Entries from August 2008

Blogger Goes Friendly with “Follow” Feature

Recently, Google’s free Blogging platform, Blogger (aka Blogspot.com), introduced a new feature where blog owners can easily see who are reading their blogs as well as display which blogs they are reading. Although, there are third-party applications who can do this – Yahoo’s MyBloglog for instance, Blogger’s Following feature is easily activated through your Blogger’s [...]

LinkedIn Groups Get More Useful

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn is introducing several enhancements to its site in the coming months. Among these new features an enhancements are Group Discussions, Group Home Page, enhanced roster, and digest emails.

Yahoo! Mash Misses and Shuts Down

It’s so disheartening to see a social networking or web 2.0 service join the deathpool. More especially if it happens to be one of the major internet player’s property. We’re talking about here of Yahoo’s take on the social networking niche – Yahoo! Mash.

Nominate the Best Tweets on Twitter

And the Twittie goes to…
Every established medium gets its own award show; why should Twitter be any different?
That’s right folks, it’s time to pay your respects to the very best visionaries who were able to hammer out 140 characters. Whether you have spotted the smartest, funniest or snarkiest tweet – nominate your favorites.
There is [...]

Play ‘Guitar Hero’ for Free Online

Too cheap or too lazy to land Guitar Hero or Rock Band?  Fear not!  There’s now a free, online Web site that’s promising similar game play – without requiring any additional equipment or even a game console!
JamLegend lets you rock out with an internet connection and a keyboard. 

Introducing FriendFeed’s Cool Widgets

Continuing our coverage of recent developments in the FriendFeed camp, we just found out that finally the lifestreaming service is introducing some set of easy-to-embed widgets which we can all use easily in our respective sites/blogs. Although some of the contents of these widgets can already be done using RSS the FriendFeed’s official widgets is [...]

Save Money From Other People’s Typos

Several years back I remember buying a watch on eBay.  With the retail value hovering somewhere near $100, I couldn’t understand why I was able to walk away with such a fine timepiece for about $12.
Then I realized: I had accidentally searched for a G-Shok watch, not a G-Shock!
Ever since then, I’ll often purposely type [...]

XIHA Life the World’s First Multilingual Social Network

We all know that social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and the others are worldwide and multi-cultural in nature. The fact that members of these social networks come from different countries makes it a multi-national social networking site. But it becomes different though when we speak of a multilingual social network. None of the [...]

FriendFeed Preps a New Design

Finally, FriendFeed is getting a much needed redesign. It’s ages since FriendFeed has been launched and we’re glad it has been making waves and is now becoming everybody’s favorite lifestreaming/aggregator service. And with its new design, we expect more users to come into the FriendFeed fold. And it might also serve as a warning to [...]

All Your Email In One Inbox

Do you suffer from habitual e-mail checking?  Fear not!  You are not alone. In fact, each day, thousands of Americans succumb to the dreadful disease.  What makes the epidemic particularly frightening is the fact that the average computer user maintains more than three e-mail accounts.
That’s a whole lotta wasted time remembering passwords and staring at [...]

Top 5 Emerging Social Networks Revisited

When we say emerging, we don’t mean new social networks that are making an entry into the social networking scene. But we’re referring to the top 5 social network following Facebook and MySpace in the recent comScore data release on the WorldWide Growth Among Selected Social Networking Sites covering the month of June. And these [...]

Lifeblob is a Personal Diary with Social Angle

According to Lifeblob, their mission is to help people connect their lives with the world around them. And with such noble mission, Lifeblog offers us with an online personal diary with social angle through its timeline feature. Think of its as Livejournal + Twitter = Lifeblob