Category: Social Media
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HoverMe adds social context to the people you follow
I’m pretty sure there must be quite a few people out there who find it a pain to have to look at other people’s profiles in a separate places like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Wouldn’t it be neat if there was a functionality to connect the various social profiles of each individual user? HoverMe is…
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Doing (social) good, inspired by Facebook
First it was just a simple homepage containing a poll with slightly random questions (“If you had a daughter tomorrow, what would you name her?”), but last week it launched as a fully-fledged social network: Jumo aims to connect people around the issues and projects they care about. Chris Hughes, who you might have heard…
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This is anti-social: Path limits the number of your (online) friends
For some of us, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are all about amassing as many ‘friends’ as possible. Having 25 Facebook friends or 10 Twitter followers is considered insignificant (perhaps you’re not as outgoing as some of your peers or you’re just being anti-social). However, the downside of having lots of people in…
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Social search: adding a ‘personal’ element to searching
Searching through Google has become completely ingrained in the way we look for information online. It provides search results based on a search term entered by the user. However, big search engine rival Bing and Facebook have recently tied up to create “social search”. In a nutshell, this means that Bing will add “social signals”,…
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Can Diaspora overtake Facebook?
A lot of us are by now more than familiar with social networks like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. These networks impact a great deal on how we communicate with our friends or peers online. However, critics are getting increasingly wary of how platforms like Facebook could use (or abuse) all the intelligence they build…
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