No matter how much people may rant against the applications on Facebook, the developer community keeps coming up with zillions of them every day. And now the most popular social networking site in India - Orkut too has announced the opening up of the site for them real soon. Soon we will find Orkut too flooded with applications.
While this may provide a great advertisement opportunity to many companies and a showcase for the enthusiastic developers, I just hope this doesn’t turn out to be another means of spamming people with hundreds of requests and invitations (Mayank recently wrote about the sorry state of spam in social networks).
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Google recently added Chatback widget in the list of ever increasing features of Google Talk (unfortunately only web based ones). Chatback widget is much like meebo me or AOL’s Wimzi widget (our coverage) which allows you to chat with visitors on your website.
Unfortunately like AOL Wimzi, Meebome I’ve decided that I won’t be using Google Talk Chatback widget on ReviewSaurus or any of my website. Here are the reasons for that :
1. Chat is good for socializing only : Chat is a very good way of communication and for socializing however, they are one of the biggest time wasters too. That’s one of the reason that many corporate’s don’t allow chatting however, they keep it open amongst company employees only.
2. I don’t want to miss the quality content : Google talk will allow me to chat to my website’s visitors however, the reason why readers would like to chat with me will be most likely because they want some help in any of the software or operating system issues or may be need some help in the wordpress theme or something like that. I would rather answer them in the forum or blog comments.
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In the recent change in the Terms and conditions of the Adsense, it becomes necessary for publishers to specify that cookies are used by Google to collect data in the ad serving process.
So, if you don’t have a privacy policy then go ahead and create one, as Google is quite strict in ensuring that publishers follow their rules else they an the accounts. Taken from Google Adsense blog :
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No matter how much people may rant against the applications on Facebook, the developer community keeps coming up with zillions of them every day. And now the most popular social networking site in India - Orkut too has announced the opening up of the site for them real soon. Soon we will find Orkut too flooded with applications.
