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Filed under: Internet, Security
Until now, geolocation has been one of those quaint, semi-useful buzzwords: ‘… now with geolocation!!!’ Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare — the main exponents of exposing your location — might not be small, but they pale in comparison to Facebook. With the announcement that Facebook will be enabling geolocation next month, Pandora’s Box [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Maybe you’ve heard of Foursquare — that trendy mobile app that lets you and your friends check in when you go somewhere — but chances are you haven’t heard of FourWhere. It’s a search engine for location-based social networks, starting with Foursquare, but planning to expand to [...]
Filed under: Palm, Social Software, Mobile Minute
It’s been a little while since Facebook launched their (admittedly barebones) application for Palm’s webOS devices — that’s the Pre and Pixi to you and I. However, in amongst the news of the webOS 1.4 update dropping earlier this week, Facebook have also released an all-new version of the [...]
Filed under: Beta, Microblogging
Inbox2 is a “premium connected lifestyle application”. I’m not making that phrase up — it’s from their about page. In simpler terms, it’s an email client which also does Facebook and Twitter. And it’s beautiful. Seriously — this thing is in-your-face gorgeous. I love the color scheme!
Since the premise is fairly easy [...]
Filed under: Security, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen people who automatically post their Foursquare checkins. The constant stream of auto-posted “I’m at someplace you don’t care about!” messages can be annoying, definitely, but some people also think it’s dangerous. That’s why Please Rob Me was started. It’s a cute [...]
Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Yahoo!, Social Software
In a completely unrelated Yahoo! Mail Blog post about Valentine greetings, the developers at Yahoo might be hinting (inadvertently?) at social network integration in the pipeline.
It’s just a screenshot, but ‘My Social Networks’ doesn’t seem to exist on current Yahoo email accounts, nor does it make an appearance in [...]
Filed under: Productivity, Web services
For a while, iGoogle was the end-all-be-all of homepages for me, and then I flirted with Bing (those daily photos are pretty sweet). I think I’ve finally found the start page of my dreams, though: Fav4.org. It’s just 4 huge, gorgeous buttons for the websites of your choice, set on top [...]
Filed under: News, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Social Software, Web
Clearly Google has Microsoft and Yahoo! shaking in their boots right now. While more often than not companies try not to bring attention to what their competitors are working on, fear can drive them to speak out when they might otherwise more wisely hold their tongue.
Google’s announcement [...]
Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps. The new product will be unveiled tomorrow, and it could be anything from integrating Gmail status updates with Twitter and Facebook to launching a full-scale Twitter-like [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Web services
If you’ve ever written a blog post and wondered who’s tweeting about it and linking to it on Twitter, wonder no more. A Google Chrome extension called Twitter Reactions can quickly show you the buzz on any webpage you visit. While its most obvious use is the Twitter equivalent of a [...]
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