Games in Google + to compete Facebook Gaming?

Google once again proves that fun never ends. This social media giant has incorporated Games for Google + project.Google Plus project is sensational and the fan base is substantially increasing. It has circled all our relationships and now add real online fun.

Games in Google + let you to explore adventures and share your experience among circles.Learn how to connect games in google +,

• Click Game button from Game pages on top
• You may get latest game updates from your circles
• Also you may invite, check latest games played by people in your circles
• You can also share your highest score records, and if not interested you may just ignore and focus on conversations.

Just play and click 'send feedback' button in the bottom right-hand corner of any page in Google+. This move directly challenges Facebook Gaming.



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Facebook "Expected:Child" Status for Pregnant Woman to Make Public

The social networking site Facebook values emotions and has unleashed a new option for pregnant woman to set their status as "Expected: Child" to their profiles. Google+ move has made this SNS to think ahead and incorporate new stuff to retain their followers.

With this option one may share her due date and even the chosen baby names. This is a simple way to propagate that they are pregnant to their family, well-wishers and friends list.Facebook has initiated the option of adding Family Members on Account last December.

Then recently announce exclusive business page to improve the life-style of growing business sectors.But this "Expected:Child" option enable them to share without creating any pages.They could simply edit their profile settings and choose "Expected:Child" to share their joyous moments.(Read More:Facebook Business Page, A New Social Media Marketing Tool)

Some may feel this is absurd and akward to share but it is definitely a boon for persons who are lazy enough to convey this face-to-face and by phone calls. Any how this would help for statistical persons to approximate the expected population in near future.

But to be honest technology has ruined our innate emotions and made it virtual.



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Edelman BlogLevel and TweetLevel to Know Social Media 'Influentials'

Edelman, the globally recognized PR firm has launched a spectacular communication platform for absolutely free. The BlogLevel and version of 2.0 TweetLevel rock as influential tools and pointout who is influential on a particular topic, on a designated platform.

They are based on  original TweetLevel which MTV used to select its first “Twitter Jockey,” dubbed one of the top Twitter moments of 2010.

The influentials for TweetLevel and BlogLevel are found in Twitter and Blog space respectively.These tools are built on proprietary algorithms using 40 dissimilar metric to trace and score bloggers and tweeters of different nations and language.

The influential tools project the people who scored highest for their best  initiative ideas and the persons who amplifies it and getting substantial followers.TweetLevel and BlogLevel have already undergone Beta-testing by more than 400 people of various profession including journalists, professors, industry analysts, marketing professionals, journalists and brand marketer.

They have implented the tools to track the,

• the most relevant and influential users on various topics
• the amount of buzz and noise around a specific area
• the dialogues people are having and the links they’re sharing
• what any given tweeter or blogger is discussing, influencing and being influenced by

It is a progress for blogging concept as discussed by  onny Bentwood, director and head of influencer engagement, Edelman UK, led the development of both tools and explains how the tools differ from others designed to track influence: “Most of the other tools that are out there focus exclusively on Twitter and Facebook profiles and ignore other online activities like blogging.   With BlogLevel and TweetLevel, we can consider influence more holistically.  For example, it’s clear that blogs are more influential when their content is search-optimized and discussed in social media channels like Twitter, so those are metrics we’ve built into BlogLevel.”

These tools would definitely enables to run effective campaigns and to produce more intelligent reports for clients by knowing the exact thread-starter(influencer) and influentials.

Distinct Features of BlogLevel and TweetLevel

• Distinct metrics for “idea starters” vs. “amplifiers”: BlogLevel and TweetLevel distinguish between people who are “idea starters”– the people who originate ideas or are first to surface news – and the “amplifiers”’ who spread other peoples’ ideas. Both are influential, but BlogLevel and TweetLevel recognize and emphasize their influence differently.
• BlogLevel algorithm considers the discussions on other social media platforms and search optimization: Unlike other blog ranking tools, BlogLevel ranks importance by how much a post is discussed on Twitter and how optimized the blog’s content is for search.
• Broadcast to engagement ratio: TweetLevel places higher rankings on people who engage in conversation and post relevant content as opposed to those who simply post their views.  TweetLevel analyzes every tweet to help communicators match their brands and issues with the right people, increasing the efficiency and relevance of influencer outreach and engagement efforts.

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Facebook Business Page, A New Social Media Marketing Tool

Facebook is steadily progressing to stay top in social networking media. With this view, they have created Facebook For Business Page. The main trick is to support the growing business people by providing a channel to connect potential prospects and to generate traffic.

The Facebook.com/Business page comprises with profile page, sponsored stories, Ads and Platform. It gives a step-by-step guideline to start and promote your business from a scratch. This is not a great move, but it is a good start. (Read More:Facebook intros free Every Phone App World Wide)

New users can create page to explore the benefits an also the existing users can find place for refurbishment.This would simply get you wide presence and the Ads will earn you dollars.Followed by Google's Google+ launch Facebook is very tensed to bring up renovations to their Facebook.

Google's Photovine and acquisition of Pitpatt for Face Recognition has shaken the basics of Facebook to implement video chat in association with Skype.(Read More: Google to launch Photovine new Photo Sharing Social Networking Application)

Just start your business expedition by connecting http://www.facebook.com/business

Facebook also made photo tagging more simpler.
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You may have noticed a box appearing on the right of your home page called "Photos are better with friends". This is a new way of telling you about features we have added to Facebook such as our Photo Tag Suggest. We showed this over 2.7 billion times to help people to learn about the feature and how they can control it.

Using Face recognition software they match your new photos to other photos you're tagged in. We group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.You may either enable or disable it.


Just start your business expedition by connecting Facebook.com/Business

Google to launch Photovine new Photo Sharing Social Networking Application

Google set to project sizzling hot photo sharing application, Photovine.  Photovine sounds to be a photo sharing software service program. It is predicted that the users can customize the themes and could share among the circle.

This computer software is dedicated for communication services including visual image transformation and data transfer through telecom, wireless, internet, information services and data networks. The new Google Photo sharing social network can be accessed only based on invitations.

The news was leaked earlier when the company applied for trademark on June 7. And also the information has leaked that Google own the Photovine.com where you can have fun by meeting the people from Matthew Gibson.

Google Photovine is a new step and its acquisition plan started from 2004 by roping Picasa photo sharing services. This clearly demonstrates that Google is processing to top the chart in social networking services and sites.

We shall wait and see whether Google would integrate Photovine with Google+ or not. And I doubt whether Google may acquire Apple iCloud Services too or roll out plans to beat it.

For now, let us watch the gimmicks and simultaneously poke for any Facebook new releases. I have applied to join Photovine and received mail from Photovine team as,

Hi Vishnupriya,
Thanks for your interest in Photovine! We've received your email and added it to our wait list. We'll be slowly rolling-out invites starting later this month. We're very excited about Photovine and can't wait for you to join us!
Thanks again for signing up and for your patience while we distribute invites.
Cheers,
The Photovine Team

Facebook intros free Every Phone App World Wide

With a view to make its fans engaged and enthralled, Facebook has launched Every Phone App. This new app will let the users to stay connected through their phones irrespective of where they are located. Other interesting aspects are photo uploading and find friends’ option from phone contacts.

Facebook have vibrated this astonishing facility over 2500 different phones. Users can also get access the existing News Feed, Inbox, and Photos features. People who are enthusiastic to test this unique option can download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into their mobile browser.

Or else they may approach app stores with including GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver. To make this initiation successful Facebook has collaborated with worldwide carriers to access this app for free (upto 90 days).

Every Phone App start working from today on every Java enabled mobile phones. Facebook is also working on different phones to provide compatibility. It is an optimized solution and aid to use less data.

In India Airtel and Aircel offer this exciting app for free.

 Carriers offering free data access for a limited time:
•   Aircel (India)
•   Airtel (India)
•   Banglalink (Bangladesh)
•   Beeline (Russia)
•   Celcom (Malaysia)
•   Etisalat (Egypt, Nigeria)
•   Globe (Philippines)
•   Idea (India)
•   Indosat (Indonesia)
•   O2 Telefonica (Germany)
•   Reliance (India)
•   Smart (Philippines)
•   Smartfren (Indonesia)
•   Telkomsel (Indonesia)
•   Three (Indonesia, United Kingdom)
•   TIM (Brazil)
•   TMN (Portugal)
•   Ufone (Pakistan)
•   Vodafone (Turkey)

Facebook is keen to introduce innovations since its rival Google Plus is thriving to capture top niche in social networking.