this is for all for finance/investments/business (sorry quite...

this is for all for finance/investments/business (sorry quite long):

A) what i had put up before:
reuters,bloomberg etc are some of them but more there (here are a few):
http://www.dowjones.com/ A leader in news and business information world-wide-consists of Wall Street, Barron's, Factiva, Marketwatch, etc - stocks, quotes, charts, news, etc - all under News Corporation
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/ News, finance, sectors, analysis and opinion, reports, stock opinion to buy and sell, etc - part of http://www.reuters.com/ , world's largest multimedia news agency
http://www.cnbc.com/ World leader in business news - real-time finance, news and analysis and loads more

also there are these:
http://www.advfn.com/ Advanced Financial Network - world leading web site for FREE real-time on line stock quotes and stock charts - world forex exchange rates, stock market gainers vs losers, news,price data, charts and research, derivatives, world exchanges, reports, etc (not needed to login)
http://www.site-by-site.com/ International Investment Portal & Research Center - global perspectives, stock exchanges, derivative exchanges, central banks, quotes, charts, analysis, reports, etc - comes under http://sbs-internetsolutions.com/
http://tradingroom.com.au/apps/index.ac News, quotes, etc (look a the different tabs under that and this link is also part of http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets and there also look under the different tabs as it gives charts by minute/hour/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly and so on)

http://www.wn.com Nest of news nest - has each and every type of news in each and every region of the world-sports,general,economic,financial,name it and it's there
http://wnnetwork.com/ Network of networks of news(click on left top sub-heading or even headings below and you'll see what I mean)(both show same except latter shows it network of network format and former in news format though both World News Site and that sitehas over 20000 global and regional new sites as well as over 400 media partners including BBC, CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, etc which
can be seen underhttp://wnnmedia.com/)

then within each area around the world:
http://www.24hgold.com/english/home.aspx Precious metals, energy and natural resources world-wide - news, quotes, data, analysis, reports, etc
http://www.fxstreet.com/ Leading independent portal dedicated to the Foreign Exchange (Forex) market-brokers&FDM, forum, community, quotes, news, tools, etc
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/-International property buying - rental yields, comparisons, house price changes, data, investment ratings, price trends, taxes, mortgage markets, etc

lastly, there's also this within australia (hope it has news updates for australia for gold)-http://www.goldoz.com.au/home.0.html-Charts, history, education, news, links, etc

B) others (including under A)(have more but later for links as these can be a start):
• http://www.global-investor.com/ One of the top online financial resources - books, conferences, glossary, etc
• http://www.investopedia.com/ One of the largest and leading sites for investment and finance education
• http://www.iafe.org International Association of Financial Engineers (Quantitative Finance Organisation)
• http://www.marketclocks.com Opening and closing times of various stock exchanges around the world including some stock exchange data and some market news around the world
• http://www.corporateinformation.com/home.aspx
• http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html Click on any-will give charts, new, stock quotes on world industries and firms under them
• http://www.prophet.net/explore/sectorrankings.jsp Will give industry sector rankings based on different days, months or years and now is part of Investools Investor Education
• http://www.world-exchanges.org/ World Federation of Exchanges
• http://www.worldmarketmedia.com/ Social network bridging world's financial markets and investment communities
• http://www.wall-street.com/ Some good financial/investment links
• http://www.commodityonline.com Leading provider of news, information and research reports on commodities (mainly India's)
• http://247wallst.com/page/real-time-500/ Wall St Real-Time 500 Largest Companies in US (in market cap, ith last change in amount and %, last 12 months EPS and last 12 months sales) - part of larger investment site http://247wallst.com
• http://www.capitalmarket.com/MarketWatch/marketcap.htm Top 50 Market Capitalisation (BSE Sensex), part of http://www.capitalmarket.com/ that gives news, stock quotes, sector trends, BSE and NSE firms, etc
• http://www.benchmarkingnetwork.com/ Leading international organisation for business process resource and metrics (has different associations with different ndustrial sectors)
• http://www.marketresearch.com/ The world's largest and continuously updated collection of market research-any topic and any industrial sector including reports
• http://www.ibef.org/ Indian economy-India as a brand-has on trade and economy, news, reports, industrial sectors, etc
• http://www.iii.org/ Insurance Information Institute-topics, facts, statistics, etc
• http://www.iie.com/ Institute for International Economics-publications and events, topics, real time economic issues, etc
• http://www.dowjones.com/ A leader in news and business information world-wide-consists of Wall Street, Barron's, Factiva, Marketwatch, etc - stocks, quotes, charts, news, etc - all under News Corporation
• http://www.worldcitiesalliance.com/ An international joint venture designed to provide fully integrated business investment advice, B2Bservices and economic development in a network of strategic regions
throughout the world
• http://www.bea.gov/ US Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis-national,international,regional,industry,etc
• http://www.intracen.org/ International Trade Centre-trade for each country, projects, networks, products, services, reports, analysis, etc
• http://www.wto.org/ World Trade Organization-news,topics,resources,webcasting,podcasting,etc
• http://www.ibisworld.com/ World’s largest independent publisher of U.S. industry research+industry research from other countries-analysis, reports, etc
• http://www.businessweek.com/ A global source of essential business insight, that’s part of Bloomberg - quotes, financial data, news, etc(Look at McGraw Hill, Reuters, Factset, Thomson Corporation, CapitalIQ as well)
• http://www.business.com Leading business search engine and pay-per-click advertising network
• http://www.fxstreet.com/ Leading independent portal dedicated to the Foreign Exchange (Forex) market-brokers&FDM, forum, community, quotes, news, tools, etc
• http://www.site-by-site.com/ International Investment Portal & Research Center - global perspectives, stock exchanges, derivative exchanges, central banks, quotes, charts, analysis, reports, etc - comes under http://sbs-internetsolutions.com/
• http://www.peimedia.com/ PEI is the leading financial information group dedicated to the alternative asset classes of private equity, real estate and infrastructure globally - news, data, events,publications, etc including their other sites as well as Private Equity Real Estate.com part of http://www.peimedia.com that has also created the private equity firm rankings
• http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/ International property buying - rental yields, comparisons, house price changes, data, investment ratings, price trends, taxes, mortgage markets, etc
• http://www.propertyfrontiers.com A leader in international property investment - investment property search (country, price range), blogs, research, etc
• http://www.mipim.com The world's property markets - industry insight, news, etc
• http://www.worldproperties.com/ Backed by the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations (ICREA) which is comprised of 30+ leading national real estate organizations representing 2 million brokers/agents worldwide - search, industry resources, news
• http://www.realtor.org/ Search, statistics videos, education, other sites, etc which includes Worldproperties.com
• http://www.wri.org/ World Resources Institute - news, blogs, reports, etc
• http://www.nextbillion.net/ Part of World Resources Institute - news, blogs, reports, etc
• http://www.stwr.org/ Share The World's Resources - issues, news and analysis, reports, etc
• http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/ Blogs, documents, links, videos, etc
• http://www.globaloilwatch.com/ Premiere web portal providing breaking oil and gas news - news, analysis, research, geopolitics, etc
• http://www.worldoil.com/ Published monthly by Gulf Publishing Company - quotes, news, events, topics, videos, etc
• http://www.theoildrum.com/ Discussions about energy and our future-finance, environment, energy blogs and sites, quotes, news, etc
• http://www.eex.com/en/ European Energy Exchange - quotes, news, reports, etc
• http://www.mcxindia.com/ Multi commodity exchange - data, quotes, news, reports, etc
• http://www.eia.doe.gov/ US Energy - Statistics and Analysis - data, quotes, news, reports, etc
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption World Energy Resources and Consumption
• http://www.astrium.eads.net/node.php?articleid=3755 Monetary value of minerals, part of http://www.astrium.eads.net/ , which is Europe's leading space company-programmes, equipment, news, locations, events, videos, etc which is again part of http://www.eads.com/1024/en/Homepage1024.html , global leader in aerospace, defence and related services - news, specials, divisions, videos, etc
• http://buttonwood.economist.com/ Videos, Events, Blogs, etc including World Public Debt and Comparison of each country on right (developed using data and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit database which is inspired by the National Debt Clock, a measure of the US pblic debt)-part of the Economist Group (http://www.economistgroup.com -leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs-brands, media, videos, reports, etc)
• http://www.usdebtclock.org/ US National Debt Clock including checking on real time data of gold/precious metals as well as mortgage/loan
• http://www.debtclock.com.au/ Australian National Debt Clock
• http://www.indianindustry.com/ Indian Industry - Directory of Indian Suppliers - Indian economy (trade, direct investment, etc), country profiles (trade, associations, snapshot, etc), trade fairs, intellectual
property, trade information, etc
• http://www.interbrand.com/ Global branding consultancy - studies, articles, blogs, top global brand rankings including of various sectors, etc and it's part of Omnicom, 1 of the world's largest advertising and communication services firms (it's competitors are WPP, etc which can be found under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom when scrolled down)
• http://www.australianinvestor.com.au/ Gives trend analysis of the various companies on the Australian Securities Exchange (free-if you just give your name and password with email address, you can get trend analysis of any time along with other stuff, otherwise, you'll get only trend analysis of the companies for 24 months and 1 day when you go under Company Research link where you'll get a list of links of the companies on the stock exchange and when clicked, you get the analysis
• http://www.asx.com.au/ Australian Securities Exchange - news, quotes, etc
• http://tradingroom.com.au/apps/index.ac News, quotes, etc (look a the different tabs under that and this link is also part of http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets and there also look under the different tabs as it gives
charts by minute/hour/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly and so on)
• http://www.advfn.com/ Advanced Financial Network - world leading web site for FREE real-time on line stock quotes and stock charts - world forex exchange rates, stock market gainers vs losers, news, price data, charts and research, derivatives, world exchanges, reports, etc (not needed to login)
• http://www.hotcopper.com.au/ Australian Investment Network - Australia's largest stock trading and investor internet discussion forum (free to login) - excellent
• http://www.transportintelligence.com/ Market Intelligence for Transport and Logistics Industry around the world - industry sectors, logistics markets, reports, news, etc
• http://www.24hgold.com/english/home.aspx Precious metals, energy and natural resources world-wide - news, quotes, data, analysis, reports, etc
• http://portal.brint.com/ World's No. 1 Resource for Business, Information Technology, Finance & Risk Management
• https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/ Specializes in historical data that extends from the 1200s to present - database, stocks, search, reports, etc
• http://www.aigroup.com.au/ Australian Industry Group - economic indicators, trade, business services, industry sector networks, etc
• http://www.emerginvest.com/ Global finance portal connecting investors worldwide with high-quality investment research, data, and tools covering 125 stock markets globally - quotes, most active streams,featured streams, major market indices, countries, regions, sectors, comparisons, etc
• http://money.ninemsn.com.au/news-and-analysis/aus-market/australian-indices-chart/ MS Financial Real-Time data (Google and Yahoo etc also have though above 1s maybe better than these 3)
• http://www.tradingsecrets.com.au/hot-cold.htm Trading Secrets - Current Hot and Cold Sectors (sometimes works while choosing firms under those sectors under ASX, but should check on trend analysis, data, etc as well….
best if know financial analysis also and not just technical analysis or psychology of business decisions alone) (now it’s under http://www.tradingsecrets.com.au/webpages/1_home.php - scroll down a bit and under free hot and cold sectors)
• http://www.tcetoday.com/tcetoday/overview.aspx The Chemical Engineer - news, events, forums, articles, jobs, resources, etc - connected to energy and commodities sectors
• http://www.cnbc.com/ World leader in business news - real-time finance, news and analysis and loads more
• http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/ News, finance, sectors, analysis and opinion, reports, stock opinion to buy and sell, etc - part of http://www.reuters.com/ , world's largest multimedia news agency
• http://www.traders.com/
• http://www.onlinetradersforum.com/ World investing forum which also has other top investment sites at the bottom as sponsors and partners
• http://www.traderji.com/ India's online discussion forum for stocks, commodities and forex
• http://www.equitygroups.com/ Audio interviews and stock message boards-stock news, hot forums, forum directories, etc
• http://www.tdd.lt/slnews/Stock_Exchanges/Stock.Exchanges.htm Worldwide stock exchanges list
• http://stockcharts.com/ Leading financial charts - charts, blogs and market messages
• http://www.investinaustralia.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/infographics or larger site http://www.visualcapitalist.com
http://www.good.is/
• http://www.nyse.com/ NYSE Euronext
• http://www.gfmag.com/ Global Finance Magazine - part of Class Editori Group - country economic reports and GDP data, awards and financial rankings, market summary, latest news, etc
• http://www.zyen.com/ Z/Yen - on right side, GFCI-Global Financial Centres Index (comparison of all centres through time), at bottom of page-GFCI and GIPI (Global Intellectual Propery Index) surveys, etc
• http://www.gfip.org/ Global Financial Integrity - reports, news, blogs, videos, etc
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_Coefficient Measure of statistical dispersion - scroll down and can see income disparity for various countries
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality Connect to above link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
• http://www.iea.org/ International Energy Agency (oil, CO2, etc)- topics, countries, websites, reports, publications, maps,etc
• http://www.exportbureau.com/ Largest manufacturers directory worldwide - directory, shipping, trade statistics, news, etc
• http://www.weforum.org/ World Economic Forum - events, communities, initiatives, webcasts, news release, reports, etc
• http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm International Monetary Fund - data and statistics, publications, news, videos, key issues, reports, etc
• http://www.economywatch.com/ Largest online economics community in the world - news, country economic profiles, international trade, major companies, investing, economic articles, economic relations,energy, further resources, etc (scroll down also)
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-mineral-map.htm Shows a world map regarding the availability of minerals and has for each world mineral as well - part of http://www.mapsofworld.com/(map, events, news, etc)-itself is part of http://www.infobase.co.in/
• http://www.mineralszone.com/ World Mineral Exchange - all about industrial minerals, stones, etc plus news, publications, trade shows, trade associations, etc
• http://www.doingbusiness.org/ Rankings, projects, laws, topics, economies, reports, etc - part of World Bank Group
• http://www.ceda.com.au/ Committee for Economic Development of Australia - events, news, research topics, etc
• http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/ Daily e-letter offering an independent and critical perspective on the Australian and global investment markets-articles, comments, markets, blogs, sites, etc
• http://goldoz.com.au/ Charts, history, education, news, links, etc
• http://www.marketshares.com.au/ Australian share market publication - markets, companies, quotes, news, etc
• http://worldmintcoins.com/ News, resources, links, coin anatomy, coin glossary, currency converter, etc
• http://www.mintproducts.com/
• http://www.thebulliondesk.com/ The Bullion Desk Limited (Associate Members of the London Bullion Market Association)-news,quotes,research,reports,events,etc

C) Then under facebook itself where company and news updates are done, these are some of the useful ones under pages (most of them have links and can get latest finance/investment/business news/articles etc)(SOME OF THE ARTICLES THAT I HAD POSTED BEFORE WERE FROM HERE though have loads more including science, humour, etc that i had posted but that gets to be many...company updates can also be checked here itself)(can put these under news feeds under facebook and can be alerted then)(some of them have apps also):
emerging money, truththeory.org, CME Group, EconoMonitor, The Way Ahead, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Offshore Technology Conference, Hydrocarbon Processing, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Yahoo! Finance, NYSE Euronext, Dow Jones Indexes, Kickstarter, International Business Times, OECD, Human Rights Watch, Financial Review, Startup Leadership Program, OTCBB Stocks, China Stocks, Gold Stocks, Alternative Energy Stocks, Pharmaceutical Stocks, CNN, NASDAQ, Bloomberg Markets, The Wharton School, SBS, ABC, BBC, The Australia Institute, Thomson Reuters, Reuters Money, Reuters Entertainment, Reuters, news.com.au, smh (sydney morning herald), ASX, Business Spectator, The Globalist,The Economic Times, The Times of India (General, World, Business), International Chamber of Commerce, ValueNotes.com, innovation campus,
IASP (International Association of Science Parks), Expense Reduction Analysts, CeBIT, Bain & Company, Inc., The Innovation Movement, SmartBrief Inc., Newsweek, InnovationNewsDaily, Consumer Electronics Association, Global Thinkers, New Scientist, The A21 Campaign, Worldchanging, Supply Chain Digest, NextBillion.net, World Mint Coins, CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia), EconomyWatch.com, International Energy Agency (IEA), Global Financial Integrity, Investor's Business Daily, China Stocks, NASDAQ OMX, The Motley Fool, EquityGroups : An Investors Social Network, Fox Business, CNBC, HotCopper, The Chemical Engineer, Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Industry, Mcxindia, The Oil Drum, World Oil, World Resources Forum, Share the world's resources, world resources institute, realtor.com, worldproperties.com, property frontiers, global property guide, fxstreet.com, world trade organization wto omc, commodity online, business innovation factory, social networking watch, brainbank innovation management, management innovation exchange, innovationmanagement, informationweek, online marketing summit, asia times online, smh tv, mashable (various ones), wsj (various ones), ted (various ones),FINS Finance Careers from The Wall Street Journal, smartmoney, barron's, big charts, marketwatch, bloomberg businessweek, bloomberg tv, bloomberg (others), Thunderbird International Business Review, World Bank Publications, Foreign Policy Magazine, World Economic Forum, Doing Business, siliconindia, ndtv, California Management Review, harvard business review, BBC Business News, FT world news, pearson, The Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), BBC, BBC world news,AsianScientist Magazine, Harvard Business School Executive Education, harvard business school, the new york times, the boston globe, forbes, time, fortune magazine, cnet, the economist (various), Knowledge@Wharton Network, washington post and so on

D)Sorry for the very long message on social media especially Facebook:
1st part of D)
change settings first else any tom, dick and harry can see stuff. Under privacy settings, can edit Who can look up your timeline by name or contact info or Who can see posts by others on your timeline, etc. Then, try to use lists including default lists given by facebook-family, close friends, acquaintances (any other not needed-can archive). The advantage of this is, when you the person are updating your status under that particular list, people from other lists can't see your updates (people who can see the posts made by others for each list will depend upon the settings done as mentioned above). Another advantage of having lists is for notes as can set privacy to that particular list though there are other settings under privacy for notes also. Currently those 2 are the main advantages of having lists (think it can be used for privacy under pages created though don't think it can be used for groups created at the moment). The easiest way to go about creating those lists will be to open a new tab that contains all the friends while under 2nd tab, add the members under the default lists given by facebook-family, close friends and acquaintances. By default which facebook has given, close friends will be subscribed to all the updates while family will be subscribed to most updates and acquaintances will be subscribed to only important updates (facebook decides which updates are important, most, etc). Can change the settings for subscribed to people but currently tedious-can only do individually-like before have 2 tabs-1 tab having subscriptions page (under timeline feature, can find the subscriptions page under own profile which will come after likes and even for THIS or ANY OTHER FEATURE-can change privacy as to who sees what) where all those to whom 1 is subscribed will be shown and click on each individual under that tab/page into a separate tab so that can get the individual's page where the subscribed setting can be changed where can have it as all updates/most updates/important updates or even change what type of updates like life events, status updates, games, photos, etc or even unsubscribed. When creating new lists other than the default lists provided by facebook, default for subscription is most updates. All the subscribed stuff comes under Home Page of Facebook (now known as News Feeds-which appears in centre of home-page) as well as within the lists. So, try to keep subscribed to a minimum else cluttering/untidiness/crowdedness can occur when use news and other apps or its related stories on facebook (depending on the individual, can select if want news and other apps or its related stories on facebook-when it appears under news feeds, click on its top right and can hide the story or even the app from appearing within the news feeds or can even highlight the story.....by default, some of the news and other apps or its related stories and even subscribed people's updates/posts will be highlighted in grey on left hand side and some won't be-click on it to unhighlight it or to highlight it-if highlighted, such news can be seen under news feeds which appears in centre of home-page). There's also the sort feature that is used within news feeds and elsewhere within homepage-it's on top of news feeds-can change to recent posts or highlighted posts. Also while doing close friends list, there's the NOTIFICATIONS BUTTON-click on it and can be shown whether want to be notified via facebook and email or just facebook or none at all and notification under facebook appears on top left hand corner of facebook - way above the cloumns including news feeds. The notifications for features and all is under the Accounts settings. Now, I've got 4 lists-3 default and 1 created-close friends, family, acquaintances and another list. Just subscribed to few people under family and another list which appears under news feeds while close friends have no subscriptions though have notifications which will give the updates under notifications though not under news feed. And lastly acquaintances-no subscriptions and doesn't appear on news feeds. Any person not subscribed nor notification appears-can check individually. This way the news feeds is not cluttered/untidy/crowded while using news or other apps.

These are the 3 ways to create groups under Facebook:
a) Open where anyone can see the group, who's in it and what members post
b) Closed where anyone can see the group and who's in it though only members can see the post
c) Secret where only members can see the group, the members and posts
Also, when posting under a group, better to use doc when talking about a subject like this or even previous one where can use title to show what the subject is (after writing the subject within doc, click/press enter key at the end of the title of the doc for the doc to be created). Docs not needed when communicating about happenings or updates or even linking to videos or sites though if connected to a subject using docs, link it. Events is the other main thing that can be created within the group-click on the button next to notifications under the group and under the drop-down menu, it will have events (more features there under groups).
Few books uploaded under Facebook are (settings for books can be changed again under DOCS APP though be careful when uploading due to intellectual property laws):
An Introduction to Information Retrieval (under https://docs.com/H0WO)
Global Strategy (under https://docs.com/H0WK)
Mining The Social Web (https://docs.com/H0WF)

2nd part of D)
1 of the tools used loads in the marketing world also nowadays......Facebook isn't just a social network anymore-it involves both social media + cloud computing via MS Docs, which was an answer to Google Docs (Not needed to have so many copies of 1 file + can edit the same file by so many people so many times+ no need to store file on any system as it's there in the cloud and lastly, can type within the cloud itself and not needed to type on device and upload that file though both options are there for both Google Docs and MS Doc app under Facebook. Cloud computing is like email systems). Cloud computing and social media are 2 of the fastest emerging technologies that have already started to change things and will do so even further within the next 10 years- can be seen under http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071511-cisco-futurist.html . Facebook and Twitter are already into digital publishing and both of them as well as other social media have already changed traditional business models within media, publishing, entertainment sectors. Facebook itself has so many apps+into films,books, journal articles, company updates,news whether general or business or finance/investments as well as real-time stock news, music, direct marketing, etc. Search under social networks including Facebook is at an early stage though it can still be done-type the topic wanted under search box of facebook and then, on left-hand coulmn, can filter it according to all results, people, pages, group or web results via Bing, Microsoft's search engine though if scroll down the page, can also see the articles of topics that appear within news sites whether pages of applications that a person is using/has chosen previously-this is why Google is now a bit frightened of Facebook as it's entered into Google's search space and think other social networks like Twitter have the same stuff-still early stages for search on social networks though all have them are already into advertising world as well. All of the above can be checked under http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2040876/Facebook-Likes-music-films-books-Site-transforms-entertainment-hub--500-million-people-log-try-out.html and connected to http://semanticweb.com/the-next-open-graph-changing-apps-and-changing-industries_b23429.Mobile more than a trillion $ industry due to music, gaming, news, television, advertising, etc including money. 5.2 billion subscribers for mobiles where 3.7 billion are unique mobile phone users and 4.3 billion phones are in use. Mobiles replaces watches, alarms, MP3 players etc including the various other apps. The services side of mobile is nearing the Trillion-dollar milestone itself, hitting 928 billion dollars in value in 2010-mobile phone data revenues alone are now bigger than the total ‘internet’ industry on the personal computers, including all internet content revenues, all internet advertising revenues, and even all the subscription fees, broadband and dial-up-Where do we spend all that? We watch television and video content on the phones, and we vote on TV shows. We download music including ringing tones, and subscribe to music services including ringback tones. We play games from Tetris to Angry Birds. We use SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES, buy virtual goods, and send flirting gifts to our friends and lovers-the outline and detailed part can be checked under http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/03/07/mobile-as-a-trillion-dollar-industry-check-this/. It's a web of apps out there and it's early days - there are 600,000 iOS(Apple) applications and nearly 400,000 on Android (Google's) itself - http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/30/a-web-of-apps/ being the source. The apps market maybe saturated as there are many apps though many are doing well as start-ups currently and will do so in future also (can check under Google as sources are there)(connect to this video under http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/max-levchin-and-peter-thiel-innovation-in-the-world-today-is-between-dire-straits-and-dead/ as innovation nowadays is more into technology and that too apps). ALL THESE THINGS ARE INTO DIFFERENT ARENAS WHETHER IT'S SOCIAL NETWORKING, PUBLISHING, MARKETING, HEALTH, FINANCE, EDUCATION, ETC.
Also if people think, Facebook forces others, what about Apple? Apple did the same and so did P&G - they are innovators and leading firms these days are innovators. Customer-centric approach alone won't help as again and again, it's 1980s and 1990s approach. Now, it's innovation approach with bit of customer-centric approach - in fact, it's days of using blue strategy or low-cost innovation-reason why firms from emerging countries are able to challenge firms from developed world and it's no more globalization-it's globality or glocalization or semi-globalization (3 terms.....it's individuals competing with local and multinational businesses anywhere in this world). tata motors, good baby, bharti airtel, embraer, aravind eye hospitals, jaipur foot are few of the innovators from emerging countries challenging developed economies (embraer like singapore airlines are just amongst the few firms doing well including making profits in a loss-making industry ever since deregulation occurred-embraer is the only firm and Brazil the only country to make a successful entry into commercial jet market since 1969). Apple, Google, Samsung, Facebook are few of the innovators from developed world though Samsung is from an emerging country (emerging yet developed country-South Korea....another emerging 1 is Mexico....there are couple more though fastest emerging 1s are from Brazil, China, India and Russia-the former 3 with loads of low-cost innovation). no data is hidden-all available on any database even if it's charity or not whether it has a database or not-sooner or later, it will be on the database which will then be connected on the internet via the web plus no firm nor organisation removes the data asap-some will still have records even after requests-facebook does have the option of permanently deleting records which occurs after 2 weeks though may take further time like any other firm. Sixth Sense technology- is another 1 - right now in its prototype stage - done by Pranav Mistry, 1 of the world's leading scientists at MIT. If Sixth Sense technology becomes commercialised, won't need any devices-smartphones,tablets,etc - more can be seen under http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html -that time no need for devices like ipad,iphone,etc to view data including boarding time or boarding pass etc-can be viewed on hand or any other surface….same dude has already done mouseless + a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as Google of physical world-all these are linked to the gestural technologies (1 place it’s used -xbox, wii, playstation) and gestural technologies another emerging tech.
How to use facebook efficiently via features, apps, lists for friends, family, acquaintances, etc given in a previous post.