Fate follows Malaysian airlines and hunting it down

2014-07-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

After the ill-fated M370 tragedy, another Malaysian airline flight, MH17, carrying 295 passengers crashed near Ukraine-Russia border. The crashed flight, Boeing 777-200, was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

It is reported that the flight was shot down by Ukraine force. While Ukraine President, Petro Poroshenko, denied that allegation.

On the other hand Najib Razak, Malaysian Prime Minister expressed his shock on tweet and launched an immediate investigation.

All the passengers on board are feared dead. This tragedy happened four months after MH370 mysterious disappearance on 8th March 2014.

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#crash #Malaysian_Airline #Malaysian_Airlines

Apple's smart partnership with IBM: An alarm bell for Blackberry

2014-07-16T05:10:00.001-07:00

In what could be termed as a trend-setter in fast-growing smart phone sector, IT giant IBM strikes a deal with mobile major Apple to create simple-to-use mobile apps to attract corporate customers.

This deal will make iPhone and iPads enterprise application friendly with IBM's best-in-class business apps supporting its cause.

It is a win-win situation for both the companies. With its core competencies in the cloud, big data & analytics, mobile, social and security; IBM is expected to boost Apple's plans to reach out to more and more enterprise customers, while retaining its die-hard fan-followings. While on the other hand, IBM is hoping that the simplicity and popularity of Apple will help to strengthen company's growth.

Apple's CEO, Tim Cook and IBM's CEO, Virginia Rometty, are very much positive about this deal. While the size of the deal is not disclosed yet.

According to the agreement, IBM will provide on-site support and service of Apple products inside companies. This will be like Apple's AppleCare service for its customers. Over 100,000 IBM employees will be made available for this Apple initiative. For Apple, it is one of the rare partnership, as the company in the past has kept it away from such alliances.

On the flip side of this deal, Apple-IBM partnership will upset Blackberry, as the deal will target at business customers of Blackberry.

Moving forward, we can expect more competition in the enterprise mobile market sector with Apple and Blackberry vouching for its own market share.

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How to get the maximum out of Social Media

2011-09-21T03:10:00.000-07:00

Whether it is personal or professional, Social Media has become an inevitable part of any forms of communication.

Social Media provides the best platform to reach out to targeted netizens or customers.

Before exploring the scope of the rapidly growing Social Media, it is better to understand the various genres of Social Media and the purposes it caters to.

What is Social Media?

The term social media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.

Communication experts Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.“

Social Media is a new marketing tool that allows you to get to know your customers and prospects in ways that were previously not possible.

Unique Features

Encompasses a variety of content formats (text, video, photographs, audio, PDF, PowerPoint etc).

Allows interactions to cross one or more platforms through social sharing, email and feeds.

Involves different levels of engagement by participants who can create, comment or lurk on social media networks.

Facilitates enhanced speed and breadth of information dissemination.

Provides scope for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many communications via a computer (including laptops and netbooks), tablets (including iPads, iTouch and others), mobile phones (particularly smartphones), and via interactive television as well.

Extends engagement by creating real-time online events, extending online interactions offline, or augmenting live events online.

Genres

Based on the purpose it serves, social media can be broadly classified under 5 different categories as follows:
1) Communication
2) Collaboration /authority building
3) Multimedia
4) Reviews & Opinions
5) Analytics

1. Communication

Blogs: Blogger, ExpressionEngine, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, Vox, WordPress, Xanga
Microblogging: FMyLife, Foursquare, Jaiku, Plurk, Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter, Qaiku, Google Buzz, Identi.ca Nasza-Klasa.pl
Location-based social networks: Foursquare, Geoloqi, Gowalla, Facebook places, The Hotlist
Social networking: ASmallWorld, Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Hi5, Hyves, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, XING , IRC, Yammer, Google+
Events: Eventful, The Hotlist, Meetup.com, Upcoming
Information Aggregators: Netvibes, Twine (website)
Online Advocacy and Fundraising: Causes, Kickstarter

2. Collaboration/Authority building

Wikis: Wikipedia, PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces
Social bookmarking (or social tagging): CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd
Social Media Gaming: Empire Avenue
Social news: Digg, Mixx, NowPublic, Reddit, Newsvine
Social navigation: Trapster, Waze
Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Blogger, VOX, MovableType, Typepad, LiveJournal, Drupal, Plone
Document Managing and Editing Tools: Google Docs, Syncplicity, Docs.com, Dropbox.com
Collaboration: Central Desktop

3. Multimedia

Photography and art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr
Video sharing: sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm, Google Video, tweettube, tubemogul
Livecasting: Justin.tv, Livestream, OpenCU, Skype, Stickam, Ustream, blip.tv, oovoo, Livevideo, GoToWebinar, Onstream, ON24, CISCOWebex
Music and audio sharing: ccMixter, Pandora Radio, Spotify, Last.fm, MySpace Music, ReverbNation.com, ShareTheMusic, The Hype Machine, Groove Shark, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Soundclick, imeem., blogtalkradio, AOLMusic, Yahoo! Music, Live365.com
Presentation sharing: scribd, SlideShare, .docstoc, Slide
Virtual worlds: Active Worlds, Forterra Systems, Second Life, The Sims Online, World of Warcraft, RuneScape
Game sharing: Kongregate, Miniclip, Newgrounds, Armor Games

4. Reviews & Opinions

Product reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com, Rate it all!, amazon.com, Listio
Business reviews: Customer Lobby, Yelp, Bazaarvoice
Community Q&A: Askville, EHow, Stack Exchange, WikiAnswers, Yahoo! Answers, Quora, ask.com
Survey: Zoomerang, Gallupoll, Poll Everywhere, SurveyMonkey.com
Presentation sharing: scribd, SlideShare, .docstoc, Slide
Virtual worlds: Active Worlds, Forterra Systems, Second Life, The Sims Online, World of Warcraft, RuneScape
Game sharing: Kongregate, Miniclip, Newgrounds, Armor Games

5. Analytics

Social Analytics: socialmention, sysomos, attensity, vocus, Statsit
Web Analytics: Alexa, Google Alerts, Nielsen Online, Trackur, Compete, Comscore
Behavioral Targeting: Linkedin, Omniture, Yahoo!, FetchBack
Internet Analytics: Google Analytics, Mint, Omniture, clickdensity
Trust Marketing: Truste, verisign, Thawte, McAfee Secure
Email Services: Feedburner, ExactTarget, VerticalResponse, iContact, ConstantContact, JUNO

What’s Next?

Migration of more and more Social Media applications to Smart Phones, Tablet computers and Interactive TVs will reach next level.

Collaborative Social Media forums such as Google Wave and iGoogle will gain popularity and it will help to build passion around brands.

Integration of Social Media inclusive search will redefine the way in which we use search engines.

More and more social circle based search will gain momentum.

Complete decentralization of social media will take place which allows roaming of profiles from one social forum/website to another as per your comfort.

Organizing and filtering content will become big business.

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