Twitter published its first transparency report.

After maintaining transparency and practicing accountability has been evolving as a responsibility that websites, especially social networks. With regular transparency reports, Google has been making attempts to highlight the efforts for maintaining transparency on its widely-used service. Taking a leaf out of Google's face, Twitter yesterday posted its first ever transparency report. In an official blog, Jeremy Kessel, A Manager of Legal Policy for Twitter, writes, "Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves." 

By way of their transparency report, the popular micro blogging website aims to throw light on the following points:-

• Government requests received for user information.
• Government requests received to withhold content.
• DMCA takedown notices received from copyright holders.

As per report conclusive that Twitter has removed 782 tweets in January - a number that dropped to 649 in February then went to 1,139 in March. Twitter deleted 695 tweets last month. In an interesting revelation made in the post Kessel told that they received more government requests in the first half of 2012 than they did through 2011. The post further revealed that Twitter would be publishing an updated version of this report twice a year.

Also specified in the report is whether or not Twitter takes action on these requests. Citing several instances, the post states that they have been maintaining a "long-standing policy to proactively notify users of requests for their account information unless we’re prohibited by law." Twitter believes that these policies not only do their bit in informing people and creating awareness about things, but manage to keep everyone, including Twitter, more accountable. This report, Twitter believes "helps further these ambitions."

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Can Internet, social media be harmful to children's mental health?

Lets we can easily view the present trend to spread of social networking at the internet era.Can the Internet and social media be harmful to children's mental health?  Australian psychiatrists believe this may be the case.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) reportedly released a position statement assessing the positive and negative impacts of medium usage across youths.

“There are particular concerns regarding the impact of media on children and young people with identified mental health difficulties, but all children are potentially vulnerable,” RANZCP president Dr. Maria Tomasic is quoted as having said.

She added that families and people working with children need to be aware of the range of issues that media impacts upon, to provide optimal advice, support and care.

Dubbed "The impact of media on vulnerable children and adolescents," the position statement assesses both positive and negative impacts of medium usage across youthful audiences.

RANZCP Chair Dr. Nick Kowalenko said social media sites provide young people with opportunities to stay connected with friends, family and the world, and develop technical, creative and social skills.

He added there are health benefits from the media with the Internet providing information about health problems of relevance to young people such as stress, anxiety, depression and physical disorders.

For more Read :--- GMANETWORK 

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Top Free Online Picture Gallery Sharing Websites.

Online Picture Gallery through some of the popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, you will find that there are lots of online picture gallery sharing websites present in the market, which will keep your uploaded snaps in organized way with shareable modes. Lets explore a few of the popular online image sharing websites, which helps in saving disk space in your computer.

1. Flickr:

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. This image-sharing website will allow you to upload, edit, organize and share your photos. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. In June 2011 that Flickr had a total of 51 million registered members and 80 million unique visitors. This is one of the most popular online photo sharing tool form Yahoo which is available in both online and offline version. The desktop application of Flickr is easy to use and makes it easier to upload images online.

2. Photobucket: 
Photobucket is an online image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007. Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. These online stored photos could be shared using email, IM and mobile links. Photobucket provides a built-in organizer, editor and searching tool to tweak/edit the photo or video that you have uploaded. Photobucket also have what is known as a scrapbook builder that comes with a simple drag and drop feature for your online scrapbooks. 

3. Picasa:

Picasa is an online image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time may have resided at Idea lab) in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. Picasa is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures.One of the most attractive feature of this online image-sharing website is you can choose whether to share the photos with others or not by setting up your privacy level, besides sharing using links and editing online. However Picasa only allows 1 GB of free space online. If you wish to upload more than that, then you will have to purchase space from them. Picasa also comes as a powerful desktop application for managing your photos offline, which could be easily synchronized. Google has upgraded the version of this software that you will find the latest version in Picasa 3.8.

4. SmugMug:

Chris MacAskill (father) and Don MacAskill (son) started the original company to build a new video game-oriented web service in February 2002. By August 2002, though, their focus shifted. A small portion of their video game website was spun into a photo sharing service called SmugMug, which launched in November 2002. This online picture sharing website allows you to change colors, layout, fonts and graphics with the options to purchase some professional and personalized gifts like photo books, albums, frame outs, printed objects and many more. This comes in three different levels, free subscribers, and premium subscribers who can opt in for one of the two available options, which gives them the cutting edge also uploading your photos into social media websites directly.

5. KodakGallery:

Kodak Gallery offers online photo sharing, Kodak prints and photo gifts from consumer digital photos. Its features allow you to view pictures on your mobile phone. The service was originally called Ofoto and was acquired by Kodak in 2001 and renamed Kodak Easy Share Gallery in 2005. It is currently referred to simply as KodakGallery. They have over 60 million users and billions of images as of 2008. Some of the highlighted features of this website are the ability to create photo products like calendar, prints, frames, cards, photo books and much more. Besides, the presence of a unique photo-editing tool will help you to make this much easier to upload, organize and share your photos.

6. 23 Photo sharing:

23 is the visual sharing company. Their products are helping individuals, groups, businesses and institutions to act visually in more than 200 countries across the globe on a daily basis. They provides centralized online photo-sharing website, which works by giving you the capacity to organize, share and place order for hard copies of the chosen photos. Besides, some of the other important and useful tools that this website shares are bulk uploading, ability to email photos in batches and use customized album colors, all of which allows you to manage your photo collections efficiently, and what is more interesting about this online image sharing website is that you will be able to comment on the photos.

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How to easily search your Contacts, Emails, Docs , Apps and more.. ?

Day to day usage of social and business activities are up by using internet savvyers. It is a big task to search all of our posts and files. I’m not just talking about the ones on your computer. I’m talking about trying to search through all of your mails, documents, tweets, online files around the Internet and all kinds of extra things in relation.

It’s a long process to search each account separately for emails, files or posts. We need to find and identify a way to simplify this searching process. It would be much easier if we could just give one tool access to all of our accounts.

There are two web apps which can help to do this by searching all of your stuff in one place. You need to connect your accounts with the web apps, then you can perform search operations to find what you want to looking for. I have connected all my accounts with the following websites and have tried them out, so I can give you an overview of each.

Cloud Magic

Cloud Magic is a web app that is available for both desktop and mobile. This web app searches all of your things across lots of different websites like Twitter, Gmail, Google Apps, Docs, Calendar and Contacts and brings you the results in one place. The entire service provided by this web app is free. 

First, register an account, and then connect your Twitter, Gmail or Google App accounts, and the associated services with the them like Docs, Contacts, Calendar with it. This will allow you to search the emails, tweets, calendar events, contacts and more for the connected accounts at one place. This web app is available as an extension/add-on for the Firefox and Chrome browsers. After the installation of the Chrome extension, the icon of this is displayed beside the wrench icon on the Chrome browser.

Greplin

Greplinis another web app which is available as a Firefox add-on  and Chrome extension. Greplin supports a wide range of applications like Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, LinkedIn, Reddit, Yahoo Mail and many more. The Greplin web app isn’t available entirely for free, but the free users can connect Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Calendar with this web app.  The services like Evernote, Yammer, Salesforce, Basecampq, Highrise, Campfire, Google reader, Delicious, Reddit, and Yahoo mail are available at the premium rate of $4.99/month

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Statics & Trends of Social Networking Graphically.

If we check the Statics &Trends in Technology of Social Networking Graphically the marks are very clear to go for +ve side that activities of online users are grew up very fast and to understand how social networking grew in 2011. 
How much time social networking users spent on social media sites?
Which countries have to most active social networking users?
What were the most shared social media stories of 2011 and Lot more.

According to sources that  more than 1.2 Billion Social Networking users in the World.

82% of World’s online population is on Social networking sites

Nearly 20% of overall time spent online is spent on Social Networking Sites – i.e. Nearly 1 in every 5 minutes

Israel has the World’s most active social networking users in world.

Top 10 Countries with most active Social Networking users

Countries	Average Hours per Visitor (per month)
Israel	11.1
Argentina	10.7
Russia	10.4
Turkey	10.2
Chile	9.8
Philippines	8.7
Colombia	8.5
Peru	8.3
Venezuela	7.9
Canada	7.7

Women Spend more time on Social Networking Sites than Men

Origins	Female (Hours Spent per month)	Male (Hours Spent per month)
Worldwide	6.5	5.0
Latin America	8.2	6.9
Europe	8.2	6.3
North America	7.9	6.0
Asia Pacific	3.3	2.7

Social Networking Engagement by Age Group

Age	Female (Hours per month)	Male (Hours per month)
55+	4.9	2.7
45-54	6.4	3.9
35-44	5.6	3.9
25-34	5.8	4.9
15-24	8.6	7.5

Countries with Highest Mobile Social Networking Penetration

Country	% of Mobile Audience
UK	35.4
US	32.3
Spain	25.3
France	22.8
Italy	22.1
Japan	20.2
Germany	17.8

Source :- Invesp

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Twitter agreed into partnership with Yandex.

Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information.

Twitterwill give Yandex access to its so-called fire hose of all public tweets, the two companies said on Tuesday, in an agreement similar to the one the social short-messaging site has with Microsoft's search engine, Bing.

According to Yandex's blog search manager, said in his statement- "People share news, exchange opinions and discuss all sorts of matters in real-time all the time. This kind of information will help us enhance our search results."

Yandex has more than 60 per cent market share in Russia, ahead of Google with about a quarter of the market, although global leader Google has recently begun to erode its lead.

Google no longer partners with Twitter, favoring its own fledgling Google+ social network for social search results. Asked about a possible renewal of a partnership with Google, Twitter's Underwood said: "Anything's possible, but there's not really an update to provide there at this time."

Twitter has more than 100 million active users and 400 million visitors per month. Its valuation tops $8 billion, even though it has not yet established a money-making model. Google+, which is more akin to Facebook than Twitter, has 90 million users.

Twitter and Yandex declined to give financial details of their agreement. Microsoft has been reported to have paid $30 million for its deal with Twitter. Yandexreaches about 2.8 per cent of global Internet users, according to Web metrics firm Alexa, while Bing reaches about 3.4 per cent.

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Some useful SEO Tips of 2012

Quality Content Is Still King

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “Content is King” and that still holds true in 2012, but there will be even more of an emphasis on quality than ever before. Search engines get better and better at judging just how good your content really is.
If we see from a business perspective, it makes sense to put forth your best effort and write something worthwhile instead of spinning and pasting things together from other articles and blog posts you’ve read online. The more good content you get out there, be it blog posts, forum posts, articles, short reports and even audio content like broadcasts or videos, the better your chances of getting visitors to your own site.
If we spend about 20% of our time and effort writing for our own blog or website and 80% out on the web marketing  for our site that will be grateful to achieve target for good SEO. 

Optimize way For Keywords 

Start most pieces of content that you write with some keyword research. Find out what your readers and potential readers are looking for online. You can use things like the Word tracker keyword tool or the Google keyword tool to find out what terms are searched for. Then write your content around those words and phrases.
Don’t stuff your keywords into your content just for the sake of getting them in there. Rather you should keep your potential customers in mind. Make it fun and easy to read and only include your keyword once or twice in the content. Do use it as part of your title though and be sure to make your key phrase the anchor text that links to it.Anchor text is the text in blue underlined links.
For example, if I mention this blog post somewhere online, I will make the link text “Some useful SEO Tips of 2012”. It will help reinforce the fact that I want to rank for keywords like “Some Useful SEO” and “Tips of 2012”. 

Mixing In Social Media

The biggest change I see in SEO this year is that social media will become more and more important. Google already looks at how many tweets, facebook posts and Google+ mentions each of your web pages gets and that’s going to become more important as we move further into 2012. If you haven’t already done so, sign up for accounts with each of the big social networks. Spend some time setting up your profile, including a picture, a short description and of course a link back to your website or blog. Then start participating regularly. Set aside 15 minutes a day to tweet and post. Make new connections on these networks and share interesting stuff as you come across it. Throw in a link here and there back to your own site and you’ll be all set.

Customer Experience and Balancing of SEO.  

2012 will be all about balancing what we need to do to get search engine traffic and creating an awesome customer experience. That means that not every single piece of content will be written just with search results and keywords in mind. Instead focus on our readers, subscribers and customers and write just for them from time to time. If you can’t find a good keyword for a particular blog post, don’t fret it. Write it anyway, especially if your readers will benefit from it.
I don’t do hardly anything just for the sake of SEO. I always keep my target market in mind and find new ways to reach them and serve them. Here’s an example. I’m writing a lot of guest blog posts this month. Yes, there will be a big SEO benefit from all those extra incoming links to my site, but it goes further than that. Each guest post also gives me a chance to get in front of new readers – like you – and allows me to share some of the things I can teach you. Keep that in mind anytime you work on optimizing your site and build links via article marketing, guest blogging, forum participation, blog commenting etc. and you will grow your online business much faster. 

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New Twitter Web Keyboard Shortcuts.

If I see from my side that I am a big fan of using shortcuts. For more social sites twitter has rolled out a new design for its web and mobile web interfaces along with iOS and Android apps. New Twitter has a much cleaner interface with many changes as well. In new Twitter has four new tabs- Home, Connect, Discover and Me. Still to wait but new design is not yet fully rolled out to all users, but many users have already got the new design. Like previous web designs of Twitter, the new one also comes with a new set of keyboard shortcuts, some of them are from the previous version. Here you can view all the shortcuts in the below mentioned picture and also full details in Twitter Shortcuts.

Actions:-

F – Favorite
R- Reply
T- Retweet
M- Direct message
N - New Tweet
Enter- Open Tweet details
L- Close all open Tweets

Navigation:-

?- This menu
J- Next Tweet
K- Previous Tweet
Space- Page down
/- Search
.- Load new Tweets

Timelines:-

G H- Home
G C- Connect
G R- Mentions
G D- Discover
G P- Profile
G F- Favorites
G M- Messages
G U- Go to user

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