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May 7, 2010 by Trend PK
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The key, Cook says, is a feature that launched in November called Chatter (which has no relation to the Salesforce feature by the same name). Chatter is a lot like Facebook’s News Feed — it’s a stream of content recently posted by other users on the network. But unlike Facebook, which populates your feed with items from your friends, Chatter is geared more towards meeting and interacting with people you don’t know. Cook says one contributor to the feature’s popularity is the fact that you can filter what type of items you’re seeing — for example, I could elect to see only content posted by women aged 20-30 (for this reason, the site has a more flirty nature than what you’ll find on Facebook). That’s helped the feature catch on, and Chatter is now seeing 1 million user updates a day.
To help boost engagement, myYearbook has borrowed features popular on other sites and incorporated them into Chatter. First, the site added Ask Me, which is a Q&A feature very similar to Formspring.me. It then added ‘Rate Me’, which lets you post a photo and have it rated by strangers (which sounds like a recipe for low self esteem, but Cook claims that people receive quite a few ’10?s). The site also plans to add a feature called ’2 Truths & A Lie’, which is an online version of the classic game.
Some of the site’s growth — the boost in unique users, in particular — is likely due to the fact that myYearbook now syndicates Chatter updates to Twitter, which direct users back to the site. But he says the rise in engagement (page views have jumped from 544 million in November to 998 million in March) is primarily from users interacting more with the site, and
Shaukat Tarin Chairs ECC Meeting
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet met under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Finance, Shaukat Tarin at the PM’s Secretariat here Tuesday.
The ECC approved the recommendations of the PPIB Board for the revival of 10.5 MW power project by Davis Energen Limited.
ECC made it mandatory to produce national identity cards to get a pack of 2 kg sugar from the USC outlets.
The ECC allowed allocation of additional 16 MMCFD gas to the Pakarab Fertilizer Limited from SNGPL system from 2012 upto 2019.
The ECC also decided that the Shell’s offer at 15% Brent + $ 0.50 per MMBTU, subject to further improvement in the final round of negotiations will be accepted for upto 1MTPA Medium Term supplies of 6 years and 2.5 MTPA from 7 to 20 years.
The ECC was told that the overall CPI-based inflation registered decrease of 0.49 percent in December 2009 over November, 2009.
The stock of wheat as on January 31, 2010 amounted to 5.9 million tons as against 1.7 million tons in the same period last year, thereby showing a higher stock of about 4.2 million tons compared with last year.
The meeting was informed that trade deficit improved by 29.0 percent to $ 7.0 billion in July-December 2009-10 from $ 10.0 billion in the same period last year.
The ECC noted that workers remittances amounted to $ 4,531.0 million in July-December 2009-10 as against $ 3,640.0 million, showing an increase of 25.0 percent over the same period last year.
Foreign exchange reserves stood at $ 14.5 billion as on February 4, 2010 – up from $ 6.4 billion on November 25, 2008.
The provisional FBR tax collection stood at Rs.693.3 billion on net bases during July-January 2009-10 as compared to Rs.630.5 billion in the same period last year, thereby posting an increase of 10.0 percent.
Shaukat Tarin Chairs ECC Meeting was first posted on February 9, 2010 at 6:08 pm.
