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GoMad with networking

Dhanusha Gokulan / 1 August 2012

DUBAI - For the techno-savvy who are constantly online and addicted to tweets, multiple accounts on social networking websites is not unusual. Gen Y keeps one account for friends and family and the others for professional contacts.

Soon theres the hassle of having multiple browsers, separate profiles and tighter security settings to manage the 5,000-odd friends list.

Adding to the burgeoning list of upcoming social networking websites, GoMadinc.com promises to be a one-stop shop for both your professional and personal networking needs. Founder and CEO of GoMad Ideas Shabbir Adamji launched the spunky new social/ professional networking web portal amidst tight competition and failing IPO of social networking giant Facebook in Dubai on August 1. Adamji and his team of 30 employees including nine webpage designers developed the website in their office in Jumeirah Beach Residence.

The planning for the website began in February. Most of the designing and coding was done from March, said Adamji. Why not Dubai, asked Adamji, I love the city. It has close to 190 nationalities living together amicably, he added. Understanding that social networking works best through word of mouth, Indian-born Adamji, who has been in the UAE for the last ten years, predicts that the website will do well.

We have an achievable target of 10 million users in one year, said Adamji. It started with the need to do something about changing the way people use the Internet. We have a population of seven billion people of which two billion are active users. Yet people are not able to benefit from the Internet despite them spending a lot of time on social media, he said.

People havent been able to exploit the power of the Internet. Adding value to the time spent online and seeing a direct benefit has not happened, added Adamji. What makes GoMad different? Its a one of its kind multifunctional portal.

Primarily being a social media platform, GoMad incorporates standard functions of current social media applications.

Yes, you can chat, update your status and upload albums. Yet, contacts on your professional network will not know what you are telling your peers on the social platform. Set in a black background, which according to the website developers is soothing to the eyes, the portal lets you upload separate content for both your social and professional avatars. People can have multiple avatars on the same account which makes things much easier. GoMad becomes a one stop for all your networking needs, Adamji said.

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

It's a part of Facebook, a listing that shows your marital status. Imagine seeing someone's status as sex offender. One state is about to put that law into effect. Louisiana will require sex offenders to document their status on social networking sites starting August 1st.

The state of Louisiana is trying to build on their existing sex offender registration laws by taking a new law to the World Wide Web. The law requires sex offenders and child predators to put their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page. Abuse survivor Allison Black Cornelius said that's information that children and parents need to know.

"I could absolutely see a benefit to it having to be mentioned on a Facebook page or any type of social media. I could see where that would make sense," Cornelius said. "I would want that on a social media site because social media is a requirement tool, but it seems to me that bad guys are so good at marketing and they are so good at reaching our kids, the good guys need to get that good. Instead of us figuring out how to shut them down, why don't the good guys start figuring out how to do as good a job?"

So, what would it take for a law like that to come to Alabama? According to the Alabama Department of Public Safety's web site, there are more than 11 thousand sex offenders in their registry. State house representative Dan Williams says if a bill like that were to be drawn up, it would probably pass.

"I do think it's probably a good idea to keep the child molesters and the people who have been convicted of those types of crimes from using the social networks," Williams said. "I think a lot of people we found out are using those particularly for that; pornography and child pornography. I would be all for something like that."

Athens Police Chief Floyd Johnson said knowing your new friend's criminal past could help them keep track of offenders.

"I think it's important that parents watch what their children are doing online and if the parents are able to see they are communicating with a sex offender, I think it would be to the benefit of the parent and the child and they could tell law enforcement," Johnson said.

Louisiana's law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking web site an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of the conviction, a description of his physical characteristics and his residential address."

Alabama lawmakers said a similar bill could find its way to our states legislature in no time.

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01-08-2012 10:35 The oldest 100-meter Olympic champion is back in London for the games. 89-year-old American Harrison Dillard, was honored Wednesday at Britain's Foreign Office where the 1948 torch from those London games in on display. (Aug. 1)

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

MyLife.com ("MyLife") today announced the results of a commissioned survey of social media behavior, conducted online by Harris Interactive. According to the 2012 Connecting and Communicating Online: State of Social Media study consumersthat is, online adults in the U.S. who are 18 and older--fear of missing out (FOMO) may be heightened by their growing reliance on social networks. 62 percent of adults who are currently a member of more than one social networking site say they keep an eye on their social networks because they dont want to miss something (e.g., news or an important event or status update). The findings also indicate that nearly 40 percent would rather undertake unpleasant or potentially painful activities, from getting a root canal to reading War and Peace or spending the night in jail, before they would give up their social networking profiles.

Consumers are bombarded with so much information online from status updates and photos to tweets and check-ins that our anxiety around missing out has shifted to our digital lives, said Jeff Tinsley, CEO of MyLife. The fact that many people would rather run a marathon or spend a night in jail than give up their Facebook or Twitter account is proof positive.

The Facebook Fix

Not only are consumers afraid that theyre missing out if they go too long between log-ins, but the younger generation often checks in with their friends and followers online before theyve even rubbed the sleep from their eyes. More than half of social media multi-taskers want a solution to help them manage their online overload.

Ill Do Anything

Think waiting in the interminable line at the DMV is painful? Not more painful than being asked to give up their social networks according to many respondents. Plenty of social media users, including more than half of Gen Y, would prefer to undergo an arduous task, including tackling one of the longest novels ever, than be forced to delete their social media accounts.

Different Strokes for Different Folks

While Facebook is widely known to be the most popular social network worldwide, the site actually doesnt top social media users lists when it comes to being the primary social profile they turn to for consuming or sharing content, or even a mix of both. LinkedIn is tops for consumption (i.e., to observe without actively posting anything); 68% of online adults who are a member of LinkedIn say they use the site mainly to consume content.

Surprisingly enough, while everyone knows different social networks serve different purposes, the way people are using sites to consume or share content doesnt fall in line with what we might expect, continued Tinsley. Facebook was passed by Foursquare as the primary place people share content and newcomer Pinterest edged out the social media giant when it came to the site where users equally share in both activities.

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31-07-2012 16:47 Out promoting their film 'The Campaign,' opening Aug. 10, funnymen Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell joke about how they first met. (July 31)

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