Although there have been many MySpace Toolbar already available for free in the web, it is only now that MySpace is releasing an official one. While these unofficial MySpace Toolbar may have successfully given MySpace users a useful toolbar which they can use for easily accessing their MySpace profile, still nothing would compare to the official Toolbar released by MySpace. Continue reading: MySpace Rolls Out its Official Toolbar
Even the most anal retentive writer has made the blunder and sent an e-mail with a typo. Or, worse yet, replied to all when the message was meant for a party of one.
If you’re like me and the tens of millions of others who use Gmail as your primary email, you could get a mulligan.
An experimental feature called “Undo Send” has been launched within Google’s testing ground, Google Labs. The functionality will show an “Undo” pop-up that displays for five seconds. If you catch an error or change your mind, Gmail will retrieve the e-mail in draft form and give you the option to make changes or discard the message altogether.
In my world, the biggest offender is the missing file attachment.
In order to use this and other experimental features, you must have Google Labs activated. This can be done within the “Settings” tab of your Google Account.
Gmail is the third most popular e-mail site at this time, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see it eclipse the Yahoo/Microsoft alternatives in the future.
P.S. – Happy 5th birthday, Gmail. My how you’ve grown.
BusinessCard2 is “the world’s first Internet business card.” With several hundred thousand users, the site strives to provide professionals with an online marketing platform. Users can customize their card by adding as much or as little info as they want, and it is fully searchable by the major search engines.
The site has multiple uses. First, it helps people connect over the Web. It takes a person’s professional life and increases the availability to an audience that would otherwise be inaccessible. With the importance being placed on personal branding these days, it could be a great way to increase Web presence. The second use of BusinessCard2 is to allow bloggers to interact with their audience. By using the service, the blogger’s card is accessible by the readers, and the readers can leave their cards on the site, too. The final way for users to take advantage of BusinessCard2 is by providing a way to research anyone with their own card. Imagine being able to instantly get the information of a local expert on a problem you’re dealing with. You could also find out the contact info for a professional halfway around the globe through a search.
Free membership provides exposure to a worldwide audience, 500MB of free file storage, and a centralized point for providing contact information to other professionals. The BusinessCard2 team lets visitors to the site know that they value user privacy by stating, “BusinessCard2 takes all reasonable precautions to keep your information safe and secure.” With all of the data security concerns in the news daily, it’s a relief to know that they are watching your back.
So are you one of those who sent comments to Facebook regarding the recently rolled out new home page and other features? Apparently, Facebook received quite a number of both positive and negative feedback. So, finally the Facebook Blog is publishing its official response to to all these.
Continue reading: Facebook Responds to Feedback on New Features
Face.com is launching a new Facebook application that will surely be a big hit among Facebook users especially those who are fond of uploading and sharing photos to their Facebook profile. The application called Photo Finder will scan public photos in social network and suggests tags for untagged faces. Continue reading: Photo Finder App Coming to Facebook Soon
No! To be honest please digg this – it still brings more traffic to the site than twitter.
Other than huge number of eyeballs Twitter brings news faster, maybe this is the reason why slowly Twitter becomes my number one source of information. I feel that Digg is loosing it’s position as “breaking news” source. Twitter is just faster! And it also becomes irrelevant because of the “power-user” / “power-sites” bull***t – seams that Digg is slowly loosing the game.
So I discovered this Tweetmeme site – it’s just like Digg but instead of actual voting, every retweet of the article counts as vote. It creates list of most popular stories just like on Digg and in my eyes such system is more natural.
If you are blogger you may want to add retweet buttons to your site – it allows users to quickly tweet your articles and it can bring you pretty good traffic too – it will not be huge as if you hit Digg homepage, but still it’s pretty solid.
1. Tweetmeme – get it here:
2. Twitthis – get it here:
3. TweetThis – get it here:
Are you enjoying the new Internet Explorer 8 yet? Have you tried out the cool accelerators? If not, here are the social networking and online communications related IE8 accelerators that you might want to add to your IE8 installation. All these accelerators can make your social networking fun and web browsing more productive. To add the accelerators, simply click on the link and you will be brought to the IE8 accelerator page. Continue reading: Social Networking and Online Communications Related IE8 Accelerators
No particular single news dominated the social networking and online communications scenes this week. Three topics stood out – the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS, the release of Google Chrome in beta (again), IE8’s final version, and some new Gmail features rolled out by Google. Interestingly there was not too much buzz going around the two hottest social sites today – Twitter and Facebook except for some minor buzz regarding Facebook’s call for users to support their governance policy, and Twitter growing really, really, fast. Continue reading: Weekly Rotorblog Highlights: iPhone 3.0, Browsers, and Gmail
The amount of time that we have been spending with real people has decreased since 1997 and this is affecting our health. And so says the findings of a recent research study on the physiological effects in the long run of the decreasing “real” social interaction among individuals – that means us. This effect was even heightened by the ongoing recession which has made “real” social interaction more expensive. Continue reading: Warning! Social Networking Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
I’m a big fan of the Gmail Labs and have been religiously monitoring cool features that the Gmail Labs Team put out every now and then. I’ve tried activating some of those features including offline email viewing, task manager and more. And now, Gmail has just announced another cool feature – previewing YouTube videos, Flickr and Picasa photos and Yelp links right inside Gmail items. Continue reading: Preview YouTube Videos, Picasa and Flickr Photos In Gmail
Finally, MySpace woke up from slumber and launches enhancements to its MySpaceID product. In case you may have forgotten already or unaware at all, MySpaceID lets any website to access MySpace’s social graph. Meaning, you as a MySpace user can link your MySpace profiles, friends, and other activities on the site to any websites. But a more important part of this announcement is MySpace’s integration to the new Yahoo homepage which is curently under closed private beta testing mode. Continue reading: MySpaceID Becomes More Friendly
So how do you like the new Facebook profile page so far? Don’t worry, we’re not going to talk about the pros and cons of the new home page, but rather on an earlier announcement saying that members can now opt to allow everyone to view your Facebook profile or select some parts of it. Continue reading: Facebook Rolls Out “Everyone” Option in Privacy Setting
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