This new feature that was just rolled out by FriendFeed may delight either Twitter and FriendFeed users or annoy them instead. FriendFeed has enabled a new function that will let you to automatically posts all your FriendFeed updates in their entirety to your Twitter timeline. How cool or uncool can that be?
Hoping to attract more users into its fold and hereby getting more homepage traffic, AOL has just redesigned its homepage which gives users instant access to various social networks right on the AOL site. According to AOL, this is the first time that a major internet portal is providing access to major social networking sites. [...]
It’s almost a year to the date that RotorBlog first told you about BlogRush, the widget that promised to drive ‘tons’ of free traffic to your Web site.
After a series of usability issues and blogger complaints, the folks behind the product have decided to shutter it up; BR is not even for sale.
The owner says [...]
It’s definitely the era of user-generated contents and ideas, crowd-sourced technologies, and social empowerment. With the way the online social community are pushing great ideas coming from diverse minds, it is no wonder that even PC manufacturers such as Asus, in partnership with Intel, another computer industry player are tapping on the wisdom of the [...]
While everybody else has opened up their network to third party apps along time ago, it is only now that LinkedIn is doing so. It may be a little late, but quite frankly I would prefer LinkedIn’s gradual approach to letting third party applications into its network, making sure that only the most useful, business-wise, [...]
Granted that a social networking site has to be freely open for all, there are still some online users who are a bit hesitant to join an online social network due to various fears. Or more specifically, fear of getting attacked in what ever form by strangers. Would a social network made exclusive for you [...]
Look who is jumping into the social networking bandwagon? Famous and big time book publisher, Barnes & Noble has just launched its social networking site called - My B&N. With the popularity of web 2.0/social networking sites LibraryThing and Shelfari, it is no wonder that such an established commercial book publisher Barnes & Noble would [...]
LinkedIn has just announced a new search platform which is currently being rolled out to some selected LinkedIn users. The new search platform is a robust and professional search engine for finding people across the LinkedIn network fast and in the most accurate manner. The new search platform was a product of user feedback gathered [...]
How powerful is your Twitter name? Given the mainstream emergence of the microblogging sensation, wielding greater ‘influence’ on Twitter can help you accomplish big things in the Web 2.0 world.
A relatively new tool, Twitter.Grader, launched by HubSpot, let’s you find out how you compare to your peers. Simply input your Twitter user name and hit [...]
Where is your user name being used and where is it available? UserNameCheck serves a single purpose and that is to tell you exactly that.
While the site has received some criticism, most notably, that you only need to visit once. This writer believes the simple site has several uses.
MySpace is quietly rolling out it’s new Profile 2.0, and thankfully it’s not a “forced” upgrade similar to what Facebook did recently which even earned the ire of many Facebook users. MySpace Profile upgrade facility is silently being tested now over at MySpace Canada. But as what TC’s Arrington tipped, you can have a taste [...]
The dawn of text-based online newspaper reporting is approaching. More and more online newspaper sites are gradually integrating a new form media in delivering timely, relevant and sometimes citizen video journalism. A good example of these online newspapers is the NYTimes which just rolled a new video platform. And mind, the company has even made [...]
