Summize clears up Twitter Clutter

July 23, 2008 – 8:35 am

If you have use Twitter you must be familiar on how incredibly cluttered it can be in such a short period of time. It’s very easy to get lost in it. Clearly there is great need to have a program that will put Twitter in order and to maximize its potential. With Summize, Twitter can go a step farther that is bringing us the latest and hottest updates on other topics we care about other than family and friends such as the war in Iraq, our favorite celebrities and the the mars exploration. Summize does just that, it takes Twitter to the next level. With Summize, you can now search, and filter the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. It is also a big convenience that they both function within the API framework. With these two programs merging, it is indeed a bright future for Twittter. While we are waiting for the end-product we can access search.twitter.com.

By Clarinda Gonzales | Posted in Twitter | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

The Twitter and Friendfeed Faceoff: A Great Benefit to Bloggers

July 19, 2008 – 6:56 pm

Microblogging sites are the new trend and they have a cult following from online users. As one microblogging service, Twitter, puts it the principle is simple: it allows users to send updates which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

There are some instances though that the senders want to just send updates to specific friends. They can do this by restricting delivery to those friends they only want to receive the updates, although delivery to everyone is the default.

It’s a great way to make and find new friends perhaps even better than keeping a blog. The current king in microblogging is Twitter but its services are currently lagging because of its unstable architecture. Meanwhile critics and users alike are all praises for the upstart Friendfeed. The Friendfeed principle works in a slightly different manner as twitter:

Friendfeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social websites such as blog entries, social book marking websites, and social networks among others. It really affords convenience to the user because of this. All the programs the user is subscribed to can be neatly tucked in one open program!

Although users have the power of choice and both microblogging sites serves different interests. It’s still a matter of time before people choose a platform they prefer. Some people side with Twitter and some side with Friendfeed. Some however claim that it is a theory of a banana and apple, the two must simply co-exist with one another because their purposes are different.

However, the new and exciting trend is happening neither in Twitter or Friendfeed. An exciting trend since people have a new avenue to voice their thoughts, and it paves the way for the rise of the professional blogger. Before, anybody with random thoughts and ideas can have a blog. Thus, blogging is seen as a hobby rather than something you can make a serious career out of. With much of the noise over the internet going to Friendfeed and Twitter blogging can now be reserved for people with real expertise and real specialized skills that is worth sharing on the internet. So far we have seen the trend as the new writers, the SEO writers are being hired to write for blogs with this kind of vision. What we can say now is that Twitter and Friendfeed organize the internet and each will be given their proper place. Those random thought that people have can easily be gobbled up by the microblogging sites and those with real substantial ideas can now make real profit in blogging as it now becomes more professionalized.

By Clarinda Gonzales | Posted in Friendfeed, Twitter | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Video: Facebook Kills

March 23, 2008 – 3:07 pm

Here’s another video about Facebook, wherein someone got a friend request. Funny.

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By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Comments (0)

Political Views in Facebook Profiles Now Include Parties

March 5, 2008 – 9:29 pm

Starting today we can now show in our Facebook profiles what political party we support. Facebook has just expanded the selections to describe our political views, since political viewpoints such as ‘moderate’, ‘liberal’, and ‘conservative’ are general descriptions of what we really believe in. Besides, the words liberal and conservative have various meanings in different countries.

What they did was include in the drop-down menu all the parties from different countries. So if you used to show Libertarian in your Facebook profile, you can make it more specific by showing that you are supporting the Libertarian Party of United States.

Also, Facebook added this free text option in typing the political views. So if you don’t wish to inform everybody what party you support, you can say so by typing Undeclared. If you want to be bolder, you can describe your political views in a phrase, or in a sentence. You can type in whatever you believe in like the one below.

By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Comments (0)

A More Functional MyBlogLog Widget

March 4, 2008 – 1:23 am

The other day, I blogged about the glossy widgets of MyBlogLog and the question now would be, what will this new widget do?

Aside from its eye-catching professional look, the new widget has added features that many MyBlogLog members will find valuable, especially to members who are involved in Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

One of the reasons most of us join MyBlogLog is to promote our website as we visit other websites of MyBlogLog members. So if someone is interested with our MyBlogLog photo, he hovers over it, see our username, and click it to see more details about us.

But now, it is better because every time we visit a site, we will now leave more details about us, not just to show this to the owner of the site, but to other visitors as well.

When a visitor hover over our photo, he will not only see our location, the link to add to you to his contacts or to view your profile, but also the site we authored. So when he clicks the link he will see the latest contents of our site in MyBlogLog and might be interested to check our site as well. If you author a number of sites (like the member shown in the photo above), the visitor will see all the links to them and he will just choose a site that interests him.

So update your widgets now.

By Reah | Posted in MyBlogLog | Comments (0)

A Petition for Colored Profiles on Facebook?

March 2, 2008 – 1:19 am

My answer is NO, I don’t want it!

I just received a request from a Facebook Friend, to join this group of people asking Facebook to implement colored profiles. Their aim is to get 500,000 members that agree to let Facebook users choose the color they want their profiles appear to others. And then they will submit their petition to Facebook.com staff. They have suggested color schemes too and uploaded photos of colored profiles so everybody can see how they would look.

Anyways, on its first week, Feb 22-29, they got around 42,000 people joining their group, and of course they are still inviting. But I certainly don’t agree with this kind of request, although changing the color theme seemed cool because it reflects our personality.

The reason I love browsing profiles in facebook is because of the uniformity of color. When I do this on other social networking sites, like Friendster.com , or Myspace.com the different styles and designs of each profile irritate my eyes. Even if the user has retained the default style, a profile with a different color irritates me.

I really hope Facebook would just maintain its simple and professional look. They can make smoother edges or rounded buttons but just keep the profile’s color the same for everybody. Maybe you can just add the option to change the color of the whole Facebook account? Browsing profiles wouldn’t be that irritating, but at least we still have expressed our personalities every time we log in to our account, just like changing the color of yahoo email address.

By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Comments (2)

MyBlogLog Widgets Now Glossy!

March 1, 2008 – 3:15 am

MyBlogLog recently relaunched their sidebar widgets with a new design. Unlike its old design, the new MyBlogLog widget looks professional and more appealing to the eyes because of its glossy finish, multi-colored shading, and smooth rounded edges. The icons have a better eye-catching look too.

When I found this out I was excited to update my widget because I was really bored with the old one. I immediately logged-in to my MyBlogLog account, and was surprised to see limited options for the new widget. There are only 7 colors available: black, blue, brown, green, red, orange and purple. I have chosen black for one of my blogs and blue in another blog, because the blue color blends perfectly with the theme.

Also, I noticed I could see more details about the MyBlogLog members who visited my site when I hovered the cursor over their photos. I could also see their locations and sites authored, and a link to add them to my contacts list, or to view their profiles.

The Top Links however, are not immediately attached to the widget. There is a separate code for it, and still has the old design. Anyways, if you want the old widget, it is still available. Just look for the link on the top of the widgets settings page.

By Reah | Posted in MyBlogLog | Comments (1)

So there's a Facebook Anthem?

February 29, 2008 – 12:12 am

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I just saw this video from one of my Facebook friend’s posted items, and I was curious to know what this anthem about. So I clicked the link and was expecting a song praising Facebook and all but it was the other way around…

The ‘anthem’ is about Facebook users getting bored of Facebook. Have fun watching the music video, and it’s really a cool upbeat song. I hate zombies and werewolves too, but I love Facebook. :)

The video is created by rebelvirals.com

By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Comments (2)

Tabbed Facebook Profiles Are Coming!

February 27, 2008 – 3:36 am

Facebook has been busy lately redesigning the Facebook profiles. Although they had introduced the ‘Extended Profile’ last month, this wasn’t good enough to make the profile pages “simpler, cleaner, and more relevant”. With the extended profile, Facebook user chooses information about himself that could be hidden in the extension, but if his extended profile is clicked, it could still turn out as a long and a cluttered page.

But this spring, Facebook is going to launch another, yet bigger change to Facebook users. A new structure that will make profile browsing more organized and easier—the tabbed profiles!

In the first screeenshots that Facebook released, profiles were divided into ‘Wall’, ‘About’, and ‘Photos’. The ‘Wall’ is the tab for your Wall posts, mini feed, and other contents. ‘About’ will show your basic and personal info, while ‘Photos’ is an additional tab, which means you can add other tabs to your profile and customize it to your heart’s content.

Facebook is still working on this new structure, so comments and suggestions are still welcomed. So, send all your feedback to profilespreview@facebook.com.

By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Tagged | Comments (0)

Ignore All Requests, Now in Facebook

February 26, 2008 – 6:51 am

Facebook couldn’t be any different from other social networking sites without the applications or the Apps. Thus, most networking sites right now are following their footsteps.

A lot of apps are available on Facebook, whether you are a teenager, in your early 20’s, or even in your 40’s, you can surely find a Facebook App that interests you. Apps on Dating, Just for Fun, Fashion, Business, Travel, Games, Music, Politics, Sports and other categories with hundreds or even thousands of Apps under them.

Most of these Apps are addicting to engage into, that you would want to invite your friends too. But in most cases, those who send invites really don’t care if there friends will add the Apps too or not. What matter to them are the rewards they will receive, like points or money for a game.

But not all invites are about Apps, there are also invites on events, groups, and friend requests.

Thus, if you have a Facebook account with lots of friends, you would surely receive their invites. For others, they receive like 50 invites a day, and even some receive hundreds, depending on the number of friends they have. This could turn out really annoying since they had to click the ignore button one by one. That’s why early this year, Facebook added the Ignore All button. And the Facebook community indeed rejoiced for this new option.

The button is in the sidebar of the requests page, and if you click it, a pop-up window will appear asking you what you want to ignore like Friend requests, Event invitations, Group invitations, and Application requests. Before hitting that button, scan the requests page first and maybe there are some Apps, or requests you would like to accept. If you are sure that you want to ignore the remaining invites then check the category/ies and hit that button.

I am a Facebook user, and really was grateful for this additional feature. But I hope, Facebook would also come up with an ‘Accept all friend requests’ button. I am into networking right now, and confirming friend requests one by one—like 30 requests—can be tiring.

By Reah | Posted in Facebook | Tagged , | Comments (0)

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