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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 iPhone app, the Friendfeed home page redesign,  some updates from the Gmail Labs and Twitter’s exponential growth. Continue reading: Weekly RotorBlog Highlights: Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo and Friendfeed

Gmail Labs has just rolled two new Gmail features in experiment – Sender Time Zone and Insert Images.  These two Gmail features are both useful and could very well make your Gmail experience more fruitful and pleasant one. Continue reading: Gmail Labs Rolls Outs Sender Time Zone and Insert Image Features

Facebook is about to reach its 200 millionth user and none other than its founder Mark Zuckerberg is reporting this at the official Facebook blog.  In fact, as I write this post, that 200 millionth user may have already signed up to Facebook. So, what does this mean?  Well, aside from the obvious fact that Twitter is not the only web 2.0/social site that is growing exponentially,  Facebook might just still be the king fo social networking. Continue reading: Facebook Reach 200 Million Users, Time to do Some Good Deeds

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 traffic, comScore is reporting that Twitter’s traffic is growing exponentially. Continue reading: There’s No Stopping Twitter’s Growth this Time

So, after the much awaited Skype app has arrived on the iPhone, here comes Yahoo with an equally exciting and good application, the very popular Yahoo Messenger. Yes folks, the YM that we’ve grown to use and love is finally available as a native iPhone app. If you’re an iPhone and YM user, you’d love to have this app. Continue reading: Yahoo Messenger for iPhone is Ready for Download

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 list of free available tools may help you.

Tools:

Hummingbird – Very powerful marketing tool for Twitter

Twollow – it auto-follows everyone that mentions your specified keywords on Twitter.

TweerLater – many interesting automated features including auto-follow/auto-unfollow.

SocialToo – Auto-following and auto-following filter together – interesting! Works for Facebook too.

Scripts:

christopherspenn.com – PHP script that auto-follows anyone that follows you.

staynalive.com – script does exactly the same thing that previous – follows anyone that follows you.

raduboncea.ro – same script in python together with direct message to those that follow you.

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 Friendfeed is ready to battle again with a new interface currently in beta. And guess what, the new Friendfeed interface is more like Twitter now. Continue reading: How Do You Like the New Friendfeed?

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 a facility for members to describe what videos they are sharing with a 140-character or less statement. Sounds familiar? Continue reading: Gawkk Re-establishes as a Twitter for Video

Ok folks, it’s officially official. The Skype iPhone app has just appeared a couple of hours ago at the iTunes Apps Store. It’s a free app, so I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t want to install it on your iPhone. If you own an iPhone and you use Skype’s web based version, the Skype iPhone app is basically the same thing only this time, you do your Skype-ing on your iPhone instead of doing it on your PC. Continue reading: Skype Brings VoiP Goodness to the iPhone – Finally!

Twitter and Facebook are the two hottest social networking/web 2.0 service right now. And perhaps most of us are using both services for different purposes. While this maybe all well and good, don’t you wish you can integrate both services? Well, here are 10 Twitter-related application available in Facebook.

TweetSync -lets you sync your Twitter tweets with your Facebook status. You can specify how the app would do the synching either when you include a keyword on your Tweet,  sync ALL Tweets, sync ALL Tweets except for Tweets with keywords you specify.

Twitter – this is your standard Facebook app for updating your Twitter through Facebook.  The app was made by the Twitter folks themselves.

Continue reading: 10+ Twitter-Related Facebook Apps

Interestingly, no single web 2.0/social networking site have dominated the tech news scene this week. Yes, there was some occasional coverage about the regular biggies such as Facebook and Twitter. But those were minor news not enough to get the industry buzz.  So for a change, our weekly blog highlights would have several social networking tidbits besides Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading: Rotorblog Weekly Highlights

The popularity of microblogging service, specifically Twitter catches on even with mommy bloggers and online mothers. TodaysMama, a popular website for mommy bloggers has just implemented a Twitter-like service as part of the website’s features. Called TodaysMama Connect, the service allows members to connect to fellow mommy bloggerss in 140 characters which is obviously  similar to Twitter. Continue reading: TodaysMama’s Connect Feature is Twitter for Online Mommy Bloggers