Bringing Google Plus To Work

Google has been evolving with their social network Google+, pushing updates that help people in more than one way. So while the recent updates have been focused around individual profiles on Google plus, on Wednesday Google announced a tool inside Google plus but specifically designed for business. The features accompanying the tool will be in a full preview mode for the Apps (Google Apps) customers. The preview mode will be free till the end...

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Facebook iOS Camera App Updated

The Instagram deal may not have closed fully yet but Facebook seems to be showing the cards and the next steps on mobile arena. The company is really taking the mobile market seriously and in fact seems to be going ahead from where they were some time back, plus improving on the web user experience as well. Back in May this year, they introduced the iOS Facebook Camera app which though didn't full fill all the expectation of the Apple smartphone...

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Brand Ambassadors of ApnaCircle.com

Last month we covered the start of the Brand Ambassador Competition on ApnaCircle.com. The competition which was to end around the beginning of this month was extended, it seems due to the number of entries and responses received in the Brand Ambassador group on ApnaCircle.com. The competition finally came to an end yesterday, while the winners were announced on the same group as well as ApnaCircle' Facebook and Twitter accounts. We present to...

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Jumpin Naani vs Naani Campaign

Time and again we all get surprised on the ways web users and even brands use their social media presence. And not only how they use it but also for what they use it for. Considering these two areas, we bring to you today a very nice way of helping an NGO by a very popular brand of juice drinks, Jumpin! Remember the scorching summer afternoons when after running around the playgrounds all we required was a nice place to sit under a tree shadow...

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Google Testing Gmail Results in Search

Ever experienced the results for which you were Google-ing for some time was available in your mail (Gmail to be more specific)? You are not alone, once or twice we all landed on our face as we already had what we were searching for. Google thinks and says "you shouldn’t have to be your own mini-search engine to find the most useful information— it should just work,". That's precisely why the search giant has started a pilot program for its search...

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Google Plus Launches Vanity URLs

After Facebook and Twitter offered the feature to its customers some good time back, its seems the Vanity URLs are again in fashion. Not that they ever went out. So after ApnaCircle launched Personalized URL feature a couple weeks back, its now the turn of the search giant to finally announce the feature a good 3yrs later Facebook started it for its users. More reasons why it was long due. Vanity URLs, to reiterate again, are also called Personalized...

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Google Acquires Frommer's

Ever heard about Frommer's? If your answer is no, chances are you will hear the name quite a few times in days and weeks to come till the acquisition completes and the company finally merges into and becomes a part of the search engine giant. Yes, Google acquired Frommer's a travel guide service from John Wiley. The acquisition amount is undisclosed as of now (and seems it twill be that way) and it also is pretty unclear on what the search engine...

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Vanity URLs Now Possible On ApnaCircle

Facebook denied having it but there was a way to do it after all. Though its possible to do so only one time, you can change and create your own Vanity URL on the world's leading social media site. Vanity URLs or Personal URLs, as they are also called, is a way for you to be able to choose and change the user name that is part of the URL of your page/profile so as to be able to remember and help your network remember your web link easily. ApnaCircle,...

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Outlook.com, The New Hotmail?

1996 was it when Hotmail was introduced and straightaway became the holder for your mail accounts? Long time it was and people were already filling up the base. may be a couple out of 10 visiting cards mentioned a email Id other than hotmail.com. Then a sudden drift when other players started making ground and it was time to make some updates. So they did and people loved the new look on Hotmail. But apart from the preview pane that seemed not to...

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Google+ Tops Customer Satisfaction, Facebook Suffers Setback

Did we see this coming? Well the answer would be affirmative in majority of the cases. The social media giant suffered with a low score compared to the expectations on the customer satisfaction chart. The near 1yr old Google plus scored more than Facebook in the same category, in fact going past everyone and shares the top spot with none other than Wikipedia. The survey done by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) a couple of weeks before...

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Facebook Beautifies Photos & Notifications

Facebook has started rolling out changes to its photos page on Timeline as well as on the notifications that you receive about your photo posts. As per our last update today, users have started seeing the changes on the notifications drop, although major of the users have still confirmed the photos page to be still the same (read the-update-not-yet-received). With this update (as you see in the capture above) the Timeline photos get bigger and...

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Google Plus and Blogger Integration

This shouldn't come as a news to you in case you already logged in to your blogger dashboard since last week. But in case you haven't there is a nice surprise there that may miss the eye. Blogger now has another option in the form of a new tab in the vertical menu that sits in the left side of the dashboard. See that? Yes, Google+ is now a new family member in between the other useful tabs. We know what you are thinking and we agree with you. This...

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Google Acquires Wildfire

Two founders, a 4yr old service, platform for brands like Virgin and Spotify to manage and build up on their social efforts across the social websites, manage their pages, apps, tweets, advertisements and promotions etc..... leading to a startup that was valued somewhere between $250Mn to $350Mn. The deal closed a couple of days back with Google announcing the acquisition of Wildfire! "Four years ago, we set out on a journey to make social media...

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