Monthly Archives: February 2008

LinkedIn on Mobile

LinkedIn has released a mobile version, to access it go here: m.linkedin.com.
   
I remember trying to access linkedin from my mobile here: www.linkedinwap.com It never worked. Was it a hoax ?
Tags: linkedIn, Mobile

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Social Networking in various continents

Alex the good man just sent me this link in French. Check out the market share of Facebook globally. In Asia it doesn’t have any market share. The Asian market is the biggest in terms of size of internet users but not in terms of social networkers. Orkut is big in Asia and Latin America. [...]

Posted in Bebo, Europe 2.0, Facebook, Myspace, Social Networks, Web World | 3 Comments

Facebook in Borders

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to go to borders and this magazine caught my attention:

A magazine that allows you to learn how to use facebook on the web, mobile etc. The magazines gives you links to celebrity profiles on Facebook. How Cool NOT!
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Tags: Facebook, Borders

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Real Growth potential in "Niche Social networks”

Today BBC has an article about Facebook’s declining users.
Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data from Nielsen Online.
Rightly it doesn’t mean its the end of Facebook, its just a slump in 3 big social networks: Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. What I’m more interested is in what [...]

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BusinessWeek: Social Media Will Change Your Business

Business Week has a very interesting article about Social Media, thanks Alex for pointing it out. The article is primarily correcting their earlier writeup about Social media in 2005.
When we published “Blogs Will Change Your Business” in May, 2005, Twittering was an activity dominated by small birds. Truth is, we didn’t see MySpace coming. [...]

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Alternate Sources for Investment for your startup

This might be more relevant to young entrepreneurs looking to raise finance. So a question asked often at young entrepreneur seminars is: “How can I raise finance?”

I thought I’ll try and answer this question here. So if you are looking to raise finance through traditional investment routes like VC (Venture Capitalists) or institutional investors it [...]

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Importance of Networking: Young Entrepreneurs

Make Your Mark is the national campaign to create an enterprise culture among young people in the UK. The organisation releases monthly newsletter, this month’s topic is importance of networking. I was delighted to contribute to the newsletter as a guest writter:
Download the PDF: Make your mark Connect newsletter

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Kwiqq Community over 1K users in 1 month

I think its worth pointing out that Voxswap.com - (follow it in my previous post) one of Kwiqq’s communities has just crossed thousand users in less than a month.

Voxswap as you know is part of Kwiqq V2 series. Given the site had next to no marketing budget and all users joined through word of [...]

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WAYNs way to monetise your social network

There are several ways to monetise your social network, especially when you have over 10 million users. WAYN last week announced :
a deal that will see its members offered a branded pre-pay credit card.
The traveller’s network has agreed the partnership, with Tuxedo Money Solutions, to allow its 10.8m users to sign up to the [...]

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Reminder: Kwiqq at TFM&A

Just a quick reminder that Kwiqq will be exhibiting at Technology for Marketing and Advertising in Earls Court London on the 12th and 13th Feb

You can find the details in my earlier post.
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Tags: TFM&A, Technology, Marketing, Kwiqq, London

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