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A Social Network I Wish Didn’t Have to Exist

It’s a universal fear: you or a loved one gets diagnosed with a rare disease. After the dust settles, one of the first things many people do is hit the Web to begin research. With so much information to wade thorugh, separating the good from the bad is a difficult task. One of the best things you can do is find someone who has suffered the same illness.

RareShare announces that it has launched a health social networking platform specifcally for rare medical disorders.

Currently in ‘early beta,’ the Website hopes to bring patients, families and healthcare professionals together to share information and personal knowledge about rare diseases.

“Our goal is to build a network of micro-communities where people can help each other by sharing firsthand knowledge about living and being affected by these medical disorders,” explained Eric Steele, Co-Founder of RareShare. “By launching an early-beta version of RareShare, we hope gain further insight about our initial user-base to help improve the services and tools offered through RareShare,” he added.

The community is currently broken out into 500 micro-communities, each dedicated to a specific rare disorder. They plan to double that number by summer’s end. With more than 1,500 recognized rare diseases, there’s unfortunatley no shortage of illness.

The Website is a great resource. Now let’s hope you don’t ever have to check it out.

Apple’s MobileMe Offers Web 2.0 Applications

Tell me which blog that you know is not yet riding on the hype that the iPhone2 has built up the past few days? If you check Techmeme, more than half of the page is occupied by nothing but posts and links about the new iPhone. I even stopped reading my Google Reader account because I couldn’t find anything good to read except articles about the iPhone2. Well, we can’t blame them and neither can you blame me. The new iPhone and applications and extensions that came with it is rocking us all, even social networking fans. Yes folks for us online communication, web 2.0 and social networking loyalists, the release of the new iPhone also brought us Apple’s MobileMe.

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Photrade Lets You Earn from Your Photos

I know Flickr is a great photo sharing site. In fact, I maintain my own Flickr pro-account which I used to back-up all the photos I take. The thing is, I pay an annual fee to maintain it, but I don’t earn anything in return. Even if my photos get millions of hits and page views, I won’t earn a dime from any of those views, unless somebody contacts me and ask to use any of my photos for a fee. Now, wouldn’t it be great to have a photo sharing site which pays everytime your photos are viewed and used? Actually there is a new photo sharing site which does that and it’s called Photrade.

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Commercial Real Estate Investing Goes 2.0

With new interactive social tools, NetGainRealEstate.com makes an investment to create an international income property community.

Aside from just evaluating income property investments, starting today, NetGain offers user with more choices. Among the upgrades, the ability to add content, interact with users and provide feedback. Also… Continue reading the story called Commercial Real Estate Investing Goes 2.0

RotorBlog Podcast #1: Acrobat.com and few hot Twitter applications

We are very exited to publish first episode of RotorBlog podcast! Here you go!

This episode includes some of the most interesting projects reviewed previously here on Rotorblog:

Pokerspace
Celebuzz
Fabulously 40
TheSpaProject
Acrobat.com

We have also covered some useful Twitter applications like Tweet Cube, TwitterFone and few others so check out the podcast, and if it’s not enough here are latest list of Twitter applications that you can find useful.

Sweeter 2.0 is Twitter with a Karma

Alright, we’re going to give the developers of Sweeter 2.0 the benefit of the doubt and would not think that they are actually trying to clone Twitter with the Sweeter 2.0 microblogging service. But no matter how you look at it, despite the orange theme, Sweeter 2.0 is by all means a Twitter clone. But at least they managed to give Sweeter 2.0 a little bit of twist, or to be precise a karma. Continue reading the story called Sweeter 2.0 is Twitter with a Karma

Even Fedex is Riding into the Facebook Wagon

facebookfedex.jpgOf course every one of us know FedEx, or in one point in our lives have used the services to ship something locally or internationally. FedEx is such as big company that who would think that it will ride into the popularity of Facebook and come up with a Facebook application of its own? Continue reading the story called Even Fedex is Riding into the Facebook Wagon

Adding Simple Web-Based Photo Effects

picreflectThese days kids are bouncing out of public schools with academic Web training.  That means many of them know how to create Web pages, produce podcasts and manipulate photos.  Many bloggers I have met are proficient on one thing, and that’s writing. They really have no interest in a lot of the other elements that make a blog successful, such as images.

Picreflect is a neat little Website that can add a new dimension to your blog.  Actually, a new reflection.  If you have 10 seconds and a digital photo, you can add a reflection.  All you have to do is indicate the following: Continue reading the story called Adding Simple Web-Based Photo Effects

Some 15 More Twitter Applications for Your Twittering Needs

twitter_logo.jpgCouldn’t get enough of Twitter applications? Here are some more of them.

Twitterratio - gives you the ratio of your followers to the number of people you follow measured using Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio. When you get a high ratio, that means you are getting popular on Twitter.

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Online Banking Thru a Social Network?

penniesFrom average Joe Blows to small-time indie bands, there’s not a blog on this earth that I’m not willing to check out. But one blog I never expected to read is from my bank.

According to the Charlotte Observer, banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Washington Mutual are making a push to invade Facebook and other social networking sites to appeal to Gen Y.

It’s not just the big boys making the move. Currently, there are more than 100 credit unions with profile pages. Offering games, videos and contests, it appears banks are desperate to try to make home equity loans and APRs cool.

“Last month, Jim Bruene, editor of the Online Banking Report, a trade publication, asked 500 Facebook users whether they’d be interested in viewing their bank account balance through Facebook. Seventy percent said “No way.””

Do you have any interest in accomplishing your banking needs through a social network. Or would you rather not mix business and pleasure?

 

Sniff Answers the Most Asked Question - Where are u?

snifflogo.jpgIf the idea of sniffing for your friends’ whereabouts sound fun to you, you might actually like a new mobile phone and Facebook application called Sniff. It’s a pretty simple service which answers the most asked question through text messages - “Where r u?”. Continue reading the story called Sniff Answers the Most Asked Question - Where are u?

Friendfeed’s Personalized Recommendations Feature

best-of-screenshot.pngIf you’re a web 2.0/social network junkie like me, you’ve probably be in Twitter, Friendfeed, Pownce, Facebook and many more social network/social media site. I don’t know about you, but more often than not, I don’t get to check my account in these sites on a daily basis. Good thing for Friendfeed, it just introduced a new feature that would make our “Friendfeeding” activities a little bit better. Continue reading the story called Friendfeed’s Personalized Recommendations Feature