Posts filed under “social networking”
oneConnect for iPhone
oneConnect for iPhone Originally uploaded by hey mr glen Today, Yahoo have released a beta iPhone application called oneConnect. One of the cool features is Pulse, which shows you status updates from your friends on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Very handy. Yahoo! oneConnect™ for iPhone. A new way to stay [...]
Fire Eagle open to all
…Fire Eagle is about helping you take your location to the Web and giving you control over how, when and with what your location is shared. You choose which applications can share and update your location. You choose how much information you want to share – from as broad as country or state, to as [...]
Update your Facebook, Twitter and IM status from one application
MoodBlast is an excellent little app that allows you to update your status from one place. It currently supports the following services: Skype iChat Adium Twitter Tumblr Pownce Jaiku Facebook Unfortunately, MoodBlast is Mac-only, but there is a web application called HelloTxt that looks like it will achieve the same thing. MoodBlast HelloTxt
Flock browser a real contender
It’s been about a year since I last looked at Flock, the “Social Web Browser”. In that time it’s matured into a very stable and useful application, perfect if you are into social networking and blogging. Some of the sites that it integrates with are: Facebook Flickr Twitter Youtube Flock
Facebook, MySpace et al : Open up or die
Interesting article from The Economist on how social networks may be falling into the same trap that AOL and Compuserve have done in the past. Two of the biggest online phenomena of the past couple of years—social networks such as Facebook, and virtual worlds such as Second Life—look an awful lot like AOL did in [...]
Yahoo announces Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. We’re here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you. Welcome to Fire Eagle!
Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life: Study
Wow, and I thought that starting a blog would only increase my hermit tendencies! The research, from Swinburne University of Technology found that “people felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog†after a two month blogging period when compared to people who do not blog. Blogging Is [...]
Instant Messaging 2.0
An interesting post on how different IM providers are embracing open standards: Consider that everyone IMs. Websites come and go – but IM remains. What’s important about that is that your social network persists over many, many years. My friendster buddy list is essentially useless – since I no longer use that site. But my [...]
Facebook Fatigue
I’ve got to that point again: I’m bored of social networking. This has happened once before, with MySpace to be precise. This time it’s Facebook. After building up a list of contacts which include friends past and present, I’m finding fewer and fewer genuine reasons to log in. Occasionally I’ll go in to look at [...]