Threadsy Helps You Pull Yourself Together
by rahsheenThreadsy is a service that allows you to access your Facebook, Twitter, and email all from one slick interface. It’s quite similar to FriendBinder with a few major differences. The design is simple: on one side, you have all your inboxes from the services you’ve plugged in, including your email, Facebook messages, Twitter DM’s, and Mentions. On the other you see your Twitter feed and Facebook notifications.
Read MoreWhy Should Your Business Be Using Foursquare?
by rahsheenFoursquare is a social networking service that provides a pretty interesting spin on location sharing, microblogging, and gaming. According to Co-Founder Dennis Crowley:
“I think Foursquare found some kind of sweet spot between the intersection of social utility (Hey, I know where my friends are), sharing/oversharing (I log everywhere I go/everything I do) and gaming/rewards (every check-in gives you a little piece of candy).”
Read MoreBrizzly Goes Hard As Twitter Web Interface
by rahsheenBrizzly is yet another up-and-coming Twitter web interface. It’s currently in private beta and packs some very interesting features. First of those features being that it was created by ex-googlers and you can usually expect to be impressed where Google refugees are involved. This is also the same team that created Plinky.
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Nokia Teams Up with Facebook
by Sherri L. SmithThe holiday season is coming and tech companies are scrambling to get out their latest and greatest just in time for the holiday rush. Nokia, the largest smartphone maker, is attempting to claw its way to the heap of the pack with the N97 mini, the newest edition to the N97 series. Described as the [...]
Read MorePBS Frontline’s Your Digital Nation Project
by Robin CaldwellMichael Lang always finds the most obscure yet compelling and exciting videos for his site BlackDigerati.org. Last week, I posted one I found on his site featuring a young woman discussing how she uses her mobile phone to access the Internet and social networks (I use my T-Mobile). I noted that her video was submitted to PBS Frontline’s Your Digital Nation Project, which is a part of a larger multimedia project, Digital Nation, that involves social media, broadcast media and technology. It is interactive and honestly, quite brilliant because it invites viewers to submit video testimonies of their use of digital media. (I think it’s smart any time you posit users as experts.) Watch these very brief videos recorded at BlogHer 09.
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