Social Networks – An Addiction

Having spent the better part of the morning, and most mornings, staring at Facebook and updating my MySpace, I can admit that social networks are addicting and can waste hours and hours in a day. I can also remember back to when I was working a regular office job and most of the day was spent checking who updated what, and updating my own status messages knowing that my fellow co-workers and friends outside the company were also online checking it like it was the stock exchange. Often I get responses from people I haven’t spoken to in years or who I hardly remember, in addition to the regular group of friends who regularly monitor each other’s profiles as if it was their job to do so.

Psychiatrists go as far as saying that today people extend their own identities through their online profiles. In other words, Facebook and MySpace have become a sense of who we actually are as people. I suppose this is true, as it is a place we control what people see, and have no problem letting people all across the world see in order to get updates as to who we are and what we are doing. However there are those who spend over 30-40 hours on the internet a week on such sites, and they are addicts. People have looked to the internet to replace other recreational areas of their lives. Unfortunately for many of today’s youth, this means a drop in physical activity, and for adults it can mean a drop in social interaction with their friends and/or family.

They say ‘opportunity makes the thief,’ but in this case, ‘social networks make the stalker.’ The amount of information one can access on another person makes it easy to follow their every move. Yes it is that person, who posts pictures and approves being tagged in others, as well as posting information, but others also post on walls and those messages are public but may not be pre-approved by the user before they go up. People easily get addicted to stalking someone once they see someone else is writing on their wall, or that they have posted new pictures. Tabbed browsing, email notifications, and mobile applications, all cater to the social network addict, making it easier for them to constantly be checking their profiles and others’ as well. Experts recommend setting time limits, and basically practicing self discipline against constantly checking or receiving email notifications, and not to install mobile apps for the social networks.

Agriya – Web Development

Being one of the company’s original services, we have over 8 years of experience in web development for numerous clients who were more than pleased with our work. From creating full websites, to modifying and revamping many more, Agriya has worked on web development in virtually every aspect, with almost all scripts including LAMP Stack, Ruby on Rails, J2EE, MySQL, .NET, Oracle, AJAX, and many more.

We offer our very own custom built framework designed in PHP which is flexible enough to take on most web based applications. In addition to this, there are several open source frameworks that can be used if this is what a client prefers, rather than our own.

We specialize in domains such as social networking sites, e-commerce, content management systems, and payment solutions among others. And have existing products which can be customized to a client’s needs which include social networks, video sharing, video players, and many, many more products. In addition, we can create new products to meet your needs and implement them on your website.

Social Bookmarking & SEO

The concept of social bookmarking became hugely popular thanks to sites such as delicious and digg. The idea is that an article or blog is collected, stored and then tagged to be sorted later on by relevancy. The information provided by social bookmarks is often seen as more relevant for many users because the information is provided by humans. Its relevancy is decided by human viewers rather than a search engine providing results based on keywords. A points system is also used with articles on social bookmarking sites, to add a greater human aspect to it.

Social bookmarking can add tremendous viewership to your site. Marketing your site through social bookmarking is easy, as long as you have relevant and useful information. The bookmarking world will recognize its usefulness and rate it and thus create greater hits through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s audience can grow exponentially thanks to social bookmarkers.

Target the niche market that is relevant to your site. Try to connect to those communities that will have viewers who appreciate the material, and therefore can rank it higher and stir up buzz about it in the bookmarking world. You can also build back links to your site by attaching URLs to your content. This may not mean anything in terms of SEO advantage as some social bookmarking sites implement a ‘no follow’ policy, attaching tags to your links. However users could still view your site and increase popularity to the attached links.

Now days with hundreds of social bookmarking websites, it is important to try to get linked into one somehow. The possibilities from there are endless as you increase your viewer base and gain points among the community of your site.

Anova – Knowledge Sharing Software

In this day and age, the human aspect of technology is always appreciated, especially when everything else seems to be so automated and machinelike. Sites such as Digg are well received because they have a human touch to them, where actual readers rate articles and thus results aren’t just based on keyword searches. Similarly, websites such as Yahoo Answers are very successful because you get real answers from real people who usually speak from experience, rather than a calculated answer based on page rankings that show up in a Google search.

Knowledge sharing is even more important within an organization. It facilitates and encourages creation, learning, discussion, and the spread of information to reach common organizational goals. Although the concept has existed for decades, the means of going about it were often not so easy. Today with the internet it is extremely easy to share information with one another. But a centralized database with answers is what many new products are able to achieve. Anova (Knowledge Sharing Software) for example, takes Yahoo Answers to the next step, with its ability to incorporate audio and video based answers as well as text responses.

This feature of incorporating audio/video answers is easier for many, as sometimes it’s hard to put down on paper, what you might be able to say or better yet show on a video. Within a company or organization, these features allow individuals to share information with each other and store them in a centralized database that can be more easily accessed. The concept of FAQs (frequently asked questions) has just expanded into a whole new world of virtually any asked question. If you have the question, chances are someone out there has the same question and might have asked it already. And chances are also likely that someone has the answer, or something near an acceptable answer.

Especially with regards to the organization itself, it is important to keep knowledge internal, thus software such as Anova can be kept on an internal network accessible only to employees, and topics could be kept limited to those pertinent to work related queries. I personally enjoy the audio/video feature as it gives even more credibility to the system as a whole, since you can actually see the person giving you the answer, or better yet demonstrating it visually.

Requisite of enterprise solutions

Enterprise solutions are software applications used by a large and growing number of the world’s leading organizations, to access and manage real-time information and transaction processes across an entire organization. Here we have compiled the must have characteristics of enterprise solutions to help you in selection.

While going for enterprise solutions, the first and foremost qualities expected in it is security. It should have tight security to block access of anonymous users, and ensure security of both company and employee information. It should be scalable i.e. flexible to accommodate increase in employees and clients.

Implementation of software and management of version control should be easy. Upgrading to new version of software should be trouble-free. Application must be free from errors, to ensure effective maintenance of records.

Enterprise solutions are essential for small, medium and large enterprises to improve business performance and create distinctive capabilities that drive competitive advantage.

Why social networks are still popular?

Have you ever wondered why new social networking sites are springing up daily? Are there as many people to join them daily? What they are doing there? Why is it popular among people? The rest of the article will give answers for these questions.

Communication is the basic need for everyone in the world, to express their feelings and thoughts to others and keep in touch with others. Time, distance and economic situations were the major limitations faced by people. Social networking sites have come to rescue. People have started using this to enhance knowledge.

You can meet new people and enlarge your friend circle. This concept has driven business people to social networking sites, to expand their client circle and help their customers online. Individuals prefer social networking to have online identity. On the whole, there is no end for social networks; it keeps growing with human.

Facebook Gets A Lite Version

Facebook is constantly trying to make changes to itself. Sometimes to its design, sometimes to its applications, its functionality etc. A lot of times its fun, and they make it a lot more user friendly. Now a day this type of social networking site can be developed through social networking software. You can’t deny however, that it takes a little getting used to everytime! Most people that use facebook use it to keep in touch with long lost mates and are not particularly net savvy. So why on earth does the website have to keep changing itself and confuse people?

The latest change that their brilliant brains have come up with is ‘Facebook Lite’. It minuses all those things that they believe are probably not required to be present. These were the things however, that took a lot of getting used to. So facebook flashes you a big message when you try to login saying “you’ve been selected to use Facebook Lite”. Not knowing what to expect you say ok, and then you can’t go back to your original facebook! Updates are appreciated, but they’re not always helpful!

Why AJAX is popular?

AJAX, short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. As the name indicates, the AJAX engine sets asynchronous interaction between application and server. In standard applications, the interaction is synchronous that is when user submits any query in application, that will be send to server for validation. The server will validate and process the query and then transmit the query result to application, thus making the application slow.

With AJAX, the Javascript that is loaded during page load handles most of server tasks like data validation and manipulation, thereby increasing the web page’s interactivity, speed, and usability. The complexity of Ajax programming in Javascript can be overcome using AJAX frameworks that deal with AJAX support.

Developers can quickly build complex and rich media applications using frameworks and their associated widget set libraries.

Benefits of open source integration

Nowadays, organizations opt for open source software through which they can get source code of software, make changes to it and build new versions of software, which will greatly reduce the total company expense.

Open source platforms are a great way to go for all kinds of website development projects. Content Management Systems (CMS), web solutions for Social networking web, ERP solutions are some of the open source projects popular in the market.

Once you choose an open source software for your company, you have to customize it according to your need. This requires people having knowledge in web design and codes to help you in customization. Again, you have to arrange for sufficient number of resources and allocate workspace and time to make the application useful for you. You can also outsource open source customization process to experienced concern to do the work for you at a reasonable cost.

Why answering sites are popular among net surfers?

The widespread usability and access of the internet has made it possible for users to interact with others and perform various activities like data sharing and gathering. In general, the data available on the internet is open to public. Using search engines, people can get whatever they need on the net, provided that the search data is available on the net.

It is an ocean where finding answers for a question is a tedious job. Sites that use answers software have made the job of getting answers to your questions very easy. Just post your question on an answering site, anyone having knowledge will provide their answer.

This site will become a library, where anyone searching answer for the same question can get it easily without surfing the whole net.
In the fast moving world, answering sites made it easy to share their knowledge and gain it more easily.