Entries from December 2008

TechFuga Wants to be the Techmeme of Tech News Aggregators

I definitely love tech news aggregator Techmeme as it gives me my daily dose of the top new posts from my favorite tech news sites/blogs. But the thing is Techmeme does not cover all tech news sites and blogs, only the most popular ones, although it certainly is exerting effort to cover even those blog/sites [...]

Camheroes is your Twitter for Photos

Camheroes is a simple online service/portal with a cool name to boot that lets you do a simple task – that is upload photos of your daily life and share it with friends and families immediately after you upload it to the web. Camheroes tried to make it’s service as simple as possible and kind [...]

BizSugar: Content for Small Businesses

This is a Web site that offers the latest stories and news that is pertinent to small and medium-size business owners. Similar to Digg, it allows the readers to vote and “give it some sugar” if the enjoy the story. The website then ranks the stories by two categories: ones with the most sugar (in [...]

Test Yourself With Signal Patterns

Signalpatterns.com tries to blend personality tests to social networking. You first take a test with a series of questions and rated answers, get your personality type and what that means to you, and then you can link your profiles to meet “like-minded” people. The other function that is offers is to find out your music [...]

YouTube Rolls Out HD View and New Video Landing Pages

Following our report of YouTube’s implementation of a widescreen view for videos recently, the YouTube blog has announced the official launch of the YouTube “Watch in HD” viewing feature. At the same time time, YouTube has also rolled out new landings pages for some categorized videos.

Meebo Weds MySpace and Facebook, Sort Of

We know it’s the closest to the impossible thing to happen – the union of MySpace and Facebook as we all know that these two top social networks are nemesis for so long now. It would probably take a lot to make them work together, oh well at least Meebo wants to try as the [...]

Printable Online Coupons Come to Facebook

During hard times like what we are all experiencing right now, everyone could certainly use a discount coupon or two, especially now when Christmas is just around the corner. There are still a few days left before the holiday festivities begin, and just in time for this Coupons.com has announced that Facebook users can now [...]

Tweetminster Gives Twitter a Political Side

For those who are questioning Twitter’s relevance and value, Twitminster could prove them wrong. What started as an ordinary Tweet conversation between UK’s MP Tom Watson and Alberto Nardelli at UnltdWorld and the Tweet Congress, led to a full-blown social networking tool for the benefit of the public, now known as Tweetminster.

Twingly Presents Blog Rank and Top 100 Blogs

Blog Search Engine Twingly has been around for quite some time now. According to Twingly, it currently serves around 25M plus search results per month through its API for the whole blogosphere. Twingly’s prime service, the Twingly Blogstream which is a moderated trackback service for large websites has provided measurably higher visitor engagement and bigger [...]

Yahoo Starts Making its Mail Client More Social

Yahoo is rolling out some new features of its Mail client. These updates are all geared into making Yahoo! Mail a more social and useful web-mail applications emphasizing on quick access to Friends’ updates and seamless integration of third-party applications and services including Yahoo’s Flickr, Twitter and even YouTube videos.

World Economic Forum Embraces Social Media Tools

If there’s any indication that social networking and social media tools have become more relevant, it’s got to be the fact that even the World Economic Forum is utilizing some of the famous social networking and social media tools in advancing its cause and carrying out its socially-relevant activities. In time for its upcoming annual [...]

The Freshest Way to Meet People?

“Start Monday have a date by Saturday.”
This is the slogan of the newest in a slew of dating Websites. However, one feature that sets Flowmingle.com apart is that it does not charge a fee for its services!
You can’t put a price on love!