Tag: Social Network

Stickers Are Not the Only Way Mobile Messaging Apps Make Money

On Thursday MessageMe became the latest mobile messaging app that joins the sticker craze as it introduces a number of free and paid sets of stickers. The week before, TenthBit’s Couple also added stickers for its users. With Path and Facebook joining the sticker craze this year, it looks as if the prevailing way to monetize messaging apps is by selling stickers instead of charging to use their services. But evidence shows that there are other ways.

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8 Langkah Penting Membuat Profil LinkedIn Terlihat Profesional

LinkedIn adalah jejaring sosial yang mempunyai konsep unik, di mana sebagian besar penggunanya adalah profesional yang memiliki latar belakang bisnis. Layaknya sebuah identitas, LinkedIn kerap dijadikan media untuk memperkenalkan diri atau bisnis ke calon kolega atau perusahaan dengan tujuan yang beragam.

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Line Catat 200 Juta Pengguna

Setelah pada akhir Juni kemarin platform mobile messaging populer Line dilaporkan telah memperoleh jumlah pengguna hingga 170 juta, hari ini (23/7) pengembang aplikasi tersebut, Naver, mengumumkan bahwa Line telah mencapai 200 juta pengguna dari seluruh dunia.
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What Premium Subscription? Path Goes Sticker Happy With Latest Update

Earlier today Path released its latest update for iOS and Android which brings increased use of stickers within its app, a QR code to add friends and redesigned interface for iOS. The changes reveal Path’s growing reliance on stickers as its primary revenue driver and a subtle suggestion that it wants its users to add more friends to their limited network.
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Indonesian Photo Sharing App PicMix to Reach 10 Million Users This Week, 140 Million Photos

When you have an idea for a product and the market you want to enter is crowded with competitors or has one giant leader, chances are your product won’t get noticed. Founder of social mobile platform Elasitas, Calvin Kizana, was in this position in 2011, having sold his company to a Malaysian venture. He was itching to start something new and saw an opportunity to fix Instagram. Problem is, he’s not gonna be able to fix Instagram directly, so he built PicMix, a photo sharing app which launched on BlackBerry in early 2012.

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Receives Investment, Burufly Should Focus on Site Experience

Social network that focus on travel Burufly announces its undisclosed investment from Walden International and Batavia Incubator. According to e27, the investment will help Burufly to expand to the region, with Thailand currently on the list. What’s in my mind, however, it’s not about the destination, it’s more about the audiences.

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Do You Wanna Sell Stickers for the Rest of Your Life or Do You Wanna Change the World?

Path launched version three on Thursday, bringing it closer to resemble the Asian mobile messaging apps by adding a messaging feature with stickers and an in-app store to purchase digital items. Stickers may not be a big thing for its domestic market, not yet anyway, but in Asia it’s a multimillion dollar business. Messaging is also a big component of being natively mobile that it’s a surprise that it wasn’t available from the beginning. Did Path do the right thing with this latest update?

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Why is Path so Popular in Indonesia?

One social network that has many in the tech industry scratching their heads is Path. From the looks of it few outside of the company itself understand Path, the seemingly Facebook clone that’s native to mobile devices. There had been questions about Path’s existence. Practically nobody in the United States are on it, with roughly six million members and around half live outside of the US. With such low numbers relative to other big name American-based social networks, why is it so popular in Jakarta? Why does it appear on random people’s Android and iOS devices in public places in Indonesia?

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Burpple Now Adds Descriptions to Photos, Turns Members Into Food Bloggers

Fresh off the announcement of their Android version of the mobile app, Burpple released an update which allows people to add descriptions to photos of their food. It’s something that probably should have been there from the beginning but at least it’s there now and according to the announcement, descriptions from Instagram will be carried over for people who have activated Instagram Connect on their Burpple accounts.

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Google Plus Sekarang Merupakan Jejaring Sosial Paling Aktif Nomor Dua Setelah Facebook

Global Web Index merilis laporannya tentang platform sosial dan jumlah pengguna aktifnya di kuartal keempat 2012. Seperti biasa, Facebook mendominasi daftar ini di berbagai sisi, tapi layanan apa yang berada di posisi kedua? Menurut laporan tersebut, Google Plus (Google+) memiliki pengguna aktif paling banyak setelah Facebook, diikuti oleh YouTube dan Twitter. Posisi sepuluh besar berikutnya dikuasai oleh layanan asal Cina, di mana LinkedIn menjadi satu-satunya layanan global di jajaran posisi enam hingga sepuluh.

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