The concept gained popularity on Craigslist, came even further into the public eye with the movie “The Holiday” (Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and of course let’s not forget Jude Law), and now has websites dedicated to it: house swapping. “Hometel” is their term for it. Hotel + Home = Hometel. In other words, [...]

Ever wonder if you lived in a particularly depressing or (on the opposite end of the spectrum) happy area in the world? FrowningSmile is the website that tracks and monitors that! For the time being it only has the capability to track by country, rather than city/state/province within the country.
Okay. But how the heck could [...]

Before I proceed with this write-up I’m forced to ask Microsoft this question – “Why only now?”  So ok, LiveSide.net is reporting that Windows Live Hotmail is gradually integrating the web version of its Windows Live Messenger.  As soon as this feature gets activated in your Hotmail account, you can now start IM sessions with [...]

It’s been awhile since we’ve done this, in fact the last time was Christmas time of 2008.  Surely, there have been many new Twitter-related apps that came out since then.  Here are 40+ new Twitter-related apps for all your Tweetering needs.

It’s Friday and time for our regular RotorBlog weekly highlights. The social networking/web 2.0 scene seems pretty quiet this week. The major players seem to be observing some peace and quiet except for some minor buzz such as Facebook reaching its 200 million users and wanting to be good, the release of Yahoo Messenger for [...]

Gmail Labs has just rolled two new Gmail features in experiment – Sender Time Zone and Insert Images.  These two Gmail features are both useful and could very well make your Gmail experience more fruitful and pleasant one.

So, after the much awaited Skype app has arrived on the iPhone, here comes Yahoo with an equally exciting and good application, the very popular Yahoo Messenger. Yes folks, the YM that we’ve grown to use and love is finally available as a native iPhone app. If you’re an iPhone and YM user, you’d [...]

Ok folks, it’s officially official. The Skype iPhone app has just appeared a couple of hours ago at the iTunes Apps Store. It’s a free app, so I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t want to install it on your iPhone. If you own an iPhone and you use Skype’s web based version, the [...]

Even the most anal retentive writer has made the blunder and sent an e-mail with a typo. Or, worse yet, replied to all when the message was meant for a party of one.
If you’re like me and the tens of millions of others who use Gmail as your primary email, you could get a [...]

Are you enjoying the new Internet Explorer 8 yet? Have you tried out the cool accelerators? If not, here are the social networking and online communications related IE8 accelerators that you might want to add to your IE8 installation. All these accelerators can make your social networking fun and web browsing more productive. To add [...]

It was a bit intense in the tech world this week with both Facebook and Google getting their share of the headlines. Facebook launched its new home page with a slew of new features that would enhance everyone’s Facebook experience.  Google relaunching GrandCentral into the new Google Voice offering one phone number to do all [...]

 According to a latest Nielsen Report, social networking sites and blogs have overtaken the popularity of email as the preferred medium of online communication today. Based on the report two thirds of online users are now using what Nielsen calls us “member communities”. In fact these member communities are now the “fourth most popular web [...]