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Featured, Social Networks »

[24 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Social Networking Tools Reviewed

With the growing popularity of Social Networks, Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with them…

Micro-blogging »

[23 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]
Ping.fm

Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.
Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once. This allows individuals using multiple social networks to update their status only once, without having to update it in all their social mediums individually. Ping.fm groups services into three categories – status updates, blogs, and micro-blogs – and updates can be sent to each group separately.

Social Content »

[22 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
Mixx

Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.
Users of Mixx can control a personalized blend of web content that includes text-based articles, images and videos. Mixx users can search and discover media relevant to their interests, and interact with friends and other Mixx users who share their common interests.

Search Engines »

[20 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Boogami

Boogami is a search engine that was developed by James Wildish, a sixteen year old college student from Kent in United Kingdom. It combines a search engine with a pixel advertising grid that appears every time someone uses Boogami to search the Internet, and for the fact that it offers free pixel advertising to charities.
James approached the Where On Earth Group and internet marketing specialists Divadani for help in launching Boogami and making it a success. As a result, the British media soon picked up on the story and …

Embeddable Widgets »

[20 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
Sprout

With Sprout, you can build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps:
1. Build – Sprouts can be of any size and any number of pages and can include images, video and audio and components such as slideshows and jukeboxes as well as Web service components such as Twitter, PollDaddy, ChipIn and more.

Embeddable Widgets »

[20 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
Clearspring

Clearspring Technologies is a privately held Web 2.0 software company that offers a web widget platform. Clearspring’s viral distribution product enables web widgets to be shared and distributed across blogging, social networking sites, and personal Web sites. Clearspring’s product offering also includes two approaches toward advertising with widgets: widgets that are served as ad content through an ad server, and an ad network that provides advertisers the ability to serve advertisements within a widget or across multiple widgets. Clearspring’s analytics suite enables the tracking and analysis of widgets on its …

Micro-blogging, Social Network »

[20 Dec 2008 | 3 Comments | ]
Facebook

Facebook is a popular, free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website’s name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other …

Micro-blogging, Social Network »

[20 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]
Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or email, or through an application such as …

Free Blog Host »

[19 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

Free Blog Host »

[18 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces (also known by its users as MSN Spaces) is Microsoft’s blogging and Social Networking platform. The site was originally released in early 2004 under the MSN Spaces name to compete with other social networking sites. Windows Live Spaces received an estimated 27 million (27,000,000) unique visitors per month as of August 2007.