Hürriyet which is the most visited portal of Turkey with daily 2 million single visitors keeps its attacks in Internet. They aim to continue their success by Hürriyet Kıyasla (Hürriyet Compare) which they succeeded before by Hürriyet Emlak (estate search website) and Hürriyet Oto (first and second hand automobile search website).
Hürriyet Kıyasla aiming to meet these basic requirements by its slogan “Do not decide before comparing!” offers a comparison chance between products and services for consumers planning to take loan or to invest.
There is no doubt that Turkish people like to socialise. The most important reason for Facebook to be so popular – almost obsessed – irrepressibly in our country was the requirement for socialization. Well, did we able to use this socialization in an effective way? What did this social network provide us in fact? We noticed in a short time that finding our old school mates was not beneficial for us. Everybody had changed… Even we went into the effort of getting new friends; we neither could get rid of foolish tests nor got any benefit by subscribing to unnecessary groups which did not have any use for anyone. While Facebook was claiming that it was socializing us, we turned in upon ourselves, became quiet and frankly, we were bored.
FriendFeed became a remedy for our discomfort for a while. Because we got a chance to have a talk with new people instead of those that we got bored to talk with so far and that already consumed many common grounds we might share. This became a sea for us as we were in aquarium when we got out of the close circuit system of Facebook. Interesting shares of FriendFeed bewitched us in a short time and we got cool friends. Facebook, naturally, saw the big picture and bought FriendFeed. Probably, it did not want to have a strong rival. However, FriendFeed got out of hand soon. Fights and argues seized everywhere and it became a platform with low quality of chat even you wanted to avoid from such argues.
Actually, the most significant problem of social networks is their uncontrolled environments. As a result, users hiding behind anonymous identities created disturbance and social unrest. These people ruined social networks nothing less than provokers who ruin streets by hiding their faces with masks. Since they are not intervened unless ‘user generated content’ is not complained as a requirement for Web 2.0, the easement of anonymous identity made things out of control.
At this point, we meet with the question, “What do we expect from a social network?” Even though it is introduced to us that meeting with new people, making shares with them and adding value into our lives are the primary purposes of a social network, unfortunately current services being used popularly are far from these purposes. Many people use these networks either as a dating website or as a self-satisfaction tool by attacking other users in order to get their revenge on issues they could not express in real life. Well, are social networks really not useful?
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. 21st 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 »
