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Ever wonder if you lived in a particularly depressing or (on the opposite end of the spectrum) happy area in the world? FrowningSmile is the website that tracks and monitors that! For the time being it only has the capability to track by country, rather than city/state/province within the country.

Okay. But how the heck could a computer program monitor, track, and evaluate a country’s happiness or sadness? Well this system is built to query twitter and blogs that belong within that country. It then assigns a mood according to key words or phrases (for example, a twitter status of “I love ice cream” may be assigned in the happy category).

Past the functionality of checking up on how your country “ranks” on the happiness scale, there isn’t much else to do on this site. Further, it doesn’t list future enhancements or plans of what to do with this “unique happiness system” as they call it. This website has a somewhat sketchy measurement system and does not give its users a reason to return. All in all, the website has an interesting concept but did not execute it correctly nor did they build off it.

In case you’re too busy with sharing links, taking quizzes, uploading photos, or chatting with your Facebook contacts, Facebook has just rolled out a new Friends Page. This new Friends Page now makes it easier to find and organize your Facebook connections into groups. The new Friends Page is being gradually rolled out, so don’t storm the Facebook blog if you don’t see it yet.

Continue reading: Facebook Rolls Out New Friends Page

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. Continue reading: New FriendFeed Leaves Beta

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. Continue reading: Windows Live Profile Gets Some Cool New Features

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 different political sites by offering original news reports, regular fact checking stories and long-lead reporting and writing. Continue reading: AOL’s New Magazine Style Site – Politics Daily

Results of  Facebook site governance voting has concluded. And majority of those who responded to Facebook call for votation wanted to be governed by the proposed Governance documents made publicly available by Facebook.   Pending audit by an external auditor, the new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities will soon replace the exisiting Facebook  TOS. And if you’re not familiar with what the new governance policy state, you might want to check out the Facebook governance site. Continue reading: Facebook Users Vote on How They Want to Be Governed

Before I proceed with this write-up I’m forced to ask Microsoft this question – “Why only now?”  So ok, LiveSide.net is reporting that Windows Live Hotmail is gradually integrating the web version of its Windows Live Messenger.  As soon as this feature gets activated in your Hotmail account, you can now start IM sessions with your Windows Live Messenger contacts even if you don’t login to Windows Live Messenger. Instead, you can login to your Windows Live Hotmail account and you will see an embedded Web IM facility. Continue reading: Windows Live Hotmail is Gradually Rolling Out Web IM Feature

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 danger of collapsing anytime now. Unless we do something to prevent it from happening. As our own little way of promoting awareness to the environment, and as a celebration of Earth Day, here are some of the earth-friendly social networking/social media sites that we found. Continue reading: Six Earth-Friendly Social Networking/Media Sites

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 when these celebrities get  into Twitter, right? That means more media mileage for Twitter. So for our regular Weekly Rotorblog Highlights, here’s a recap of all Twitter-related news that broke out this week. Continue reading: Weekly Rotorblog Highlights: BOOM! It’s Definitely a Twitter Week

YouTube has recently rolled out a new feature which would bring television shows and movies of its content partner to the YouTube stream.   With this new feature, YouTube users would be able to enjoy watching tv show episodes and movies from content owners such as CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and Crackle.  And since these content are under the YouTube video stream, you can comment on this video contents as well as share them with your friends and family. Continue reading: YouTube Offers Free Premium Video Content

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 the Asian region, updating of our Facebook status via our mobile phones can either be done through the Facebook mobile phone interface. Continue reading: Facebook Enables SMS Status Update for Public Profiles

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 Google people are not talking about it so much. In fact, there is no Google Profile Blog yet. Continue reading: Google Profiles Can Now Have Vanity URLs, sort of