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Netvibes runs your Online Dashboard for Social News and Media Updates

May 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Netvibes is an amazing startup application founded back in 2005. It allows you to create a personal dashboard which you can log into, and from your account page you can set up whatever content you'd like to see. Aggregated RSS feeds, real-time tweets and trending topics, e-mails, podcasts, and a whole lot more. It's a revolution of social media and networking! It's an interesting application, to say the least. It has many features you don't find on other social apps, and it allows combination … [Read more...]

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Google Releases the Official Google Buzz API

May 20, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Google has finally released an official API with documentation for Google Buzz. In their blog post, DeWitt Clinton of Google's Development Team went over a few of the new features available in the API and what developers can expect. I appears as though a lot of work has gone into development, and releasing the code to developers allows for the customization of many Google Buzz apps. Buzz is going to see a surge of new traffic and influence over the web as a popular social media platform, … [Read more...]

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Open Source Forum Software bbPress Developed Alongside WordPress

May 18, 2010 By 5 Comments
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For a long time vBulletin was the reigning king of forum software. It's been around for years, has a highly developed community of experts, and is powering tens of thousands of forums across the internet. However bbPress is a new open-source software developed by the creators of Wordpress. Emulating a simple threaded web forum, you can install bbPress as a stand-alone application or to tie into a Wordpress blog. User profiles can carry over into both sections, and it allows for you to not … [Read more...]

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Twitter Media Launches with Resources for Tweet Ads

May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Announced early during April 2010, Twitter has planned to roll out Twitter Sponsored Ads. This means users can pay to have their tweets sent in as many Twitter streams as they are willing to pay for. It's an interesting business model and revenue stream for the network, but how will it stick? The news has been everywhere (all over Mashable) and has spread far and wide, throughout the web. I haven't heard of any companies utilizing the ads yet or what sort of CTR there is, but Twitter has … [Read more...]

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How Foursquare and Location-Based Social Networks are Changing the Internet

May 2, 2010 By 4 Comments
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A few years ago everybody was worrying about the internet carrying an "information overload". Many people were afraid of the internet collecting information about everyone, turning it into a global database with all the information in the world held in it - in the wrong hands, this could be dangerous. I am of the belief this is the wrong way to consider things, and with the amazing success of Foursquare as a location-based check-in service, sharing information with your friends has never been … [Read more...]

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Social Discussion Boards and Dynamic Chatrooms with Donut Chat

April 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
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A new chatroom client has been released on the market, and it runs so smooth I can't believe it's not being used elsewhere. Donut Chat is my latest find in the ways of community and boards, and the software runs perfectly. I'm a huge fan of chat rooms, they're useful as support forums, sharing ideas with friends and business partners... really anything. Donut Chat is a new piece of software, used both standalone on your own domain (*.donutchat.com) and also embed-able into web pages. This … [Read more...]

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Google Releases Official Buzz Share Widget with Live Counter

April 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
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Google has recently released the beginning of a small API working with Google Buzz. There have been plenty of issues with Google Buzz's widget, and many other sites made their own to fill the gap. However with this newest release even Mashable has updated their Buzz widgets. The new button looks similar to many of the other counter-style widgets we've seen. It's got the Buzz logo with a live count in the main circle, and there's also a smaller more compressed version similar to Facebook's … [Read more...]

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