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Google Friend Connect - New Features Released

2009-11-05T15:36:00.001+05:30

Google FriendConnect is getting a makeover now ! Recently they have announced new features which are radically increasing the user interaction and community building.

New Google FriendConnect Features :-

A Newsletter,Enhanced Ad Integration,Community Analytics and User Interests ! Great bunch of useful features for integrating social media in a website !

Newsletter :

This is a most welcomed feature so far !
Now you can be in touch with your community members !
This news letter is completely opt in and based on users approval.
One can keep a “Subscribe” gadget [Like we did See on top of the page ]
Or you can set an option to prompt for the Newsletter Option when they Follow your community.

Gathering User Interests :

You can gather user interest by creating a polls.
Small but interactive polls can give you a great insight about users.
These polls brings in the information which cloud be used by FC in other services

Enhanced Ad Sense :

Google FC brings in enhanced adverts for Ad Sense
Polls which you create gives your insight on user interests
This information will be used by Google to Deliver better and more relevant Ad Sense Ads

New Widgets On FriendConnect :

FC has also added many cool widgets.
A widget to Subscribe a news letter
A Widget to find Top 10 community member
Some advanced Member Widgets
Answers widget lets users directly ask what they want !
Sign-In widget !

Google Friend Connect had become feature rich and more competitive in terms of it’s usefulness compared to other community platforms such as Facebook and Twitter !

What do you think ? Please Comment !

New Designed Orkut Invitation

2009-11-04T21:40:00.001+05:30

Orkut is a popular Social Networking Platform developed by Google in Indian Sub Continent,Brazil and other place of people with these countries. Orkut is re-designed and launched exclusive Invitation based preview. Webiyo is giving away New Orkut Invitations to our readers.

What are the features of New Orkut Design ?

It is based on powerful GWT technology which increases the performance of overall system with less page refresh and enhanced user experience !
Faster AJAX based interface
Inline Conversation ( Like Facebook , but much more faster ! )
Share Videos,Write Scraps,Update Status from One Page !
Comment on other’s Status,Videos,Photographs Inline !
Advanced and Very Fast Photo Upload!
View all your Friends,Communities just by scrolling down your friends list, no need to go to another page !
Any may other useful features...

I am excited , How to get an Invite ?

Invitations are spreading slowly and one can not Invite more than 10 “FRIENDS” !

I have only 10 Invites and I’m confused whom to give one !

Hence I have created A CONTEST to get an Invite !

Rules :-

Add me as a friend in your Orkut account [This is necessary to get an Invite] My Profile Link
Now FOLLOW this blog using Google Friend Connect, You ca do so by clicking a Follow Button or Subscribe Button on TOP.
Click Become a FAN and complete the process.
INVITE your friends using Google Friend Connect !
Join @Webiyo on Twitter
Tweet about this article using tweet button on top
Comment the Twitter Status Message of this article as a proof
Be active on this blog for a while and do some Re-Tweets and Comments.
We will select most active users and those will get Invites incrementally

How To Remain Active and top the list ?

Visit Webiyo frequently,Comment,Retweet,Share Articles and
Invite friends !

How Active Users Are Selected ?

Google Friend Connect Has A Widget Which Will Find Out Active Top Ten Users On This Site ! So be optimistic about the results !
For any query leave a comment !
DO NOT PUT YOUR EMAIL IDS HERE AS IT IS OF NO USE ,
YOU HAVE TO ADD ME AS A FRIEND AS ONE CAN ONLY INVITE FREINDS

Track A Person Online On People Search Engines

2009-11-02T19:05:00.001+05:30

Some times you may want to track your friend or family member online. Or to find old time friend and acquaintances. You can get connected with people by searching and tracking down online presence and activities. To do so, we have complied the list of useful people search engines.

Pipl is one of the popular service
It searches deep down the web about the person name entered.
It provides very useful search insights in results.

PeekYou is another wonderful service
Largely covers western user base and refreshing look.
Many search refining categories in search sidebar.

Spock is one more useful and popular service.
Makes the use of Microsoft Live Search Engine.
More refining categories are available in advanced mode.

Facebook Search is useful nowadays as many have a profile there.
It has a very simple interface.
You can also browse the directory of names.

Yahoo People Search has very simple interface.
It displays search results like a normal search engine.
Works best for tracking US citizens.

FaceSearch is a unique search engine that displays face photos
In a very simple Cover Flow manner results are displayed.
Gives quite a satisfactory photo results

Wink is also a very useful people search engine.
Intelligent dynamic suggestion list appears as you type !
Very refreshing and simple search results page
Delivers results more than expected.

Zaba Search is US specific search engine
It is useful for background check of a person.
Gives handy information such as short address,date of birth and contact numbers !
One can use Zaba to track down a US citizen !

If you have any queries,please put into comment !

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View all popular Delicious bookmarks on one page

2009-10-25T12:18:00.001+05:30

Delicious is one of the popular social bookmarking service where you get to read interesting stories from all around the internet. Now you can read all popular Delicious stories jut on one page with least efforts , thanks to popacular.

Popaculor makes it very easy to go through all the popular Delicious stories based on time frame.

It sports a very easy tabular interface where stories are categorized into time periods.

It saves your time as it produces these links in a blink of an eye ! No time taken and simple and distraction free look of the website makes you concentrate only on what you want to read !

Do you know any such service which saves your time and enhances web experience ? Comment and We’ll include it here !

Read all buzzing news in one place with news aggregator

2009-10-24T20:53:00.001+05:30

It is tedious to find and read all the interesting news. Aggregator basically visits all the popular services and puts tem into one single source. Oursignal News Aggregator is one such news aggregator which aggregates all the popular social bookmarking services such as Stumble Upon,Twitter,Reddit etc.

OurSignal homepage displays all the popular news from left to right and top to bottom format.

OurSignal = Digg + Reddit + del.icio.us + HackerNews + Y Buzz
Most popular news clip is in the Left-Top
Least popular in Bottom-Right corner.
The bigger the box, the more relative votes a story has.
Sources are refreshed every 15 minutes.

There are some OurSignal Customization Options available as follows..

Disable tooltip thumbnail thingies
Open links in a new window
Hide visited links

In summary OurSignal is a great tool to read all popular stories on various social media websites at one place in little time with least efforts !