Social Media Marketing Watch

I’m sure surfers would have got the news of new improved search engine from Microsoft, to battle it out with ever growing Google. On first instance the home page looks like a photograper’s snapshot as you can see below.

Once you have seen the photo then you realise ok, now I got to do a search with that text box provided. Phew! Talk of visual suprimacy or search engine effectiveness. What is the take?

According to Microsoft, Bing is a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search with a new approach to user experience and intuitive tools to help customers make better decisions, focusing initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

Indeed when you mouseover a search result you see a pop-up with additional details on that website.

Bing brings fresh new hope for Microsort, at least they belive it does, and that they want to make it as much powerful and popular among the netizen can be seen from the amount of money they plan to spend on its advertisement.

Let us hope things turn out for the better!

Are you one of the Yahoo! briefcase users whether you are free users or premium paid subscribers who regularly use it for file transfer or tool to keep files online for anytime anywhere access? Then you got to be worried lot unless you already have alternative services for Yahoo! briefcase is officially closing on March 30, 2009.

The moment you visit the website you are greeted with this notice saying download your files unless they are deleted for good.

 
Even I received an email today shown below, informing of their decision to close their Briefcase services and requested me to download all of my files.

If you are a Premium subscribers, your account will automatically be cancelled and amounts refunded. So, if you are one, then you better update your Credit card Yahoo! has on file so that you actually receive the payments.

Finally SMMWatch website is officially launched when the clock struck 12:00 AM mind-night on 31-Dec, 2008.

With the launch all of us @ SMMWatch would like to wish our visitors, our colleagues and our readers a very Happy New year 2009.

With new years party just starting, I’m are already drunk. Hic…Hic… 

Cheers and may god bless you all….

The other day I was reading an interesting post and it triggerd an instant thought process where in I wondered that with the proliferation of so many micro-blogging platforms (Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed etc) would people eventually be driven away from actual blogging or macro-blogging as I prefer to call for perfect contrast to micro-blogging.

It all started initially with Macro-blogging as it instantly picked up craze amongst experts and amateurs bloggers’ alike until during the journey microblogging platforms came up. Micro-blogging meant a nice platform specially for people who couldn’t keep up their blogging alive and their enthusiasm gave away (pun intended) soon after launching the blog. Expert bloggers’ took micro-blogging as another way to communicate their thoguths and knowledge to a closed bergeoning population.

Anyways, the crux of the matter is these are two platforms with overlapping populations; one may be a member on both however more active on one then the other. It becomes difficult to become active on both of them – unless you have nothing to go but sit at home and burn your ass – for each demands time and efforts to make it grow and work for you.

So, the question is which one you prefer and are addicted to?

What I see is, if you have your own blog and are active, people at large specially those who search and come to your blog are benefited from your content; however with micro-blogging your content, even if they are indexed, is confined to that particular platform or if you share among various other similar platforms.You can see the indexed link of a reply to one of my Twitter posts.

With micro-blogging what you write is short and forgotten quickly as you keep adding new snippets burring deep older posts.  Your reputations is connected to outside world and you are more followed or have followers when you are well known in the blogsphere.

People can refer to your blog posts in their own contents but there is no way to refer your twitter/plurk posts. So, sharing your micro-blogging posts become difficult..

Let me know what you have to say about your addiction for either blogging platform….

Recently India was in news for terror attacks in few top hotels in Mumbai, known as financial capital of India.

So many people have died and many foreign tourists and visitors in hotel when the attack was carried out were rescued. But not many were as luck and had to pay the price with their lives without any fault of theirs.

It is really a traggic that in past few months there had been so many terror attack in various cities in India that one wonders what the authorities and the intelligence agencies of the country is doing to stop them.

God save the country….