Confused between Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare?

This image captured by @douglaswray will help to understand what people do, or what they are supposed to do, on various social networking sites.

I will also add Flickr to the list where all the pictures of your Donuts will go.

Facebook has a subscribe button that lets you follow updates from people even if they aren’t friend with you.

And if you use a pretty picture for your fake Facebook profile, you can instantly win thousands of subscribers on Facebook. The mass exodus from Orkut is now complete.

Amazon launched Junglee in India today morning (India time) and almost every major news organization including the BBC, WSJ, Forbes, Business Week, Reuters, etc. have covered that story. A quick search on Google News reveals 146 sources that have talked about Amazon’s entry into India. The news even hit Twitter trends for a while.

Yet it surprises me that this news is nowhere to be found on Techmeme. Some 16 hours have passed since the website Junglee.com went live but neither the Techmeme algorithms have picked the story in this time nor any of their human editors.

Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, the company that developed the low-cost Akash tablet, told WSJ:

The media in India was reporting last month this supposedly feel-good story that the country now has 100 million active Internet users. But if you read more closely, you realized that they were defining ‘active’ as using the net once a month.

If you were counting only people who accessed the Internet at least once every other day, the number drops to 48 million. That’s 4 percent of the Indian population. On the other hand, India now has over 900 million mobile phone subscriptions.

Founder Sachin Bansal shares some interesting statistics about Flipkart’s growth in India:

• Flipkart ships close to 30,000 items per day or about 20 per minute.
• The daily sales of Flipkart is Rs 2.5cr or around $ 0.5m.
• Around 60% of Flipkart’s orders are cash or card on delivery.

“Indian consumers are much more cautious about shopping online as compared to the West. They are reluctant to divulge credit card details. The cash on delivery service has helped a lot of traditional consumers turn to online shopping,” he told the Hindustan Times.

Some people I know don’t even have a credit card but they do frequently shop at Flipkart.