Tired of Facebook requests? Forget them all

If facebook has made you completely exhausted and tired of all the requests you get for adding applications, others friend profile updation, joining groups and attending events in cities other than your own, you have a good news for the addition of a new option called Ignore all request. Everyone can be happy about this option not just because of the total volume of requests one receives in a day but also because of the ease it offers. As a message from web community forums states that the addition of this Ignore all requests option means that one has more than one way with which he can avoid being social on a social network along with the Ignore All Application requests bookmarklet. So while one decides to choose which one of these options to use, one must really think hard:
1. Do you want to just overlook the applications request and continue getting invitations to join groups and attend events etc?
2. Would you just forget the entire thing and say I don’t care?

There can be also chances where people who just laze their way out when presented with such options won’t be using this ignore option too often, so as to be sure that they by chance don’t overlook a request that is of huge importance to them.

Web to print method for anonymous love or hate letters by HadToSay

Hadtosay is an exciting new site that is reinventing the secret admirer letter. The basic idea here is that an anonymous message is created; a print of a notification card is taken and is then unconnectedly sent to the recipient. The recipient can then take the message id number and PIN no on the card and check the message on HadToSay. If the recipient decides to reply he can do so by simple logging to HadToSay and therefore a conversation can follow. This kind of conversation takes the hesitation out of secret admirer letters and opens the line of communication.

This could also be used for namelessly telling your boss about the situation you are facing in office or others problems theoretically. Other than creating your own message HadToSay also gives the chance to sneak on what other anonymous conversations users are having. Many may not welcome this idea of sneaking but it has been given the popularity of applications like Honesty Box on Facebook.

Google dominates while Yahoo struggles to lift income

Yahoo! Inc plans to boost sales by offering services for phones and social-networking sites. The analysts predict the owner of the most visited U.S. Web site to report an eighth straight quarter of declining profit. Compared with $5.57 for Google Inc. the world’s largest Internet search engine, the Sunnyvale, California-based company is generating 49 cents a share of non-budgeted cash. The investments of Yahoo in online advertising have failed to stem market share losses to Google. Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York says that yahoo spends very limited on acquisitions and technology while Google has moved on into mobile-phone advertising, social networking and Web video. Google continues to invest in search and ads. In past years Yahoo is struggling relative to Google because of a failure to invest in cutting-edge technologies. Yahoo also faces challenges to win sales from social-networking sites Facebook Inc. and News Corp.’s MySpace. It also made achievement to build its display business by paying $680 million to buy the remaining stake in Right Media Inc. and $300 million for BlueLithium Inc, Google on the other hand has hunted for bigger deals. Mountain View, California-based Google paid $1.65 billion for video site YouTube Inc and is buying the online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion. Google having such a size advantage and good business going is putting much more stress on Yahoo.

$12 Million for ShoZu

“Why buy a round trip ticket to see your friends when ShoZu offers one for free?” Well that is the proposition ShoZu has to offer its mushrooming user base. The London-based company is presently building their initial services as they aim at offering camera phone media to media-sharing sites. The application offers two-way mobile social media-sharing capabilities to its users. With just one MMS you can upload your photos to a range of social networking websites like Facebook and Flickr.

ShoZu is still in its funding phase and the third round of the same has raised $12 million. This funding round was lead by SEB Venture Capital, with participation from Atlas Venture, Crescendo Ventures and TTP Ventures. Now their application is available on 317 phone models in over 100 countries and the third round of funding has boosted their growth process. The ShoZu team is even proud about their downloads which has been doubling every month, in addition 50 million phones that will ship with the application pre-installed as a result of deals with Motorola and Samsung last year. As per sources the third round of funds will be used on growing the company to suit the new visions of SEB Venture.

TradeDoubler has launched a new search management technology

The Pan-European digital marketing firm TradeDoubler has just launched a new search management technology ‘td Searchware 4’ designed to allow the world’s biggest advertising companies to draw the maximum mileage out of their proposed online media spend.

td Searchware 4, to elaborate, is the enhanced version of BidBuddy – among the flagship offerings of The Technology Works. TradeDoubler acquired it in July 2007. td Searchware 4, according to the plans, will sit within a newly constituted division of TradeDoubler - TD Technology – simultaneously launched. The TD Technology division will also incorporate td Toolbox of TradeDoubler. td Toolbox is a system for online marketing management to track as well as execute file hosting, ad serving and, last but not the least, partner payment administration.

td Searchware 4 is a very sophisticated web-based marketing platform that comes with enhanced editorial, reporting & automated strategy capabilities for empowering search marketing professionals to draw expertise at what they do. Banking and building on the legacy of earlier BidBuddy version, it comprises several add-on features & functionality that have been developed in conjunction with key clients and industry stakeholders across the UK, Japan and mainland Europe.

According to Managing Director of TD Technology, Mick Empson, the Searchware tool has been designed with an aim of tackling the specific challenges encountered by search professionals. As campaigns are getting more sophisticated, the marketers require tools, which are intuitive so that they are free to concentrate on more strategic and creative issues.