LinkedIn is a pioneering business social networking website. One of the most popular social network for business professionals to connect with contacts and on some occasions make new contacts. In Europe its giving Xing a good run for its money. General bit of statistics on Xing v/s LinkedIn (source):
Xing
November 1, 2003 - 5 1/2 years [...]
I was at The 2nd Annual iMedia UK Agency Summit conference three weeks back. One of the most inspiring speech was from Luke Johnson, Chairman of Channel4. I think he hit the nail on the head by openly discussing where the television industry and Channel4 is in regards to the current economic crises.
Special thank to [...]
A good online marketing campaign often means several initiatives like blogs, white papers, viral videos, images etc. The question often arises, where should marketers upload this data ?
Lets take an example, say a second hand car dealership writes a blog on the latest cars. In order to make it more interactive they insert pictures and [...]
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I’m currently on a mission to create a single resource for list of APIs for developers to integrate into their website. I’m releasing them in batches, this post is dedicated to integrate chat into your social network. Our favourite so far is Imified API.
Instant Messenger / Voice Chat
Facebook Chat API (Unofficial) : Facebook [...]
As a social networking provider our job has always been to deliver what is required. We are a major supporter of OpenID and will remain till it makes sense for our customers. We have developed several sites supporting openID including East Hampshire and GazetMe (video below):
Although we like the industry feel that times are changing, [...]
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Recently we conducted a research on the 15 top video API’s (Application Programming Interface). some interesting facts came out of the research:
Most video APIs (actually all) allow users to embed videos in some form or another. Generally by copying a bit of HTML.
(Second) most common use of the APIs is to search based [...]
Image by DrewVigal via FlickrLike any content managed site social networks and community sites can be optimised to be well ranked on search engines. By the shear volume of content on social networks they are well ranked and can boost external site’s page rank (Measurement of the authority of page on the world wide web, [...]
As a social media junkies, we tend to live and breathe social tools. Some of these tools might be of interest to our readers. Let us know if you find them useful:
Multimedia
1). BBC iPlayer- Watch BBC programmes
2). Favtape - Listen to music in your browser. The successor of Muxtape
3). YouTube - Watch Movies and Listen [...]