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Bug: Make Anyone Follow You On Twitter

42 Comments by Arda Kutsal on May 10, 2010

There is a bug on Twitter which let’s any user to make anyone follow him/her. We’ve been informed by @hasanbasusta that this bug has been posted on a Turkish site called incisozluk.

To check the bug we just created a user called “bugrazzi” and with just a simple line of tweet made @ev, @finkd, @readwriteweb, @mashable and @techcrunch follow us.

How to make anyone follow you one Twitter?

Just tweet “accept [Twitter Username]” and done!

Example: accept bugrazzi

We’ll update this post as we get more information.

UPDATE: Twitter fixed the bug and resolving the fake follow issues.

Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman Interview For Webrazzi

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 15, 2010

Quantcast is an audience measurement service and Fast Company ranked it as Third Most Innovative Company on the Web and one of  Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.

While Quantcast goes global with local audience insights and real-time world, we have interviewed with Konrad Feldman.

Fırat Demirel – Hi Konrad, can you introduce yourself and your company please?

Konrad Feldman – CEO and co-founder along with Paul Sutter, President.

Quantcast launched in 2006 and we are based in San Francisco and New York. Our mission is to measure and organize the world’s real-time audiences so advertisers can buy, sell and connect with the people who matter most to them.

Webrazzi Gundem (Agenda) E-Commerce Meeting was Held

No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 20, 2010

The first of Webrazzi Gundem (Agenda) 10 meeting series was to be held in 2010 and this meeting, Webrazzi Agenda: E-Commerce, was held today. Our meeting was held with the sponsorship of price comparison service akakce.com and ReklamStore, offering special advertising options to e-commerce initiatives with its ReMarketing solution developed a short while ago at Istanbul Elite World Hotel, and began at 8:30 am and ended at 1 pm.

Opening speech and presentation made by VISA Turkey Country Director Nur Oztin Kurak was followed by Inter-Banks Card Center (BKM) Vice President Pelin Kabalak’s presentation on Turkey E-Commerce market. After that, “Present and Future of Turkey E-Commerce Market” panel, which I moderated, and GittiGidiyor.com General Manager Cenk Angin, BKM Vice President Pelin Kabalak and Garanti Payment Systems Member Office Marketing Director Altan Taskiran participated in, began.

European and American Investors Meet in Istanbul

2 Comments by Arda Kutsal on January 18, 2010

These days, Turkish Internet market is going through an important period especially in terms of foreign investors. During this and next week, European business angels and VC’s will be meeting Turkish Internet entrepreneurs, listen to their presentations and invest in initiatives they find suitable for their aims in Istanbul NuBridge Angel Summit and NuBridge Venture Summit.

In the seminars that Webrazzi gives support as “Event Partner”, business angels will be considering investment opportunities between $500K -$2M, while VC’s will be considering investment opportunities between $2M- $100M.

Some of the investment companies and business angels that have made investments in big Internet initiatives, which will participate in the organizations, are as follows:

• Alain Caffi, Managing Partner, Ventech
• Barnaby Clark, Sardis Capital
• Benjamin Somner, Sardis Capital
• Daniel Waterhouse, Partner, Wellington Partners
• Frank Maene, Partner, Big Bang Ventures
• Harry Nellis, Partner, Accel
• Jan-Gisbert Schultze, Partner, Acton Capital
• Joszef Kover, Partner, 3TS
• Tiger Global
• Martin Weber, Managing Partner, Holtzbrinck
• Morgan Seigler, Senior VP, TA Associates
• Sebastian Wossagk, Investment Director, Acton Capital
• Shardul Shah, Index Ventures
• Bernard Vogel, Endeavour Vision
• Jeff Kaczmarski, Senior Associate, General Atlantic
• Robert Dighero
• Candace Johnson
• Greg Lockwood
• Peter Oertlin
• Mark Zaleski
• Barend Van Den Brande

Cem Sertoglu and Mae Ozkan from Golden Horn Ventures will be the Turkish investors who will take part in the seminars, listen to presentations from companies, and consider in which to make investment.

Alexa says: Online Economy Develops, Turkey Increasingly Logs On Twitter!

No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 11, 2010

I wish we had sources other than Alexa to refer to in Turkey, but unfortunately, we do not have this kind of sources to find the information we need regularly. Even though we often criticize it, Alexa is the reference guide in the sector for not just Turkey, but also other parts of the world and it can reflect the status of Internet use in Turkey.

We have been informed that there have been some changes in Alexa 100 Turkey list. Especially the fact that Sahibinden.com is among Turkey top 10 list caught our attention.  So I wanted to review Alexa 100 Turkey list to get a reflection of what has happened in the sector. It caught my attention that online economy developed anc social media gained power in Turkey. Even I have started to wonder whether Twitter would start to provide its SMS service in Turkey too.

Let’s move on without rambling.

Monitera by Angelabs is coming For Social Media Tracking!

No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 7, 2010

Founded by Angelabs and one of 2009 etohum initiatives, ideshot will have a sibling! Founders of the company Metin Kahraman and Harun Peksen are working on their new initiative these days. The initiative is called Monitera and is focused on social media tracking.

The service can follow contents on the Internet related to the brand you choose, categorize those contents and fitler them acoording to whether they are positive or negative and it reports collected data in different criteria.

It is planned that Monitera will be a paid service while providing a free mini suite to only bloggers.  Other than this, brands or agencies that are planning to make use of the service will have to buy one of the suites.

Golden Horn Ventures Invested in Put.io!

One Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 7, 2010

Following Golden Horn Ventures’ investment in MessengerFX news I have just made, we have gotten another news related to investment. Golden Horn Ventures investments have included popular service put.io that aims global markets.

To be more precise, the offer has been accepted as of today, or it is about to be accepted. I have talked to Hasan Yalcinkaya, one of the partners of pilli, and he confirmed the news on the investment.

I couldn’t get the details about the amount of investment, but learned that it is an early stage. I would guess that the investment is creating a staging environment for the large-scale investments Golden Horn Ventures will invest in put.io investment in the future. Also it meets the urgently needed the server and bandwidth costs at the moment.

Golden Horn Ventures Invested in MessengerFX!

2 Comments by Arda Kutsal on January 7, 2010

On our article dated June 2009, we mentioned that MessengerFX, Yusuf Yildirim’s initiative offering instant messaging on web, was aiming global market with a new strategy  and structure. I don’t want to repeat what I wrote in that article before, so I guess it would be ok to just to remind you of this part.

MessengerFx is actively used in global markets, and catches attention particularly in France, Spain, England, Brasil and Canada. The service is widely preferred in places where instant messaging applications are blocked such as schools and offices, while it has made into use important technical features as video chat, in addition to theme options, profile pages and add friend options with is new version. Plus, the service is a social web based instant messaging platform. I predict that the service will increase its user population that is readily high.

MessengerFX is in Turkish, English and Spanish. Looking at its competitors, we see giants such as Meebo with a total investment of $37.5 million and eBuddy with a total of €11.5 million investment.

After 6 months have passed, today we have learned that Golden Horn Ventures invested in MessengerFX. I can say that it is an ideal choice for Golden Horn Ventures considering the company’s investment portfolio as MessengerFX has a global vision and 350K individual visitors a day.

Grou.ps Is Going For 2 Million Members In No Time!

2 Comments by Arda Kutsal on January 7, 2010

These days it seems that Turkey has luck in terms of global Internet initiatives. Today we have gotten a news concerning Grou.ps. The service, which enables its users easily create their own social network, is going for 2 million members.

The service reached 1 million in 3 years since it was foundedand running for 2 million in the past 6 years. It seems that the service has started to feel the influence of the social Networks it includes, since we can feel this rapid growth today.

For those who have read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, this influence is a very familiar issue. For those who have not, let’s give a reading advice for he first time.

Social Networking and Micro Blogging Platform for Families with Children: Nurturia

No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 4, 2010

When looking at the past few years, I can the change and improvement in Turkish web initiatives easily. We have gradually started to become aware of the initiatives trying to make a difference in their fields, focusing on specific issues and constructing innovative models and this can be considered a proof that the sector has found its direction.

After this “half-rose colored” picture I have drawn, I want to talk about an initiative we have recently learned about called Nurturia. The service provides social network and micro blogging platform for families with children. We have tried the service out, and when we have signed in to the site, its plain interfaces and the fact that it uses current social haring culture in the correct way excited us.