Saturday, April 24, 2010

Google Connects Blogger, Buzz Services

From WebPro News

Google Buzz, which still seems to be struggling to catch on with any sort of mainstream audience (or even a sizable niche one), has been given another opportunity to connect with people.  Blogger users will now be able to promote their posts with the new-ish product.

Chang Kim, a Blogger product manager, explained on Blogger Buzz late yesterday, "[W]e're excited to announce that Blogger has made it easy to share to Google Buzz via the Share button in the Blogger navigation bar.  Just click 'Share', choose Google Buzz, and you'll be able to customize your message before posting to Buzz."

Then one more interesting comment followed.  Kim wrote, "We are committed to make the sharing experience better on Blogger: more updates are on their way, so please stay tuned."

Anyway, it should be interesting to see if Buzz gets a boost in popularity thanks to this development.  To be fair, the move isn't an illogical one.  As the above picture shows, Blogger users could already promote their posts through Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader; it would almost be stranger if Google didn't add its latest "social" product to the list.

This step follows a pattern that involves pairing Buzz with Google Apps and Gmail for mobile, too.

Google Wants to Help You Expand Your Twitter Network

From WebPro News

Google has launched a new Labs project called Google Follow Finder. It's designed to help you expand your Twitter network. 

To use Google Follow Finder, you can enter your Twitter account name and see a list of people Google thinks you might be interested in following (our own Twellow has a helpful suggestion feature too). Google's tool will also let you enter other people's Twitter names and get suggestions based on that.

Google Follow Finder launched to suggest twitterers

"If you see someone you want to follow, just click 'Follow on Twitter,' log in, and they'll be added to your following list in Twitter," explains Associate Product Manager Aaron Wise. "This integration is based on Twitter's new @anywhere frameworks, which make it easy for any site to add Twitter functionality. We're using the frameworks to provide dynamic information about Twitter accounts and one-click following."

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Happy New Year!!!

I wish you all Sri Lanakans a happy and a prospouros new year!!! 
May all your future dreams come true...


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Believe it or Not, Self-Promotion Can Hurt You

from WebPro News

The interesting thing about online self-promotion is that it can be vital to your success, but can also make you look horrible, tarnish your reputation, and alienate people. There are good ways to promote yourself, and there are bad ways. Some of the bad ways are often looked upon as spam - things like blog comment spam, forum spam, or of course Twitter/Facebook spam come to mind.

As iFroggy's Patrick O'Keefe said in an interview we did with him at SXSW, it's just disrespectful to a person's space or community. "All kinds of online communities have their own form of spam," and people always cross the line, he says.


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Friday, April 2, 2010

Twilight Author To Release Short Story Online

from WebPro News
Popular Twilight author Stephenie Meyer said on her website her next book "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" will be available as both a physical book and online.

The book will be available for purchase in bookstores on Saturday, June 5 in hardcover for $13.99 and free online starting at noon on June 7 until July 5 at www.breetanner.com.

"I'm as surprised as anyone about this novella," said Meyer. "When I began working on it in 2005, it was simply an exercise to help me examine the other side of Eclipse, which I was editing at the time."
Bree-Tanner


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