I always had one rather large complaint about Fring and other multi-network messengers: they’re dog-ugly — like, Ugliest Dog In The World ugly. Fortunately there’s a beautiful alternative that, until now, has only been available for iPhone and BlackBerry: it’s called BeejiveIM, and after you try it every other messenger app on Android will fade [...]
If you’ve ever used Facebook or Twitter, you’re already familiar with Google Buzz’s latest feature: reshare. Resharing is the equivalent of sharing in Facebook or retweeting in Twitter. It quickly shares someone else’s post in your stream, with your commentary added and a link back to the original source. It’s not so much that reshare [...]
Project Emporia, from the very same FUSE lab that brought us Spindex, has a name that no doubt stems from the ancient mercantile ‘emporium’ of valuable goods. It is, put simply, a Silverlight app which skims the best of the rest from Twitter. Select a lens (or topic), such as ‘technology’ or ‘business’, and watch [...]
Google’s new Google Moderator platform allows YouTube users to poll their audience and solicit submissions for questions to answer or new video ideas. It adds a new level of control over comments that might help make YouTube’s generally substandard comments readable. Moderator gives you control over the topic, length of submissions, and the type of [...]
According to Microsoft’s chief security advisor in Australia, some companies refuse to upgrade to the latest versions of Internet Explorer because keeping employees on IE6 keeps them off of Facebook. As you’ve probably noticed if you’ve tried to sign into any contemporary social networking sites on IE6 … it doesn’t exactly work. Facebook shows a [...]
If you’re as obsessed with Foursquare as I am, here’s some good news for you: there’s finally a site that lets you see how many more checkins you need to become mayor of your favorite venue. It’s called When Will I Be Mayor?, and it offers features like venue monitoring so that you always know [...]
TheNextWeb likens Readness to Last.fm, and I have to agree that it’s an apt comparison. This new article recommendation service tracks what you read (and what your friends read, if you choose to connect with them) and generates suggestions for online reading material that you shouldn’t miss. Basically, Readness scrobbles news articles the way that [...]
Remember Chatroulette, the faddish video chat service that lets you talk to random strangers? Well, it’s got a new best friend: Apple’s FaceTime on iPhone 4. Thanks to a free app called iChatr, iPhone 4 owners can FaceTime with other random iPhone 4 owners. Like FaceTime itself, iChatr requires you to be connected to a [...]
Call me crazy, but there’s something awesome about 1) an official app from Microsoft 2) with Windows branding appearing in Apple’s App Store. Today, Live Messenger for the iPhone became available for download on your iPhone or iPod touch. And like the Bing app which came before it, Live Messenger for the iPhone is actually [...]
Yahoo!’s relationship with Facebook just got a lot closer, with the launch of Yahoo! Pulse, a reboot of Yahoo! Profiles that offers seriously in-depth Facebook integration. You can link your Facebook and Pulse accounts, sign in on either site, and read your Facebook News Feed via Pulse. Of course, you can cross-post to both Pulse [...]
