Blip.fm lets members share MP3 music stored on their own computers with friends around the world. As a Blip.fm “DJ,” members share “blips,” their comments on songs shared by others, which is woven into a conversation about the song. Songs commented on are also available for listening by others.
As members add blips, the site displays [...]
Yonkly provides group micro-blogs assembled from Twitter messages into threaded conversations that allow members to follow different discussions within the larger flow of messages. Members can customize the background pages of their group micro-blogs and, for a higher fee, place their own ads and earn revenue. Existing groups, which number in the hundreds at this [...]
Koornk takes more personalized approach to micro-blogging, but still looks an awful lot like Twitter. The site and users’ activity streams are organized by personal information, such as interests and geographic location, to make connections between new members.
The site aims to be global, but is still at such an early stage that it is difficult [...]
Ping.fm lets you post once and publish on many social sites
Ping.fm helps speed posting to many social networks. It lets members aggregate all their social accounts and post to them all, or individual sites, from a single messaging tool. It is a hub for your social life, collecting your micro-blogging posts, pictures and activity [...]
Blueworld is a South Africa-focused social network similar to Facebook.
The site provides the standard features of major social networks, including friend lists, photo- and video-sharing, groups, event calendaring, micro-blogging and chat. Communities include major South African cities and regions, and London, a frequent destination for South African expats.
Members seem to be primarily affluent young adults [...]
Qwitter is a simple service that sends you an email or private tweet (what a message on Twitter is called) when someone stops following your Twitter account. Why would one want to know when someone stops following them? It’s not a necessary thing, but it can be useful if you have the habit of following [...]
Sending a photo through Twitter, the micro-blogging service that limits your postings to 140 characters of text requires using a second service, TwitPic, which stores the image online for the people you with whom you share it. The site also provides badges for use on your blog or another social site that display your recent [...]
Tumblr is a micro-blogging site that lets you share words, pictures and video with friends, who can subscribe to your RSS feed, or the world. Unlike Twitter or FriendFeed, Tumblr is built on a traditional blogging system and the company has focused on encouraging brief bursts of original creativity by its members in words (written and [...]
We haven’t finished our review of Twitly, which creates group messages in Twitter, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!
BrightKite delivers placestreams and friend alerts
BrightKite takes the idea of recording all sorts of activity, from text notes to pictures of events and people, and applies it to places. The result is called “placestreaming,” though BrightKite keeps the orientation on people rather than places: what you are doing, what’s going on around you, and what [...]