Indian Social Media News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

The latest attempt by Twitter to monetize its platform by launching a new  service “Promoted Tweets platform” with a handful of innovative advertising partners that include Best Buy, [...]