SquareHub Design Your Own Remote Social Network Hub

SquareHub is a social network that is specifically designed for family and close friends. To start a "hub", but you will need to install a mobile app, and create a common connection to invite others to join. Participants will also need to download and install the application on your device. As it is with Facebook, Hub members can post photos and updates. His photo gallery includes a built-in effects and stickers that can be used to edit the images, making it a great place for a person, but interesting galleries. 

SquareHub works well to plan events Such as picnics and parties check every human schedule, create to-do lists and reminders to members. Group, you can choose to share updates among only a select few, and you can also use a separate pin one-on-one messaging. In addition, you can share updates with club members. These folk will receive an e-mail to your post, and can only respond like you.

Singapore Telco Starhub Launched Social Media Monitoring Lab Social Hub

Singapore telco StarHub launched a social media monitoring tool to improve its customer service know as SocialHub.

The Hub leverage the customer relationship management software, Which combines a variety of social media monitoring tools into a single control panel and follow the operator response times Easier . Previously the telco manually monitored and responded to customer queries on various platforms.

Deciding when and how to respond to inquiries or Facebook complaint , Where The observation Singapore Mobile, Pay TV and broadband works through local- tagged tweets, Social Hub presents the date we need,  said Darren Choo, StarHub's assistant vice president of Social Customer Relationship Management, in a statement .

Social Hub is currently in its call center will be moved to the company’s new premises by MediaHub by 2016. The device will synergize Upcoming social media lab for analysis with adaptive production studio, which will support its pay -TV business. These two devices will work hand in hand to improve the live TV production based on real -time social media conversations.

Facebook officially joins the Standard & Poor's 500, Prices Offering $ 55.05 per share.

Facebook said this afternoon that it has priced its previously announced secondary offering of 70 million shares of Class A stock for $ 55.05 a share. For this price, at $ 3850000000 stock will be offered for sale. The proposal is expected to close on December 26.

Facebook also said that Standard & Poor's officially included in Facebook stock venerated in the ranks of the S & P 500 index as the market close today. Where the 70 million shares of breakdown  27,004,761 shares of the total offered by Facebook, toffee 42,995,239 shares are being offered a total of some selling shareholders , including the 41,350,000 shares offered by Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook that money say how much it will be used to sell the working capital and other general corporate purposes.

It is important to note that Zuckerberg participation in the sale of shares does not mean that he is cashing out of the company he helped found. This week, Zuckerberg had a stock option to purchase 60 million shares of Class B stock, and Facebook says Kadi income from their class, The bulk sale will use the fees that it incurred with the purchase of class B.

Instagram and Facebook are the top free Windows Phone apps as of Year 2013.

December 15, it's time to look at the Windows Phone Store see which apps are popular. Instagram , Facebook , Kik Messenger, Pandora, and 6snap . These are the top five free apps currently in the Windows Phone Store. Paid top category will see the GPS voice navigation, SuperPhoto Facebook, switch to iOS and MoliPlayer Pro.

Instagram , which rolled out a beta version of its Windows Phone 8 app still on top Freeware Windows Phone Store. This long -awaited Facebook app bumped down to second place in the third week in a row. 6snap, unofficial Snapchat program is in fifth place. The official wine program remains in seventh place, and mint, long -awaited banking application remains in eighth place on the top free list. New + Rising category, Microsoft's own socle app released December 9, the top of the list.

Twitter backtracks on function block users after revolt

Twitter Inc. has been forced to nix their "block" function change Thursday after attracting protests from consumers who said that the new policy mandated offenders’ online content. Humbling reversal in one of the most sensitive political issues facing the social network came as Twitter user faced a revolt for the first time as a public company.

Under the short-term change, blocked Twitter user can view the tweet or not the person who he or she is blocked, but the activities are invisible to the victims as if made ​​at the expense does not exist.

According to the re- eliminating policy, users may prevent them from following their harassers or interacting with their tweets. Users also clearly informed if they are blocked. Before it departed, Twitter said on Thursday, the change was designed to protect victims of harassment who wanted to filter out abusive messages, but feared the block encourage consumers’ act of revenge.

Twitter decided to go back the changes after receiving feedback from many customers - we never want to deliver the functions to users feel less safe money ' vice president of product Michael Sippey wrote in a blog. At first, the chief executive Dick Costolo to address mounting criticism saying ,  Twitter, the new features have been widely sought victims of abuse .

However, many were not convinced within a few hours, the service was flooded with angry customers, including many who did not understand the nuances of the new policy , and hundreds have signed an online petition to reverse change.

Facebook gives auto-playing videos on mobile devices and the Internet

Facebook is experimenting with auto Playing Videos on your mobile news feeds (see it works after the break), but is now rolling out a broad change, no matter where you are wasting time on. New feature (recently added to iOS changelog) comes to all mobile phone users, and today I found out, it expands on the desktop as well. Now, Facebook has more channels than grapes and especially Instagram, especially the latter, because the sound will remain off until the video is actually clicked. Of course, this is more than just adding a few extra to the fight, because it can cause autoplaying video ads feed, which has been rumored for quite some time and is expected to start next year.

Microsoft Research team began Socl social network gets iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 apps

Microsoft Research team began Socl beta a year ago and it is still very much alive. Now , Redmond experiment could potentially have more coverage as the newly launched applications for iOS , Android , and of course , Windows Phone eighth These mobile apps to bring a lot of features into the mix, including the ability to create / share collages and funny memes , as well as able to network with different people on social site , among other things. those unfamiliar with Socl , his service in the early days was known inside the Tulalip , the time during which Microsoft calls it as a project that was designed to help people " find what you need and share what you know easier than ever.

After all, the Tulalip became what we now know as the Socl, the search -based social network that relies heavily on images and videos collected from around the web. Do not think Socl seek to compete with the big players, but (at least not yet), Microsoft Research, believes that “in fact quite complementary to sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest. Anyway, we leave you with all the relevant links below, just in case you are interested in getting involved in another sociable environment on the Internet.

The Twitter Signed a Contract with Mobile Software Company Myriad to Provide Access to Twitter Through Mobile USSD Service

Twitter is working hard to create a profile and use among people in developing markets, and today is one part of this strategy came into focus. He signed a contract with the mobile software company Myriad to provide access to Twitter through mobile devices without mobile internet connection, rather than rely only on text transmission technology called USSD.

Myriad deal with Twitter is similar to a partnership, which was made ​​public last week when Reuters reported the company U2opia Mobile has been linked to Twitter on USSD services. Although this article hinted as a site can work, Myriad has provided us with more information and screen.

Twitter access via USSD is not new: Myriad was offering it for a year already markets such as Argentina, allows users to post messages and read those sent by their contacts. However, this progression Twitter is now for the first time , officially confirming the USSD partners and it moves to step up their services to different concept : USSD users , at least initially, would be ' out ' experience in service , without the need to log in or even sign up, and it will be read-only , without the possibility to comment on their status updates .

USSD application in the background, is a short Unstructured supplementary service data, and it is a technology that is built into even the most basic GSM phones. USSD channel operates independently of the SMS do not even need to use the Twitter messaging. Other social networks like Facebook, have also been deployed over the USSD channel to reach out to customers emerging markets where PC penetration is low and mobile communication device.

Myriad also for many Facebook on USSD deployments we have seen, such as this one with the orange covering Africa. So far, Myriad had about 17 million unique users of its services throughout Africa, Latin America, in Asia (where he is working with Vodafone in India and other various markets) - about 20 countries , all of Facebook. Service has seen a strong take-up, with the deployment of one of Egypt picked up 50,000 new consumer a week when it first started. (This has been helped by a clever marketing tactic - user had to enter * 125 # to activate the service, a specific reference to the date of their spring revolution. )

Screen shot 09/12/2013 at 09.45.57 Twitter is a natural partner USSD services. How to send text messages, USSD text to 160 characters. For Twitter, it is even better than Facebook because this is text driven network, Olivier Bartholot says, many of San Francisco-based corporate development VP and GM facilities solutions. It's 140 characters, so it is perfect for what you can provide in terms of user experience.

For social networking, you can see an obvious interest in technology access to their services to those who either do not have smartphones, or who do but are loathe to spend money on 3G, or just do not have a way to link USSD -based social networking services are attractive because they can sell their customers the opportunity to value-added services.

While Facebook service includes two-way communication - users can search for friends, invite friends, accept or reject friend requests, post status updates and comment / like / unlike your friends' status updates - Bartholot says that Twitter has decided to take a different approach.

This is a " disconnect experience" and  you do not have to connect to the end user. Instead, the service is intended as a lean back more as a broadcast tool.  What happens is that we get a list of the proposed high -level consumers in each country. Since we create a list of categories. We get tweets from these users, and choose to follow show host and movie star, or a theme, like sports, the user get tweets from the people or selected categories.

The proposal will be highly localized in different markets. The specific operator in Africa, for example, you might want to create a category of weather update farmers, fishermen and others who work in the field. Operator in India may have to create observation Bollywood celebs. The mixture seems to be very practical / useful, and pure entertainment, like the wider Twitter experience.

One important element to Twitter USSD service stresses that it plays in the overall concept of how social networking services go ' round: more than 90 % of consumers are simply " lurkers " who read what others write, and most of the rest do so (and so are some of the starlets and bot - as news accounts have only write and do very little reading). This is a great way to give users a first taste of what Twitter is all about, especially outside the U.S the USA, Twitter is known. Elsewhere, not so much. Idea is to introduce and grow with the user and he or she will update more and more sophisticated phones and networking.

There are some compelling statistics to back up the USSD view Twitter and Facebook. In Brazil, for example, 265 million mobile users, but those who do not use the data regularly 210 million. They have smart phones, but they just do not have the funds to pay for a subscription. Even among smart phones, is not very high: 220 million feature phones, compared with 45 million smart phones. Myriad now have to install some 45 USSD services to carriers and radius 40 more.

The service is expected to start before 2014, there are still a few air balls. Bartholot adds that there may be more two-way communication added over time, as Twitter continues to monitor the take up of this initial service revenue. In addition, the company is still weighing how to serve advertisements on the service, and whether it will count it in your views for 1000 metrics.

Twitter and U2opia Partnering with Mobile Applications Provider That Access Twitter Without Internet, According to Reuters.

Twitter will soon be available for some international mobile users who do not have access to the Internet, according to Reuters. Twitter U2opia partnering with Singapore -based mobile applications provider, to bring aspects of their Twitter service users on phones that do not have Internet capabilities. Users will need to enter a short code and have access to a trending topic on Twitter in their respective territories.
According to Reuters, the users will have access only to the trend of topics, most of which will not be visible tweets. It does not appear, users will be able to send tweets using U2opia request.

Facebook has a similar partnership with U2opia as Google Talk. Fonetwish, the company's product, which allows users to access Facebook (and soon Twitter) in addition to the Internet, only works with text messages, which means that photos and videos will be shown . U2opia claims that more than half a million users from around the world access Facebook every month without internet.

Twitter has more than 218 million users worldwide, almost 80 % of them live outside the U.S. Similar to Facebook plans to add its next billion consumers in emerging markets such as South America and Asia, Twitter hopes same.

The tweets S -1, which was filed before its IPO in early November, the company is listed a handful of foreign countries as targets for increased consumer growth. Markets such as Argentina and South Africa were highlighted areas where user growth should, and probably will eclipse the growth of the United States of America. Making even the parts of the service available to users with older phone accomplish that step.

Twitter can be Confusing to Some People, Who are Familiar with the Service

As befitting the mass market appeal of the morning TV program, Costolo acknowledged that Twitter can be confusing to some people who are familiar with the service. For many people, when they come in Twitter language is opaque, we need to push the scaffolding in the background and bring the content to come with Media, photos, videos etc.

Costolo responded by saying that Twitter content efforts forward.  Twitter is trying to build on the existing consumer base 230 million monthly active users, has raised fears that social network is not as accessible as other mainstream social services. Twitter has yet to achieve the same mainstream appeal of Facebook, which has adopted a billion users last year.


Costolo also gave some vague advice to possible speaker. After all, he said, it's all about the type of person you are and express your personality through the infamous 140 characters.

This not only thing Twitter does social network more accessible to the mainstream. Recently, Twitter introduced a new feature that switches to the schedule include the answers to the previous tweets. It does not allow users to see the random, contextless answer to your traffic and instead puts the call directly to the stream.

Twitter New Targeted Advertising Hooks to Your Browsing History.

After testing it for a period of six months, Twitter is now rolled out the changes that will tie your ad information picked up from the Internet browser cookies. Advertisers will be able to share the details of the browser-related tweets, which can then match it to a specific user. Such information may include, if they are browsing from, as well as the sites they visit, to offer a "very important" ads based on the social network's official blog. Twitter is quick to mention that if you want to opt out of targeted ads on your high, you just need to remove the check mark promoted cell content of your privacy settings. It also reiterates its support for Do Not Track, and says that he will not receive the cookie ID, if you already DNT JavaScript in your browser.

Facebook changes the "Hide All" button to "Unfollow" from Your List.

Facebook has changed its "Hide All" button more concise "Unfollow" letting users block all messages and notifications from selected friends. As with the previous button, it gives users the ability to block content from certain people without hurting them, say, a de - friending option. The latter option terminates the relationship with that person on a social network, in addition to the notification.

It means that you're still friends, but updates from this person will not appear in your News Feed. Purpose of this amendment is to help people curate their newsfeed and see more of the content that they care about Facebook said in the letter. The world's largest social network is constantly changing your newsfeed - Home users look online - often reduce clutter , especially in advertising , and raised to the surface and reveal the messages is considered most relevant to any particular user.

Facebook began rolling out "Unfollow" button and change the related users on Monday. He added "execute" button near normal " Like" button on the page or near the "Friends" button on the personal timeline , which will also enable the users to block messages.

YouTube your subscription music service will reportedly appear in this year.

Despite rumors of its existence has grown over the past few weeks, reports, YouTube is still unofficial music services, as has been making the rounds, because, well, in March. According to AllThingsD, but the launch has been pushed back to early next year. Although YouTube has all the licenses it needs to launch a sub-based music service, is apparently not at all happy with the way things work now, and what was once almost certain to start in 2013 has moved to Q1, say ATD sources. However, if or when it is ready to install, it will not only fight Spotify and Rdio love, but also a video for the same owner All Access streaming service, which already sells a similar monthly payment musical offering. C'mon - both from the family competition never hurt anyone, right now.

Twitter's Stock Drops As a Key Analyst Sell Says.

When Twitter IPO took place in early November, less than a month, open stock $ 45.10. Today it started $ 40.78, faced with the Wall Street prudence much.
Two of the banks, which have helped ensure the IPO, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase, the company put a "hold" ratings, according to the Wall Street Journal report. Meanwhile, analyst Justin Post of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in fact, gave the stock a “worse” rating, basically advising investors to sell the shares as traded on the evaluation unattractive “for the unit. His goal is $ 36; it dropped from even the current level of.
Sell ​​ratings are relatively rare, especially for the IPO shares, as analysts want and need access to corporate management to further analyze the company and their work. To issue a sell rating and management cannot speak to the analyst, but more.
What investors now see, it is likely intended to reduce regulatory hyping the stock, which has led to the technology bubble in the early 2000s result. This regulation provides that excessive bank stock analysts and investment bankers are not supposed to cooperate. In addition, analysts are prohibited from issuing reports on the PVP client to 25 days after you have passed the public.
Today marks the first time that these analysts can publicly express their views on the stocks 25 -day window. It just so happens they have average target, which means that what they think stocks should rationally deal in the next 12 to 18 months is $ 41, which is about what it is trading today.

Facebook Encourages New News Feed Articles, Friends Old Posts and Buries Memes.

On Monday, Facebook announced a new News Feed - again - that they are taking some cues from the social network seen from user activity. Today's update ... recognize than people want to see more important news, and what their friends have to say about it, wrote Facebook. According to Facebook, this means that more high -quality news articles and less meme pictures.

"As soon as we do a better job to distinguish the quality of the site, compared to the meme pictures somewhere, with the exception of Facebook, when people click on those stories , " Facebook says . "This means that high- quality products for you or others to read may seem a little more attention to their news and meme photos can appear a little less attention. " Update will also be a new option when you share a love of sharing or other similar article, sometimes from the same publisher.

This is another effort to cooperate with media companies, while Facebook has been working for some time now. Becoming chummier with traditional publishers are Facebook interests because she wants news  sharing center , and the figures show cadmium plate shape is pretty good , why is not it better ?
However, this update means Facebook to give a "new media” cold shoulder. This allows you to Facebook against the anti - Imgur , anti- tumblr . And sites like 9Gag, Memeburn , Cheezeburger , Memecenter Viralnova and probably beat the new algorithm. (The exception here is probably the BuzzFeed , which drenches his readers listicles , memes , and a video message - but it is a Facebook partner , and a good view of it stays in the rotation News ) .

These changes are important not only in news reports and links; Facebook claims that it works to make sure that you also see a lot of status updates from your friends. "We've been bumping stories highlight new comments. Following people read the story, they are unlikely to return and find that story again to see what their friends have talked about it, and he would not bump up to News Feed Facebook explains. “With this updated stories occasionally arise that do not have comments from friends.

If you're starting from the pre- anger at this, I hear you : I feel like my News Feed was inundated weeks, even months - old stories that received one recently added a new comment. And I think that we are all equally horrified to drunkenly trolling through someone's old pictures, leaving a bit of a mischievous comment about the pictures since 2006, only to see it pop up in the News Feed bright Taking Ideas sober the next day. Why not remain buried in 2006 where it belongs? Why should I pay for my present day Facebook stalking!

We hope that all of this was a disappointment, because testing Facebook is doing to see how we felt about it. “People can start see more stories back to their feed to highlight new comments, Facebook says. "Our research has shown that this is so in moderation only a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends about the content of all types”. But we should expect that over the past few months, constantly resurfacing the old, old stories the test Stage and update will not be as dramatic.

After Blogger YouTube Has Created A Google+ Commenting System.

Earlier this month, Google launched a new commenting system YouTube has created a Google+. Google says its publication notes that supervision would move to top system also allowed private conversations going on around the image , and the proposed new measures to view the comments.

The new system was simply " better ", according to Google. As you may people disagreed. Of course , it was up to protest changes to the petitions . One does not Change.org 215,385 supporters this time of writing .

Internet security industry veteran Graham Cluely , who often expresses his thoughts on the changes to products online, writing about Google+ system has opened up unlimited trash . Google+ allows you to post links Which means , it's easier than ever to spammers , make- money - quick  scammers and malware distributors to get air time for their dangerous or irritating links .

Of course, it could be that netechnika working for a long time , as ( hopefully) a Google+ account will be suspended once the abuse of the system " Cluley adds . " It may sound as you set , but it's really pain in the neck if you 're lucky enough to have their online accounts compromised and exploited by spammers , who want to use * Your name * Your garbage scattered in social networks.

He mentioned that a video provider with 16 million subscribers disabled comments altogether because they were getting the best comments were filled with references to other viruses and spam sites.

Google responds to criticism.

" As we began to experience a new comment on YouTube two weeks ago, we received a lot of feedback from developers Comment Spam improve YouTube team said in a blog . An automated system to address the many issues that have been plagued by YouTube above comments also introduced new possibilities for abuse and shortly after the launch, we have seen some people use them. "

Google says it has implemented to better assess the links IMPERSONATION and tests in order to improve the detection of ASCII art and changed the way comments appear long.

"We know the problem has become difficult to use the new system for the first time , and we are happy to see you more involved , as we found problems," said YouTube. New features such as threaded conversations and formatted comments come alive , thanks to you and your fans. "

The company says that it will soon be more tools comment management, including bulk moderation feature. He also says that " s working on improving rankings and Comment moderation old-style comments.

Comment ranking algorithm really needs some major improvements. As it stands , some movies are just flooded with comments saying it video is because they are only Google+ shares . For example , people shared this video by Matt Cutts on Google+ , and let their followers know video is about. This is a great Google+ , but that does not mean that for a very good discussion about YouTube  people just cats.

Facebook App That Connect Your Friends Likes, Posts, Shares etc Each Other.

John Milner, founder Sanctri had this experience. It's a strange feeling  he says, describing how he wanted to write about this person is a graph , but it felt weird. Then something else to write about this person 's Facebook page - the mother . People " liked " his post, which also felt strange , as the term "like " has only positive connotations.

It seems that Facebook is not perfect place to deal with death, but as a network, which already connects the communities of loved ones, it's hard to find a better platform on which to grieve .
That is why Milner decided to create a Facebook app as Sanctri rather than a separate site.
For Sanctri , you can create Sanctri person or community group. You are in it to the site administrator and can invite others to view or participate in the site - your friends and family really need to sign up Sanctri be invited authors , but you can easily share Sanctri link via Twitter, Facebook or email them to opt in.

Along the border , where the authors can comment on photos and comments, every page also has a Lifebook , which basically digital scrapbook divided into sections where you can add both text and images. The app seems most natural to the Facebook account of a friend or relative who died in the replacement, it also can be used for a loved one who died many years ago , and perhaps have never used Facebook.

Sanctri is one of the few programs that tie-in with Facebook meaningful. Even if you have cousins ​​you never meet around the world, possibly related to their Facebook. thing you share with these people who passed Sanctri offers a place where it is both appropriate and tasteful connect through the connection.