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As mashable reported few days back, Facebook is testing an upgrade to “Photos” application by adding “Related Photos”. Based on the photo user is looking at Facebook populates other similar photo next to it. If you are a Lifeblob user, this isn’t new to you. Lifeblob had this feature from a quite a long time by now.

With this supposed innovation, facebook will now start showing other photos of people who are face-tagged in a photo next to it. The application feature addition is designed to drive users to explore additional photos that may be of interest based on the photo they’re currently viewing, thereby further personalizing the experience (and increasing page views).

Just to set the record straight, we have had this feature ( and a lot more ) at http://www.lifeblob.com for over a year now and facebook has blatantly copied it. Every time you upload a photo on lifeblob, a recommendation engine not only looks at the face tags, but also the other information associated with your photo to show you photos that are closely related around it.So when you upload your graduation day photos, we discover other photos of your graduation day and show it next to your photo. What facebook has done is picked up this idea and launched a simple version of it that only uses face tags. Bravo!!

–Pranav Bhasin, Founder, Lifeblob

You can check the detailed post about this feature by clicking the above link. This is not the first time Facebook copied something, it copied ideas from Friendfeed (later acquired) & Twitter few months back. Do spread the word by sharing this & also by joining this Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Facebook-STOP-copying-from-Indian-Startups/128733897152335 which Pranav has created (Yep! an FB Page!)

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24HoursLoot is an online store which lists a T-Shirt at discounted price everyday & discount applies only for 24 hours. 24HoursLoot is creative enough to come up with some nice design everyday. T-Shirts with catchy captions, music band logos, geeky slogans are the few of the listed designs so far. Though normally T-Shirt designs are standard, sometimes they allow user to customize it. Like, T-shirt with twitter design allows user to add his/her username, a T-shirt with QR code printed on it for the text you provide…etc. Sometimes they also list products other than T-shirts.

New design will be open to public every mid-night 12 & will be be available for next 24 hours. Website provides options to subscribe to new loots via Email & SMS to make sure you won’t miss any loot. Head over to 24hoursloot.com & start looting!

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Apple has announced the sale of 2 million iPad tablets as of today, a little under a month since the company announced the sale of the 1 millionth unit.

The tablet launched in early April in the United States and the company began selling the device in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend, where excitement reached a fervor.

Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs via press release: “Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do. We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

The iPad saw 450,000 sales on launch day, and was touted as Apple’s most successful product launch ever.

Jobs notes that there are already 5000 iPad-only apps in the App Store, with 200,000 created for the iPhone/iPod Touch additionally available.

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Google has announced new AdWords report sets in Google Analytics that will help view more specific and detailed reports. These new reports can offer more insight on what happens after a visitor clicks on your ads. The previous report sets, inspite of their advanced and detailed reporting do not offer this particular facility. But the [...]

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Mommy’s are logging onto facebook and your favorite social network. Dont believe us but Microsoft Advertising and Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) have conducted a new survey on Asian mothers to understand their online behavior and have concluded that quite a few of them do spend time online. Today mothers are the prime decision makers in households and therefore have a great impact on how their family spends. With the general increase in the use of internet, these mothers have the potential to become unofficial brand ambassadors and marketing strategies cannot neglect them anymore.

The key findings of this survey are that Asian mothers spend 17 hours per week online. 90 per cent of them use the internet to connect with family and friends. Despite this, Indian mothers, according to the survey, were among the lowest users of social networking with just about 58 per cent maintaining a profile compared to 82 per cent in Singapore, 77 per cent in Hong Kong and 62 per cent in China and Korea.

Specifically when it comes to purchasing decisions, 58 percent of mothers say the most used sources are online networks made up of friends, family members and colleagues. The next trusted source is online customer reviews (46 percent). And in China mothers actually rely more on online recommendations than on family and relatives.

A whopping 94 per cent mothers in China made an online purchase in the last 12 months while only 50 per cent Indian mothers who surf made a purchase online in the last 30 days. On the whole more than two-thirds of mothers surveyed purchase products online and close to 70 percent plan to do so in the next 12 months.

The confidence these mothers have in becoming unofficial brand ambassadors can be seen in the survey result where 72 percent of mothers in India and Malaysia feel that they can persuade friends and family to buy the same product or brand.

Among the mothers, it has been found that expecting mothers and those with children younger than three years old rely heavily on online peer-to-peer interactions. Mothers with children aged six or above rely more on the basic tools of email and search engines.

The survey has uncovered interesting statistics and conclusions which surely will aid marketers in making decisions. Question is how many of the mommy’s children add them on social networking sites? Do you?

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