It’s no joke! The social media placed itself into the center of our lives in a fast way more than all other communication ways. Here we talk about such a power that many social media websites have members more than the populations of many countries. According to the explanation of Mark Zuckenberg, “If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.”

When social media is called, the first thing that comes to mind is content generated and shared by users. After Internet became an information dump, people who want to spend their time effectively preferred to share only contents that are useful according to them in order to prevent other people to waste also their time.

Since it helps us to decide which ones are useful among millions of image, video, music, news and blog inputs, social media grew incredibly fast and continues to grow in every passing second.

Another issue that makes social media so important is certainly being the most effective tool we have ever met for making friends. 21^st century became a period that individuals turned in on themselves and families fell apart quickly. Since people were deprived of communication and transportation facilities before, they could only communicate with other people in a narrow geographical area. Thus, it was necessitating close friendship and kinship bonds.

However, social media has the power to enable you to meet many people around the world that you have a common point with them. As long as individuals meet with new people and share everything with them, social media became an “addiction” soon. Read More »

OrtaKantin.com, which became a successful application by taking classical logic of forum websites further and aimed to reach university students (which are the major parts of Internet users in a sense), was purchased by YouthRep which is an agency aiming to reach totally high school and university students and of which does not aims online works.

This is a kind of news which will not surprise us even at first we hear it. YouthRep wanted to have a support at online by making a purchase in a field that is appropriate for them and this choice certainly will provide great benefit to them.

The actual surprising point in the news is a speculation arising due to the fact that public opinion was not informed about the amounts in this purchase as in all purchasing news.

How does a web application increase in value?

Nobody is asking this question, in fact. Rather than that, everybody prefers to ask “why was such amount paid?” Since the amount defined as “such” is not definite, there is something for everyone to be talking all at once. Read More »

Seeing that a new idea is added to ingenious ideas carried out by local entrepreneurs every passing day really makes me happy. PageBoss that I will explain is one of the most effective local initiatives.

If you are an end user, you are the client asking for a raspberry cake in a bakery; you are not interested in cake cream, flour type, how paste is prepared or how raspberry sauce is added to cake. You sit down, lean back and just say “raspberry cake” to the waiter waiting an answer from you. Is the chief comfortable as you in that bakery when saying “raspberry cake”? Undoubtedly, many technical details not interested by end user are very essential for producers. Like the bakery example, if you are an end user in the web, many features that I will mention will not make any sense to you and it is possible for you to feel bored; however, web developers will like PageBoss.

Developing a website is an incredibly amazing process especially at first. You feel very confused and lit a cigarette while hundreds of questions are in your mind such as “Did google recognize my website?” “If it is so, how did?” “Who did give backlink to my website?” “Are these backlinks enough or should I buy some more?” “Do they add my website to DMOZ if I apply or do they decline by considering me as an amateur?” “Is google the only search engine? What about those more royalist than the king? Did other search engines recognize my website?” “Should I generate a sitemap? Some says I should!” “Should I pay 50 USD to that company for registering my website to 3 million search engines, 8 million indexes, 24 million IRC servers and footers of 67 million facebook user pages?” etc. Read More »

Hayhuy meeting us with its really impressive Web 2.0 design acted peevishly for not registering me at first but I succeeded at 3rd try. As a part of my job, I care details in websites; for example, I tried to log in with a username and password which did not exist and I liked that the website directed me to the registration page instead of saying “there is no such username”. If you are registering to tens of website everyday, then forgetting which website you registered is not a symptom of Alzheimer.  The first negative aspect is that the system is asking us to pick a username. Even we are doing this, we should be able to sign in by our e-mail addresses as an alternative to our username. Since people become absent minded day by day, we hope this deficiency will be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Hayhuy not allowing us to sign in with our e-mail addresses directed us to control panel when we signed in with our usernames. When we saw that we had 3 new messages, we had a short megalomania crisis as thinking “Wow, what a popular man I am, everyone jumped in as soon as I stepped in…” When we checked our inbox, we saw the warning as “there is no message here” and read the entire page by paranoiac looks but then we noticed that there were messages sent by Muhtar in the right bottom of the page (Muhtar is ‘elected head of government of a village or of a neighbourhood within a town in Turkey’). We thought, “Local elections were years ago. What would I do with muhtar? Would I receive certificate of residence?” But then we wanted to look “messages sent by muhtar to see if it is important or not. Is there any fire drill or earthquake shelther project etc.?” Read More »

Though Web 2.0 is still a concept in suspense for most of us, housewives publishing their handiworks in their blogs by taking their photos, people contacting with all their old friends over Facebook make use of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 is known as including people into the web; however, actual problem is to configure computers to understand human beings. While people desire to generate contents in the web, they also want to meet with web software that will widen their horizons.

Google making search results worse by trying different searching algorithms everyday announces by its last efforts that its end is coming. While Google trying to develop new algorithms quietly by noticing that this bitter end is approaching, other developers continue to undermine Google in a quiet but deep way! Read More »