kevin Smith wrote a blog post about how he used Twitter to find a job at a company called Gnoso. Smith discovered Gnoso through one of his Twitter acquaintances who ultimately helped shepherd Smith’s resume to the right person.
The viral nature of Twitter means that one message can be re-tweeted and seen by thousands of people. One marketing firm experienced that viral effect after posting a job listing on Twitter. “Within 15 hours, this tweet went from a few thousand to 15,000 people,” says Divesh Sisodraker, founder of a company called TheJobMagnet which creates recruiting tools for social networking sites. Today Sisodraker’s company launched tweetCruit a software service which helps companies track the viral nature of tweets and how many people clicked through to the job ads. The tool can also help companies do pre-screening and filtering of job candidates.
While Twitter may be a great tool for spreading the word about a job, it can be unwieldy for job applicants. For example, job seekers interested in working at AT&T can follow @attjobs on Twitter. There are plenty of postings but they’re for a range of jobs such as sales consultants and technicians in a range of places from Waco, Texas, to San Diego. There’s really no way to filter jobs based on position or location. These kinds of issues leave some wondering if Twitter will ever become a mainstream tool for job searches or recruiting.
What do you think?

StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service

2009-03-14T06:50:00.000-07:00

is preparing to launch a shortURL service (a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr.

Founder Garrett Camp announced the new service on Twitter without any description of what it might be on March 3. In an email exchange he says it will be a shortURL service to share StumbleUpon links on sites like Twitter and Facebook and that it will be launched in a week or two. The site currently redirects to StumbleUpon.

Digg is planning its own similar service, which we covered late last month.

Digg’s service will show additional information, like total traffic to the link, in a Digg “toolbar” wrapper, and users can easily create links by simply adding digg.com/ before any URL (the short URL will then be created and shown. I don’t have any information on exactly what StumbleUpon is planning, but it’s a safe guess it’ll have similar features, and it may actually launch before Digg.

The benefit to StumbleUpon and Digg to these services is traffic when people click on the short URLs. People add a lot on links on Twitter posts but space constraints (140 characters per post) require short URLs.

Twitter New Business Model Found!

2009-03-13T00:22:00.000-07:00

Jason Calacanis just put Twitter in business. How? He offered $250,000 to be one of 20 users in Twitter's "Suggested Follows" for two years.
Twitter is growing so fast that being on the "suggested" list for new users can generate more than 10,000 followers a day. Jason thinks the slots will soon be worth a Super-Bowl-like $1 million a year, as companies compete to be able to send real-time messages directly to millions of followers.
Or not.
Dave Winer complains that the Suggested Follows list is unfair. Twitter investor Fred Wilson seems to agree:
Bijan [Sabet at Spark Capital, a Twitter investor] got it right when he said that the current suggested follows is a short term fix to address the "out of the box experience" problem for many of the newcomers who have no idea what twitter is and who they should follow. the third party recommendation services aren't a great help to them because they don't even know what a third party twitter app is.but you are right to point out that the current model isn't ideal and nobody knows that better than Ev. it's going to change and hopefully sooner rather than later.
TechCrunch has more on Jason's offer here. Even if Twitter kills the "Suggested" page, this exchange provides a hint of how powerful (and profitable) this company can eventually become. We continue to think it will eventually be worth more than $1 billion.

Do you know the japanese sns marketing ? MiXi, Gree and others?

2009-03-12T00:34:00.000-07:00

MIXI, GREE and are most successful in Japan and SNS, this is the most dominant single registration number, SNS has become a leading company.

Mixi is Japans most popular SNS service with a claimed market share of close to 70%. When conversation in the media come to SNS, Mixi is also the most mentioned Social Network Service. Mixi had around around 15 million in September 2008 a quite impressive number achieved in less than 3 years. After going public the stock value doubled within 12 hours. Mixi turned into the Japanese showcase for 2.0 success. So far the good part. But looking a bit deeper into the service reveals that the glory days of rising users numbers seem to reached its limit sooner or later. More and more users move and will move away from Mixi looking for alternatives. The reasons: too much little time, too much advertisement, too little added value.

Competitors like Gree, Mobage, S!Town and others offered a wide range of feature right from the start: the possibility to upload and watch videos, other platforms allow users to play games, listen to the playlists of people in their network, locate friends using GPS or even enter into mobile 3D worlds.
Mixi tried to keep-up by introducing video and music functions a few month ago but still Mixi stays what it is: a pure SNS service with some extra services attached to it

All of these services did not start as a SNS service but they offered a unique value on its own with SNS as an added value to its users. And this is where the trend goes.
For example LISMO, KDDI AU’s mobile music service started to offer a function called “Utatomo” in 2006 for finding people with similar interests based on a users individual play list and their general interests helping the company to increase their overall music sales by 15%.

The time of SNS only services will soon be over. (Expect for maybe specific B2B or special interest SNS offers). In the future a SNS service will not be able to survive simply by providing a social networking functionality as a core service. Instead SNS functions will become part of other services helping to drive personalization (through the data gathered), drive loyalty and in the end to drive sales and generate revenue.

Play Quickly at Global Game Jam

2009-03-09T23:26:00.000-07:00

These miniature videogame marvels sprang from the frantic minds of developers during last week's Global Game Jam.

The international exercise in lightning-fast game design challenged creative types to crank out fully functional (and fully fun) videogames in just one weekend.
These screenshots show some of the titles cooked up, from a text-based zombie massacre to a Wikipedia-based puzzle game. For more on the Global Game Jam, read Clive Thompson's column on the subject.

Left: Lucid was one of the most polished games of the New York Game Jam because the team was large and diverse — game designers, programmers, music wranglers and an excellent artist who drew all the visuals by hand. The game literally looks like a pencil-and-watercolor picture.

Another reason the Lucid team got its game done on time and in polished format: They kept the gameplay supersimple. It's basically just a side-scroller flipped on its end — collecting goodies as your player floats slowly upward.:

Since they nailed the gameplay concept early, the Lucid team had lots of time to work on other stuff — like designing the obstacles and putting the colored blocks in hard-to-reach areas. The control scheme is nicely balanced: You have good but not perfect control, making an otherwise too-easy game quite challenging.:

Wiki Paths was an ingenious idea: The game gives you two randomly chosen Wikipedia pages and you have five minutes to navigate from one to another, by surfing links the connect pages. Everyone knows what it's like to surf idly through Wikipedia: This turns that common experience into an uncommon game.

The Wiki Paths team had one big advantage: Because they could test their concept by simply picking random Wikipedia pages, they knew within hours — by late Friday night — that the concept was fun. Because implementing the game in Greasemonkey turned out to be difficult, they were coding up until the last second when the Game Jam ended.

More information: http://www.zergwatch.com/Newsfeed-107303/make-it-quick-play-it-quick-at-global-game-jam.html

A new business model of Twitter ——Serving Local News To Users

2009-03-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

Germany’s Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated version of the interview here, which features Williams answering the usual, boring questions ‘professional’ journalists tend to ask about the micro-sharing service (the reporter opened the interview with the Pulitzer-prize caliber question “so does Twitter spark narcissism and idiocy?”).
But Williams did share something worth noting at the end of the interview.
When asked about possible future features for Twitter, he reportedly said that one of the things being considered is an extension that lets people know what’s happening in their immediate vicinity. That would basically mean that Twitter could actively ping users about local events that are going on in their neighborhood, in real-time, based on the location they’ve indicated. As an example, Williams says users could be alerted to the fact a fire is burning a few streets away from where Twitter knows (or thinks) they are.

Maybe you can earn more money via twitter “Tweets”

2009-03-05T19:35:00.000-08:00

Adjix, a revenue-sharing advertising network, is introducing a new ad format that allows text ads to be embedded within Twitter tweets.

Benefits to advertisers include:
Advertisers set the price they’re willing to pay for an ad
Advertisers can allow anyone to run their ads, or limit them to specific Twitter accounts; they can also limit how frequently an ad can run within a specific Twitter account
Advertisers can target Twitter users in specific cities
Adjix offers precise targeting, transparent pricing, and link click data

Benefits to Twitter users (Adjix “linkers”) include:
Earning ad revenue when running embedded ads in tweets using Adjix2Twitter
Selecting which ad they want to run, or they can choose to run no ad
Detailed reports on how many clicks they generate, as well as the opportunity to earn money from their blogs, text messages, and e-mails

“This new ad format will be a great way for Twitter users (Adjix “linkers”) to earn additional revenue, and its unobtrusive format won’t annoy recipients, like some other Twitter ad programs,” says Joe Moreno, founder of Adjix and a formr engineer and marketer at Apple Inc.
Here’s a brief video demonstration of Adjix’s new ad format.

Windows 7 Testing for your application

2009-03-04T07:08:00.000-08:00

WCA, Windows Compatibility Advantage, is a program that is developed to help ISV’s with our OS patches and security updates. These occur every other month on the second Tuesday. The testing is free.

Product Development The goal of the Windows Compatibility Advantage Program is to help prevent a security update or service pack from introducing aregression that breaks your applications, and to help ensure that yourproducts work with the Windows 7 operating system. The way the programworks is you provide titles and guidance and we do the testing and provideresults via a secure participant's portal site. We are inviting you toparticipate.

If you want to join the testing, you can Email me I will supply your app and guidance and WCA will test and make sure that you haven’t done anything to break your app. WCA can fix 90% of the issues. This testing helps us discover problems early. If we discover an issue that WCA can’t fix-we contact you to see what can be done. You are issued a pin to a secure site to review the test results.

In addition, we are doing some appcompat testing for Win7 now. It’s a great way to get on the Logo wagon.

Kindle 2, The next iTunes?

2009-03-01T21:44:00.000-08:00

The growing popularity of electronic books could offer hope for newspapers.

Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader, an embedded system for reading electronic books (e-books), launched in the United States by prominent online bookseller Amazon.com in November 2007. The Kindle was developed by Amazon's Lab126. It uses an electronic paper display and downloads content over Amazon Whispernet using the Sprint EVDO network. The Kindle can be used without a computer, and Whispernet is accessible without any fee. It also provides free internet access to Wikipedia.

On Monday, February 9, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2, which became available for purchase on February 23, 2009. Price of the unit is $359.00. The new Kindle features improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 millimetres). The available memory is limited to 1.4 Gigabytes, which Amazon estimates will hold about 1500 books. Unlike the original Kindle, Kindle 2 does not feature a slot for SD memory cards. To promote the new Kindle, author Stephen King has written a novella called UR, which is available exclusively as a Kindle download.
According to an early review by website iFixIt, the new Kindle features a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11 90nm processor, 2GB moviNAND main memory, and 3.7 V 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery.

Overall I feel the Kindle has a strong grasp on e-book technology. There will always be room for improvement but for now I think Amazon is on the right track - It's one of the most impressive and useful pieces of technology to come about in the last few years.
The portability of this device - the fact that you are able to read books and more - anytime, anywhere - and the fact that you can download reading matrials anytime via it's Wi-Fi connection are unparalleled.
The Kindle won’t be for everyone (obviously), but the people who make the purchase - expecially if they are avid readers - should definitely get their money's worth.

2009 Brothersoft official wallpaper

2009-02-26T00:20:00.001-08:00

2009 Brothersoft official wallpaper

Quake Live,Do you remember ?

2009-02-24T17:10:00.000-08:00

Do you remember Quake ?
A free web client version of Quake Arena (or Quake III Arena), where players can log on and engage in combat right on their PC systems over a standard web browser. Gameplay will be free for users, with advertising support to pay for usage.

Click here: Quake live

Created by id Software as an all-new way to deliver the excitement and energy of first-person multiplayer action to a broader audience than ever before, Quake Live offers game players of all skill levels a totally free and easily accessible multiplayer game and community through a single website at quakelive.com. Every element of the experience, including friends lists and communication, sponsored events and tournaments, matchmaking, stats tracking, and even the game itself is accessed and delivered free of charge through the web browser. Integrated with IGA's proprietary SDK, Quake Live will offer companies and agencies fresh opportunities to dynamically-target brands to audiences within a broadly accessible version of one of the world's premiere game franchises, while also offering gamers a totally free premium game, fun events and a vibrant, active community of other players.

2009 Brothersoft Crossover cooperation

2009-02-18T19:33:00.000-08:00

Get a FREE license key for Photo Pos Pro($50 value!) only at brothersoft!
Click here
Photo Pos Pro is a Photo Editor and Image Editor (Photo editing and Image editing software).

Key Features:
Support of many picture file types including a password protected file type.
Support of scanners and digital cameras
Tools for precision repairs and editing
Tools for creating Computer Graphics
Advanced Image Enhancing and editing tools and functions

The Selection Tools - With these tools you can isolate desired areas on a picture and edit only these areas. The software offers a variety of powerful selection tools including a number of automatic tools for isolating desired areas. The Selection tools support Transparency, Feather, Smooth (Antialias) and more.

Layers - One of the important properties of the software is the ability to create pictures with numerous layers. For each layer you can set the level of Transparency, place in the hierarchic level of layers, Blend Mode, Curve Graph and more. The use of layers offers infinite editing possibilities to the user as well as maximum working flexibility.

Masks - The software supports Masks and Alpha Masks. Apart from the variety of masks that come with the program, you can create new masks on your own or use mask files which others have created.

Mobile World Congress 2009 Report

2009-02-16T19:18:00.000-08:00

Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona, showcasing the latest innovations in mobile technology and services at the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry.

The 2009 event is expected to attract 50,000 attendees, keen to experience the newest and most important trends in mobile communications. Microsoft, Nokia and Sony Ericsson have already made major announcements, and there will be plenty more to follow.

Here's all the latest news from the showfloor:

Nvidia showcases Android running on Tegra
Google's open source OS gets another follower

Adobe gets Flash at Mobile World Congress
Firm tries to make its mobile Flash offerings more like the desktop experience

LG promises energy efficient phones
Manufacturer teams up with Qualcomm and Intel

Mobile manufacturers express security fears
Malware infections on the rise, warns McAfee report

HTC shows new Touch phones at MWC
Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 can be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile 6.5 at MWC
Update adds new-look user interface alongside application store and online backup service

Nokia unveils Ovi Store and new phones
E-series gets a boost with E55 and E75

Sony Ericsson unveils Idou touch-screen smartphone
Phone maker also reveals new brand direction at Mobile World Congress

O2 Litmus apps store links developers and users
Web site lets users get involved in apps testing and development

Samsung to unveil solar-powered mobile
Blue Earth touch-screen phone features integrated solar panel and is made from recycled plastic bottles

Genband backs large-scale femtocell rollouts
Uptake is integral to development of Long Term Evolution mobile broadband standard

Phoenix extends BeInSync to mobile phones
BeInSync Mobile synchronises photos, music, calendar and contacts to the web

Top ten China's new hot words

2009-02-10T18:05:00.000-08:00

1.山寨(shan zhai) copycatting
This Chinese term literally refers to the mountain strongholds of bandits. First borrowed to describe rip-off products, it has evolved to refer also to homemade products, such as video parodies of movies.

2.囧(juong) be sunk/sunken
This is an ancient Chinese character, pronounced jing. It means "light shining through a window". Young Chinese use it to express embarrassment, or a bad mood. Look at the character. Doesn't it look like a disappointed face?

3.很黄很暴力(hen huang hen bao li) very pornographic, very violent
During a CCTV interview about a new Internet censorship regulation, a girl said that an uncensored Web page once popped up on her computer. She called it "very pornographic, very violent". Some believe the girl was told to say it by CCTV, so it is now used to mock the way the network covers news.

4.槑(mei) nuts
Pronounced méi, the word is a variant of the word for "梅". But it also looks like a double version of the character 呆 (dai), which means stupid. So netizens have borrowed it to mean "very silly or very stupid".

5.叉腰肌(cha xiao ji) Psoas muscle
Xie Yalong, the former head of the Chinese Football Association, once criticized women players, saying they have weak Psoas muscles. (This is the muscle that links the trunk to the legs; it's important for motion.) However, nobody, including the players, knew where the muscle is. This quote is now used to mock Xie, who was recently removed from his position.

6.打酱油(da jiang you )get some soy sauce
When a person in Guangzhou was asked to give his opinion of the sex scandal involving Hong Kong star Edison Chen (Chen Guanxi), the man answered, "It is none of my business. I am just out to get some soy sauce." People have since begun using the words to mean "it's none of my business".

7.泡良族(pao liang zu) pick-up artists
This expression refers to men who seduce married women.

8.凤凰男(feng huang nan) Phoenix man
This expression refers to a man who grew up poor and in the countryside, but later moved to a big city and married a city girl. Due to the couple's different backgrounds and habits, they often encounter problems.

9. 做人不能太CNN(zuo ren bu neng tai CNN) don't be too CNN
It emerged in response to foreign media's coverage of Tibet. Many Chinese thought it was biased. It gained more popularity after CNN commentator Jack Cafferty's rude talk of China.

10. 三个俯卧撑(san ge fu wo cheng) three push-ups
A girl in Guizhou was rumored to have been killed by the relatives of local police officials. However, a local government official claimed the girl's boyfriend said the girl had jumped into the river when he was doing push-ups. The popularity of the term signals people's doubts over the story.

My favorite Brit-pop album ——Oasis《Be Here Now》

2009-02-09T00:21:00.000-08:00

Be Here Now is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released in August 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million within two weeks. As of 2007, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide.

Listen this album from here:
Oasis《Be Here Now》

The Marketing Power of Flickr

2009-02-05T06:58:00.000-08:00

If you are interested in using Web 2.0 to market your products online, you need to think beyond traditional, one-way internet marketing techniques. You can now get written, audio, and visual content about your product on the web for free.

You have the potential to expose yourself to millions of potential customers.
Blogs, social networking websites, and other products of the latest internet technology shift have changed the way we think about online marketing, and marketing in general. In fact, it is now accepted that traditional marketing techniques are losing their effectiveness as young people spend less time in front of the TV and more time in front of the PC.

One of the most popular free ways to market products is on Flickr. Ultimately, Flickr combines social networking and media sharing by allowing users to upload photographs.

So what does this mean for you? If you want to increase exposure, especially if you sell a product, you can simply publish product photographs on Flickr. If you can provide useful captions for your photographs, you'll be ahead of the curve. You also have to be different.

What's wrong with traditional product images on retailers' websites? They're too small. Why do you think most sites have a "see larger image" link? Because most people want to be able to look at something as if they're holding it in their hands.

However, the benefits of Flickr run deeper than photographs. Web 2.0 has given consumers a voice that they previously didn't have. If people like a product it will create a buzz, or a viral effect, immediately boosting its exposure and popularity. Many consumers are proud of their "stuff". Whether it's a nice car or the latest gadget, if they like it they will tell people about it. Even if you don't post product photos on Flickr, someone else may post your product's pictures.

Many marketers have posted photos of their products on Flickr and invited other users to leave comments. There is, of course, an inherent danger to this that runs through much of Web 2.0 marketing. If people don't like your product, or they don't like you, they now have the ability to let you, and the rest of the world, know. Because of this, you need to make sure you have damage control measures in place. Just because Web 2.0 has opened up more doors doesn't mean you need to let everyone in.

There is little doubt that a savvy marketer can use Flickr to their advantage. From the smallest one person home business to major multi-national corporations, more and more people are using websites like Flickr to get their marketing message across.

All over the world The best complaint letter,Maybe you need learn it.

2009-02-03T19:04:00.000-08:00

All over the world The best complaint letter,Maybe you need learn it.
Look at this Richard. Just look at it:
Dear Mr Branson,
REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008

I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit.
Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at thehands of your corporation.

I know it looks like a baaji but it's in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding. Well you'll be fascinated to hear that it wasn't custard. It was a sour gel with a clear oil on top. It’s only redeeming feature was that it managed to be so alien to my palette that it took away the taste of the curry emanating from our miscellaneous central cuboid of beige matter. Perhaps the meal on the left might be the desert after all.
Anyway, this is all irrelevant at the moment. I was raised strictly but neatly by my parents and if they knew I had started desert before the main course, a sponge shaft would be the least of my worries. So lets peel back the tin-foil on the main dish and see what's on offer.

I'll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it's Christmas morning and you're sat their with your final present to open. It's a big one, and you know what it is. It's that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about. Only you open the present and it's not in there. It's your hamster Richard. It's your hamster in the box and it's not breathing. That's how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this:

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's more of that Baaji custard. I admit I thought the same too, but no. It's mustard Richard. MUSTARD. More mustard than any man could consume in a month. On the left we have a piece of broccoli and some peppers in a brown glue-like oil and on the right the chef had prepared some mashed potato. The potato masher had obviously broken and so it was decided the next best thing would be to pass the potatoes through the digestive tract of a bird.
Once it was regurgitated it was clearly then blended and mixed with a bit of mustard. Everybody likes a bit of mustard Richard.
By now I was actually starting to feel a little hypoglycaemic. I needed a sugar hit. Luckily there was a small cookie provided. It had caught my eye earlier due to it's baffling presentation:
It appears to be in an evidence bag from the scene of a crime. A CRIME AGAINST BLOODY COOKING. Either that or some sort of back-street underground cookie, purchased off a gun-toting maniac high on his own supply of yeast. You certainly wouldn’t want to be caught carrying one of these through customs. Imagine biting into a piece of brass Richard. That would be softer on the teeth than the specimen above.
I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was relax but obviously I had to sit with that mess in front of me for half an hour. I swear the sponge shafts moved at one point.
Once cleared, I decided to relax with a bit of world-famous onboard entertainment. I switched it on:

I apologise for the quality of the photo, it's just it was incredibly hard to capture Boris Johnson's face through the flickering white lines running up and down the screen. Perhaps it would be better on another channel:

Is that Ray Liotta? A question I found myself asking over and over again throughout the gruelling half-hour I attempted to watch the film like this. After that I switched off. I'd had enough. I was the hungriest I'd been in my adult life and I had a splitting headache from squinting at a crackling screen.
My only option was to simply stare at the seat in front and wait for either food, or sleep. Neither came for an incredibly long time. But when it did it surpassed my wildest expectations:

Yes! It's another crime-scene cookie. Only this time you dunk it in the white stuff.
Richard. What is that white stuff? It looked like it was going to be yoghurt. It finally dawned on me what it was after staring at it. It was a mixture between the Baaji custard and the Mustard sauce. It reminded me of my first week at university. I had overheard that you could make a drink by mixing vodka and refreshers. I lied to my new friends and told them I'd done it loads of times. When I attempted to make the drink in a big bowl it formed a cheese Richard, a cheese. That cheese looked a lot like your baaji-mustard.
So that was that Richard. I didn't eat a bloody thing. My only question is: How can you live like this? I can't imagine what dinner round your house is like, it must be like something out of a nature documentary.
As I said at the start I love your brand, I really do. It's just a shame such a simple thing could bring it crashing to it's knees and begging for sustenance.
Yours Sincererly,Oliver Beale

Five unreported Google serious errors

2009-02-01T21:23:00.000-08:00

Do you have known the Google errors?There are more than one might have imagined. Here are the Top Five:
1. The Bernie Madoff Scandal. Mr. Madoff, the disgraced money man with long gray hair, will apparently claim a mistaken Google search led to his awful scheme. His story is that he googled 'Fonzi' because he wanted to dye his long locks and copy the look of the famous character from Happy Days. Instead, the search engine gave him results for 'Ponzi' and the rest is history.
Google blamed Vera Stanyan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Idaho for this error. She was, according to the company, an obsessed fan of actor Henry Winkler and had googled 'Fonzi' so many times that the servers temporarily gave out.

2. The Mickey Rourke Incident. A similar tale appears to be unraveling in the case of Mickey Rourke's face. In a moment of weakness, the actor who is now reborn in The Wrestler decided he needed a touch-up to his perfect features. So he googled 'plastic surgery'. However, at that very moment, so many people in Hollywood were googling the same terminology that the Hollywood server--situated in the bunker of the Chateau Marmont Hotel--had something of a heart attack and served up 'drastic surgery'.
Google blamed the error on a bachelor party at the Chateau. Apparently, they made so much noise as to simulate an earthquake of 1.3 magnitude. And, in those days, the servers weren't built to withstand even such an infinitesimal wobble. Naturally, the manufacturer of the servers disagreed.

3. The Case of the UN Weapons Inspectors. Apparently the UN Inspectors who were searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq never actually made it to Iraq. Using an early version of Google Earth, they actually landed in the Sahara Desert and found nothing more than peculiar four-humped camels.
Google blamed the error on a teenage programmer from Dubai whom the company had hired on a four-week work experience program. His name, according to the company's records, was Freddy Krueger.

4.The Tom Daschle Miscommunication. Perhaps one of the most unfortunate incidents concerns the man nominate to be Health Secretary--Senator Tom Daschle. He seems to have forgotten to pay $140,000 in back taxes on a car and chauffeur he enjoyed for some three years. I am told that he was in possession of a Google Android phone and sent a text message (to his chauffeur, it appears) for the tax bill to be paid.However, Android was having a bad day and the message appears to have disappeared, as some text messages do, into dead air. Google blamed the problem on three children in Wichita, Kansas, who had hacked into Android HQ in search of alien cartoon characters.

5. The Michael Phelps Fiasco. Then there's the latest, and perhaps most painful error. It involves Olympic swim hero and man with remarkably short legs compared with his torso, Michael Phelps. A photograph was released that appeared to show him partaking of a bong.
Well, I can reveal that Mr. Phelps in fact googled 'Bond', as he believes that he would be a natural, and far taller, replacement for Daniel Craig in the next Bond movie. Unfortunately, the search engine made an unscheduled turn and offered him 'Bong.' With such devastating consequences to his potential future acting career.
The company blamed the error on two fans of the movie Pineapple Express in Kabul, Afghanistan. Apparently, they delight in messing with a large Google server in their country with the aim of turning the whole world into raving potheads.
It is never easy to maintain such a sprawling and complex network as Google's. And we should not be tempted into blaming the company for any of these unfortunate incidents.

Helio's Ocean 2 coming --2009 Virgin Mobile

2009-01-31T19:23:00.000-08:00

Since Virgin Mobile bought Helio in June, one of the big questions has been the fate of the Ocean, Helio's messaging phone and the best device that struggling little carrier ever had. At CTIA today, Virgin Mobile spokeswoman Jayne Wallace committed to releasing its follow-up, the Ocean 2 - but alas, in 2009.

We've been privy to some key details on the MVNO's next-gen Ocean -- the device known simply as OZ2 thus far by its FCC identification -- and things are definitely looking up for this monster to set the bar among QWERTY dumbphones whenever Helio gets around to releasing it. Besides the little box of visual stimulation there that we managed to pick up (sorry, that'll have to do for the time being), we've learned that the following features are being thrown around in Helio's testing; none are guaranteed for the final product, apparently, but most of them sound totally reasonable:

3 megapixel camera
Dual slider, just like the original
microSDHC support
1GB internal storage
In-browser Flash support
30fps video recording
Touch-sensitive directional pad
PC sync capability We don't have any info on pricing or release here, but you know we'll be hustling 'em hard to spill the beans. In the meantime, try not to drop that Ocean -- it's got to last just a little bit longer

Get traffic to StumbleUpon Your Website

2009-01-28T06:55:00.000-08:00

Of all the Web 2.0 driven websites that have opened up the internet for marketers, StumbleUpon is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the best, free marketing opportunities on the internet.

StumbleUpon was founded by three Canadians: Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, and Justin LaFrance. With almost two million users, the marketing potential on StumbleUpon is excellent. Its basic premise is that people join and, when they find a website that interests them (they "stumble upon" it), they bookmark and rate it for others to see.

What makes StumbleUpon unique is that content (i.e. websites) are categorized according to topic. Instead of using automated software, the site allows humans to determine what's important, or not. Most search engines use complex algorithms to determine importance.

So how exactly does StumbleUpon work? Users install a toolbar on their browser that lets them stumble upon random websites, giving them a positive or negative rating. The more positive ratings a site gets, the more traffic is driven to it.

The more friends you have on StumbleUpon, the more successful you will be. You will stake your reputation on your ability to supply expertise without overly promoting yourself. This is what makes Web 2.0 marketing, with its inherently social structure, so hard to penetrate with marketing messages.

With StumbleUpon users rate your website and its content. The better it is, the more likely you are to be successful. What should go without saying is that you need good content.

As you might imagine, simply providing content, audio or video, that blatantly promotes your product or service won't get you very far. Like any other social media, patience is the key to getting your word out.

You need to entertain people to get high rankings. Try to be original, funny, or both. One of the chief advantages of StumbleUpon is that visitors have a stated an interest in your particular niche. This creates an opportunity to design your content to match your market's likes, and get rid of what they don't like.

You can also join communities that are related to your business. These communities, or groups, fall under many categories, including Commerce, Computers, Health, Hobbies and more.

StumbleUpon is one of many socially organized sites that give you an opportunity to engage your market. You must think like a marketer but you must also be aware that social marketing is innately anti-marketing. Before you can market, you have to prove yourself. If you can stay committed to the social framework, you stand a better chance of beating out your competition simply because you didn't give up.

Slumdog Millionaire- My 2009 first film

2009-01-27T04:02:00.000-08:00

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

Eighteen year old Jamal Malik is having an amazing answering streak on the Indian version of the television game show, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". He's only one correct question away from the big prize. However, some, including those associated with the game show, question how someone like Jamal, a self confessed non-genius who grew up in the slums of Mumbai, can be doing so well on the show when others who are brighter, more educated and wealthier than him have failed. Is Jamal cheating? Is it purely luck that they have asked him the questions to which he knows the answers? Seeing Jamal's life journey to this point ultimately answers these questions. His life journey includes being orphaned at an early age; growing up with an older brother, Salim, who was both his guardian/protector and antagonist; and having a relationship since childhood with another orphaned child, a girl named Latika. His motivation for being on the show also may provide some answers to his success. Perhaps it was all just meant to be.

Digg ?? Twitter have caught Up To it

2009-01-23T00:55:00.000-08:00

Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who like to update their daily thoughts and activates, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets. Last week, the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time since launch and was ranked #84 (one above Digg at #85) in the Computers and Internet category

2009 New Business Model ?-----Twitter

2009-01-19T22:27:00.000-08:00

The new Twitter "suggested friends" feature is a natural place to sell friend connections between users and companies wanting to communicate with them. It's great traditional lead sales, in fact. Who says you can't buy more friends? $1 per user who takes the suggestion and opts in to getting messages from JetBlue or Zappos? That could happen. Could those companies keep their freshly purchased friends? Only if their Twitter output stayed interesting! We'll see if something like that works with Twitter.........

What Is Your Social Networking Strategy in 2009?

2009-01-18T17:40:00.000-08:00

Are you LinkedIn? Do you Xing, Ryze, Jigsaw, or wakoopa? In 2009, will you get a Second Life?
If these social-networking concepts are not on your radar, you are ignoring a dynamic trend that could have a profound impact on key areas of your business, such as revenue growth, talent acquisition and development, and operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Wikipedia defines a "social network service" as one that focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities.
The concept of social network analysis a(SNA)—the intersection of several key disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, psychology, organizational design, and graph theory—has existed in academic circles since the 1930s and 1940s. Although interesting, the study of patterns in human interaction has unfortunately been confined to academia, with little visibility or application to corporate leaders and their efforts in not only strategy formulation but also strategy execution.

In many leadership circles and boardrooms, there is seldom a shortage of organizational mission, vision, strategy, values, or beliefs (what I often refer to as "wall art"). But where it consistently breaks down is in dealing with concepts such as the strategic relationship dashboard, strategic relationship initiatives, and personal relationship development action plans—all of which lead to strategic relationship outcomes.

Strategic relationship planning is driven by a core set of questions around critical company business goals, including the identification of the most relevant and strategic relationships we need, critical relationships we already posses within and external to our corporation today, and a plan as to how to systematically, intentionally, and strategically add value to the social network we currently have to create leverage with the relationships we need.

This dynamic "Favor Economy" is the core motivator of the 17 million users in over 150 industries that have converged on a single online platform that didn't exist until only a few years ago.
Although many leaders have heard of LinkedIn, there are still many who are either under the impression that it is a fad that will simply go away or that it has little bearing on them personally or professionally.
What they neglect to realize is that 499 of the Fortune 500 companies have director-level profiles and higher on LinkedIn. Even Barack Obama recently teamed up with LinkedIn to reach entrepreneurs, small business owners, and executives, asking them very pointed questions regarding their needs from the next US president.

social bookmarking online experiment

2009-01-16T09:31:00.001-08:00

This is a xperiment to see just how fast I can get a site ranking and with loads of traffic.

I'm going to heavily rely upon Social Networking, Blogs and Social Bookmarking websites. These along with some really neat automated scripts, software and tools. Keep in mind this is going to be pretty much normal SEO work and I’m not going to dive into my blackhat bag of tricks to get this accomplished.

I'll be using some automated social bookmarking software tools, but not in a way that generates spam. You’ll have to subscribe to see it all in action and find out what I'm talking about. I'll update you with videos and posts to this blog. Be sure you subscribe by filling in your name and email on the top right of this page. You’ll be notified of any updates and it will unlock the door to some behind the scenes content. When it's all over I'll also share with you all the techniques I used and any software or tools that helped me along with way.

It’s Friday night at around 11:15 PM . I'm not sure if I’ll get much work done this weekend or not. If I don’t work on the site I'll start the official “countdown” on Monday the 19th.

I’m really crossing my fingers and toes on this one. I’m pretty confident I can pull it off (I’ve done it many times before) but this is out in the public for everyone to see if I don’t.

What is Wakoopa? A software social network

2009-01-14T08:01:00.000-08:00

A software social network——wakoopa.com
Wakoopa is the perfect place to discover software and games online. Sign up, install a small tracker on your desktop and automatically create your own software profile. Track what you use on your desktop (even web apps like Gmail) and share it with your friends through widgets or even on Facebook. Wakoopa will also give you smart recommendations based on your own software usage. Games, audio & video players, instant messengers or office tools: Wakoopa helps you discover the best apps out there. Software discovery is social again.

Share your experiences
Wakoopa allows you to share your software usage and your opinions about software. Just invite your friends to your profile or put a widget on your own site, blog or forum.

Find what you like
If you still don't know what anti-virus program to use, what games to play or which only community your friends use, then just look in our database. We know what the cool kids use! Browse by tag or category,it's all there.

Maybe you can join us......... which looks a little something like this:

http://wakoopa.com/Brothersoft

Create Social Opportunities

2009-01-13T18:31:00.000-08:00

Even Facebook, with its engagement ads, seems to be falling short. Less than 10 minutes into the Sheryl Sandberg-led Facebook panel at Advertising Week, when asked what the next big thing will be on Facebook, what did the group of agencies on the panel say? Branded applications.

Everyone is asking the same questions – what happens after a user clicks on my ad? What is the user experience AFTER the click?

Is the user taken to a page outside Facebook? That’s where most ads go. The problem is that most users don’t WANT to leave Facebook. So they come right back to where they were. And if you’re lucky enough for them to stay, congratulations, but you’ve taken the user out of the environment where they’re able to easily communicate and share your brand with their friends. What’s social about that?

So instead follow Facebook’s advice and send them to a brand Page. But what does the user do on the page? How compelling is the post-click experience? Without some investment the user will likely see a rather generic page, hardly differentiated or strongly branded, with little to engage with. Hopefully the user becomes a ‘fan’ of the brand, but why would the user return? How are users empowered to share brand messages with their friends? Has the Page not only built brand awareness but grown brand affinity?

Perhaps you take the plunge, follow the advice of Publicis’s David Kenny and the agencies on Facebook’s panel, and you build a branded application to engage users in a social context. The application is viral so users naturally share with friends. With the branded application the reach of the media buy is extended as each user shares with their friends, so even after the ads stop there is an active community of advocates sharing brand messages that not only build brand awareness but build brand affinity within their social circles.

The best solution for brand marketing on social networks combines a media buy for reach with a compelling application to provide branded engagement. Applications that build on the developer platform as a marketing channel for brand messages have the power to not only grow brand awareness but also build brand affinity. Applications that provide utility and entertainment, when shared with friends, not only spread brand messages, but the social connections help brands build brand affinity within the community on the social network. Ultimately, successful applications empower users to become brand advocates, sharing their brand affinity with friends.

Some Social Marketing Experiences

2009-01-13T05:10:00.000-08:00

1.Don't think of this account specifically to do Spam.
2.Select effective social network
Spam Socila Network Mashable,stumbleupon-related things more effective than Facebook,myspace and
others.
3.Go to "feed" a good account
Cultivation account is more important than the registered account.Using a good account Spam more
effective than one account with the new Spam 10 times.
4.Not just spectators, positive to comment
5.Note your title, tag or classification
6.Choice a great head
7.Maintain your own PROFILE
8.Social Network of Profile's SEO
Social Network but their internal search engine is still very effective as far as possible to increase their own SOCIAL NETWORK's PROFILE foreign chains.

Welcom to My New Blog

2009-01-08T22:50:00.000-08:00

My name is forrest. Happy New Year 2009 for all the developers and users who help Brothersoft.com in the past year.
As you see, here is the new home of Brothersoft on my blog. It doesn't matter that you are software develoers, programmers or just common users, please feel free to contact us for cooperate, support, business or friendship. We believe that all of users and us are a family.
Best wishes.