Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

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
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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 [...]

Warning! Social Networking Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

The amount of  time that we have been spending with real people has decreased since 1997 and this is affecting our health. And so says the findings of a recent research study on the physiological effects in the long run of the decreasing “real” social interaction among individuals – that means us. This effect was [...]

Preview YouTube Videos, Picasa and Flickr Photos In Gmail

I’m a big fan of the Gmail Labs and have been religiously monitoring cool features that the Gmail Labs Team put out every now and then. I’ve tried activating some of those features including offline email viewing, task manager and more.  And now, Gmail has just announced another cool feature – previewing YouTube videos, Flickr [...]

MySpaceID Becomes More Friendly

Finally, MySpace woke up from slumber and launches enhancements to its MySpaceID product. In case you may have forgotten already or unaware at all, MySpaceID lets any website to access MySpace’s social graph. Meaning, you as a MySpace user can link your MySpace profiles, friends, and other activities on the site to any websites.  But [...]

Rotorblog Weekly Highlights: Facebook Home Page, Google Voice, and the New iPod Shuffle

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 [...]