Indian Social Media News

Clicker, the site that bills itself as the TV guide for Internet content, has been acquired by CBS Interactive. Clicker’s co-founder and CEO Jim Lanzone has also been named the new president of CBS Interactive.
Jim Lanzone, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clicker Media Inc., has been named President of CBS Interactive, it was [...]

The global base of Internet domain names grew by nearly 3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with a base of 205.3 million domain [...]

Protests in Algeria intensified today, and the Algerian government responded by deleting Facebook accounts and shutting down Internet service providers across the country, according to The Telegraph.

In a volatile situation similar to that which brought down formerEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Algerian government has dispatched 30,000 riot police in Algiers, and is resorting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I regularly track a  lot of conversations on twitter and on blogs around international players (read brands). And have also noted most of the successful social media brands are the one who have a very clear understanding of what they want to achieve and how they want to engage customers on the social web. And [...]

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 [...]