The influence of social media is growing stronger over online marketing industry because no one can deny the power of recommendation. Small businesses and companies try to create a niche on the seek recommendation from there for promotion and branding. Facebook was reining the social media marketing kingdom so far. But now it seems that its monopoly will be put to an end with Google+, Google’s new social media site [...]

Google is back into action with Google Friend Connect – another social network platform for websites (and of course blogs) without going anywhere else. Ok, it is not just another social network as we have seen so far. As Google puts it – “Google Friend Connect provides a core set of social gadgets such as member management, message board, reviews, and picture-sharing”. And everything is there in a small java [...]