Social media is the future. World is moving away from search.Go full throttle, while using social media for promoting your product and services. Add the element of interestingness , and not just blatant advertisement. Be prepared to get avalanche of traffic. Make that traffic work for you to drive your profits up.
"The social networking company, which lodged its initial public offering (IPO) documents at the start of February 2012, is believed to be working towards May 17 to float on the Nasdaq stock exchange. "
For web users, PrivacyChoice offers tools to help you understand and make choices about your online privacy. You can see how online tracking works (TrackerScan), see your tracking profile, decide whether companies can collect information about what you do across websites (TrackerBlock), or opt-out of seeing targeted ads (PrivacyMark). To protect privacy on social networks, you can remove your email address from use by dataminers (Disconnect), and confirm the Facebook privacy settings of your loved ones (PrivacyCheck). Nearly one million people have used PrivacyChoice to set their privacy preferences.
Postano - Social News for Your Website
Update your news page with continually fresh content, Customize the look and feel to fit your site, Increase customer time on site
getPrismatic.com/ finds content for you by looking at what you have shared on Twitter, the publishers you link to, and who your friends are (it will eventually account for Facebook as well). But the content doesn't only come from your Twitter feed - it comes from anywhere on the Internet, using clues in your feed to find things that will interest you.
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
Vision Critical Surveys lets you easily design and send surveys to get quick and, actionable data to support your business decisions. The Vision Critical Surveys App for HootSuite allows you to easily share surveys with your social networks, monitor results in real-time and more. Best of all the Vision Critical Surveys App is free of charge for HootSuite users.
"How do you avoid losing Facebook friends? Don't play Farmville for a start. But two American students say they've worked out the rules of keeping your Facebook friends happy."
Social Network Management
Save your time and your sanity. Improve productivity by managing all of your social networks within HootSuite. The dashboard is designed for you and your team to listen, engage and measure all from one simple interface.
Almost every second guy in the silicon valley is now pondering over a serious question - can Facebook outsmart amazon and ebay through its e commerce initiatives? As the world's largest social networking website has started inching towards $5 billion IPO, it will be pressurized by investors to look out for new sources of revenue generation and lessen its reliance on advertisements.
"We've all seen those scaremongering posts from our more easily fooled friends, telling us that unless we join a certain group, Facebook will start charging a monthly fee."