More Changes to the WWE Night of Champions PPV Card

More Changes to the WWE Night of Champions PPV Card
– Below is the updated card for Sunday’s WWE Night of Champions pay-per-view, coming out of tonight’s RAW. The Six Pack Challenge will now be held under Elimination rules where… Continue reading…
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Web Is Against The Ropes, But Not Dead
I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. If you have 20 minutes I think you’ll enjoy watching. I’ve also covered the general topic in the text below the video embed.
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National media call for Vick to start
After Michael Vick’s performance in the second half of the Eagles’ loss to the Packers, many in the national media are calling him to take over as the starter.
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Investors, please do not try building another Facebook!

Investors, please do not try building another Facebook!

During the Worldwide recession the lotteries jackpots are still huge therefore people winning them still need to invest few million of dollars or euros or any other currency to some business Internet business is still one of the most attractive directions of investment. Now it is very difficult to create a competitive and successful e-shop, web design studio, online project management service or any other affiliation site because of huge competition. Some entrepreneurs still try to create social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, but majority fails. Does that mean that no one can repeat the success of Twitter or social which started with very little budgets? Probably not, but only 1 of 100 attempts may succeed.

What about bigger chance of success? Let’s see what big social networks offer to people:

* Lots of contacts to choose from different countries, speaking different languages;
* Lots of interests to discuss using social networking tools such as micro-blogging, groups, forums, social bookmarking, file share etc.
* Unified communication features for all members;
* Generic forms of marketing and ads;
* Possibilities of using third parties applications (widgets) to satisfy specific needs.

When people have general interests in communication with people worldwide in own and general language huge social networks are the best solution. No one can beat social or MySpace in traffic as they satisfy this communication thirst. However still remains the need for communication in local circle. Example is Hyves.nl social network in the Netherlands, which is more popular than social or MySpace. There is a short presentation illustrating the local networks versus social and MySpace usage.

The newest hype of WWW is Twitter – the simple micro-blogging platform with lots of the additional services around. Twitter is huge, but that is not going to last forever because of Twitter clones. Someone counted more than 200 of Twitter-like sites in different countries. That shows the power of the locally based similar services to giant social networks. If someone has a spare million of dollars, he/she should think about creating a local social network in some country or region (example of regional social networking success is Netlog.com – one of the most popular Social networks in Europe). Of course there is almost no market without competition (I doubt there is big market in Zimbabwe where people do not have electricity, not speaking about computers and internet), so it is good to analyze the market first.

If we look at the social networks list we can clearly see another interesting criteria – the interest based social networking. That’s the main competitor of big social networks, as they cannot provide the interface for every interest. All they can do is allowing third party widgets to be installed making the profile and management of the personal space messy and troublesome (look at the MySpace profiles). The interest based social network can be international; therefore it can be easily tested on some local markets first and then launched internationally. That makes management of investment easier and more effective.

What can be the main interests of people to be transferred to virtual space in the shape of social network with friends ties, status updates, blogging, picture, video exchange, bookmarking features, groups and chats etc.? Classmates, dating, blogging, job search are the main ones attracting huge amount of people, but still there are some other areas.

Let’s review it personally. I have a Russian Blue cat so I participate in such social network for cat lovers as UnitedCats.com (by local country, of course). If I would like to leave this network I would choose a brand new CuteAsHell social network for pets in general. Why I like this social network instead of social Russian Blue Cats Group with almost 300 members? Because it has very nice features for cat lovers such as virtual gifts (all kinds of kitty toys and equipment what makes this gift feature unique), photo voting is called “Pat the cat”, blog can be written on behalf a cat or owner which make really interesting to read. Also I know that some of the participants of this community are professional cat breeders which can really give me help if my cat gets sick or I do not understand her character. Neither social or MySpace cannot give me that.

I travel a little, therefore I participate in travelers social network WYAN.com where people share their reviews about countries, tours, day trips and of course shares pictures of the places of interest. I can easily make decision where to go and what to see. I always can share my plans and can even make some friends in that country to meet them once I arrive and hear another story about the country rather than tour guides tell. Probably I will have lots of troubles looking for similar information in social and Myspace.

As a professional I have my profile in LinkedIn and participate in local professionals discussions as well as global ones. Here I can share my professionalism, participate in discussions about specific work related issues. Here I can find another job, or find the entrepreneurs for my business plan. Have you ever seen people who are hosting their resumes and CV in social or MySpace? I have not.

As you can see the interest social networks are very good for sharing the personal interests and setting the communication among people with similar interest. In social I always see my friends speaking about the things I am not interested or even do not understand (hear programmers speaking – if you are not in IT market their language will be like gibberish). In the interest social network I will always understand what my peers are talking about.

Investor should think if there are any interests which are covered quite poorly. For example pet social network market is quite saturated as some serious people made some investment. But maybe bikers’ social network still would make a nice ROI? There are always some profitable markets uniting golfers, cooking lovers, photographs, poker players etc. which must be investigated and some competitive social networks with unique tools created. Technologically it is not very difficult as there are so many open source systems with huge social networking add-ons collections.

Another important feature of new social media should be a flexibility to adopt new trends in case some phenomena like Twitter emerges in next couple of years. Status updates are so popular (like SMS in Mobile world), that every social network must have this feature and in some cases it must be better developed to fit the needs of specific interest. For example poker players community enjoy the icons of cards speaking about their hands, however Twitter cannot have any icons. So maybe poker related Twitter clone FTsweat could provide such feature? Very big attention must be paid for internal messaging system as it may become very powerful communication and marketing tool. Look at the MySpace example. They have 125 million of active internal messaging system users and once they will build a webmail service they will automatically become 3rd largest email provider in the World. Interest based social network may never do better email service as Yahoo or Gmail, but some handy features can keep some members using internal mail outside the social network space.

Creating social network is not enough. Every social network should have additional applications for third party websites – widgets and apps for iPhones and G-phones and all the rest new type of mobile devices allowing not to use computer for communication. Without them every social network is doomed sooner or later. But let’s leave this topic for future.

Summing up. If you are an investor, please consider creating local or quite narrow interest based social network in order to kick Facebook’s and MySpace’s ass. That’s not impossible. That’s better than wasting money creating one more social or MySpace.

social group topic question?

Question by Thokul: social group topic question?
I’ve recently made a social group and have noticed that it only displays the tree most recent topics without the user having to go into see all.

Is there anyway to make more than the three most recent ones appear without going into see all?

Best answer:

Answer by Jess R
Sorry, but there is no way of displaying less or different topics, it is always going to show the three most recent.

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@KianEganWL u are be trending topic on social Kian. Many Indonesian Westlifers talk about u.

@KianEganWL u are be trending topic on facebook Kian. Many Indonesian Westlifers talk about u. – by Clau_McLittrell (Claudia Meliana)

10 Ways to Use social for Increasing Web Traffic to Your Site

10 Ways to Use social for Increasing Web Traffic to Your Site

More than 115 million people login to social every month. It is the largest social networking tool and a great place in the web for building your brand and driving traffic to your site. However, if you are not familiar with the viral techniques that work in the social platform, soon you will find your brand tarnished. You can gain quick exposure to your businesses using the techniques discussed in this article.

1. Build a social network. Before you start implementing any of the techniques discussed here, you need to develop a network of social friends. To do that, join a few groups that are related to your business and a few groups that you are passionate about.

Ask people in the groups to add you as their friend. social also has nifty tool that suggest people you would like to know. Send request to these people to add you as their friend. Send a short note explaining why you want to be their friend. If send 20 requests a day, you will have a network of more than 1,000 friends in two months.

2. Update your status every day. Login every day and update your status. Don’t use status messages like “I am sleeping now”, “Just came from work”. These types of status messages are not interesting. Use quotes from famous people about a specific niche, for example love, dedication, work ethics, peace, war, etc. You can also use jokes. Your aim is to draw people’s attention to your messages so that they would click on your profile to know more about you.

3. Wish birthday wishes everyday. social also shows upcoming birthdays of all friends in your network. Every day send birthday wishes to friends whose birthdays are due. Read their profiles to know more about them and write a nice personal message on their walls. Don’t use canned birthday messages for everybody.

When you write on a friend’s wall in Facebook, everybody in the network gets updated news feed. You need to write something that get attention. You may craft a 10 to 20 attention grabbing birthday messages and than personalize them slightly for each friend.

4. Create a business page. Besides your personal page, you should also create a business page. Creating a business page is similar to creating a personal page in Facebook. Design a nice logo and use it for your business page picture.

Next, become a fan of your business page. You can use your business page to launch targeted social ad campaign. Promote your social business page using blogs, blog comments, etc. and ask people to become a fan of your business. Use some promotional materials, like free t-shirts, free eBooks etc as incentives for becoming a fan.

5. Tag promotional photos using friends’ names. Upload all promotional photos to your business page. Some people tag these photos with the names of their most influential friends in the network. Your promotional photos will show up in your friends’ news feeds. Once you setup a network of friends, make a list of friends with high number of friends, preferably more than 1000. Setup your mini network to tag each others names in promotional photos.

6. Change your relationship status regularly if it is possible. One of the least frequent activity in social is changing the relationship. Because people don’t change their relationship frequently, social places a great deal of importance to relationship change and send the news feeds to everybody in your network whenever there is a change in your relationship status.

People have explored this loop hole to attract attention to their profiles. They change their relationship almost weekly and try to attract visitors to their profiles. It is up to you to adopt this technique because it may not reflect your true relationship status. If you do adopt this technique, don’t forget to publish some promotional materials in  your personal feed.

7. Attend Multiple Events. True to its college root, social is all about friends gathering at some place for an event. social gives high priority to events in the news feed. Your goal is to RSVP all the events in your network even if you miss a few of them.

When your friends see you as a frequent event attendee, they consider you as an event resource. The trick  is to show your name in all the places you can. As your friends see your name multiple times, some will be curious to check your profile.

8. Import your blog post. If you have a blog, import your blog’s RSS feed into Facebook. social will publish the articles in the feed as social notes automatically. Encourage your friends to comments on your articles in social notes. You can also tag friends in the articles but don’t overdo it.

9. Post comments on popular groups. Visit popular social groups that you have joined regularly and post comments. Just like blog comments or forum posting, Facebook   comments on popular groups will attract attention to your name and profile. Add something valuable or post a link that adds value to the topic under discussions.

10. Start your own events. Events are very popular in social and if you can promote it properly, it will have viral effects and thousands will register for the event. Send invitation to your network friends who have thousands of friends in their networks and also to attractive female friends in your network who may not have a large number of friends.

The Cleaved Granite

The Cleaved Granite

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Lenses I want for Christmas

I have two lenses on my Christmas list this year. They are the Nikon 300mm 2.8 and the 85mm 1.4. Both look like a lot of fun! If anyone has an older one they are selling, let me know. What’s on your list?

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Daily Photo – The Cleaved Granite

Getting to this spot in Glacier National Park wasn’t easy. It was even tougher trying to get Ethan and Tina into the exact spot too. Even though this area had all this cool granite around it, there was a bit of a swamp there that we had to traverse first. And, just around the corner was a nice sandy beach!
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Lee Doren Question & Answer at Oberlin College

Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com The Oberlin College Republicans & Libertarians invited Lee Doren to give a lecture at Oberlin College in front of 100+ students on December 1, 2009, which was part of the Ronald Reagan Political Lecture Series. The topic of the discussion was Avoiding Leftist Indoctrination at College. Please Subscribe to HowTheWorldWorks

How can i start my speech? my topic is facebook?

Question by lenii_34: How can i start my speech? my topic is facebook?
I’m doing a speech on social and i dont know how to start it. Please help 🙂

Best answer:

Answer by solarenergy43
start like this, “Did you know that social and myspace originaly began as an online dating service?”

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social & Dekazeta

social & Dekazeta

Image by Dekuwa
Usada en Dekazeta en Facebook.

Punk Goes Classic Rock Album Trailer (Hot Topic)

Distributed by WMG Punk Goes Classic Rock is available now in-stores and online everywhere. Pick up a copy today at Hot Topic for .99 or download it on iTunes: bit.ly The 9th release in the “Punk Goes” compilation series, Punk Goes Classic Rock, will feature a selection of the best up-and-coming alternative rock bands doing their own cover versions of classic rock tracks. Songs Featured in the Trailer: *Mayday Parade – “We Are The Champions” *Hit The Lights – “More Than A Feeling” *The Almost – “Free Fallin'” Myspace: www.myspace.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com Justin.TV: www.justin.tv PureVolume: www.purevolume.com iLike: www.ilike.com Track Listing: 1. Hit The Lights “More Than A Feeling” (originally recorded by Boston) 2. VersaEmerge “Paint It Black” (originally recorded by The Rolling Stones) 3. The Almost “Free Fallin'” (originally recorded by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 4. Mayday Parade “We Are The Champions” (originally recorded by Queen) 5. The Summer Set “Rock ‘n Roll All Nite” (originally recorded by KISS) 6. We The Kings “Caught Up In You” (originally recorded by .38 Special) 7. A Skylit Drive “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” (originally recorded by Journey) 8. I See Stars “Your Love” (originally recorded by The Outfield) 9. Pierce The Veil “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (originally recorded by Blue Oyster Cult) 10. Forever The Sickest Kids “Crazy Train” (originally recorded by Ozzy Osbourne) 11. The Maine “Pour Some Sugar On Me …
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