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		<title>What a 12yr old thinks about Privacy Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last 2 months, I have been talking to quite a few people about the way technology has evolved and where we are headed with all of this. I find that there are two camps here &#8211; one that believes form-factors won&#8217;t get smaller than they already are and another that believes technology will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShareThis Social Bookmarking study suggests Email is still the best Social sharing medium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ When I wrote earlier that bookmarking chicklets are useless, I meant it. I mentioned there is no way of knowing which buttons are more effective and which aren&#8217;t, we don&#8217;t know the most optimised order in which these work best, we don&#8217;t even know which designs work best.
My interest was piqued when ShareThis posted [...]

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<li><a href='http://www.asfaq.com/blog/the-utvi-group-jumps-onto-the-social-media-bandwagon/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The UTVi Group jumps onto the Social Media Bandwagon'>The UTVi Group jumps onto the Social Media Bandwagon</a></li>
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		<title>The Bit.ly Click Summary of 5000 Organic Clicks in a Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I manage two small sized twitter accounts apart from my own personal one at @Asfaq &#8211; @E71 and @AndroidTalk. These accounts are used to bring out all the news on the Nokia E71 phone (which I own) and the Android OS.
I have been using Bit.ly to shorten hyperlinks of articles that I find interesting [...]

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		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/the-bit-ly-click-summary-of-5000-organic-clicks-in-a-month/</link>
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		<title>The real reason why Twitter&#8217;s new RT is not working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have thought about it for the longest time and come to the conclusion that the new retweeting system gives the retweeter no incentive to retweet new and exclusive content. What use is it to ME if you see someone else&#8217;s avatar in your timeline with cool info on it? This is exactly the reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/the-real-reason-why-twitters-new-rt-is-not-working/</link>
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		<title>Hindustan Times: Mumbaiites twitter to boycott three films</title>
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by Aalap Deboor


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		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/hindustan-times-mumbaiites-twitter-to-boycott-three-films/</link>
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		<title>Mid Day: Tweeters slam twits who defaced murals</title>
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by Alisha Coelho

Citizens&#8217; wall beautification project plastered with posters of Bollywood&#8217;s upcoming releases just hours after they were painted
Angry artists and tweeters ripped apart film promoters on cyberspace yesterday, accusing them of ruining their attempts to beautify the city.
The second phase of The Wall Project (see box) took place on Sunday. To the artists&#8217; horror, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/mid-day-tweeters-slam-twits-who-defaced-murals/</link>
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		<title>Bookmarking Chicklets are Useless</title>
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First there were trackbacks, then came bookmarking chicklets, and now Tweetbacks and retweet buttons! Aren’t we going overboard?

What I fail to understand is why will anyone share your content? Unless you write VERY well all the time, there is no reason to believe that someone will share your post on a different platform. I firmly [...]

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		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/bookmarking-chicklets-are-useless/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Social Media</title>
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I think most people get carried away when talking about Social Media. The problem I have seen regularly is that most online advertising planners will not go the social media route because they don&#8217;t have a metric in place to show numbers. Its good to say that ‘x’ number of users followed you this month [...]

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		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/the-power-of-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Shopcorn.com Exclusively Uses SlideShare and Twitter For Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
 Shopcorn.in is arguably India’s first ‘Social Shopping Community’, where sellers can post their bargains and users will vote for them. Voting these bargains up and down is the site&#8217;s cornerstone function, respectively called a pick and kick. The site is being exclusively promoted via Social Media Marketing only. 
We caught up with Vishwalok Nath, [...]

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<li><a href='http://www.asfaq.com/blog/the-utvi-group-jumps-onto-the-social-media-bandwagon/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The UTVi Group jumps onto the Social Media Bandwagon'>The UTVi Group jumps onto the Social Media Bandwagon</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.asfaq.com/blog/shopcorn-com-exclusively-uses-slideshare-and-twitter-for-marketing/</link>
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		<title>The UTVi Group jumps onto the Social Media Bandwagon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 
The UTVi Group has a presence on FaceBook, YouTube, FriendFeed and Twitter. I wanted to ask them why they jumped onto the Social Media bandwagon and what have they learnt so far. So without further ado, here goes:

1. How did the @UTVi_News account begin? How did you convince the decision making authorities to go [...]

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<li><a href='http://www.asfaq.com/blog/sharethis-social-bookmarking-study-suggests-email-is-still-the-best-social-sharing-medium/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: ShareThis Social Bookmarking study suggests Email is still the best Social sharing medium'>ShareThis Social Bookmarking study suggests Email is still the best Social sharing medium</a></li>
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