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Pakistani Girls Pictures and Clips on YouTube and Facebook

By Amna Gilani • Dec 20th, 2009 • Category: Misc

I am not a huge fan of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and such social networking tool. For me, they are just a waste of time, and besides they compel the people to not to indulge in the physical world and that makes them mechanical objects. That and such websites have become a fad which is also [...]



Official Retweet feature to share tweets

By Bilal Sulehri • Nov 21st, 2009 • Category: Features

I just got the official Beta Retweet to share tweets.
Here is what the welcome note looks like

Although have been using retweet from hootsuite, tweetdeck and seesmic, I think its Twitter has done the right thing.
I can Retweet by clicking the Retweet link at end of each tweet posted by those who I follow

And when [...]



Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Affiliate marketing is 15 years old this month—CyberErotica is said to have launched the first program in 1994. The adult industry has always been ahead of the curve, but I digress. Despite 15 years of existence, which is essentially an eternity in “online years”, the performance based marketing method is still in its infancy. Sure, [...]



RankSpeed’s Sentiment Search Engine Tracks Blogs And Twitter

By Sumaira Bajwa • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Detecting sentiment in content on the web, including Tweets and news articles is becoming an increasingly popular way of interpreting data. With that it mind, RankSpeed is launching a search tool that does a sentiment analysis of Tweets and blogs.
RankSpeed lets you search for any keyword or tag on a website and attach a sentiment [...]



Facebook Lite: How Will Twitter Respond? Twitter Lite!

By Sumaira Bajwa • Sep 12th, 2009 • Category: Technology

So, we now have Facebook Lite in the U.S., a slimmed down, sexier version of Facebook. It’s been said for a while that Facebook may have a long term problem with Twitter because it was too bloated, while Twitter was so light and simple — talk of that should die down now.
So how will Twitter [...]



HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business

By Sharafat • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Technology

If you’ve used Twitter (Twitter) for more than a couple of hours, you’ve probably already seen a tweet or two containing a word with the hash symbol (”#”) attached to it. That’s what Twitter users call a “hashtag,” and at any given time at least one of them can usually be found among the trending [...]



Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst

By Sumaira Bajwa • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Technology

There are plenty of Twitter tools out there designed to help you understand TwitterTwitterTwitter metrics. These tools come in handy for measuring change in tweet fluctuations, charting follower count numbers, finding out hashtag frequency, and quantifying Twitter activity.
Most of us, however, will find ourselves wanting to know more about the tweets themselves, and to really [...]



IBM’s New Remote Control Will Tweet Your TV Watching

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Technology

There’s no doubt about it: TV is getting way more social. A recent patent filed by IBM reveals that Big Blue wants to help it get even more social, by developing a remote control that will automatically blog and/or microblog what you’re watching.
The patent talks about a networkable remote controller that can “send a blog [...]



How Facebook Ruins Friendship

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Technology

But I don’t give a hoot that you are “having a busy Monday,” your child “took 30 minutes to brush his teeth,” your dog “just ate an ant trap” or you want to “save the lets.” And I really, really don’t care which Addams Family member you most resemble. (I could have told you the [...]



Woofer: The 1400 Character Anti-Twitter

By Sharafat • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Even though plenty of us have found ourselves shortening our tweets to meet the 140 character limitation imposed by Twitter (Twitter), very few of us ever really need 1400 characters.
For those few, however, may we present you with Woofer, the anti-Twitter site where every woof (their equivalent to the tweet) must be at least 1400 [...]