Indian Social Media News

Evernote, has launched a new version of Evernote for Android (version 2.6). The new version comes with a number of fantastic new features and behind-the-scenes enhancements. The latest version can be availed from the Android Market »
With this update, Evernote introduces a Snippet note list view. The Snippet View is designed to be more dynamic, [...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare media appearance on60 Minutes earlier today.
The founder of the  whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks that turned the political and media world upside-down with its timed releases of confidential government information. His organization is responsible for releasing the Afghan war reports, the Iraqi war logs and most recently the U.S. diplomatic [...]

Facebook amends the rules for access to additional personal information of Facebook users. Postal addresses and mobile phone numbers.
Last week Facebook announced that users personal information will be made available to Facebook third party application developers. Postal addresses and mobile phone numbers will now be requested after updating the Social Graph API. To access [...]

 
Aircel, a leading telecom player with pan-India operations and a subscriber base of over 50 million, introduces an innovative way to connect to your family and friends on Facebook, a social site with over 500 million users around the world, through the new Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel.

For the first time, Facebook Voice [...]

Yesterday in US Google Launched Instant Search; with this Google search engine faster and more dynamic, with an international rollout to come very soon.
The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another [...]

Brilliant Idea: What Coke team has to say:-
A good story takes time to develop. Take the time to brainstorm your idea and let it develop into something people will relate to and want to share, Iannacchino said.
Look at videos online to see what’s successful and what isn’t. Most often the most successful web videos [...]

Every brand is realizing the power of Social media and the publicity opportunity that a brand can achieve by doing a social media reality show (UGC contest). MTV (Music Television; in-case you have forgotten the original name) decided to test social media and wanted to get someone who can be a liaison between the hulk [...]

Internationally, there are many CEO’s, Executives, CMO’s who connect with TA by sharing their voice via their blogs. Some of the popular names that come to my mind are as follows:-
Bill Marriott, Chairman (CEO of Marriott International)
Bill Gates Blog (Microsoft)
Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems)
Craig Newmark (Craig’s List)
Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks)
John Dragoon (Novell)
Ross Mayfield (Socialtext)
Kevin Lynch [...]

Google has acquired ITA, developer of the airfare search and pricing system QPX that is used by major airlines. The deal is for $700 million in cash. By acquiring ITA Software, Google plans to offer new flight search tools that makes it easier for users to comparison shop for flight options, availability and airfares.
 
 Press release [...]

In my post on Social Commerce, I had mentioned about www.woot.com, a very interesting Social shopping website which deals in only one product a day. Idea is to provide the best rate on one product every day. Most of the products they sold from the stock and as soon as the product is sold out [...]