Yahoo Kickstart just launched a few days ago and it looks very promising, especially with the saturation of functions that many of the social networking sites have, which only serves as clutter that hides the purpose that companies that use these sites for. Facebook is one of the websites where there are just too many functions, and the direction at which it is going is not clear, which is probably why Yahoo is confident of pulling their newest brainchild off.

Kickstart is, at the most basic level, a social networking site – but it is defining a purpose that has not been filled by any other website of this nature to network people at the professional-career level. It aims to be the place where people will go to for more serious matters such as job-searching, showcasing their resume collaboration with other professionals for projects and mentorship.

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Face it, you probably do not know what a tag and a ping is. You’ve probably heard of these online marketing terms – tag, ping, page rank, dissecting logs. However, do you know what these means? Basically, these terms refer to online marketing techniques that are used to generate website traffic, sales, or ranking.

There are a lot of marketing methods or techniques that you could use to boost your website’s traffic. Unfortunately, half of these techniques are incredibly difficult to understand or implement. However, if you are managing a website, it is important that you have your own set of strategies in order to create your presence in the Internet. From among all of these strategies, one of the best marketing techniques is tag and ping.

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With the rise of web 2.0, social networking sites flooded the web battling to become the most popular – especially with the advent of the $580 million MySpace acquisition by News Corp. Among the sea of these social networking sites, one stood out, and it was Facebook.

About Facebook

Facebook was founded by a young Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg. It started out small, allowing only the students of Harvard College to join the network which would allow the undergraduates to communicate with their friends, meet new people and exchange information. Within two months, it spread to all the colleges around the vicinity of Boston and all the Ivy League schools and soon after, to all universities. On September 11th 2006, Facebook decided that they would let anyone join their network, as long as they were of a certain age, and participate in networks that were categorized by school, work or geographical locations. This opened the doors for an even more rapid rate of expansion for the social networking website that no one had expected to become one of the most valuable entities online today.

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