Second Brain gets an update
March 14, 2008
Second Brain, the personal content manager that helps you collect, organise, search and share content from multiple online services in a single library has been given some new features
- Support For Twitter
- Invite your Gmail contacts
- Edit Second Brain bookmarks
- Improved bookmartlets
- Improved performance
- Several bug fixes
Twitter support
You can now add Twitter as a service. Just follow the same procedure as for the other services: go to +Add Content -> select Import content -> Select Twitter. By default you can import your tweets, but you can also select to post to Twitter from the “What’s on my mind” panel.
Invite your Gmail Contacts
If you’d like to see more of your contacts in Second Brain, we’ve created a simple way for you to invite your Gmail contacts. Just go to you personal page
Edit S|B bookmarks
Edit the title, description and tags of bookmarks that you’ve added directly to Second Brain. Just click on the bookmark to go to the bookmark page and select the field that you’d like to edit.
Improved bookmarklets
When you add a bookmark you can now put it directly into a collection. This makes it really easy to use collections to organise your content. You can also add a description to a bookmark automatically by selecting text on the page you’re bookmarking.
If you haven’t already signed up you can do so here
Wordpress gets a Buddy
March 5, 2008
Automattic, the brains behind wordpress have snapped up the services of Andy Peatling and his BuddyPress plugins.
At the moment a place holder is all that we can see at the BuddyPress site, but Andy on his blog says…
I’ve been all consumed in WordPress for the past two years now, I think almost every single site I’ve built since working as a freelancer has used WordPress in some way. To get the opportunity to concentrate fully on WordPress everyday, and also the chance to help mould WordPress in new ways is a fantastic one not to be missed.
Also, the buddypress.com domain is in the process of being moved, so further updates on the project will be available there once the move has been completed.
BuddyPress is a series of plug-ins that turns your Wordpress installation into a Social Network, Automattic have already indicated that they would like to dip their toe into world of Social Networking so this acquisition makes sense to them.
Yahoo Buzz Launches
February 26, 2008
Yahoo have today launched Yahoo buzz the Internet news and trends tracker. The service tracks content from around the internet and a story is ranked based on its Buzz Score. The score is derived from search term popularity, the number of times a story is emailed from Buzz, and the number of votes a story receives. Stories with the highest Buzz Scores may be published on the Yahoo! home page - you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!
Check it out at buzz.yahoo.com
LinkedIn launch Mobile Version
February 25, 2008
LinkedIn have finally launched it’s mobile version of the service. The beta product includes a version specially optimised for the iPhone and is available immediately in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese with additional languages to follow.
Mobile features include
- Search LinkedIn profiles (including photos and bio) to help recall and connect with business acquaintances at events and conferences
- Research the common contacts they have with other professionals to help make real world referrals and introductions easier
- Invite professional acquaintances and peers you meet at events to LinkedIn with just their email address. Exchanging business cards is just not cool anymore!
- Receive regular Network update capabilities about your connections while on the go
- International versions currently launched include French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. More to follow.
Just point your mobile browser at http://m.linkedin.com
Orkut Social apps coming soon
February 23, 2008
Orkut, Googles Social Network announced back in November of last year that the platform was open to developers. Over the last few months they have been busy building social applications that should make the Orkut experience better. And as such they have announced that the apps will be available to a subset of orkut users starting in a couple of weeks, and to all Orkut users several weeks after that.
If you are a developer and want to have your apps available to “Orketeers” in the last week of February you can find out more on how to submit your app here and for the latest news check out the orkut developer blog.
Here is a video on Orkut’s policies on OpenSocial Applications
Raptr Open for Beta Testing
February 23, 2008
Raptr, the Silicon Valley based startup has built a social games platform designed to change the way people play and discover games they like and share their gaming experiences with friends. Raptr makes gaming more social by automatically sharing your gaming achievements and stats with friends while downloading game patches and updates.
Acting as a “Windows Update for games,” the Raptr client keeps your games up to date using background downloads and a lightweight interface. Raptr automatically tracks your gaming stats and achievements and shares them with your friends. With Raptr, you can see what your friends are playing, what they’ve recently downloaded, and how they’re doing in those games. Raptr also enables you to receive recommendations for new games you might like or meet players who share similar gaming tastes.
Available for beta testing now, you need to sign up for an account here
XBOX Live Friends Application for the iPhone
February 22, 2008
This iPhone application allows you to check in on your fellow XBOX 360 gamers from just about anywhere. From 1337pwn this application can display gamer scores and online status for your friends list.
Features
- View Gamer Score, Online Status, and Game Info
- Send a message via XBOX Live by tapping on the gamer picture
- Tap on their last played game for game information
- Edit your list of gamers at any time
- Purpose built for mobile Safari web browsers
Point your iPhone’s browser at http://1337pwn.com/iphone.php to get going
Tiny Polls for Twitter
February 22, 2008
A new service called StrawPoll has been introduced created by Rob Goodlatte & Dan Romero
Explanation of the service from Rob Goodlatte
Today I’m pleased to introduce StrawPoll, a tiny polling application for Twitter. The premise is simple: each day, we ask an interesting question. Reply to strawpoll and tell us why you voted the way you did. StrawPoll tallies the votes and displays the most recent reasons for each response. To get started, all you need to do is sign into Twitter and start following strawpoll.
For example, today’s question is “Better superpower: flight (1) or invisibility (2)?”. To answer, simply reply to @strawpoll with a message like:
@strawpoll flight because you could travel anywhere for free
Your reply must be formatted like “@strawpoll <vote> <reason>”, where
Share files through Twitter
February 16, 2008
Need to share files with your friends on Twitter? well now you can with Twittershare
Twittershare is a twitter client that, like Pownce lets you send your friends files up to 10mb in size as well as typing the usual tweets. The desktop client is available now for Mac OSX with a Adobe Air based Version coming soon for Windows.
You can also try the web based version here and you can follow them on twitter for the latest updates here
Let Twitter help you stop smoking
February 14, 2008
Tobacco Free Florida has built a Twitter powered social tool designed to help people quit smoking.
Each time you light up, send Qwitter the number of cigarettes you smoked by posting an update to twitter in the following format @iquit 2
That will tell Qwitter you just smoked 2 cigarettes and at the end of every day Qwitter will add together all the posts you sent and add them to your progress graph.
You can keep track of your thoughts and feelings as you stop smoking. Send Qwitter a message that doesn’t start with a number, and Qwitter will add it to your journal.
@iquit I really want a smoke. I hope this gets easier.
You can visit your Qwitter page at http://qwitter.tobaccofreeflorida.com/qwitters/username to view your trend over time.
