Entries from March 2008

Aggregate Your Social Lifestream with SocialThing

If you’re looking for another social networking aggregator to gather all your social networking updates, SocialThing might be the one you are looking for. Similar to FriendFeed but a lot simpler, SocialThing gathers updates from your social networking accounts for convenient browsing in a single page. That means, you no longer have to visit your [...]

6 Social Networks that (promise to) Pay

For a new social network to gain a piece of the pie from leaders MySpace and Facebook, it has to exhibit something different. Something that would attract potential members. But how else could a social network make itself different when MySpace and Facebook seem to have everything? For these 6 social networks, giving incentives [...]

BlogCatalog Widget Lifestreams Your Online Activity

Blog Catalog, the rapidly growing social blog directory that lets you find new blogs or promote your own, has just announced the release of a social network activity widget.
As the number of online communities continues to expand, it’s becoming increasing difficult to follow your friends and favorite bloggers. The BlogCatalog social network aggregator changes all [...]

DNA Testing Comes to Social Networks

Would you trust the analysis of your genes to a social network? Would give that network your most precious DNA for testing and tracing you roots? If you do, then read on and find out about a new social networking site for DNA testing and Genes analysis – Genebase.com

Blog Link Exchange Program BlogUpp! Launches

Most bloggers and Website owners share the same goal: build an enormous amount of traffic.  Link exchanges, around since the Web’s inception, have helped foster this goal.  And recent programs like BlogRush and Entrecard allow you to receive targeted traffic will no effort.  With a higher link exchange ration, BlogUpp! joins the party, promising bloggers [...]

Buy, Sell, Swap, and Network at Fashionspace.com

For anyone who works or plays in the fashion & arts industry, new social networking and fashion trading site Fashionspace is the place to make a presence in. Fashionspace belongs to the emerging trend in the web 2.0 world more popularly know as “social trading.”

How to Claim Your Fame in Social Talent Networking Site Taltopia in 4 Easy Steps

First, a brief background about Taltopia. Taltopia.com is an entertainment community for discovering up and coming talent and their fans. It’s a social talent network that aims to help the next aspiring artists get noticed and claim their fame. It also helps these artists land some great gigs, build contacts or simply to socialize with [...]

Share Your Feeds Together and Read Other’s Feeds at Shyftr

If there’s one aspect of Web 2.0 that should be utilized for social networking purposes, it has got to be RSS feeds. There are social networking sites that lets you pull your blog’s RSS feeds but when you embed them into your social networking profile, it gets mixed up with other stuff on you [...]

Setup a Social Network for Your Family

I don’t know about your family, but mine extends from Brooklyn, NY – all the way to the Philippines. As you can imagine, arranging a family reunion is no small task. Thanks to MyGreatBigFamily, the entire clan can get together as often as they like and connect online.
The private family Website, which builds [...]

Access Financial Times for Free on Facebook

Wait, before you rejoice and start installing the FT Facebook apps, let me just tell you that this money-saving Facebook application is free for students only. It would have been uber cool if the application was made available for free to all Facebook users. But we can’t blame FT for restricting access to their free [...]

Real Estate Wiki Answers Your Property Questions

Sometimes it appears that Wikipedia has the world covered. And it just might. But some niche issues are complex and warrant their own space.  Such is the case when it comes to real estate.
A group of dedicated real estate professionals thought it was time to build a specialized encyclopedia for home buyers, sellers and professionals.  [...]

Do Your Social Networking via the iPhone

The iPhone is one of the coolest mobile gadget ever invented, that’s a fact. But what can be more cool than having and using an iPhone? An iPhone with Gypsii’s mobile social networking application.
Gypsii’s web-based social networking and location-based technology suits well with the iPhone features, and incidentally two features were left [...]