Entries from December 2008

Notify.Me is an Alerting Service, Not an RSS Feed Reader

From the recently opened .ME Registry comes a very cleverly named online service which lets you receive near real-time alerts when your favorite web sites are updated. Even sweeter is the fact that you can specify in which variety of ways you want to receive the alerts – that is on your mobile device, IM, [...]

Twitblogs Extends Twitter’s 140 Characters Posting Limit

Call it a Twitter copy, a clone or an improvement but Twitblogs can very well steal some good amount of users once it comes out of beta stage. But that is assuming that you’re fed up with Twitter’s 140 character limit for microblogging purposes or you want to have the image tag or video embed [...]

Idea Connection: Hire a Solution

Do you have a problem that requires an innovative solution? Are you an expert problem solver and looking for work? IdeaConenction connects companies or individuals that have problems to the solution experts.

WordPress Prepares Platform for its Transformation to a Social Network

If you are like me who always keeps the version of WordPress installation on my personal blogs always updated, you may have probably updated your site to WordPress 2.7, aka Coltrane which became available awhile ago. Honestly, I just took the plunge without having read the update features. So I was a bit shock when [...]

Bebo Gets a Make-Over, Launches Social Inbox Feature

AOL’s social networking site Bebo has a message to tell to the two top social networks MySpace and Facebook – they are ready also a top social networking site and they are ready to battle it out with the two top social networks. And with that, Bebo has launched their latest offering to the maddening [...]

Introducing MySpace Toolbar

Available today for MySpace users in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and Ireland, is MySpace Toolbar. This is MySpace’s latest move to ensure that members would have instant access to their MySpace as they do their daily web surfing habits. MySpace Toolbar runs on IE 6 or higher and Firefox 2.0 or [...]

TVLoop.com Connects Passionate TV Fans

TVLoop is was used to be just a Facebook application that brings TV shows on TV Fans’ profiles is now a full-blown social networking site boasting of 16 million registered members coming from various social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace and now boasts of 200 popular TV shows.

Gmail Adds a Task Manager Feature, Sort of

For those who have been keeping an eye on Google Labs for cool features under beta testing by Google, you must have noticed a new entry into the list of beta features of Gmail simply called Tasks. This new feature as you may have guess immediately would allow Gmail users to keep track of what [...]

FriendFeed Goes International, Partially

You’d know when an online service is doing great and is bound for famedom when it becomes multi-lingual. Such as is the case of FriendFeed which just announced that everybody’s beginning to be the top choice lifestreaming service is now available in five more other languages. Aside from the default English, you can now set [...]

Sit Back, Relax, and Listen to your Delicious Bookmarks

You read it right folks, we really mean “listen” to your Delicious bookmarks. As Yahoo, which we all know of course owns social bookmarking site Delicious has partnered with FoxyPlayer to allow you to turn your Delicious bookmark into a one big music/mp3 playlist.

Organize Projects And Be Accountable

For many small business owners, keeping track of their projects can be difficult. Veoporoject.com offers solutions through a Web-based project management software that can keep your tasks in line.
VeoProject gives you a project wizard (similar to the Microsoft version) to help you set up your projects. It also allows you to sort and customize your [...]

Poken Lets You Expand Your Social Network with a Wave of a Hand

Now this is a rather weird idea. Poken.com lets you expand your social network with a wave of your hand. How’s that sound to you? Weird right? But it’s true, using a Poken you can immediately connect with people you meet in the real world in your respective social networking sites. Provided of course that [...]