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Entries from September 2008

24 Social Networking Site for Gamers

Gaming sites have been pretty much covered since decades ago. With the explosing of social networking sites, gamers were not spared and so we’ve seen the rise of social networks catering to gamers and the games they’ve played.  Some social networking sites for gamers are pretty cool and some are lame. Here 24 social gaming [...]

Twitter Gets a Site Refresh Too

It is definitely the season of site redesign.  Aside from Facebook and FriendFeed,  Twitter has also went ahead and  rolled  out some  new cosmetic  changes to the Twitter homepage.  But  unlike Facebook and FriendFeed, the Twitter blog was quick to point out that they are not introducing  any new feature except a minor one.

FriendFeed Rolls Out New Interface, Reduces Feed Noise As Well

We’ve given you a preview of the new FriendFeed interface design which was being tested by FriendFeed during our previous post. Lucky for FriendFeed their new interface design was well received by users and did not receive any objections or whatsoever. Not unlike the recently implemented Facebook interface design. And so, with not too much [...]

Get a Load of Cool Twitter Themes at TwitterGallery

One user customization feature that both Multiply and MySpace offer is Theme customization. There are tons of user-generated and free MySpace themes while Multiply has various pre-loaded theme that members can choose to use on their MySpace profile. But what about Twitter? Previously, to change the look of the default Twitter profile, you just need [...]

Presidential Debate Goes 2.0 via MyDebates

With the US Presidential election barely two months away, all eyes are focused now on the presidential debates among the two presidential hopefuls - Obama and McCain and for the VP race as well - Biden and Palin. Of course we all know how these candidates have successfully utilized the power of the Internet to [...]

RotorBlog Podcast #8:Yammer, the TechCrunch50 Winner

Covering the launch of Google Chrome, Yammer - the TechCrunch50 winner, the next phase of Jott and 39 social networking apps for iPhone. Check out the podcast for more!

60 Social Networks, 60 One-Liner Description

Facebook, MySpace, Hi5,Friendster, Orkut and Bebo are six of the top major social networking site as of comScore’s June statistics. But did you know that there are more general-oriented social networking sites other than these six mentioned? Here are 100 social networking sites including the major social networking sites in a one-sentence description each.

A Friendly Reminder: Facebook is a Social Utility not a Social Networking Site

That message saying that Facebook is a social utility is definitely staring at us everytime we visit the Facebook site. But what is not clear is what Facebook claims as the site not being a social networking site. In an email sent to a Facebook user who have been creating fake accounts in Facebook for [...]

Social Networking May Actually Get You That Job

If you’re a social networking freak like me, chances are you have probably created a profile in almost all social networking sites that have come out since the explosion of this web 2.0 phenomenon. And chances are again, you may have not updated those profiles since ages ago. But who cares, nobody minds it anyway. [...]

Twitter + Digg = Dwigger, Cool!

So what would you get if you combine two of the most popular web 2.0 applications, specifically an information aggregator and a microblogging service? We’re talking about Twitter and Digg of course and their combination is certainly a cool new site called Dwigger.

WhosHere is a Cool Mobile Proximity Networking Tool

One of the cool applications that we featured in our list of social networking-related iPhone apps was the mobile proximity networking tool called WhosHere. To quote our previous description of WhosHere, it is “an application that lets you post profile and indicated the age and gender of the person that you are looking for. [...]

Twitter Goes to the Corporate World as Yammer

If you were following TechCrunch50, an annual event which TC has started last year, whereby startups are given to demo their product to a panel of judges and whoever gets to pass on certain criteria gets to bring home with the plum. Whereas last year’s winner, MINT is an uber cool startup with its innovative [...]