Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

New FriendFeed Leaves Beta

So finally, the new Friendfeed interface has been rolled out to the Friendfeed site. This means that starting today, prepare yourself to be “mesmerized” by the new FriendFeed home page design which has been in beta mode for the past couple of weeks.

Six Earth-Friendly Social Networking/Media Sites

On April 22, the whole world joins hand in celebrating Earth Day 2009. And we don’t have to tell you anymore how important this day would be. Environmental issues continue to confront all of us everyday. Despite the efforts by environmentally conscious individuals the fact still remains – the Earth we all inhabit is in [...]

Weekly Rotorblog Highlights: BOOM! It’s Definitely a Twitter Week

Well, this week definitely belongs to Twitter.  We even started the week with some cool new Twitter-related applications and services right?  Twitter is definitely the hottest online commodity right now, no one can argue that fact. Even celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Ophrah are joining the Twitter bandwagon. And you know what it means [...]

Facebook Enables SMS Status Update for Public Profiles

Although status updates through SMS has already been active for personal profiles in Facebook, it is only now that Facebook is activating this feature for public pages – such businesses, brands and celebrity Facebook profiles.  Unfortunately, SMS update works only for selected mobile carriers in Canada and the U.S., so for people like us in [...]

Google Profiles Can Now Have Vanity URLs, sort of

Are you using Google Profile? When was the last time you’ve checked your Google Profile page? For those not in the loop, Google Profile is a Google service where you can practically dump most of your Google Account’s services. It’s a not so highly used service really, not much hype and buzz, and even the [...]

Rhode Island Residents To Receive Treasury Cash Flow Report via Twitter

The Rhode Island Treasury Department is joining the Twitter bandwagon by way of its daily cash flow report which will be sent on real-time via Twitter tweets.  Ok folks, don’t even think that we are joking here. What we’re saying is true. The Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer will soon be broadcasti
ng the [...]

40+ New Twitter-Related Apps

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.

Weekly RotorBlog Highlights: Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo and Friendfeed

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 [...]

Twitter Auto Follow Tools and Scripts

Have you ever wonder why some company starts following you as soon you are mentioning it’s name on Twitter? Or some user instantly follows you back if you start following to his tweets? These are techniques used by many to gain popularity on Twitter.
If you also want to use some Auto follow techniques this [...]

How Do You Like the New Friendfeed?

Aside from Twitter and Facebook, the next big thing in the social networking/web 2.0/social media world is Friendfeed. There was even a time when Friendfeed and Twitter have been pitted against each other. But for quite some time now, Friendfeed has been pretty silent while Twitter continues its rampage. Until now. It looks like [...]

Gawkk Re-establishes as a Twitter for Video

For awhile a I thought Gawkk which we featured not so long ago, with a tagline that says – collect and share video with friends is different from Gawkk with a tagline – share videos with friends. But then they are actually one and the same.  And what’s the difference? Well, Gawkk has just added [...]

Social Networking and Online Communications Related IE8 Accelerators

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 [...]