[digg] Top 10 Social Media Blogs in India

The genesis of this post started long time back when I started the Social Media Marketing space in India for a while now. After hovering around in the Web, I've found very few comprehensive lists on Social Media Blogs in India. So this effort is primarily to put all those insightful & interesting blogs under "Top Social Media Blogs in India's" list

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I am a happy camper

I live my life to the fullest - I do not need to cut copy paste any content (unless it is digg stories) - i love to listen to my music, talk to people at work, spend time with my wife to be - and generally enjoy life at maximum!!

I love my job - its most fulfilling!!

I love my food - its most satisfying!!

I love my gadgets - its most thrilling!!

I love my baby - she's most intoxicating!!

I love my family - they are irreplaceable

actually they are all irreplaceable!!!

Good Times!!!

[digg] Movie Trailer - "21"

The theatrical movie trailer for the movie "21" opening in 2008 about MIT students who count cards at Vegas. The movie is a thrilling masterpiece.. a must watch!

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Cross-posting: saving time at the expense of others?

This post has been reposted here with permission from Andy DeSoto!!

Thanks a lot Andy!!

You can find the original here with comments

Cross-posting: saving time at the expense of others?

by Andy DeSoto on August 3, 2008

Social media blogger Rahsheen Porter recently wrote a great piece about Ping.fm, a useful web service that lets you send the same message out to a number of social media services (”cross-posting“). In his insightful post, he details a complex method of ensuring that the right social networks receive the correct messages, providing the biggest bang for the buck.

Rahsheen’s article illuminates the good that cross-posting services can do for both creator and consumer alike, but my take on Ping.fm and similar services is considerably more pessimistic. It’s my belief that the duplication that results from cross-posting can negatively impact the social media consumption habits of others.

Why cross-posting is good

Rahsheen’s article underlines one of the main benefits to cross-posting. He writes:

This is all about increasing my social networking influence. I want to interact with a diverse selection of people because I have diverse interests. Ping.fm allows me to keep all these different groups updated with whatever is going on with me. I can share new music I create, content I’ve written, whatever I choose and I can share it across multiple social networks. I want to learn from others and get their feedback on what I’m doing.

However, there seems to be a bit of a contradiction here in that “increasing social networking influence” (that is, broadcasting) is a considerably different goal from learning from others and getting feedback (conversation). In fact, I think the confusion here is representative of the confusion that arises from cross-posting in general. Fortunately, Rahsheen is very thoughtful when it comes to cross-posting and goes out of his way to make sure he uses the tool appropriately, but others are not as considerate.

Why cross-posting is evil

As far as I’m concerned, the negatives of cross-posting greatly outweigh the benefits. Here are a few reasons why cross-posting negatively impacts your followers:

• They don’t know which service you’re most likely to check for responses on. If someone replies to your comment on Pownce and you never check Pownce for replies, you’re missing out on a potentially valuable comment and wasting your follower’s time.
• Different communities warrant different content. What’s appropriate, relevant, or interesting to one group of people will almost surely be less meaningful to another. Cross-posting can mindlessly eliminate a necessary distinction between communities.
• Different communities support different standards. Twitter’s at sign (@) is invaluable at directing Tweets. When these messages are cross-posted to a service like Pownce, as shown above, they lose all meaningfulness. Users have to expend mental processing power to remove them from the picture. Pownce, on the other hand, has no character limit, so only cross-posting 140 or fewer character messages to Pownce doesn’t take advantage of the nuances of the service.
• Cross-posting services are often buggy or unstable. Many services such as Ping.fm have the habit of posting the same message to one network more than one time. Whether this is the fault of the network or the cross-posting client, this is one surefire way to infuriate those that care.

The irony is, by cross-posting, you alienate your most valuable readers: those that are so interested in you and what they have to say that they follow you on every service they can. Don’t let these devoted followers down by broadcasting your message two or three times in a row!

[digg] VW Showcases Its Unpronounceable Routan

Routan. Touareg. Tiguan. Someone needs to tell VW that their model names are wholly unforgettable!

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Sacred Space

Sacred Space, originally uploaded by Partha N S.

This featured on the Op-Ed page of The Times of India.

Was written in memory of 9/11 and is a beautiful poem...

Had to share it so here goes!

[digg] How to Get More Subscribers for Your Blog and for Your Ego

An article most bloggers could find interesting about how to get more RSS subscribers for a blog.

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[digg] Extensive list of popular SEO tools

Optimizing your website for best SEO isn’t an easy task. You need to take care many things before you start getting enough web attention. SEO tools helps checking many aspects which may be missed while development phase. The following extensive list of popular SEO tools will surely help you find the answers to your questions

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[digg] The fastest Drive storage in the world..

Engineers at in England and California have set a record in storage speed, outperforming the current rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash solid-state technology and IBM's storage virtualization technology, the researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million Input/Output (I/O) per second.

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