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Five Free Must Have Social Media Apps for iPhone

The iPhone has come a long way since its inception. It broke barriers with its touch screen, web apps, and native apps. With over thousands apps available, it’s hard to decide which ones are worth your while. I’ve spent my fair share of time downloading iPhone/iPod Touch apps and, long story short, I’ve uninstalled a good portion of them. Why? Because they either sucked or I never used them.

Following are Free Five MUST HAVE social media apps on your iPhone:

1. TweetDeck

Perhaps the best free iPhone Twitter client on the market, TweetDeck is quick, has a nice and easy-to-user interface, gives you information about the number of updates right up front, and supports all of your basic Twitter functions. As an added bonus, TweetDeck also supports Twitter groups, so you can organize your tweets. Flipping between sections is easy, and the fast scroll of tweets is nice when flipping through updates.

2. Facebook

Facebook app offer nice and clean functionality on iPhone with features of Status Updates, Like and Comment on news feed including sorting option on it. User profile view is quite tiny but still good to have a idea what’s going on. It allow you to add favorite friends on new page within application to quickly access friends profile. Push notification can be annoying sometimes but can be managed through settings.

3. LinkedIn

LinkedIn app puts your professional network just a touch away. Walk into any interview or client meeting with the ability to look up the details and connect with over 50 million professionals worldwide, in real-time. I personally think that this application required a lot more improvements but still worthing having.

4. eBuddy

eBuddy allow you to have one single buddy list with all your friends from multiple instant messengers and social accounts including [MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, AIM, MySpace, Facebook, ICQ]. On the move eBuddy can replace your traditional desktop clients with features of File Sharing and PUSH notifications (1 hour for free app).

5. Google App

One of most used app on daily basis, to me it seems like LITE version of google’s product which I am sure most of internet use most of their time including Google Mobile App, Earth, Gmail, Maps, Sync and YouTube. Free free to share your most best apps in comments.

Free free to share your favorite apps in comments.

Open Source On The Rise, Online Work Index

The April Online Work Index reveals that IT and marketing skills continue to dominate the online work landscape as the Top 10 graphic clearly demonstrates.

Beyond the general demand for technology and marketing skills, businesses are clearly chasing domain expertise in open source technologies, help with delivering world-class user experiences, and insiders with savvy working with social media.

  • Open Source on the Rise: The overall trend of businesses migrating to open source technology solutions is stronger than ever with PHP (#1) programming now topping the Index followed closely by MySQL (#2). Demand grows for a variety of other open source skills including Joomla (#18), Drupal (#48 – up 10 spots), osCommerce, (#49 – up 20 spots), Ruby on Rails (#73 – up 27 spots), and Linux (#74 – up 13 spots).
  • User Experience Paramount: With more pressure than ever for companies to compete with world-class user experience, hiring trends show accelerating interest in technologies that deliver and enable great customer experiences, such as HTML (#3 – up 3 spots), Flash (#10 – up 2 spots), AJAX (#12 – up 14 spots), JAVA (#16 – up 13 spots), and – the biggest mover on the list – Actionscript (#56 – up 43 spots).
  • Social Media Rising: Social media continues to gain mainstream traction as companies strive to connect with customers, drive traffic, and become part of the online conversation with their communities of users, partners and even prospects. Demand for professionals skilled in developing for Facebook, Twitter, and blogging applications is surging. WordPress (#15) and Blogs (#19) crack the top 20, while Social Networking (#38) moves up 6 spots, Facebook (#61) is up 10 spots and Twitter (#93) makes its debut on the Index.

10 Keys for Small Business Success Using Social Networking

1. Always keep a Daily notebook log of all activities, call backs, to do items, follow ups, and related news and research items.

2. Sign up on twitter right now!- just write a profile about who you are, your passions, and your experience and you will attract like-minded and highly influential people- it happened to me.

3. Write down a list of all your passions.

4. Choose 1 passion & Start a blog NOW talking about your passions, news about your passion, give your feedback, insights, and opinion. Don’t worry about what other people think, if they don’t like your opinion, then they shouldn’t read your blog.

5. Technology is your friend- start getting use to IT! (Information Technology) Research what topic you’re interested in and learn IT! We are doing business and living our lives in a constant connected digital age.

6. Create a LinkedIn account and start networking with other professionals.

7. Set up a Google Reader account for all your news and RSS feeds (this is KEY)

8. Find a friend or follower to be your CONSTANT feedback mechanism (just ask me if you can’t find one- I’ll try to fit you in.

9. Delegate what you can’t do to TRUSTED followers. No one knows everything, so ask for help when you need it. But be ready to give help when called upon. (it’s a two way street)

10. Balance Work and Life- you only live once so work hard, do something you love (even if you’re not making millions yet like me) and you still feel good about yourself.