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Couple of days ago, Facebook came out with a rather expected but huge announcement. The announcement with the revelation of these statistics is massive in a way. Facebook has been among the most visited sites in the world in the world for a while now but these huge numbers and its weight as a global platform make it one of the most powerful sites in the world. It has now obliterated all competition on the social network sphere and is head to head with Google for web dominance. It is aggressively marketing itself in emerging markets by tying up with mobile operators and often introducing a zero plan where mobile facebook access isn’t charged. ….Read More

So, we have a new teammate! As you must have seen from our tweets and status updates, we officially welcome Vemana(he does not like his Facebook account as much as he loves his Twitter handle) into the 84ideas family.

For all those people who understand the title, yes we will be there at ISB, on 7th July for Seth Godin’s talk.
Rest of you, take time to know him.

We are excited to meet this marketing genius, been following his work for the past 5 years.

You can follow the event through our tweets at #Sethhyd.

Event Update :

The event was great. After the event Seth was standing in the lobby and talking to all the people he could. It’s amazing to see a person like Seth be so down to earth and give time to his audience. Truly following what he advocates, creating tribes.

Check the pics from the event.

Seth Live- ISB

Creative director Alec Brownstein did this to make his potential employers find him. He targeted the employers that would hire him. He created google paid ads with their names as keywords. So when those guys googled themselves, his ad came in the sponsored links. Boom. Check this out.

Creativity at it’s best.

On web, it is all about lists. Top trending, most digged, most viewed, most shared.. Everything is a list and they do wonders. Most of us spend time trying to reach top of some list and few of us trying to create a new list.
I am currently impressed with a brand new team of young teenagers who created a list.   

After Promoted Tweets and altering its Trending Topics’ algorithm, Twitter has now come up with Promoted Trends!

What is it exactly?

So, when you see the Trending Topics box on the sidebar, against one of the topics, there will be a small yellow highlight which says ‘Promoted.’ In the test phase, Disney/ Pixar was the first to buy a ‘trend.’ You can see Toy Story 3 flashing below all other Trending Topics.

According to Twitter, this topic is already available in tweets, but has not yet made it to the Trending Topics Section. Just like any other Trending Topic, once you click on it, you will reach the search results page to see what people are talking about the respective matter.

Headstart’s Startup Saturday for the month of June was scheduled on June 12th. The theme was this month’s event was ‘Social Media.’

So, a large gathering met at IIIT-H, Gachibowli with speakers from iGenero and Ohana Media planned to talk on various aspects of Social Media. Karthik from 84ideas opened the session with a presentation on ‘Social media Management – Getting Started.’

The first and foremost point to be noted before employing Social Media to promote your event is that none of this will happen overnight. It involves a deeply researched process and is not just used to combat lagging attendee numbers. So, have a planned outlook and start activities weeks prior to your event

Twitter has recently updated its ‘Trending Topics’ algorithm. So, starting May 14th, your Twitter sidebar and homepage only lists the ‘latest’ and the ‘hottest’ topics on Twitter

What exactly is it?
Earlier, Twitter used to categorize something as a trending topic when the term was consistently popular. But, Twitter has now changed and ‘Trending Topics’ reflects keywords and categories that are currently ‘trending’ and not necessarily popular in the past. So this gives rise to any breaking news automatically becoming trending.

According to Twitter’s latest updates ‘Tweets are going to be the newest quotes!’

What is it actually?

Until now if you had to quote a particular tweet, you had to take a screen shot or go by the regular copy-paste routine. So, Twitter has launched something called the ‘embeddable tweets.’ So, according to this, you can embed tweets into your website or blog conveniently without going by the tedious screen shot routine.

So, basically twitter will give you an HTML code and you just have to use it on your webpage and viola, you will have something like this on your site!