Blueworld is a South African social community where you can create a customizable online presence for yourself and meet new friends. Think of it as a South African version of Facebook.
Apparently the site has a easter egg, go check it out, pretty cool. To view the easter egg do the following:
URL shortening is becoming more and more popular with the use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Bit.ly is currently the most popular URL shortening service being used on social networking sites, especially on Twitter where posts are limited to 140 characters.
Google and Facebook has now come to the party with their own URL shortening services. Facebook launched fb.me thats already in use for mobile and page link sharing, while Google has launched Goo.gl the official Google URL shortening service.
In a short announcement, the tech giant revealed that the Google Toolbar and the FeedBurner syndication service now utilize Goo.gl for link sharing.
The company also made sure to preach the strengths of its URL shortener and why it should be chosen above others. Google’s three key talking points are stability, security, and speed. These are no surprise
Facebook and Google are trusted brands with huge audiences and very good short URL domains. This may just mark the beginning of a new battle for the URL shortening market.
Google recently signed a deal with micro blogging site Twitter to index Twitter feeds in real time. The end result is Google’s real time search.
Imagine you need to head into Cape Town but would like to know how the traffic is to plan your trip. Well all you would have to do with Google’s real time search is type in CapeTraffic and it would show you latest tweets from the CapeTraffic hash being used by Capetonian tweeters.
Not only does Google Real Time Search index Twitter in real time but freshly published web pages, Tweets, MySpace updates and shockingly, Facebook public profiles. Check out the demo video below.
Want to see real-time results for any query right now? Go to http://google.com/trends and click on any of the hot topics on that page. Replace the search query in that page’s URL with a new search term and if real time results are available, you’ll be able to see them.
Awesome don’t you think?
Twitter known for it turquoise colour has made some changes today to show their support for World Aids Day.
You can also help by showing your support for World Aids Day by following @JoinRED
MyScoop the new South African blog aggregator and social bookmarking site by Nicolas Duncan has built upon what the community requested.
MyScoop launched about a month ago with limited functionality just as Amatomu shut its doors. The blog aggregator started out with only functionality to fetch the latest blog entries from subscribed blogs and displaying it. Now things has changed and on track to provide the same functionality that Afrigator has to offer and Amatomu used to offer.
Nicolas Duncan has improved MyScoop allot during the last month and added a badge and ranking system. MyScoop now has the ability to keep track of your site hits and what pages users access on your blog. MyScoop also introduced a ranking system that keeps track of what blogs is most popular and what blog posts receives the most traffic, they also added a stats section to the control panel that shows you how many hits your site had on different dates.
The possibilities are endless now that MyScoop has the badge system in place and can gather all sorts of stats from your blog to display to you. What I would like to see is perhaps a Unique visits and Page views combined graph, and maybe one to display weekly, monthly and yearly stats.
Also perhaps Nicolas can provide us with some insight as to how the ranking of the blogs is calculated.
If you have any suggestions about features you would like to see on MyScoop, please leave a comment.
Facebook has lately seen a huge growth in registrations from people we know as our parents, uncles and aunts.
In India a new social networking site was started with just them in mind. Verdurez is a social networking site aimed at people older than 55 years of age.
Verdurez has already a userbase of just over 4000 registered users with the oldest people in their seventies. Users older than 55 years can use Verdurez to read blogs and health news, aswell as chat to other users and even build puzzles online.
To be older doesn’t mean you have to stop living, Ishita Sukhadwala owner of Verdurez said. There is so much to do specialy now in a internet era.
Is social networking just a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the industrial revolution?
An excelent youtube video on social networking.
Facebook will be launching a brand new simplified version of their Facebook platform called Facebook Lite. This news come only one day after Facebook acuired FriendFeed and rolled out the real-time Facebook search.
Facebook Lites looks like something that is a direct shot at Twitter, a simplified micro blogging platform.
Now you are asking what is Facebook Lite?
To put it simple its a complete stripped down version of the Facebook platform, almost something like a Twitter stream. You can see your most recent status updates and the updates of your friends. There is a left-hand navigation with four main categories: Wall, Info, Friends, and Photos & Videos.
Here is a screenshot snapped by a user from Hacker News
By the looks of thing its still has too many menu items and options to directly compete with Twitter, I still prefer the shortness of doing thing on Twitter with simple keywords/letters. Maybe this will just help make Facebook junkies used to a Twitter like environment.
Earlier today, Thursday, users of the micro social networking site twitter could not access it due to a denial of service attack.
On the twitter blog co-founder Biz Stone acknowledged the attack stating “Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack“. Service is now restored and twitter are now defending this attack.
A denial of service attack involves bombarding a Web site or server with more traffic than it can handle, effectively causing online gridlock. Often such attacks are distributed, meaning that multiple computers, usually compromised by malware, send data to the target site in unison.
Twitter was offline for about two and a half hours. The Twitter status page says that Twitter availability has been restored. The site’s last significant unplanned downtime occurred on May 30 following a software error.
While our eyes was full of Bing, another search engine entered the market silently.
Collecta the brand new search engine went live on 18 June 2009 without any big bangs or heavy marketing. You are probably asking so what makes Collecta different than Google or Bing or Yahoo? Collecta is a search engine with a new take on searching, it searches the web in a way no other search engine does. Collecta is a real-time search engine, crawling the web as you enter the keywords and spitting out the results in real-time.
The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr, so we can show you results as they happen. Give it a try.
