Yesterday's Social Networks - Pictorial

Imagine how things would have been had Facebook and Twitter been founded in 1950's and 1960's. Things would have been totally different then. 


Even the ads would have had a vintage touch to it. To bring it alive an ad agency based in Brazil named Moma Propoganda came up with this series of advertisements. Do read the print on ads. 

Google one is courtesy: Dropular.net

Came across some other similar pics? Please share. 


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Top 1000 websites

Hvae you been looking out for a trusted sources which would tell you which are most visited websites? Well, you searc h ends here. Check out this list of the TOP 1000 websites compiled by DoubleClick Ad Planner. 


DoubleClick Ad Planner is a free media planning tool powered by Google. This monthly updated list can be your best guide to make informed advertisign decisions. In this list you will see in whcih category the site falls, unique visitors, no. of page views, has ads or not. 


See below a snap shot of the list:

Being an advertiser this list will come handy when doing media planning.


Do drop in your comments below.


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PIPL: Search PEOPLE online

You said "bye bye" to them years back,  and haven't heard of them since then. But now with the advent of social media you hope to find the back? Well, your search ends here. Let me itroduce you to PIPL-People Search.


PIPL is one of the most comprehensive search engines to search people. If you're thinking "How come PIPL find me what greatest search engine Google cannot? The answer is DEEP WEB. Acording to wikipedia deep web term refers to content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.

However, I feel if the profile you're looking for has an account on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn then PIPL may not be necessary as Facebook and LinkedIn profiles are indexed by search engines and you will find what you're looking for right there on the first page.


But PIPL can still come handy. Do let me know your experience with it.


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Digital Safe Box: Store and pass on your digital properties

We all, before we kick the bucket, make arrangements to pass on all we have to our loved ones. Your life long wealth gets passed on to deserving loved ones but what about your digital wealth - your connections, emails, online accounts. They too form an integral part of your life and it can't be just left hanging in air.

Worried? Don't be! Legacy Locker to the rescue! See Here


Legacy Locker lets you pass access to your online properties to your loved ones in case of unfortunate events. It's simple to set up and gives you peace of mind as even after you're gone your digital properties are safe and sound in right hands.


Just create an account - choose people who you would like to grant access - select your online properties - assign beneficiaries.


Legacy Locker seems to be a must have given the fact that our world is moving online. We have even started livigin a online social life (courtesy Facebook).


Did you come across any similar digital safe box? Do share it here.


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FREE Facebook page browser

Facebook pages have come a long way and are just getting better day by day. You must have "liked" many.  Are you finding more to like more? Here is the LINK from Facebook itself.

A very comprehensive and categorically listed store of Facebook pages.

You can see entire list of Facebook pages and can also locate pages country wise and category wise.

This is a great tool I would say, especially because it comes straight from Facebook and you can like pages instantly without having to visit each page and click like. You also need not worry whether its official or not as only the official ones get mentioned in here.

On the right hand side you see a list of friends with whom you share "mutual likes". One of the ways to check compatibility ;)

A fast, easy and trusted sources to check out pages. I use it to find my fav brands so that I can participate in some contest and win free goodies. What are you going to use it for? Please share here.

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List of FREE Social Media Monitoring tools

Social Media is such a big universe and there is so much happening out there. If we take only Facebook alone then one of the fact is that total page views it gets is 840,000,000,000. Whopping!!! isn't it?


So here are some tools to help you keep a track and manage social media everyday. 


Allfacebook.com : The unofficial facebook blog lists down the most popular pages and applications. The amaxing ithing is the daily Facebook page stats update.


GoogleAlerts: Need I say anything about this? Get notified when a keyword selected by you is mentioned somewhere in the universe. (one of my favourites)


Insidefacebook: A cool thing to check out rankings of top pages and applications


Kurrently: Used by many agencies out there. Tracks in realtime which people shared a keyword on Facebook and Twitter


Klout:  One of the most trusted tools used by many people including social media gurus (me 2 ;) ) Picks out most influential twitteres and also gives you a score - Klout Score


Monitter: Lets you do twitter monitoring in real time


Socialmention: It's like Google alerts but for social media. You can also track sentiments - positive,negative,neutral.


SproutSocial: A real good one. Offer solid social media management at affordable prices, and its real easy.


HowSociable?: A simple tool to measure visbility on social media


Buzzref: provides a good analytics of your Facebook page. Gives out instant statistics and graphs too.




So what are you waiting for? Start tracking your mentions and pages. There are still many more tools out there, please share if you come across any. 


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