When was the last time you used Reddit? Recently Stephen Herron reminded me of the site’s powerful knowledge base. According to Wikipedia, “Reddit is an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links.” Basically the site is user-generated content and people promote stories by voting on […]
Tag: Social
When’s The Last Time We Talked?
How do you keep track of the last time you spoke to one of your friends? In this day and age, you probably have many circles of friends – work, personal, organizations and school. How often do you touch base with your friends? Do you forget to contact them for ages? I can imagine your […]
Alerts… Too Many Alerts? Control it.
If you a social networkaholic then you need to try AlertThingy. This application sits on your desktop, like an instant messaging (IM) program, but instead of getting IMs you get real-time updates from your Twitter, Facebook, etc… accounts. Your friends alerts can now be followed without even opening your web browser or mobile phone. Get […]
Skittles, Rainbow Of Social Networks
The Skittles website is an extreme example of social networking. The rainbow colored candy’s online presence is essentially just one big YouTube channel featuring a hovering remote control that enables you to click between Facebook, Twitter and their product information. I find this very intriguing because Skittles decided to just use the technology already available […]
Carrier Pigeon is Slang for Email?
I was listening to NPR the other day and during a segment they kept saying to contact them by Twitter or Carrier Pigeon. I dismissed the discussion, but it did stick in my crow. Then today I received a call from a friend asking me if I knew anything about that new social networking community […]
The Hills + Web 2.0 Social Media?
Speak over TV with Back Channel Back in the 90s, “Pop Up Video” was so innovative because as the music video played little tidbits about it would appear in chat bubbles. For example, in the Tiffany video “I Think We’re Alone Now” a chat bubble would appear that would say, “Tiffany wore the same denim […]
FriendFeed: Organize Your Life Stream
Have your heard of “Life Streaming”? Perhaps you are doing it and you don’t even realize it. Personal Use “Life Streaming” is putting almost every detail of your life online 24/7. A friend of mine was telling me that he got a Twitter from a friend saying that he was just involved in a car […]
Yammer – Office Social Networking
Yammer is a social network for current employees to chat about work happenings. I guess instead of the water cooler, now you don’t need to get up from the luxury of your desk to gossip. The reality is that most corporate employees are doing a certain amount of non-work related tasks during work hours. Are […]
Dodgeball Phone Tracker
In my opinion, Dodgeball is a website that is social networking on steroids. The purpose of this service is to easily connect with your friends, make new friends and just hang out. The site connects virtual world to real world. Imagine getting a text message immediately to your mobile phone when a friend is within […]
Yovia – Share Your Feedback
Jalali Hartman started Yovia as a new type of social networking website. He wanted to give consumers the ability to help shape the products and causes they care about, and give companies the ability to get feedback from their most important assets – their clients. He created it to give consumers a voice. With Yovia […]