After the southpark episode censoring, shout out by freedom of speech bandwagon and protest by people against Draw Muhammad day, government of Pakistan has banned Facebook in Pakistan (started from banning specific pages and then completely banned the site due to court orders). Where many people still can figure out how to use Facebook even after ban (mainly 3-4 different methods), many are clueless. Lets for a moment not discuss whats right or wrong, lets speculate what kind of impact this decision will have on usage of other social networks and services.
1- With Myspace already reforming its privacy settings by making them more simple yet giving more control to the user they could have been a bigger candidate to attract traffic but since they are not that much known in Pakistan its less likely they will get any benefit from this situation.
2- Nobody here remembers Orkut and it seems its bound to remain same.
3- Twitter is a service which is likely to get a small chunk of the user base. Most of the users who were already on twitter but couldn’t find themselves fitting into the 140 character space could turn towards it.
4- Google Buzz is most likely to get a bigger portion of the interactive space as its more closer to the Pakistani audience. Its a fact that majority of Buzz interactions are aggregated from different Social Networks but this could change as Buzz is closest to your inbox and Pakistanis could turn towards it to satisfy their Online Social Interaction needs.
5- There is also a possibility that some local social network like Paki.com or <a href=”http://stop.pk/” target=”_blank”>stop.pk</a> emerges as a winner but it seems probable only if there is a moment to promote a local alternative of Facebook.
6- Lastly there could be a posibility that an international Muslim Social network like Muxlim could attract muslims around globe but that’s tide to campaigning as well.
All the speculations are totally dependant on how long this ban is going to last and how long the alternatives will keep on working, only the time will tell.
After the southpark episode censoring, shout out by freedom of speech bandwagon and protest by people against Draw Muhammad day, government of Pakistan has banned Facebook in Pakistan (started from banning specific pages and then completely banned the site due to court orders). Where many people still can figure out how to use Facebook even after ban (mainly 3-4 different methods), many are clueless. Lets for a moment not discuss whats right or wrong, lets speculate what kind of impact this decision will have on usage of other social networks and services.
1- With Myspace already reforming its privacy settings by making them more simple yet giving more control to the user they could have been a bigger candidate to attract traffic but since they are not that much known in Pakistan its less likely they will get any benefit from this situation.
2- Nobody here remembers Orkut and it seems its bound to remain same.
3- Twitter is a service which is likely to get a small chunk of the user base. Most of the users who were already on twitter but couldn’t find themselves fitting into the 140 character space could turn towards it.
4- Google Buzz is most likely to get a bigger portion of the interactive space as its more closer to the Pakistani audience. Its a fact that majority of Buzz interactions are aggregated from different Social Networks but this could change as Buzz is closest to your inbox and Pakistanis could turn towards it to satisfy their Online Social Interaction needs.
5- There is also a possibility that some local social network like Paki.com or stop.pk emerges as a winner but it seems probable only if there is a moment to promote a local alternative of Facebook.
6- Lastly there could be a posibility that an international Muslim Social network like Muxlim could attract muslims around globe but that’s tide to campaigning as well.
All the speculations are totally dependant on how long this ban is going to last and how long the alternatives will keep on working, only the time will tell.
From 31st August onwards Twitter is going to wrap all urls that are being tweeted, with its own url shortening service t.co. the urls will be displayed in a user friendly manner and all those who click will be taken through twitter’s newly introduced security service that will determine if the url is safe enough for you to view (i.e. the site doesn’t have any malware etc.). Twitter has been bashing many url shortening service which had been causing (as per Twitter) enough confusion and security concerns as users couldn’t find what they were clicking on. Although many services like Twitter Gadgets had intriduced features like revealing the url on mouse over but Twitter seems to have some other plans.
Google has been slowly adding a lot of features into its image search, improving it day by day. From advance filters separating line drawings from photos and clip art to recently added image similarity which digs similar images, a lot has been going on. Google just gave image search a brand new fast and sleek interface which lists much more images saving you from the hassle of clicking next page button. The list is loaded on demand when you scroll the page. Also to mention the on mouse larger thumbnails of the images. I think Google just made the image search better and far more fun than it used to be
With Facebook not around and nothing much to do, office environment is so boring.
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