Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

Yoursphere is a Social Network that Puts Safety First

Fearing that her daughter might be in danger from predators attacking innocent members of MySpace, Mary Kay Hoal created Yoursphere social network. Yoursphere offers a safe social networking site for kids and teens. How safe? How about getting an FTC endorsement for Privacy Vaults approval and parental consent requirement before members can join?

Twimailer Offers a Better Looking Twitter Follow Email Notification

If you’re tired of seeing the same old boring Twitter Follow notifications which states that so and so Twitter member has started following you and gives you the link to the Twitter members’ profile page – Twimailer is not going to help you with solve that problem. Instead, Twimailer is offering a better format for [...]

Facebook Improves Public Profile Pages, To Launch a New Home Page Soon

Facebook has announced two new drastic improvements – one has something to do with Public Profile pages and the other a fully revamped Facebook homepage. Let’s take a look at this two improvements separately.

Start With a Fresh Homepage

I’m quite accepting of vowel-phobic URLs. That is why I am willing to five stHrt (pronounced like START) a fair shake.
The Website is determined to become your Web browser’s start page. Similar to Google Chrome, the stHrt will allow you to organize sites you visit often. But what sets it apart is [...]

Take Credit for Your Web Design Work

Web Designers often find themselves in the Wild Wild West when it comes to job hunting. One thing they often must combat is taking credit for work they’ve actually completed. You see, it’s far too easy for anyone to claim that they designed the Web’s elite.
What if I told you I designed the [...]

Google Friend Connect Now on Blogger

If you’ve used the “Following” feature of Google Blogger which was introduced a few months ago, you may have enjoyed how easy it is for your readers who also happen to be on Blogspot.com to follow your blog updates. Well, in fact according to the Blogger Buzz, nearly 3 million communities have used the said [...]

Classicwines Gets a New Taste

Since I’m a fan of drinking wine more than I am learning about it, you’re more likely to find me at the bar rather than hanging out in a virtual cellar.
But if you are a modern wine enthusiast who likes to talk bouquet and get wine suggestions from people with more (or less) experience than [...]

Is Social Networking Killing Our Brains?

I was just going to blog about something, but the topic completely escapes me.
OH, wait, I remember!
I was going to warn you about the damage some scientists feel social networking sites are doing to our brains.
From Twitter to Facebook, MySpace to Bebo, British neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warns that these sites and ones like it are [...]

Wink and Reunion Form MyLife People Search

What do you get if you combine Wink.com’s people search technology and Reunion.com’s more than 50 million userbase? – MyLife.com, a new people search technology offering an effective and efficient way for people to find and keep track of everyone related to them, including friends and business contacts. MyLife.com offers a database of over 750 [...]

Create Virtual Baby Books With TotSpot

An oft overlooked Web 2.0 niche in the Web is PRIVATE scrapbooking. Let’s be honest, many of us like the concept of keeping a ‘journal’ but are less than enthused about sharing it with the world.
In my mind, the “my life is on display for everyone” line gets even wider when it comes to [...]

Another 15 Twitter Apps for Your Tweetering Needs

It’s been awhile since we’ve compiled this list for Twitter. It’s not the Twitter applications are getting scarce. On the contrary, the splurge of Twitter apps/extension continues and they keep on getting better. With Twitter becoming the no.3 social networking site, expect more of these applications/extension to come out. Here are eleven more Twitter [...]

Facebook Clarifies Issue on TOS

Earlier this week a raucus erupted concerning Facebook when Consumerists reported that the number one social networking site has apparently modified its Terms of Services which would have a great impact on how we all participate in Facebook.  Perhaps realizing that it has earned the ire of Facebook users (you can check out the Techmeme [...]