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If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Google and Facebook.
The office of the prime minister
(PMO) of India, the biggest democratic
country, with a population of 1.3 billion people, has at last opened
an account on Twitter and announced its
decision today to join Facebook, following the old saying if
you can’t beat them join them.
Dr Man Mohan Singh, a renowned
economist and India India India
Fed up with the abusive posts,
morphed pictures and all sorts of twisted and contorted facts and false
accusation which appear in the social web in the name of democratic freedom and
criticism, Man Mohan Singh seems to have given up and taken the bold step to
take the bull by the horns and use the social web to communicate and set things
straight.
The timing of the move by the PMO
is interesting. A junior court in India, where petitions were filed against
Google, Facebook and twenty odd social media companies for breech of infringement
of a law only enacted last year, making companies responsible for user content
posted on their websites, had warned of a crackdown "like
China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
Last month, the companies said it was
not possible for them to block content.
However, Google and Facebook removed
content from some Indian domain websites today, following a court directive
warning them severe restrictive action if not complied.
Though no one really thinks that India China
By joining the networks, the
Prime Minister and his government is clearly showing that the Social web in India
At the same time India has also
sent the right signals, through its administration and judicial system that it
is in no mood to tolerate and live with excessive and irresponsible use of the
social web and will look forward to exerting the same level of control over the
regular media, as a country with religious sensitivities and prone to violence.
In fairness to Dr Man Mohan Singh
and his office, whose priority was to fire fight various political and other
crisis over the last two years, having the fun of tweeting and posting updates
like many other world leaders and millions of ordinary citizens is a reward long
over due.
Article first published as If
You Can’t Beat Them, Join Google and Facebook. on Technorati.
Can India Really Block Google And Facebook Without Banning Candles?
The simple answer, like in the case of China
Concerned with the rising and abusive character
assassination of the political leaders through morphed images and the dangers
of inflammatory posts in a religiously super sensitive nation, the flash points
of which the government has to strive very, very hard to keep from exploding,
the Indian government and now the Indian judiciary
have warned the Internet giants that they need to act.
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Will The New Facebook Profile Make “Nostalgia” Disappear For Ever?
Last week Facebook started
rolling out the much anticipated updates which were to follow their substantial
revamp aimed at catching
up with Google+. The timing was just right to create the necessary uproar
and interest among its 800 million followers and the rest of the world and make
them ready for the quantum leaps Mark Zuckerberg was
about to announce during F8, the annual conference of Facebook developers.
In fact Facebook went ahead and
implemented the change to its news
updates a few of days back which in itself drew wild worldwide reactions.
Though there seemed to be wide
support (more than 2000 likes and 100 tweets as received by this innocuous
comment, which raised the author to a HuffPost Influencer status) for the
changes, there were also avalanches
of protests from disgruntled users who objected to Face book’s arbitrary
choice of what the user should see in the status update timeline. One survey
showed disastrous results.
The main changes announced
concerned how News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper, and how
you won't have to worry about missing important stuff. Because all your news
will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the
top.
The other
most important feature was a new Twitter-like timeline called Ticker with real
time streaming of friends' activity like “likes” of an update, comments on a
post or subscribing to a page.
Though these innovations looked
nice, especially visually more appealing with larger photos and suited those
with a large number of friends or those who visited Facebook less often to
check friend’s updates, they seem to have incurred undue wrath of loyal
members, threatening to switch to Google+
The protests were surely
following a now familiar pattern:
“In the
history of Facebook changes, the pattern has typically been that users complain
loudly at first and threaten to
leave the site but then eventually learn to live with, if not
like, the new approach.”
However, Facebook has announced seven
important updates in the conference, of which the changes to the Profile
page seem to be the ones which will have far reaching consequences.
In a nutshell, the Facebook
Profile page is becoming your life story, your illustrated autobiography, a
chronicle in which everything you chose to appear right from your birth day,
everything you posted on Facebook reflecting your daily life and interaction
with those around you will be available to anyone who is allowed an access. The
whole information will be nicely indexed, year wise and moth wise for easy
access.
The social impact of such a
feature, available on the 800 million members and possibly billions who will
eventually join the network is, at the minimum mind boggling! We may bid good by
to “Nostalgia”, or the simple joy of
discovering a lost picture, for ever, because nothing is hidden farther from a
mouse click!
Article first published as Will
The New Facebook Profile Make “Nostalgia†Disappear For Ever? on
Technorati.
How Facebook Is Catching Up With GOOGLE+
A couple of months back, the attention was on the features
of Google+, the new Social Networking Site of Google, which were being sparingly
revealed to the world, much like a shrewd merchant revealing the end of the silk
he is holding out to the customer. Of course it succeeded in generating the
huge worldwide interest in Google+ and the phenomenal growth in its membership.
ComScore, a highly reputed business
analytics site reported that Google+ now has 25 million users while it took around
three years for Facebook and Twitter to achieve the same.
While the membership has no doubt shot up, it is not clear how the
users have accepted the features of the new
networking platform like Circles, Hangouts, Instant uploads, Sparks
and Huddles. Serious doubts
have been raised how useful and user
friendly they really are, despite the added
features Google introduced, leveraging on its own Browser, Chrome.
It was expected that Facebook
will inevitably introduce improvements to counter what Google would be offering
in the new platform. In fact over the course of the last three months it has
already silently introduced several small features and some important one like video chat
incorporating Skype.
However, the most important
improvement to the site which could counter the much tooted features of Google+
were announced only last week in the Facebook blog.
Unlike Google, Facebook has preferred to clearly explain the changes in very
simple ‘before’ and ‘after’ the change style, which everyone can understand and
are widely appreciated. Though there was favourable opinion from experts,
you could only palpate the richness of the goodies offered by Facebook only
since a couple of days. To be fair, they have turned out to be good stuff much
of the 750 million members of Facebook are going to like and appreciate.
The changes according to Facebook
in a nut shell are:
“A bunch
of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other
content with exactly the people you want, to make this more visual and
straightforward, bye moving most of your controls from a settings page to,
right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several
other updates that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or
your friends') in any context, organized around two areas: what shows up on
your profile and what happens when you share something new”
The beauty and simplicity of how
Facebook has gone about beating the circles of
GOOGLE + is by bringing everything you need to control your privacy in
to one simple circle and right where you need to apply them with the click of a
mouse.
At the heart of this clever
innovation is a drop down menu from which you can select the group of people or
person with whom you are going to share. This intuitive sharing engine is then
attached where it is required like your profile editing page in which it can be
applied to each of the menu item and your wall where you update your status and
share your media. The added bonus is the flexibility you get even to change the
sharing at a later date, if you change your mind.
This drop down menu undoubtedly
is a PLUS over Google+, in which you need to
pre select and compartmentalise your groups, who will receive different levels
of your favour and get to share what they deserve. To completely match the
segregation offered by Google+, Facebook will be expanding this over time to
include smaller groups of people like co-workers, Friend Lists you've created,
and Groups you're a member of.
Other
important changes include a button to show what your profile looked like to
others, another to add a location and tag the people you're with. You can add tags of your friends or anyone else
on Facebook and can review and approve or reject any tag someone tries
to add to your photos and posts..
Article first published as How
Facebook Is Catching Up With Google+ on Technorati.
What Is Hot On The GOOGLE Facebook War Front You Can’t Miss?
When GOOGLE Plus was test
released a few weeks ago, a new war of the Titans which could shape the
history of the 21st century, just started. A few weeks on, it is
interesting to see how new and unexpected events change its course.
With a massive
lead of nearly seven hundred million members worldwide, Facebook, without
doubt, is in a leading unstoppable position in the social media. Far from
anything its inventors designed or planned for the platform, Facebook is
credited with influencing or bringing about life changing movements like Spring
Revolution and the Jasmine revolution.
For GOOGLE Plus, it looked like this
gigantic vantage position of Facebook will be almost impossible to surmount.
However an array of hard core “suicide hackers”, who unlike the Al Qaeda or Taliban
have no particular allegiance, is proving to be great unpaid allies to GOOGLE
in this war against Facebook.
Despite the fact that GOOGLE
keeps the figures and truth about the membership and acceptance of its new
social media platform under the wraps, frustrating observers and Facebook, the
numbers look impressive from various “estimates”.
Though this can be credited
partly to the massive awareness creating advertisement by GOOGLE, the leverage
it is wielding from its existing flagship platforms like CHROME, inadvertently
brought in to play by the work of the army of the volunteer hackers, is
seriously and quickly shifting the sand under the feet of Facebook and other
social media platforms like Twitter.
For example, the hackers have
come up with powerful and ingenious extensions for CROME, the very popular
browser of GOOGLE, which shows the WALL of your Facebook page and your Twitter
Time line in your GOOGLE Plus page!
The CHROME extension called Extended
Share For GOOGLE Plus is particularly “nasty” being a feature which allows
you to repost your Post to Four other leading Social Networks, Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr and others.
What this means is those visitors
no longer need to visit Facebook or Twitter to post in to those or check out
what is new with their friends with the help of the extensions like the
following, already available to CHROME users.
- The GOOGLE + Facebook Extension
- The GOOGLE + Twitter Extension
- G+ME: Collapse the GOOGLE+ Stream in to a Dhashboard
- How to Make GOOGLE + Top Bar Sticky
To counter this onslaught of
GOOGLE, Facebook also have come up with much needed features like Video Calling and some ingenious
ones like the Open Air browsing stations in Holiday Resorts and Hotels where
you can log in to your Facebook page in your swim suits and bikinis!
Article first published as What Is
Hot On The GOOGLE Facebook War Front You Can’t Miss? on Technorati.
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