MobiFEST is Nigeria’s first and largest mobile application event. The event focuses on mobile applications in a leading market in Africa where subscriber growth remains on the increase.

This year’s event will be held at the University of Lagos Auditorium. Expected at the event are independent mobile application developers, vendors, device manufacturers, content providers, integrators and aggregators, SMS services providers, and location based services…Read more

According to Yahoo, the program won’t expose a user’s contact list to the public, as was done by Google through its social networking application, Buzz. But unless a user proactively opts out of the program, those Yahoo e-mail subscribers will automatically be part of a sweeping rollout of features that will incorporate the kinds of sharing done on sites such as Facebook and MySpace…Read more

According to Ground Truth recent research MonoSpace is the 4th largest mobile website in the U.S.

Some interesting findings from the report shows

• iPhone is 2 times more attractive than Android for potential smartphone buyers.
• Mobile users log-in almost twice as often as PC users… Read more

“We are making it so all Web sites can work together to build a more comprehensive map of connections and create better, more social experiences for everyone,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote Read more

Social media has cut through so many industries including the Learning industry. iLearningGlobal.tv recently launched its massive Leaning 2.0 platform. A learning service tailored to training and self development of today’s businessmen and women. The platform comprises of faculty blogs, high definition video podcast, audio podcast, e-books and all social tools that provide interactivity between faculties and registered members. It is sure the biggest Learning service today on the internet.

iLearningGlobal is a community of world top speakers, authors and trainers. With names like Brian Tracy, Libby Gill, Teri Murphy, Don Hutson, Patricia Fripp, and many more, you can’t afford to be anywhere else, but on iLearningGlobal.

In today’s competitive business world there’s no better way to stay ahead of your game than adding more value to yourself through continuous learning. iLearningGlobal has simplified this by bringing Learning 2.0 closer to all high minded thinking individuals, granting 24 x 7 access learning from anywhere in the globe via the internet.

Amazingly registered iLearningGlobal members get rewarded for introducing friends, families or co-workers who get registered as well. Cool deal I must say. It’s learning and income earning as well. Better still you can join Brian Tracy and others on iLearningGlobal to learn business success skills ranging from various topics.

The service is open to companies as well as individuals who would want to take advantage of real time training for its employees by industry experts at a lower and flexible price through iLearningGlobal’s Edge and premium packages.

iLearningGlobal is transforming the future of learning. Take a look  and join iLearningGlobal here.

-Paulette.

Talk soon.

-Paulette.

Salesforce Chatter will enable enterprise collaboration and communication via familiar social networking features such as user profiles, status updates, real-time content feeds, interest groups and real-time connections to user Twitter and Facebook profiles. In addition, enterprise applications will have connectivity to content feeds so that updates from Salesforce clouds such as new leads or inventory alerts will be automatically available to all members of the Chatter network.

In addition, the Chatter development platform will allow developers to customize other enterprise applications to give them social networking capabilities. Prebuilt social components will ease the customization of other Force.com applications to work on the Chatter platform. Thus other applications on the enterprise can have social networking features such as user profiles and real-time content feeds built into them, allowing the entire enterprise to have the same basic foundation as popular consumer social networks. Chatter will be accessible via mobile device as well as desktop…Read more

The objective and independent New York City-based Luxury Institute (www.LuxuryInstitute.com) released its latest WealthSurvey today documenting the Social Networking Habits and Practices of the Wealthy.

According to a sample of more than 400 high net-worth consumers, social networking sites are now mainstream channels of interaction for wealthy consumers of all ages:

--  Membership in social networking sites has increased significantly
    since early 2008 from 60% to 72% of wealthy consumers. Wealthy consumers 55
    years of age and above have participation levels of 62%.

--  Facebook, LinkedIn, and newcomer Twitter have shown the strongest
    growth in that timeframe.

--  One out of four (24%) wealthy social networkers say they would be
    likely to join a community dedicated to a luxury brand that is sponsored by
    the brand, and 20% would join an independent luxury brand community not
    sponsored by the brand.

--  Nearly one in five social networkers belong to a social shopping site.
    Ideeli and Rue LaLa are the most popular.

--  More than 40% of wealthy social networkers say they do notice
    advertiser brands on social networking sites they visit.

--  Thirteen percent of social networkers have joined a group that is
    based around a product/service or a brand. Of these, more than one-third
    were solicited via email or other form of communication.

“As the luxury industry tries to reinvent itself, we continue to provide the only unbiased and objective research that helps the industry see where wealthy consumers are going and where the industry needs to follow,” says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute. “Our research indicates strong participation among wealthy consumers in all key evolving areas of social networking. Although no one can predict the new innovative forms of interaction that will take place online, it is clear that social networks will serve as central and irreversible conduits for consumer-to-consumer and consumer-to-provider cooperation and value creation in the near future. We are seeing more leading luxury brands embrace social media, but the overall luxury industry continues to lag to its own detriment.”

A national sample of more than 400 wealthy American consumers was surveyed online by the Luxury Institute. The Institute’s respondents had an average weighted household income of $415,000 and an average weighted household net-worth of $4.9 million. Survey results are weighted to match the profiles of the latest Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve…Read more

Indeed, this nontechnical exploit can be called a benign example of what is at risk if better controls aren’t put in place. Control Your Info hijacked almost 300 groups by simply taking over unadministered groups. Dave Amsler, the cofounder and CIO of Foreground Security, said the illegitimate administrators have access to profile information, e-mail addresses and other data that members have provided. He pointed out that credit-card numbers aren’t involved…Read more