Tag: social media

Badmouthing Employers On Social Media: A Sign Of Harmony Imbalancement In Life

Pooja Kashyap

We are in a public space, internet or to be more specific, social media knows no such thing as ‘privacy’. ‘Groups’ as in Facebook or ‘circles’ as in Google Plus are nothing more than illusionary barriers which in the real sense are thwarting privacy. Levels of privacy are mirage, an illusionary fence of the social networks, a concept, which is very much clear with the Facebook account holders. If internet is a vast ocean then social networks are aquatic concorde jets, creating ripping effects while at the same time gliding…

Read More

Sentiment Analytics Gives Wisdom Of The Crowd: Social Media

Pooja Kashyap

Immensity with which the social networks are growing is unprecedented in its own way. Facebook consists of roughly 1 billion users, twitter has 500 million users, LinkedIn has over 225 million users, Pinterest has more than 10 million users, Instagram uploads 5 millions images everyday and Google+ receives 5 billion +1’s daily. This is not enough, there are Asian networking sites boasting of more than 500 million users. For example, Qzone social networking website, which was created by Tencent in 2005, allows users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos…

Read More

Gamification: Understanding The Very Aspect Of Life & Work

Pooja Kashyap

Gamification is one of the most innovative strategies in getting insights for any organization. It also happens to be the most predominant approach across networking sites for creating a stream of dedicated user base. If we talk about it at an enterprise level, we find this phenomenon of using game elements in non-game contexts has been a lucrative offer for both the management as well as employees. The same process can be used effectively in dealing with outside segment that is the customer and the clients and the inner circle,…

Read More

Skype Rolls In New Architecture But Users Are HangingOut

Pooja Kashyap

Technology is improving every day, inch by inch, Google chats became Google hangouts, Facebook is rolling out with video ads, G modified its search engine car with a brand new engine called Hummingbird, all these changes/updations is done for a single aim, that is, to get more of the market pie and create a dedicated user base. Staying in the market for a decade, Skype too thought of going for its major architectural change. Although people behind skype have not disclosed the major change that we might experience but for…

Read More

Geeks Are Fans But Nerds Are Practitioners

Pooja Kashyap

Geeks are more interested in brands and so they talk about it with names, literally that is. On the other hand, nerds would talk on a more specific level. Their view of things would be depth oriented while it’ll be more broad with respect to the former. Software engineer Burr Settles from Pittsburgh scanned over 2.6 million tweets that came upon looking for the terms ‘geek’ and ‘nerd’. Based on his research, he formulated an equation, which determined the possibility of a specific word coming in geeky tweet or a…

Read More

Facebook At The Verge Of Cramming Video Ads Into The News Feed

Pooja Kashyap

Facebook is never afraid of trying new things. Its recent structured status update feature was a huge hit amongst the users. Before that, the cover photo was the much-hyped topic. This time, Facebook is planning to introduce video ads that’ll display on user’s news feed. Unlike the other videos, the ads will start to automatically play but that won’t be annoying, coz the readers/users won’t hear it as it’ll be on mute mode, unless users click on the video. Whether the new feature would harvest revenue or will it drive…

Read More