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Personalize Your News and Access from Any Device with News360
Reviews, Social Media News360 is a “next-generation news personalization and aggregation service” that is supported on iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry Playbook, Android, and the web. You’ll need to create an account in order to customize it and so that it can “learn from your cloud” sources; you can sign up by connecting with Facebook or Twitter. You’ll also get to custom the web address of your profile, so that you can ...
Continue readingShare Files and Get 10 GB of Free Storage with Minus
Reviews, Social Media Minus is a very simple and minimalistic online service with a focus on file sharing. A couple months ago, I briefly mentioned Minus in 7 Online Tools for Sharing Files Very Quickly as a tool that lets you quickly share files within 2 clicks. Since then, it appears that Minus has now evolved into a Dropbox-like tool with a desktop app for dragging and dropping files into the service – for storing and sharing. Best of all, when you sign up ...
Continue reading6 Social Media Tools for Tracking Weather and Natural Disasters
Social Media, Software & Programs With all of the natural disasters happening this year, it’s very important to stay up-to-date with your local weather and keep a look out for any warnings or watches. You never know when something disastrous might be coming your way. What better way to keep up with the weather and natural disasters than by using technology? Whether you’re on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, or another mobile device, there are tons of tools and apps ...
Continue readingGrab, Organize, and Embed Your Tweets with Keepstream
Reviews, Social Media Have you ever wished that there was an easier way to organize your tweets and save them? Have you come across a few tweets or maybe a conversation from Twitter that you wanted to share on your blog? Well if you’re looking for a tool that can do both of those things, you’ll definitely appreciate Keepstream. It’s a tool for curating, organizing, and embedding your tweets. You can grab tweets from a search query, your favorites, ...
Continue readingBuild Stacks of Tweets and Schedule Them for Later with StackRoll
Reviews, Social Media Upon first glance, you may think that StackRoll is another service that’s eligible for a hit-and-run; you know those beta services that you sign up for to try out, leave after 5 minutes, and then never think about or return again. Well, it’s definitely not that type of service. This is one that you’ll want to keep in your bookmarks for safe keeping. StackRoll is currently in open beta and though the UI is more geared toward ...
Continue readingLazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS Feed
Reviews, Social Media Lazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well. The one thing that some potential users may not like about Lazyscope is that it’s an Adobe AIR application, which many people are not very fond of. Regardless, it installs and ...
Continue readingCheck Username Availability
Social Media, Social Networking Depending on what you currently use as your username across the social networks or online, it can be quite disappointing to sign up for a new social network than find your name is already taken. So what’s an easy way to search across all social networks for a username that isn’t already taken, without having to sign up for each of the individually? During my search for a solution I came across namechk.com, which was extremely simple ...
Continue readingProtect Your Social Media Identity with Claimtz
Reviews, Social Media Earlier this year I reviewed a service called KnowEm, a tool used to register your username across 300 different social sites. Now I’ve come across a very similar tool, called Claimtz. In similar fashion, Claimtz will secure your desired username across 300 “highly ranked social media platforms.” This is a technique that has been used for years to help increase ones reach across the web, protect social identities, and to ...
Continue readingReadings – The News Reader that Also Lets You Follow Your Favorite Authors
Reviews, Social Media The buzz has been spreading pretty quickly about Readings, an online “community” for those who want to keep up with the latest news on various topics like Business, Entertainment, Photography, Technology, and Social Media. What’s so unique about Readings is that it also lets you follow your favorite authors. It kind of puts me in the mind of Readability, with a news reading service built around it. After a full review of the ...
Continue readingKeep Up with Your Closest Friends using the Geeje Social Dashboard
Reviews, Social Media If you’re like me, you probably have a small group of online friends that you connect with on every social network and you’ve become somewhat like an online family. If that indeed applies to you, then Geeje is the perfect tool to help you keep up with your closest online friends. The concept is pretty simple. First you create a profile of your friend and then you add feeds that apply to them. Don’t think of the word ...
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