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 [...]
Seesmic is a video discussion site on which people post messages and respond to one another only in video. Here’s a conversation by BlogQueen about what is the best kind of traffic to a Web site and a host of responses. Members’ activity is presented in a public timeline that allows easy browsing through their [...]
12seconds is a video micro-blogging site. It’s unique angle is a 12-second time limit on video messages, which makes it the “Twitter Talkies,” adding the visual to the brief messaging style of the popular Twitter service. Other options for short video messaging include Seesmic and Qik, both of which provide longer recording times.
The 12seconds site [...]
The revelations that Twitter, the micro-blogging service whose growth in members exploded in 2008, started 2009 suffering two major security breaches. First, Twitter was subject to a swarm of phishing scammers who tricked users into sharing their Twitter password, allowing the scammers to log in and message compromised member’s friends. Within a day, Twitter announced [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feedalizr is an Adobe AIR-based desktop application for posting and aggregating feeds from Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Jaiku (discontinued) and videovideo. We haven’t finished our introduction to the software, but you can be the first reviewer in Comments now.
We haven’t finished our introduction to Fuser, a Web service that collects email and messages sent on social networks into a single inbox. Be the first to review the site in Comments.
near.ly tracks news articles and blog postings that are sent from 1,000 feet from any address in the United States and sends them, via Twitter, to you so that you can keep up with what is happening locally.
Sign-up at the near.ly home page and enter your address and Twitter login information (username and password). After [...]
We haven’t finished our introduction to Feedly, a Firefox browser plug-in that aggregates social and RSS feeds to create a personalized home page. You could be the first to share your review. Do it now in Comments!