FriendFeed adds Personalized Recommendations
June 6, 2008
Friendfeed have a announced a new feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through you entire feed.
Nestled underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage you now have links to see the “best of” from either the past day, week or month according to the people you subscribe to.Nice to see that FriendFeed are adding new features to the service, still waiting for something that would give you the ability to import all your friends over from Twitter, at the moment the only way to do this is by a programme written by internetducktape.
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
Flock gets an Update
March 7, 2008
Flock, the social web browser has announced the latest release of it’s web browser. Flock 1.1 includes new features such as integration of Gmail and Yahoo, as well as letting you know when you have new messages waiting.
The new version includes key enhancements to Flocks MyWorld page, you can now rename it to make it yours and they have also added a friends activity feed so that you can keep up to speed with the latest actions of your friends from the the people services supported by Flock.
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
Photoblogging with twitxr
February 17, 2008
Twitxr is like Twitter but with pictures and geolocalization. The idea is, you take a picture with your iPhone or other mobile device, you write something related to the picture and this picture gets posted on the Twitxr site for your followers to view.
The photo will also then be posted as a link into your twitter stream and onto your facebook account as well.
With a Jailbroken iPhone you can use the client, which can be easily installed through installer.app, you should find it under the networks tab.
They are currently working on other mobile platforms such as the Symbian and Android, and the API is public so anyone can develop a client.
Try it out for yourselves here
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.
blogTV goes mobile
February 6, 2008
Video Streaming service blogTV has launched it’s mobile platform.
Starting today we are providing LIVE interactive video feeds for mobile handsets (http://m.blogtv.com ). For the first time mobile handset owners will be able to watch User Generated content, happening LIVE! The live content that is being produced and broadcasted on blogTV.com is available for free, without any installation of software, for all major mobile carriers, worldwide.
Here is a short Demo
“ON-AIR EVERYWHERE”, LIVE content that is happening now should be available everywhere and with minimal technical barriers. Our mission is to find new, innovative and convenient ways in which to access creative outlets, thereby making it simple to both watch and broadcast life, LIVE, in all its glory.
We see this as a great way for content creators to distribute their content and for the Entertainment, music industry and other brands to reach their audience wherever they are, Live!
Type m.blogTV.com on your mobile browser to watch the live streams. Here is a list of compatible mobile phones
Hictu and Jajah Partner
January 23, 2008
Jajah, a web-activated telephony provider, and Hictu, a video micro-blogging service launched by Abbeynet last June, today announced Hictu’s complete integration of Jajah’s voice-calling capabilities into their technology platform.
Hictu users will be able to use Jajah service from within any micro-post on Hictu, simply by clicking on the green Jajah button embedded in their Hictu profile. Users will also be able to talk from their phone with any other Jajah customer or with any user who has previously registered a phone number in the Jajah section of their Hictu profile.
“We are very proud to announce this partnership with Jajah,” states Luca Filigheddu, CEO of Abbeynet. “Jajah is one of the fastest growing global Web telephony companies; a young company forecasted to play a leadership role in the future of Web-integrated communications.”
Developed in Italy and capable of competing over an international Web 2.0 scenario, the Hictu video micro-blogging platform lets users instantly publish text, audio and video messages online and share this content with friends and other Hictu users. Video and audio messages can be recorded directly from within Hictu webpages, turning the service into the “Twitter” for video micro-bloggers. Hictu enables users to update the world with their “real-time” status and activities, while integrating content from leading IM and VoIP services.
“Micro communities like Hictu are becoming daily places of congregation and are increasing in importance for their users,” says Roman Scharf, JAJAH co-founder. “It is our conviction to provide these spaces with the opportunity for web to voice capability to match the communication needs and preferences of its users. Hictu’s service is compelling and unique and we are thrilled to be working with them.”
