Google+ Users Spend 3 Minutes Per Month

While we agree that with the amount of users growing on Google plus Facebook should have some eye on its competitor, the new data is that users prefer Facebook when it comes to staying on the platform. And the data is a real surprise as well. Courtesy comScore the new data reveals that users spent just around 3.3 min on an average on Google+ in the January month as compared to 7.5hrs on Facebook. These new stats obviously makes Facebook the clear...

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Online Contact Cards: Future Networking

Circulating the paper business/visiting cards at all meetings and gatherings is s much last century now. We agree its still famous among quite a few, OK let us be true to ourselves; the physical business/visiting cards are in good circulation at all meetings and we love carrying them, in our wallets and in our card holders! The paradigm has started to shift though. We see people moving from social gatherings to social platforms and from paper contact...

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Pinterest: Pin Or NoPin...

Pinterest Our first and last post about Pinterest on how to use the web-pinboard for spreading your business awareness. The whole web is flooded with news on how Pinterest is a hit and all so quietly. They now are supposed to be generating more leads to third party sites than even Google for Facebook. The UI has been and we now have a online catalog that might just be a threat to quite a few businesses related to image collection and artwork.  But...

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Spread Your Business On Google Plus Circles

Since Google plus in introduced its brand pages, people have been looking forward to use it for their business promotions. The feature itself has been a recent hit, like we mentioned in one of our previous posts here. For spreading the business and for people to follow your business, you would need users/clients to be in your circles and also have them add your business page to their circles. So how do you it since its pretty obvious you wouldn't...

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Google New Privacy Policy And Your Web History

From 1st March Google will start merging your web history with other Google products, like Google plus and YouTube. This is since the search giant is now implementing its unified privacy policy from that date. This policy will then start affecting the data that Google already collected from your profile before March 1st and then in future as well. The data that we are talking about involves the searches you made on Google and the sites that you visited. What...

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Profile Timeline On ApnaCircle Too!

[UPDATE 2/25/2012: One of our readers who happen to be a ApnaCircle team member (and part of the team that build up the Profile Timeline feature on the portal), answered a few of our questions/suggestions that we put in "Our Views' section at the end of this post. We are so thankful to Nicolas Karlen for taking out time to visit the post and reply to the questions and happy that our users are getting the benefits by way of these question/answers...

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Handle Unknown Friend Request: Should You Accept?

Familiar is it? Receiving a request on social sites from a person whose first-name you have hardly heard of is a common scenario these days. If you are also suffering from this syndrome, read on! In the pre-Facebook era there were social gatherings, not that they aren't prominent today, but in those times that was the only means to get to know people that you now see as 'Friends-of-friends'. And then in the gatherings, you could hardly see any unknown...

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Google Plus Brand Pages And Should Facebook Worry

Facebook fan pages have now existed or some time and Google introduced them around 3 months back. People and brands are already familiar with Facebook pages and are rather comfortable with the features especially the  apps and ads that the site offers. Should there be a worry about the search giant introducing the brand pages with its Google plus? BrightEdge, the search and social management platform has reported explosive growth for the top...

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Facebook Launches Verified Profiles, Nicknames/Pseudonyms Also Allowed

Is this Salman Rushdie effect(we refer to the Nicknames/Pseudonyms thing here) ? Well, for a start we do not know since that wasn't a case for either a Nickname or a Pseudonym. But it sure was a Fb-users-allowed-to-choose-their-names case. Our best guess is that it sure was one of the reasons! Who is complaining anyway. People would be happy with both the features, at least most of them! facebook verified account The feature...

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Facebook Timeline For Brand Pages : Are You Ready?

It wasn't long that since we posted about Facebook' Timeline for Individuals and gave you a things-to-watch-out-for. Timeline for profiles was launched last September and gradually came of for the global users. Some we are sure were caught napping and unaware! This time we bring to you news about the much awaited Timeline for Brands, rumored to be in bought in existence  by the end of this month, more precisely on 29th Feb, at...

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Smart News: Right There On ApnaCircle.com

Smart Search Box On ApnaCircle.com Ever wondered about a social media platform who provides you with news based on your usage and activity on the platform? Sure we all agree it would be so nice to log on to the site and be presented with news right there on the Home Page that is served absolutely to your needs. Yes we have heard about the LinkedIn news but for now since we are not there on the site, we will keep this post about the Smart News on...

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