Shout’em, the microblogging platform that has been running on a private beta for months is finally going live early December.
Mashable’s Stan Schroeder explains the Croatian-born start-up allows for anyone to create and manage a microblogging community like Twitter that can be fully customizable. You can use your own URL and select the theme you’d like [...]
On Friday Google launched ‘SearchWiki’, a functionality that allows users to customize their own search results and put them in control by allowing people to edit, review, delete and even add pages to the same search results.
The Official Google Blog makes clear to us that the changes you make only affect your own searches. But [...]
The expression “social network” is on everyone’s lips. Teenagers, parents, politicians, businessmen, all of them use either Facebook or LinkedIn-like network. However, despite the fact that Facebook has reached more than 132 million users and become the place to be, it does not represent the new trend in this industry anymore.
As a matter of fact, [...]
Barcamp is a worldwide movement of user-generated conferences that has grown to become more and more popular amongst enthusiasts, new media marketers and IT professionals each year. Anyone who’s passionate about blogs, social networks, online video, journalism, start-ups and venture investments is fit to participate and/or organize barcamps.
A Barcamp is a form of conference that [...]
Google, besides all the tools it has provided, has also given a new verb to the English language: to google something.
Twitter, the king of micro blogging, is about to do the same. With 2.3 million US based users, the company has coped with a 422% increase in one year, which shows the concept of micro [...]
NYTimes.com is getting more social and is doing so by introducing a new service called TimesPeople, as an effort to enhance the reach of its content and expand its services to a broader audience.
The beta version of TimesPeople is now available for everyone who enters the site and is visible at the top left corner [...]
The West Wing’s creator, Aaron Sorkin, thinks not.
Facebook has had quite a life since 2004, initially opening its network to Harvard students, then all Ivy Leagues, until eventually welcoming just about anyone above the age of 13.
Today, the social network monster has surpassed its main competitor MySpace, which currently has 117.6 million visitors compared to [...]
The French jewelry maker, Cartier, launched its very own profile on MySpace as an attempt to appeal to a new crowd, the computer savvies. They are one of the first luxury brands to seek help from a social networking site to spread the word or L.O.V.E.
With more than 3,800 friends already, including guys like Sting, [...]
Facebook has undergone a facelift! claims The New York Times.
The second largest social network on the Internet has undergone some changes on the member’s profile interface, which will eventually give users more control over their details, photos and personal information.
When will Facebook be unveiling their new look? As of now, it is only in limited [...]
I thought this was pretty neat and impressive. I found this site called We Feel Fine and basically it’s an online social network of human feelings.
What the hell does that mean? What it is, is an interface which detects blog entries containing either ‘I feel’ or ‘I’m feeling’ phrases from around the world and saves [...]
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