By now, the victory celebration for President-elect Obama’s resounding victory may still not be over. And since we are all aware that the online world has contributed to President-elect Obama’s successful campaign and election, his technology advisors are not resting on their laurels and have launched Change.gov.
Ever wish you could get an answer to that pressing question at two o’clock in the morning? Sure you could post a question on Yahoo! Answers, but you have no guarantee that anyone will answer your question quickly - let alone at all. And if someone does answer, there’s no telling if they are an [...]
If YouTube has been trying but failed to monetize its vast collection of user-uploaded video content, MySpace seemed to have found a work-around with it. Through a partnership with MTV Networks and video ad company Auditude, the no. 1 social networking site is rolling out a new program that would allow insertion of advertising units [...]
If there’s Library Thing for book social networking, there has got to be a “thing” for hobbies and personal interests. Of course there is - and its called HobbyThing, a social networking site for sharing your hobbies and interests with the rest of the world.
The world, both the real and the virtual one is composed of diverse culture of people, we all know that. And with the geographic distance between people from all countries, one can’t help but wonder if the social networking world could actually create “true friendship” or “real relationship”? WorldFriends hopes to achieve that by providing [...]
This new feature that was just rolled out by FriendFeed may delight either Twitter and FriendFeed users or annoy them instead. FriendFeed has enabled a new function that will let you to automatically posts all your FriendFeed updates in their entirety to your Twitter timeline. How cool or uncool can that be?
It’s definitely the era of user-generated contents and ideas, crowd-sourced technologies, and social empowerment. With the way the online social community are pushing great ideas coming from diverse minds, it is no wonder that even PC manufacturers such as Asus, in partnership with Intel, another computer industry player are tapping on the wisdom of the [...]
While everybody else has opened up their network to third party apps along time ago, it is only now that LinkedIn is doing so. It may be a little late, but quite frankly I would prefer LinkedIn’s gradual approach to letting third party applications into its network, making sure that only the most useful, business-wise, [...]
Granted that a social networking site has to be freely open for all, there are still some online users who are a bit hesitant to join an online social network due to various fears. Or more specifically, fear of getting attacked in what ever form by strangers. Would a social network made exclusive for you [...]
Look who is jumping into the social networking bandwagon? Famous and big time book publisher, Barnes & Noble has just launched its social networking site called - My B&N. With the popularity of web 2.0/social networking sites LibraryThing and Shelfari, it is no wonder that such an established commercial book publisher Barnes & Noble would [...]
LinkedIn has just announced a new search platform which is currently being rolled out to some selected LinkedIn users. The new search platform is a robust and professional search engine for finding people across the LinkedIn network fast and in the most accurate manner. The new search platform was a product of user feedback gathered [...]
How powerful is your Twitter name? Given the mainstream emergence of the microblogging sensation, wielding greater ‘influence’ on Twitter can help you accomplish big things in the Web 2.0 world.
A relatively new tool, Twitter.Grader, launched by HubSpot, let’s you find out how you compare to your peers. Simply input your Twitter user name and hit [...]
