Twitter and Facebook and other social networks are in a way microblogs out there. You publish content on someone else’s servers and they hold on to it. If you ever wish to leave a particular network, all the history of your activity thee is gone… poof! I think about this all the time and in […]
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Gory Details on the Recent Facebook Outage
Facebook was out for 2.5 hours yesterday due to some technical issues. With millions of users on the network, it did create a furor in the social networks. A lot of people were dissing Facebook for this outage but as a database administrator by day and as a person running multiple websites, I was lot […]
Flickr Gets Facebook Integration Right
I have been a big fan of Flickr since it’s early days. We have had different ways of posting our Flickr pictures to Facebook through either Flickr apps or Facebook apps. Flickr has now added a much-needed social networking integration to its popular web service. You can now easily post pictures to Flickr and Facebook […]
TV Guide for Your Live Web Events – Live Matrix
The Web is no longer static pages of text and still images. It’s alive with tweets, tweetups, live video conferences, uStreams, live-blogged product launches, webinars, live auctions, virtual world meetups and events, time-limited sales and contests, live audio and video podcast recordings, live chats, and more. And it’s all happening in real-time. (RWW) I get […]
Facebook Privacy Scanner & How to Quit Facebook?
Facebook has been receiving a lot of flak lately and for good reason. It is a great social networking platform that is being used by millions around the world. But, with time Facebook’s privacy settings have become downright a nightmare to manage. That is for those who are worried about their privacy and actually go […]
TweetDeck Gets Google Buzz, FourSquare & More
TweetDeck is an amazing desktop Adobe AIR app for Twitter. But, it has been adding support for other social networks as well making it a one app to have in your desktop to access all your social network accounts! TweetDeck version 0.34 just came out with some amazing additions and here is a quick run […]
New Skype Beta Gets Group Video Chat. Not Free.
Skype is one of the best & popular video chat clients and we use it to chat with our parents and family in India. The chat video is pretty amazing compared to other video chat clients even when one end is in a low bandwidth connection. One feature we have missed is a ‘group video […]
Quickly View All Your Facebook Friends Likes In One Spot
So, if you run a website you know how to add a Facebook Like button on your webpage for your readers to share it with their friends. If you are not a publisher but active on Facebook, I have a very cool website to share with you. LikeButton.me is a new web service that shows […]
Share Your March Madness Picks With TweetBracket
March Madness 2010 has begun and there is no dearth of NCAA related applications and iPhone apps that look to capitalize on the huge attention span from millions of fans across the US. I just came across a new app via TechCrunch called TweetBracket by YCombinator startup 140bets.com. TweetBracket is an interesting mix of NCAA […]
Do You Have a Gist of Social Media?
Gist is a new web application in beta that looks to help you build stronger relationships. It connects your email inbox to the web and gives business-critical information about key people and companies. Gist lets you connect your contacts from your email (Gmail, Outlook), Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc and gives you valuable insights about them […]
Are You Screaming Please Rob Me With SN Updates?
A lot of Social Networks like FourSquare, Facebook, Twitter and more recently, Google Buzz, allow you to post your location along with your updates. Location aware social network updates are so useful in so many contexts. But, announcing where you are at any particular time also comes with a danger. You are telling the world […]
Social Networking for Gadget Heads – GDGT.com
Are you a gadget head? Gdgt.com (like gadget or g-d-g-t) is a social gadget platform site that connects you to the community through gadgets you own and want. If you are passionate about your gear, gdgt lets you create your own profile with all the gadgets you own. Then there is a community discussions around […]
Quick Tip: Add Facebook Updates Next to Gmail Buzz
Google Buzz has been keeping me stay inside my Gmail Inbox a lot more than I usually do. With this new Google Chrome extension, it appears I am about to stay a lot longer! Google Facebook Integration Google Chrome extension adds Facebook right below Google Buzz link inside Gmail. With this Facebook integration inside Gmail, […]
Share Your Flickr Photos on Facebook
Do you use Facebook and Flickr? They have both been walled gardens even though they are both such a powerful social networking tool. With my renewed interest in photography after purchasing my Canon Rebel T1i, I post a lot of my pictures on Flickr. But, the only way I have been sharing my Flickr pictures […]
