Tag "microblogging"
Keep Twitter Group Discussions Private with Privately
Reviews, Social Media If you’ve ever wanted to have a private conversation on Twitter with just a group of people (instead of the whole world) then Privately is for you. Privately is a mixture of threaded group conversations and DMs. Conversations can only be seen by users who have been invited and replies are displayed chronological order. Once you sign in via your Twitter account, you’ll want to set your preferences. You can enter your email so that you ...
Continue readingShare and Tweet Your Emotions with Smood.it
Reviews, Social Media There’s a new microblogging platform in town and it’s called Smood.it. On the site you can share your smood with the world; the word smood is “a syneresis of two words: smile and mood.” Smood.it calls itself a “micro(emo)blogging” services since it’s more focused on letting you share your emotions rather than a simple status message. Smood.it offers all of the basic features like a profile, the ability ...
Continue readingGroup Collaborations Made Easy with Micromobs
Reviews, Social Media In short, Micromobs is like Twitter or Yammer for family, friends and classmates. The service lets you create groups, which can be public or private. Each mob is set up like a mini microblogging service with status updates, replies, search, etc. If you’re looking for a simple collaboration tool for school, groups of friends or a way to keep in touch with family then this tool is perfect. It only takes a few minutes to set up your mob, and ...
Continue readingMiio – A Social Messaging Platform for Sharing and Meeting New People
Reviews, Social Media Miio is a new microblogging platform that allows you to meet new people, engage in conversations, create and participate in groups and much more. The sites makes use of Twitter OAuth for login, though you can create a regular account if you prefer. At first glance, the site may seem as if there’s not much to it but, as you dig deeper you will discover an impressive amount of features. The main purpose of Miio is to meet and chat with ...
Continue readingTwimbow, A New Twitter Tool – Review and Interview
Blogging I’ve only been using Twimbow for a couple of days, but so far I like what I see. Twimbow is a colorful approach to viewing your Twitter stream, with a lot of nifty features thrown in. When you authorize the app, you get a window with three columns: personal buzz, home buzz and search. Search shows any of your saved searches, selected from a drop down menu – or you can enter a new search in the search bar at the top and see the ...
Continue readingTwylah – A New View Of Twitter
Blogging There’s a new Twitter tool around and it’s called Twylah. I’ve had the pleasure of testing it during the alpha phase (when it was called Tweetlogue) and now it’s about to be rolled out more widely. According to founder Eric Kim, Twylah aims to give you a new view of incoming and outgoing tweets with more “context, perspective, and agility”. Here’s how it works. Connect Twylah to your Twitter account in ...
Continue readingAll Your Updates In A Nutshell
Blogging When I first heard of NutshellMail, I thought: “Why on earth would I want another application to send me notifications?” I was wrong. It’s turned out to be one of the most useful things I’ve found recently. Charnita Fance featured the site last year in a post on Twitter applications for tracking lost followers, but it does so much more than that. What is NutshellMail? In its own words: “NutshellMail takes copies of ...
Continue readingTen Reasons Why Twazzup’s Twitter Reader Rocks
Blogging I’ve been playing with a new tool recently – Twazzup’s Twitter reader. It’s an add-on to a previous real-time search service (which I must admit I hardly ever use). But the reader itself is a thing of beauty. Here are ten things I like about it. 1. Simple Start Login with Oauth and you’re in; it’s that simple. 2. Updating on updates When you login, you can see how many new updates, replies and messages you ...
Continue readingTwo New Tools To Cut The Twitter Clutter
Blogging When I first started using Twitter, I could track shared links and articles with ease. Now that I’m following a few hundred people, it’s no longer that simple. Two new tools have helped to cut the clutter and improve how I interact with Twitter. They are Zite and Paper.li. Zite Zite is a bare bones interface which links with your Twitter account to focus on topics that might interest you. When you first link it to your account it ...
Continue readingRiding The Google Buzz Bandwagon
Blogging There’s been a lot of Buzz about Google Buzz since it was launched, much of it critical. One of the main criticisms was the hastily plugged privacy hole, but there have been others. I am definitely one of the bloggers that jumped on the Buzz bandwagon, mostly because I love trying out new things. One week on, I’m still using it, something that never happened with Wave. The fact that it was right there in my email made it even easier ...
Continue reading
