Posts tagged facebook

Facebook to Add new features

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You may have noticed if you logged into facebook recently a message telling you about some up-coming features. From my brief reading, it sounded like something I had mentioned many times that should be there by default. More >

AlertThingy – Your Social Desktop

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AlertThingy brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. For business users we have Yammer, Basecamp and Huddle integrations. So you can mix work and play.

Plus you get the coolest looking RSS reader on the interweb which makes it easy to share news items with your friends.

Take control of your life streams; With so much data it can be easy to suffer information overload. AlertThingy provides a simple filtering system that allows you to make the data you’re most interested in visually more obvious.

Quickly see all of your friends and contacts from different networks through the Contacts list. Easily create groups of contacts to see only alerts relating to them.

John's Background Switcher

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If like me you are not happy with a static wallaper day after day – the choice here is to get a piece of software that will cycle through your wallpaper on a timed basis and there is no better FREE Software then John’s Background Switcher {Windows}. You can set various options such as having a different picture per screen (on a Multi Screen desktop), how often it should change and so forth.

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Web Purge 2.0

I had some inspiration that I should go on a purge of all the web sites that I personally think I should stop using, I slept on it overnight to make sure it was not a flash in the pan idea that I would regret later and once my mind was made up, I went on a purge of all the site I had registered and used.

USTREAM TV

The first casualty was Ustream.TV – this was of no use to me and I had my fill so armed with this I made sure I deleted the Video’s I had recorded, removed the show and finally the user accounts, I Mirrored this on my IRC Client, no more shall I be on there for whatever reason, be it watching shows or broadcasting. More >

NING – Create your own Social Network

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Much like MySpace & other Social Network Sites, Ning have created a site which allows YOU to create your very own Social Network. If you look at the link at the top (Social Network) this takes you to our very own created Ning Network – Mauldor.

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YooNoo – Simplify your online life

yoonoo * Manage all your Social Networks and IM in one place.

* Keep up to date with your friends update whilst on the Web.

* Unified Status Updates for Facebook, Twiiter and more.

To get this firefox plug-in – head off to http://api.yoono.com

This is a Firefox Plugin and adds a sidebar which to the left, you get pop ups on any status updates across all of your social networks, I have only just installed this so time will tell how useful it will be but it looks good to me so far.

Ping.FM – Update all your Social Networks at once

pingDo you use Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and a whole rafter of microblogging sites yet have to update each one? Well now there is a free service which supports a whole range of services and allows you to update the entire lot in one go.

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Along with Adding in various networks to update, the way you update them is also varied, from iphone to web page to programs – the choice is yours.

messagesI agree you can get a desktop program to do this very task – which is fine if you are near a computer but as this operates from anywhere – its a good alternative.