Archive for June, 2009

Location based Social Network Plazes bought out by Nokia

Friday, June 19th, 2009
Jun 23 2008


Sardar Mohkim Khan

logo_plazes With Nokia still surfing in towards acquiring more space in the social media that include Twango, Enpocket, Loudeye and a big buy off, of a mapping company Navteq; Nokia has furthered its approach by buying out Berlin-Zurich based Social networking service, Plazes. Though there has been no disclosure of what the terms and conditions of the deal could be.

Plazes was founded in December 2005 with initial funding from Esther Dyson and Marc Andreesen and had successfully raised from Doughty Hanson Tech Ventures worth $3.5 million and has 13 employees. The network provides location based social-activity, which can be used by people to share, record their day to day s social activities.

Nokia plans at integrating its services into its own mobile devices and Plazes considers the deal to be perfect as Nokia shares the same vision as their product with the power to bring a soothing presence to the millions of users Nokia has worldwide.

The Social Media Bible author lands CNN interview thanks to Megastarmedia!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Listen to the podcast with Annie Jennings PR on how using social media help land Lon Safko, author of The Social Media Bible, major interviews with the nations top hosts.

Listen to the podcast below:

The Social Media Bible – Podcast with Annie Jennings, Lon Safko and Sandy Rowley

Learn more about The Social Media BibleLon Safko Social Media Bible Interviews Mark Kingdon CEO Second Life

 

Mega Star Media

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Mega Star Media INC

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Megastarmedia has built more custom social networks than anyone on earth. With 10 years of experience and an A++ Better Business Bureau rating, they have been a trusted reliable source for many companies and people from the highly recognizable to some amazing startup companies.

Every Megastarmedia created custom social network has started generating revenue in one month or less. Each social network they build is completely custom-designed. Megastarmedia never uses templates in order to create the best match between your website goals and your social network, making it simpler to begin creating more revenue.

Megastarmedia has worked with some amazing people in their 10 years of business, everyone from The Oprah Winfrey Show and the University of Nevada to amazing startup companies like Swapish.com and BarnCulture.com. Megastarmedia boasts a 95% retention rate, which only happens with companies who truly value their customers, and provide exceptional customer service.

Megastarmedia, winner of two webby awards, takes pride in their custom social networks with built in SEO online marketing. They are Google marketing experts, who will design a unique social network for you website that drives more traffic to your website than you ever thought possible in a short amount of time. Every Megastarmedia custom built social network has begun producing revenue in one month or less.

Each Megastarmedia custom built social network will generate web traffic by carefully matching your site goals to custom designed social network software. Megastarmedia does not use any templates, and takes pride in building software uniquely suited to your web based business, your custom specifications, and your site goals.

An A++ Better Business Bureau online rating means Megastarmedia is a company you can trust to complete your work the right way. It provides peace of mind to business owners knowing their custom social network is being built by a trustworthy reliable company.

Megastarmedia also provides a 100% uptime hosting service to their clients, with the option of dedicated servers for your entire social network needs. Server downtime can cause a multitude of unpleased visitors to your site, and even if found and fixed right away may cause lost sales and lost revenues. In the highly competitive world of web-based business, missing even one sale due to server problems can be devastating. Megastarmedia’s always on hosting solves this problem for you.

Bing vs Google from Mashable

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

 Bing Google LogosSince Microsoft opened up its new search engine Bing earlier this month, there has been a nonstop flood of people comparing Bing to the current search juggernaut, Google (Google reviews). Does Bing have a better interface? Is it an improvement over Microsoft’s Live search? And most importantly, does Bing provide better results than Google?

      While there are a few tools out there that already compare the two search engines, none take the scientific approach quite like BlindSearch does. The experiment, formed by Michael Kordahi, provides search results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo and asks you to vote on which results are best. However, BlindSearch takes your biases out of the equation by stripping away the branding and logos.

      The experiment is both elegant and simple. Perform a search and three columns of results will appear. Each column has a button that allows you to vote for which set of results are the most accurate and useful. The logos will then appear to show you what you voted for. The system randomizes which column will have Google, Yahoo, or Bing results.

read more and view the results on Mashable.

Twitter power over Pepsi

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Twitter massive growth and marketing value

Twitter massive growth and marketing value

June 11th, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder

From the Urban Dictionary: “Jumping the shark – a term to describe a moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity. Origin of this phrase comes from a Happy Days episode where the Fonz jumped a shark on waterskis. Thus was labeled the lowest point of the show.”

Indeed, when a huge international corporation like PepsiCo recognizes you in such a way that it prints its Twitter address on a Pepsi Raw can (only in the UK, but still), you can no longer be cool or rad; you’re now part of the mainstream. Of course, those of us who are following Twitter(Twitter reviews) closely know this already, but if anyone ever needs a defining moment in which Twitter went from being that little microblogging service to an online powerhouse, this is it.

 

The question that everyone’s been asking at every such milestone – for example, when Oprah joined the service – is whether it means Twitter is making it big, or is it the start of its downfall? Actually, it’s a little bit of both.

pepsi_rawCan ubiquity hurt Twitter? In some ways, yes. Not everyone wants to be a part of something that everyone else is part of. In today’s longish and meandering rant, Trent Reznor touches on the subject, saying he’s all but quitting Twitter – among other reasons – because its popularity has dragged to it some people he’d rather not be in contact with.

However, when you have a service whose goal is to become a basic utility, like water or electricity, this is exactly what you want: everyone, from regular users to major corporations, thinking of your service as one of their basic identifiers, similar to a phone number, email, or a web address. When other corporations, big or small, as well as politicians, musicians, actors and other public figures all start thinking of their Twitter account as an essential part of their online identity, Twitter has reached one of its most important goals. Jumping the shark might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to them.

[image courtesy of Brand Republic]
http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/twitter-address-pepsi-can/

Facebook allows custom urls…finally.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

By Jessica E. Vascellaro

This Saturday, Facebook users get to replace the string of numbers Facebook has assigned them as a profile name with a personalized URL based on their real name, or another alias they choose.
Facebook

Your username here

This means Facebook users can find each other by remembering the address of a profile–tough to do currently, since profiles are currently in a format like www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=12345678. If users have opted to make their profiles public, anyone could get to them by typing in the new URLs too.

What’s the point? Some people want to use their Facebook page like a personal home page, viewable to anyone searching for them. One obstacle now is that many people have the same first and last names, making searching difficult. Facebook says the change will make it easier to find people or businesses through its own site or through Google or other search engines, since the new URLs can be unique and more easily remembered.

Users should pick wisely. Not only are they stuck with what they pick, but you never know where else these names might pop up. “We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future,” said Facebook designer Blaise DiPersia, in a blog post announcing the program.

Read more at Digit.com

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/10/what%E2%80%99s-in-a-new-facebook-username/

Learning curve with new blog from SmashingMagazine.com

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I love SmashingMagazine.com

this blog has thousands of inspiring articles, tips and resources for web designers, graphic designers and internet marketing types.

We downloaded the featured Wordpress Theme Magazeen and are now “playing” around with it on our live blog for Megastarmedia.com.

Feel free to post suggestions and questions about our progress. As always, we welcome  your advice and will even blog about it on this site.

all the best!

The Megastarmedia.com design team

Re design of Megastarmedia.com and official blog under way

Monday, June 8th, 2009

 

Mega Star Media INC designs concepts for Hallmark Mobile

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How to brand yourself online

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Listening

  • Build ego searches using Technorati and Google Blogsearch
  • Comment frequently (and meaningfully) on blogs that write about you and your posts
  • Don’t forget the conversations hiding in Twitter (use Summize.com) and Friendfeed. Be sure to stay aware of those.
  • If you can afford it, buy professional listening tools, like Radian6 or others in that category.
  • Use Google Reader to store your ego searches.
  • Use Yahoo! Site Explorer to see who’s linking to your site.
  • Use heat map tools like CrazyEgg to see how people relate to your site.
  • Listen to others in your area of expertise. Learn from them.
  • Listen to thought leaders in other areas, and see how their ideas apply to you.
  • Don’t forget podcasts. Check out iTunes and see who’s talking about your area of interest.
  • Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results.

more online here http://www.chrisbrogan.com/100-personal-branding-tactics-using-social-media/