Social Networking: Facebook - Adding Friends

Facebook For Internet Marketing Newbies!

My first tip for you is to use a separate Facebook account for running your business. Whilst it's nice to show everyone you have a human side, like to have fun and indulge in a bit of banter, it's for the best to maintain a professional approach to your marketing. You don't have to be a marketing robot but people who are interested in your business will be more likely to respond to something you've posted relating to internet marketing rather than a post about taking your dog for a walk!

My second tip is to use a good picture for your profile and use your real name. You can go for the standard business attire like a suit or something smart casual. Either way, looking professional is a good idea. There's nothing overly wrong with looking like you're having fun but pulling a stupid face or holding a can of beer could possibly give people a different impression to the one you're trying to make. Also, focus on your face and make sure it's clear to see. People always like to put faces to names and vice versa.

Adding Friends

To build up relationships and help put your name out there look to add around 25 targeted friends per day. 'Targeted' means relevant to you and your business. You're wasting your time if you add somebody who has no interest in what you do. Find people interested in Internet Marketing. Search through group pages on 'Making Money Online' etc because these are the people that have an active interest in what you do and a friendship will be formed easily.

Because you'll start your account with zero friends you need to make sure you don't look like somebody who randomly adds because Facebook frowns upon that and could ban you. To start with add people you already know within the industry (your mentor etc) and then go for the people who they are already friends with. These people will see you know the said person and will almost certainly accept your request.

DO NOT ADD 25 IN A ROW!

Spread out these requests through out the day as Facebook will cotton on to your multiple adds and ask you not to send the request if you don't know the person. You'll end up with warnings and possibly a ban. 25 per day, week in week out is perfectly safe. You'll soon notice that once you've built up a friend list of over 500 people, you'll end up getting more and more requests from like-minded people and your list will explode.

I have over 2,200 friends. When I first started I was adding 25 a day and hitting my targets. Within a couple of months people were adding me. Sometimes I would log in after a couple of days of not checking my adds and have 50 plus requests. One time, after a mini-holiday I came back to 78 requests!

Tip:

To begin with put a nice message in with your request to each person. Something like "Hi, I've seen your profile and think it would be great if you would accept my friend request. I'm looking to meet and network with like-minded people to share values and opinions. Thanks." Anything like this will do, although most people understand that gaining a friend is always worthwhile for many reasons so I've personally found that after you've built up a decent friend list a simple add will do just fine.

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Android developers can start writing Google Tv apps

Google released a preview version of an Android programming tool plug-in today to let developers write software for Google TV devices.

"With the upcoming OS update to Honeycomb, Google TV devices will be Android compatible," said Ambarish Kenghe, a Google TV product manager, in a blog post today. "That means developers can build great new Android apps for TV, optimize existing mobile or tablet apps for TV, and distribute those apps through Android Market."

Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Yahoo, Intel, and Apple have tried for years to marry the TV to the Internet, providing a more interactive experience and a chance to tap into a major new revenue sources such as advertising. But it's been tough: customers often prefer a more passive experience, companies that create and distribute content have often been reluctant partners at best, and Google TV hasn't caught on so far.

Apps are all the rage these days, though, and perhaps they'll succeed where other attempts have failed. A big screen can be a nice place to play games, for example.

Android, of course, has a large and growing collection of apps available through the Android Market. It remains to be seen how easy it will be for programmers to create apps that work on phones, tablets, and TVs, though. Adapting mobile-phone apps for tablets doesn't seem to be a top priority for Android coders today, and tablets--with touch screens and virtual keyboards--are a lot closer to mobile phones than TVs that aren't mobile, often lack a touch screen and keyboard, and have even bigger screens.

Kenghe said the plug-in for the Android SDK (software development kit) will help ease the transition for programmers:
Depending on the design and use case, an existing Android app may work well on Google TV as is, or it may require fixes. With the add-on you can test your apps to determine if they would be a good fit for TV and whether any tweaks are required. We are also publishing UI guidelines to help you with topics like optimizing for D-pad navigation, presenting information for 10-foot viewing, designing apps that work well across devices, etc. The guidelines include information on how certain UI [user interface] elements on Google TV differ from other Android devices.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20095701-264/android-developers-can-start-writing-google-tv-apps/#ixzz1VqqO8Vsq

Nokia slips from 1 to 3 in smartphone sales

 Apple and Samsung Electronics ended struggling Nokia's 15-year reign at the top of the smartphone sales rankings in the second quarter, researchers said on Friday.

Nokia has dominated the smartphone market ever since its 1996 launch of the Communicator model, but competition from its two nearest rivals and a slump in its own sales sent it straight from first to third place in the three months to June as growth in the sector starts to slow.

Apple sold a record 20.3 million iPhones in the quarter despite the fact that its iPhone 4 model is now more than a year old. Usually success of smartphone models does not last so long.

Apple unveiled its sales last week, but on Friday analysts also estimated Samsung sold 19 million smartphones in the quarter, well ahead of Nokia's 16.7 million as it was able to benefit from booming demand with smartphones using Google's Android software.

"Samsung's Galaxy portfolio has proven popular, especially the high-tier S2 Android model," said Neil Mawston, analyst at Strategy Analytics."

Strategy Analytics estimated smartphone market volume grew 76 percent from a year ago in the second quarter. ABI Research was somewhat more cautious estimating market grew 62 percent.

SLOWDOWN WORRIES

Growth on the overall cellphone market slowed too in the April-June period, as sales of basic phone models dropped for the first time in seven quarters due to consumers reining in spending, research firm IDC said on Friday.

IDC said strong smartphone demand boosted the market to still grow 11.3 percent from a year ago to 365.4 million phones, but this was a clear slowdown from the 16.8 percent growth seen in the previous quarter.

Strategy Analytics estimated the total market at 361 million cellphones in the quarter.

In a Reuters poll, 29 analysts' average forecast for the total market stood at 374 million phones.

IDC said sales of simpler so-called feature phones fell 4 percent from a year ago due to conservative spending and continued shift to smartphones, most visible in developed markets, such as the United States, Japan and Western Europe.

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10 Reasons Not to Buy an iPad Instead of a Laptop for a College Student

The summer season is almost over. If you're a parent that means back-to-school shopping is right around the corner.

And there's one product — one fairly expensive product -- likely to be in high demand for college-bound students in particular: The Apple iPad!

But as dealnews' media editor Jeff Somogyi says there are 10 reasons why you should NOT buy your kids an iPad — especially in place of a more traditional laptop.

"It is a great product [and] I have the utmost respect for Apple," Somogyi tells tells The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task in the accompanying interview. "But in this instance I think that the cost per benefit is a little too high especially when it comes to students."

The tablet device starts at $499 for the most basic model with 16GB of storage with Wi-Fi connectivity.  Meanwhile, the higher-end 64GB models with 3G connectivity start at $829 and expect to pay an extra monthly fee if the wireless Internet plan is enacted.

"You can get a very nice laptop for that price," he says. "You can get a laptop that does everything that your student needs it to do for less than the low end iPad."

Not only can you save money, a laptop will enable students to do all the things they need to do — like write 500-word papers -- easier and more conveniently.

Which brings us to Somogyi's top reasons to not buy your student and iPad for back to school: It's expensive and it's not the best solution for note-taking or editing documents.

If these two reasons alone are not enough to convince your child that the iPad is not the right choice for them, here is Somogyi's full top ten list of reasons why you should not cave and buy your child the iPad:

#1 It's Expensive

#2 It's Not the Best Solution for Note-Taking or Editing Documents

#3 It's Too Distracting

#4 It's Ultra-Portable and Ultra-Droppable

#5 What Makes it Desirable to your Kid is What Makes it Desirable to Criminals

#6 It's Meant for the Enjoyment of One Person, Which Means Social Seclusion

#7 Digital Text Books are a Marvel, but There's No Secondary Market

#8 It's a Status Symbol, Plain and Simple

#9 It'll Already be Old Technology by the Time You Buy It

#10 They'll Also Want a Laptop, Too

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Top Technology Blogs Of 2011

No way around it, technology has had a front-in almost every human life and do not like it or not. Blogs of Internet technology in everyday life give Joe a way to keep in touch with the latest technology trends and helps them see what comes next for their favorite type of technology and the most important high-tech gadgets favorite. These blogs can really help you make intelligent purchasing decisions as well. When you know that trends are going to go is much easier to buy products or services to be here and only relevant in the coming years. Because technology and services around the products and companies change so rapidly, it really is hard to predict what will be next.

The popularity of the technology blog has grown because this is the medium that most geeks prefer. Instead of having to wait for the breaking news that can be automatically updated using RSS or just keep the technology blog opens favorite web browser window. If it breaks a new history of the Internet offers a spot that allows bloggers around the globe to connect with their readers in a matter of seconds. This spot really works in a generation comes and who does not know what "deferred gratification" means and as the news editor of this offers a perfect way to get the word out faster than ever.

When you start looking for new ways to get the best news stories that interest you most, can be a good idea to start working with the best tech blogs on the net today. Just follow this link and it takes you to a list of the most popular technology blogs and more powerful on the net today. When you check out the list of 5 you can find already frequenting some of them. These top tech blogs are bringing the latest updates and more frequent to those who are willing to be at the forefront of new technology!

When you are looking for things to do on the internet you should look beyond the technology blogs that are available. These are forums where you can discuss the latest trends that are affecting the industry. You can also expand the knowledge of the industry in general and the specific products in particular. First you will have to think about the elements of the technology blog which are of interest. The first element to consider is the difference between compliance and dissent. You can disagree with the tech blogs effectively, but you have to do this in a constructive way. There are technical experts in the blog and will jump at any inaccuracies presented as part of their arguments. You should try to review the various elements of the technology blog in the light of the technical information being presented. These forums are dependent on their contribution to improving the quality of content available to the general public. They also refer to the new techniques.

Google+ grows explosively in first week

Back-of-the-envelope maths by entrepreneur and founder of Ancestry.com Paul Allen suggests that Google’s new social network Google+ had 1.7m users worldwide after just one week. Launched on June 28thto a limited group of users, Google+ proved so popular that invitations to new users had to be temporarily limited.

Allen estimated Google+’s popularity by counting the number of users with a given surname, e.g. Cooke and comparing that number to the total number of Cookes in the US to produce the percentage of Cookes on Google+. Multiplying this by the total US population gives a rough figure for how many users are on Google+. He repeated that calculation with 79 other rare surnames to verify the result.

Allen’s results indicate that by July 4th, there were “515,933 users in the U.S, and 1,226,136 outside the US for a total of 1,742,069 users”. Google itself has not provided any official statistics for the popularity of Google+.

Competing head-to-head with Facebook (500m users) and Twitter (200m users), Google+ has a long way to go before it catches up. Tight integration with other Google products such as GMail and Google Documents via the newly reworked Google navigation bar means that this rapid adoption is likely to continue. Users are already hoping to see Google+ working seamlessly with Translate and Reader, which would ensure that the fledgling social network continues to expand.

For website owners, Google+ is already a valuable source of traffic, with TechCrunch reporting that it is already in their top ten referrers:

Well, since its launch last Tuesday, Google+ has already cracked our top ten referring sites. It currently resides just behind Digg in that timespan. If you narrow that down to just count July so far (a few days after launch, so more users had time to sign up), the numbers are even better. It would already be the number seven referrer, just behind Hacker News. And it’s already a fifth as large as the leading social referrer, facebook.com.

Even without its heft, Google+ is already giving Facebook a run for its money. But it’s not just other social networking sites that should worry. Google+’s video conferencing feature, Hangout, takes on the voice-over-IP incumbents like Skype or Ribbit. Skype, recently bought by Microsoft, has begun surveying users about call quality after every call, so is clearly concerned about the issue. If Google+ can provide a more reliable, higher quality experience, users will defect.

It’s a little too early after only a week to read the tealeaves, but rumours that Google has ideas about adding games and Q&As show that Google+ certainly has ambition. Google has never been a shrinking violet and in one fell swoop, Google+ has made a strong entry into several profitable markets.

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