Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Feb 25th, 2010
Online services are collaborating on content and searches and I find it inspiring to see how technology can ease the ability to find information and share knowledge. With the real-time search and breaking boundaries between online services, people are in a way brought closer together and it is much easier to find out what other [...]
Posted in Social Media, Tech Development, Tips on Feb 10th, 2010
Can Google do anything without creating a buzz? – guess we just don’t hear about if they don’t. This is not a post with my opinion about Google Buzz. This is a collection of blog posts and articles I found interesting and relevant about the buzz, which in other words means – these are 10 [...]
Posted in Facebook, Tech Development on Feb 3rd, 2010
Monday the 1st of February, eMusic launched the Facebook Connect feature, making it easier to join and share music information with the 175 million daily users on Facebook. If you haven’t heard about eMusic, I guess quoting The Rolling Stone Magazine should give you a hint – “Music fans are migrating to eMusic, the iTunes [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Jan 14th, 2010
There’s a new currency on the market. It’s neither sex, power nor money. It’s social reputation. The Whuffie Bank is a non-profit organisation dedicated to building a new currency based on reputation that could be redeemed for real and virtual products and services. The higher your reputation, the wealthier you are. The Whuffie Bank tracks [...]
Posted in Facebook, Social Network, Tech Development on Dec 21st, 2009
If you have a YouTube account, it is now possible to see in our YouTube home page whenever a Facebook Friends publishes a new video. Apparently YouTube is socialising it up. Recently they have also made it possible to connect with Twitter and Google Reader as well as the YouTube site has started to suggest [...]
Posted in Tech Development, Twitter on Dec 14th, 2009
Twitter has been looking for a business model and even though they’ve experienced rapidly growth in 2009, they’re still with their about 50 million users way behind other social media giants like Facebook and YouTube and they also still need to find the revenue stream. On the 12th of December Twitter announced a sealed deal [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Network, Tech Development on Dec 11th, 2009
Instead of suffering the pain of a real suicide, you can kill your virtual self in just five pain-free steps, and resurrection is possible with a simple log in to Facebook. A new (anti) social network offers Facebook users to commit virtual suicide or seppukoo – as they call it. Seppukoo means ‘stomach-cutting’ and stems [...]
Posted in Tech Development on Dec 8th, 2009
Google has introduced real-time search that provides you with ongoing updates from around the web on your search topic. This is an interesting turn in the development of how we can get access to the abundant amount of knowledge and information created online each second. The new Google feature will include updates from social media [...]
Posted in Social Media, Social Network, Tech Development on Dec 2nd, 2009
It’s not about what you know. It’s about who you know. So what if you could know more about the people you know? With Gist, which is an online service, you can see how your contacts fit into the social media landscape and how you connect to each other. If you want to know what [...]
Posted in Tech Development on Dec 1st, 2009
If you are an active social media user like I am, you can try out a new desktop application for Mac OS X that gathers several services in one place. Socialite is similar to other desktop clients such as Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeck that can also handle several services. You can incorporate your Facebook, Digg, [...]
