Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Windows Live Profile Gets Some Cool New Features

If you’re a regular Windows Live user, you ought to know that Microsoft has just rolled several enhancements to Windows Live Profile, among which is full integration with social networking sites and other online services including Facebook, WordPress, Smugmug and many other services.

AOL’s New Magazine Style Site – Politics Daily

From AOL’s MediaGlow comes a new magazine-style political site called Politics Daily. Previously a part of AOL News Network, Politics Daily is now being launched as a separate site featuring top-tier political writers with their in-depth and informed reporting, analysis and opinion of, well what else but U.S. Politics.   Politics Daily aims to become a [...]

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 [...]

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.

There’s No Stopping Twitter’s Growth this Time

If there’s one thing that Facebook, Google, and the other web services want to happen right, that could probably be to stop Twitter’s traffic from growing.  We’ve already told you before how Twitter become the number 3 social network following Facebook and MySpace based on Compete’s data. But looking at Twitter in terms of site [...]

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 [...]