Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

The Pope Wants to Be Your Facebook Friend

After launching a YouTube channel, Pope Benedict XVI is now on Facebook via the Pope2You app.  The Pope2You Facebook app description says that the app lets you share the most wonderful pictures of Benedict XVI with your friends on Facebook along with his words of hope and peace.

Social Network for Collectors – CollectValue

Baseball cards. Portable Nintendo games. Swatch watches.
It’s fair to say I’ve had my fair share of collections. Wouldn’t it be great if I had a social network to discuss my favorite topics, find the missing pieces to my collection puzzle and find out the value of rare items?

Learn More About Social Media’s Impact

One office buzzword that simply won’t die is Webinar. A term for a “seminar” that is held online, these interactive meetings can often be packed with useful information.
Next week there is a free Webinar that YOU – as a socail media maven – are invited to attend.
Vocus, the press release people, are sponsoring “Analyzing [...]

Tweetlister is Twitter for Real Estate Ads

Nevermind if there is an ongoing fuzz in the “Twittersphere” due to the recent decision of  Twitter to turn off the forwarding of @replies from people you don’t follow. That wouldn’t stop a new Twitter app from launching recently, and it’s called Tweetlister. Putting it simply, TweetLister is Twitter for real estate listings.

Digg Connects to Facebook

Facebook and Digg users would certainly love this announcement from the Digg blog – Digg just launched Facebook Connect. This feature allows all Facebook users who are also active Digg users to login and do their Digging and commenting activities instantly, just by linking their Facebook and Digg accounts. The process is basically the same [...]

Get 10 Twitter Followers in 20 Seconds

Since most of us do not have the “popularity” of Ashton Kutcher or Oprah Winfrey,the masses struggle to amass an embarrassing number of Twitter followers.
A new free service, Twit Pro Quo, hopes to level the playing field. When you log in you will be issued 10 new people to follow. In return, you [...]

Six Twitter Applications That Let You Tweet on Your Desktop

If you’re an avid Twitter user, chances are you’re using one of these Twitter Desktop Applications that basically allow you to receive and post Tweets from your desktop. Meaning, you don’t have to visit your Twitter.com page from time to time to find out  what’s new about your Twitter friends. If you haven’t used a [...]

Win $10,000 With iParents Photo Contest

iParents.com, an established social network, has teamed up with Facebook to gain exposure for photo sharing and prints. Currently they are running a contest for the best child photo (voted on by the social network) with over 3,000 prizes. The grand prize is $10,000 for the best photograph and the overall prize value totals $100,000; [...]

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 [...]