What,about,Social,Media,2012,L marketing What about Social Media in 2012?
Awhile ago, I got an email from one of the "gurus" I follow and it shocked me. The gist of it was this person wanted to trade services for a household item.To say it floored me would be an understatement.What was worse was a few days later t Automation technologies represent a fundamental aspect of any modern industry. The major types of industrial automation solutions, such as DCS, PLC, SCADA, and MES, are used on a large-scale in process and discrete industries.DCS technologie
Last week, Baidu launched a social media driven recommendationsfeature for its search engine like Google did. According to thenextweb.com, Baidu users can now ranksearch results with a thumbs up. The feature is similar to Googles +1 ratingsystem and is also linked to social bookmarking site Baidu Share. Launched lastsummer, the social bookmarking site allows visitors to share content to diverse social networking services, including SohuMicroblog, Renren, Kaixin001, Tencent Qzone, Pengyou, Sina Weibo, Taobaos TaoJianghu, and Google Buzz. China Internet Watch underlined the fact that the beta is limitedand runs only on keywords that relate to search engine brands. Following theexample of Google, Baidu is using its notoriety and the brands success inorder to push share to more users. Controlling 78% of the search market in China, it is no wonderthat Baidu is looking to strike deal with Mark Zuckerberg who is still tryingto find a backdoor to the biggest internet market. Moving the focus from China to Russia, microblogging enthusiastswelcomed the Russian-language multimedia platform Futubra, launched officiallyin mid-January. This service is combining social and media features in which users canread each others news headlines as media. Futubra has a very similar look to Twitter and presents a timelinewith images and videos that arrive in the stream expanded. The design ofFutubra allows usage on a range of operating systems, so apps for iOS, Android,Symbian and Windows phones are expected to arrive soon. In a press release, Alexey Terekhov, head of Futubra projects,said that the social media platform was created for people that are active,really into new technologies, everything mobile and a way to always be at the centerof events. However,for now Futubra remains in beta and is relying on user feedback to work out itsfuture shape.What do you think is going to happen in 2012? Is Facebook going tofinally enter the Chinese market and are the Russian Twitter users ready tomove to Futubra?
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