You may have noticed that I experiemented with some of my Picture of The Week pictures on the photo-sharing site Zooomr. In general I enjoyed the concept, and quickly thought that I would be able to settle into the social … Continue reading
Category Archives: Social Networking
CSI:NY Investigation in Second Life
The popular TV-show crime series CSI:NY from CBS will include an investigation in Second Life in its next awaited episode, that viewers can also participate in, TechCrunch reports. I find this is a very exciting new step in the social … Continue reading
Web Trend Subway Map 2007
Information Architects have made a Subway map for: Web Trends of 2007. The most successful companies and websites, including a number of my favorite Web 2.0 solutions, are plotted, categorized with color-coding and rated by size and popularity with stars. … Continue reading
Color Inspiration
Choosing color (colour) schemes and palettes can be a challenge. Now a site called ColourLovers offers a Social Networking solution for different color combinations. This above specific page is part of their blog and the post is titled: Color Inspiration … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Cluztr – Public Browser History
Social bookmarking solutions like the already established del.icio.us, digg, stumbleupon continue to expand in new directions. One of the latest additions is the page-tracking solution Cluztr. Cluztr registers each webpage you visit, you can share pages you have browsed with … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Loopster takes on ProfileLinker
With Web 2.0 Running out of Time, which help keep you organized and updated on several different social-networking services from the same site at once are in demand. Such as ProfileLinker (ProfileLinker Simplifying Social Networking) first caught my attention, there … Continue reading
MyCyberTwin – Your AI Twin
This new web 2.0 service, MyCyberTwin has caused some laughs and then made people think. I have even read of MyCyberTwin references to a so-called web 3.0. Basically MyCyberTwin is a bot, that can converse on various social-networking sites in … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
iPhoto Facebook Exporter
Facebook Developers just released an iPhoto plug-in, that allows you to export pictures from iPhoto to Facebook with opportunities like adding captions or tagging your friends. (If you want, read how I gave into the Facebook Peer Pressure.) Otherwise if … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Imagini Picture Personality Profile
Imagini takes advantage of the well known phrase: A picture paints a thousand words. Their objective is to create a new language of communications though images. They have some nice interface and a good “social-networking” conecpt. It will be interesting … Continue reading
MySpace Band Publicity
I am stepping a little off-track from my regular tech, video, web 2.0 and social-networking news. I have not had much time to find that many interesting stories, and so I will take opportunity to profile/point out two bands on … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Social Glossary? Web 2.0 Dictionary
TechCrunch wrote this morning about the New “Social” Dictionary a Web 2.0 service dubbed: Word Source. Among its features you can listen to a pronunciation, tag words, rate words and play games. This approach is rather different from Visualizing your … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Facebook Peer Pressure
For the past year friends of mine have subtly been hinting that I join the social-networking site Facebook. Earlier perceiving it as a myspace etc. clone, I resisted for months. But lately I have been receiving more invitations and on … Continue reading