India’s First Social Network for 2008 Mallya sees opportunity in Social Networking

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Inderjeet

Now Vijay Mallya has expressed its desire to jump onto the Social Networking Bandwagon by launching India’s first sports related social network for Force India F1. The social network hopes to position itself as an engagement tool for all F1 fans in India irrespective of the team they support.

There are extensive community building features on Club Force for ForceIndia and F1 supporters where supporters can create personalized blogs, upload videos, photos and connect with each other through forums and groups. The site uses social networking technologies for community creation. Essentially there is not too much innovation in terms of what the network can offer to the user.This is to just promote their brand Force India F1.

The Network is an infant but in terms of creation of conversations and user engagement it has done recently well. Have a look at the Club Force Stats:-
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Mobile Social Networking with Cellware

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Inderjeet

As I mentioned out year 2008 will see
emergence of great social networks and networking technologies
 of all time.

One such example of social networking technology is mobile social networking which is evolving at break neck speed.

Social Networks are adopting this feature into their mainstream applications and synchronizing with the wireless carriers globally to expand their reach.These social networks like facebook,myspace,dodgeball,snockles,etc. are also creating opportunities for their users to communicate on their mobiles and earn for generating content.

One such mobile network I will discuss here is Cellware.com.It is a service that adds a new twist to the mobile social networks. Like Nokia’s MOSH, Cellware.com allows users to share mobile content, but also adds a benefit to the content creators allowing them to actually make some money along the way. In addition, they’re providing their members with “fun and easy to use” tools to help them make mobile content, and again, monetize it

Cellware is a Mobile Social Network site with the largest selection of content for your phone on the net. Continue reading →

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How to access cPanel while behind firewall using cPanel Proxy

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Inderjeet

Good news for Webmasters,Bloggers,Website Administrators and those behind strict corporate firewalls who are not be able to access their web host-provided cPanel (the platform and interface for managing you web hosting account). Now here comes the solution to this -Install cPanel Proxy on a sub-domain (like http://cpanel.yoursite.com).

cPanel Proxy is a small PHP script that gives access to your cPanel (including webmail and WHM) at port 80 by acting like a proxy .(For people behind strict firewalls.) It can be installed by server owner, reseller or end-users.

Below are the steps to set it up:

  1. Download the latest version (current: 0.4.1) from cpanel proxy from here and extract the contents to your local disk.
  2. Create a sub-domain.(like cpanel.maindomain.com) Now, for this you will need to have access to cPanel. So create this when you are at your home or any other place other than the restrictive firewall location.
  3. Upload all the files to the root directory of your sub-domain. Ex:- public_html/cpanel
    That’s it! Now you should be able to access the cPanel at your sub-domain.

And if you don’t know how to do this I can do this for you for a minimal amount of 3$.
Put in your views about this cpanel proxy script and is this proving effective for those who are using it.

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Badoo-The Most Fastest Growing Social Network Site

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Inderjeet

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Badoo, seems like some confusing word from Oxford dictionary ,no,no,no Badoo is a social networking site which is there to simple up your life.

Badoo has over 12.7 million users worldwide at this point of time and is now ready to take the United States by storm in 2008.

Some quick Facts and Features about Badoo:

  1. Badoo was brought to life in 2006 in London
  2. Badoo spans its reach to 180 countries already,still more to come.
  3. As a good global social networking site, Badoo offers its members the ability to communicate in seven different languages, and it will triple in 2008.
  4. It has an alarming 1,000,000 new members joining each month.
  5. stories, ideas, photos and lives.
  6. Annual Google Zeitgeist ranked Badoo as the second fastest-growing global search term only behind the iPhone
  7. Badoo is a self-funded, ad-free community site where members are not bothered by advertising, banner slogans or pop-ups.
  8. Badoo Members enjoy the site’s lightning-quick uploads of photos and videos that enhance the customization experience.
  9. Badoo has a a whole set of features which Myspace and Facebook have but its “Rise-up” feature is quite unique ,by this feature your profile can rise up to the front page giving it the extra importance and visits,this feature is charged normally at a rate of 1$ or 1 denomination depending upon your country.

So as I said previously new networks are taking speed.The legacy networking sites have to keep pace with these or there traffic subtraction is near.

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Can BigAdda become India’s Orkut!!

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Inderjeet

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India’s social networking site, BigAdda, which could give Orkut and Facebook a run for its money is expanding its roots in young India.
With Bigadda check your scraps on your phone,send friend requests from your phone, have discussions in as many as eight different languages.You can make your own adda’s (community) or join present Adda’s all on Bidadda.com.

What makes Bigadda a most happening social networking site??

  • Soon Bigadda will be available on wireless and mobile phones
  • It has an estimated 1.24 million users so far, for its five-month age and is fast catching up among Indian youth, especially in tier 2 cities like Guwahati, Nashik, Surat, Tuticorin, Bhilai and Amritsar.
  • Bigadda is experiencing a tremendous growth rate of nearly 15,000 people signing up everyday
  • Bigadda is extremely careful about the privacy factor. It also has an option of allowing only your friends to view your scraps and messages,locking them for strangers.

The basic purpose of the social networking site “Bigadda” is to help people connect and since the mobile phone has become such an inseparable part of our lives with over 450 million users, it makes sense to make available the service to such devices as well, as claimed by the company.

I think most of the social networking sites have to prepare themselves up for the severe amount of competition ahead,because such new sites are taking over a share of market at a break neck speed.

What are your views about these sites and and what do u think of the competition ahead ,go ahead to express your views in comments.

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Web browser for social networks and Web2 -Flock

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Inderjeet

As I earlier mentioned that this is the year of social network and web applications aggregators in my recent post
Social-networking-aggregators-Focus applications for 2008 this is coming out to be more than what I expected…

One such aggregator cum web-application is Flock which is The Most Popular Social Web Browser and make’s it to the CNET’s list of “Best Mac Software of 2007″.

It is a browser, evolved for people. It is free to download and use. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to share,communicate and exchange information in a smooth manner.It is downloadable software. Search for its dump quering for Flock in google search engine.

Flock with its previouus release of 1.0 has been highly useful and acclaimed by both users and critics and now this mountain view based company started in 2005 has launched its flock1.1 which has added new functionalities such as:

  1. Web Mail Integration-To integrate Gmail and Yahoomail so that users can easily share web pages, images and articles with a simple click.
  2. Friends Activity-It helps you stay in touch with your favorite people across Flock’s supported social services.Flock alerts you whenever some of your friend make changes to his profile or posts a new message or uploads a photo.
  3. Picassa Integrations-Flock which was previouly supporting photo uploads from Flickr has now integrated with Picassa ,the most popular photo sharing service.You can integrate your Picassa albums with FLock and drag an drop your favourite photos and albums.

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How to create your own social network

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Inderjeet

You all may be wondering about how can we make our own social network.Now some startup companies some distinguished and some miniature allow you to build your own customized social networks,these are known as “white labelled” social networking platforms.
The idea of white labeling a network is to make the platform provider as invisible as possible to the social network’s users and to brand the network with the builder’s identity or intent.
There are three categories by which we can make our own social network:

  • By using the Social Network Platforms these are basically do-it-yourself ways with minimum support and interaction from the platform provider.These platform provider includes the following sites:
    1. Ning
    2. Collectivex
    4. GoingOn
    5. Me.com
    6. PeopleAggregator
    7. OneSite
    8. Haystack
    9. KickApps
  • By using the Social Network scripts which are downloadable and you can host and then installed on your servers and use them for your company or for personal use.These include
    1. PhpFox
  • By using the customized solutions which make a social network for you according to your demands and needs and charge you monthly for that.They provide fexible and tailormade solutions to big organizations and media groups such as Oracle,Reuters and many more.They do changes and maintainance as per your demands.These companies include the following:
    1. http://socialplatform.com
    2. http://www.affinitycircles.com/
    3. http://www.alstrasoft.com/
    4. http://www.awarenessnetworks.com
    5. http://www.blogtronix.com/
    6. http://www.boonex.com/
    7. http://www.broadbandmechanics.com/
    8. http://www.converdge.com/

Refer to this detailed chart ofhow to make social network companies statsbefore going for any decision on deciding for your solution.

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Remote Management Solutions from Uplogix

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Inderjeet

Good news for network administrators,Uplogix has brought for them a meaningful and efficient solution to help them maintain their network applications and computer networks even when they are spanned at multiple physical locations.
With the Uplogix Envoy appliance, network administrators can monitor connectivity, fix problems, automate maintenance tasks, and log changes for the entire network from one location. Envoy is always connected, even when the network goes down, so administrators can quickly get things running again without having to travel to a remote office or serve.
It also have the strongest security, encryption, and authentication standards to ensure network security.
With uplogix Out Of Band Management solutions network administrators can sleep at ease without having the network blues.

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