Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

Plan Your Funeral Before It’s Too Late

As a kid I used to always think that when my time on this fine planet came to an end, I wanted my remains sprinkled around Yankee Stadium.
Given the new stadium and all of the corporate greed surrounding the sport, you can strike that from the record.
Rather, I’d like the unfortunate event to pass like [...]

Tip’d Brings a Digg-Like Social Bookmarking Tool to the Financial World

There are many startups and web service which tried to emulate Digg’s structure, platform and overall form but many failed while some succeed to live another day until such time that users finally realize that they need to go back to using Digg. Tip’d which describes itself as a community for financial news, ideas and [...]

VidEngage.com Offers Social Networking with Video

Although YouTube is a pretty powerful video uploading and sharing site, it however lacks some social networking features. Despite the great amount of content uploaded and shared on its site, YouTube remains to be just like that – a video uploading and sharing site with some dash of social networking features. New social networking site [...]

Kidzui Launches a Kid-Friendly Social Networking Feature and a Homework Helper

Remember the kid-friendly website that we featured not so long ago called Kidzui? Well, the site has just introduced some social networking-related features plus a Homework Helper service as well. This new features come hot in the heels of the first-ever WiredTrust Best Practice seal for a children’s site.

Ning Embraces OpenSocial

Ning.com, a web tool/application/service which allows you to create your own social network has been around for quite some time now. Despite the lack of publicity and hype and too much media coverage, Ning managed to sustain itself and has gradually build-up a large userbase. Well, what can you expect from a web service such [...]

BlogCatalog Launches Own Blog Search Engine

Social network for bloggers BlogCatalog continues to improve on its site features and services as it just rolled out its own Blog Search Engine. Similar to Technorati and Google Blog Search, BlogCatalog’s search feature is a total aggregation search engine that aims to deliver relevant search results not only from its directory but from member [...]

Yahoo! Calendar Gets a Site Refresh

I’ve been wanting to use web-based calendar services but never really had the patience and perseverance to schedule my day-to-day activities. The calendar function of my mobile phone was more than enough for my scheduling needs.  Either I’m one in a million who never really used web calendar, or I’m one of the millions of [...]

Halloween Costume Community

As a kid, choosing a Halloween costume was relatively simple.
He-Man or Skeletor?  G.I. Joe or The Ultimate Warrior?  Basically, any “cool,” larger-than-life action hero would do.
These days, with the amount of data available at everybody’s fingertips, polling the masses has become commonplace – even when choosing a Halloween costume.

Top Five Social Shopping Sites Worth Your Time

Among the most covered social networking niche are social shopping sites. These social networks promise to give you sound shopping tips and advices as well as great bargain hunts. In addition, they help in boosting online commerce as well. Here are five social shopping sites which we think are probably worth your time, especially now [...]

Red Karaoke Gets a Remake

You should have seen me a few Fridays ago. I brought the house down with a blazing renditions of Pearl Jam’s Black and New Kids on the Block’s Games. Oh, I wasn’t on stage anywhere. I was amongst friends in the basement of the local karaoke joint.
My musical aspirations are non-existent, but [...]

Imeem Site Redesign, Intros New Features Too

For those who are not aware, Imeem is another big social network aside from the big two MySpace and Facebook. It’s in the line of Tagged, Orkut and Bebo. Sadly we don’t really get to hear some buzz about them or anything coming from them. Until now, as Imeem joined the likes of Facebook, Friendfeed [...]

Facebook Finally Becomes a Social Networking Site

Aside from the new version of its iPhone application, Facebook has also did some minor retouching of its main site, i.e. Facebook.com. First thing first. If you want to see this “retouched” home page, make sure you sign out of Facebook.com first. Then go back to the site again and you will see the new [...]