Brizzly is a way to view content from the social web. Right now, you can view enhanced content from Twitter in a clear, simple way. We plan to include other social media as soon as we can.

brizzly lets you manage more twitter account and dissolves any short url into the original one; nice feature ;)

link: Brizzly

Labels: social_software, software_tips, software_tools, twitter, web_apps

Storytlr is a "centralized me" microblogging and content management system/service from europe and a kind of aggregation from Twitter messages, Flickr photos, Qik or youtube videos and your own blog posts.

actually it's just a fun project of two people team, based in Belgium & The Netherlands trying to offer an easy and flexible service of sharing and discovering your data in a compelling way.

link: http://storytlr.com

Labels: cms, gadgets, mashups, microblogging, sharing, social_software, twitter

It is increasingly important to develop your personal and company brand consistently across the major social network websites. That means getting the same username identity as often as possible. It makes it easier for others to find you, and it also builds a cohesive marketing strategy that eventually creates a presence in the major search engines. It also keeps others from tapping into your success and brand jacking your efforts and identity.

Link: namechk
Similiar to: KnowEm? Friends Call Me

Labels: social_software, software_tips, software_tools

smallbizbee posted Seven Habits of Highly Effective Twitter Users to be a more popular twitterer.

1. Listen
2. Give More
3. Promote Others
4. 'Mix it Up' Variety is the spice of life
5. Be Interactive
6. 'Goldilocks' Tweeter
7. Never “Flame" Other Users

Labels: collaboration, community, e-business, social_software, tracking, twitter, web_2.0

In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use.
...
social software on the Web, applications that benefit from two or more people being online at the same time. And, with Opera Unite, these people can all connect directly without needing middlemen who control third-party servers.

Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time | download

Opera Unite
Unite API Library

Labels: api, browser, networking, opera, social_software, web_2.0

To use in translation with Google Translate Toolkit you can upload up to 1MB for free of Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols or any webpage , when you finish uploading, it automatically pretranslate your document...

...only a handful of blogs picked up on Google’s fresh Translator Toolkit, which the company launched yesterday by means of a blog post.
this new service really deserves a second look...

via [arabcrunch]

Labels: e-business, gadgets, google, html, social_software, web_2.0

Griner on thesocialpath.com explains very well, how crowdsourcing can be used and what it will bring and change to us.

BioMapping
Creates a map showing how people's emotions are affected by different parts of a certain city or area. The project relies on more than 1,500 volunteers who agree to wear a device that measures their "Galvanic Skin Response," a sign of heightened emotion.

We Are Hunted
Ranks the Web's most popular songs based on blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, forums, peer-to-peer file sharing services and more.

Flickchart
with a unique way to rank movies where your taste in cinema will create the new definitive "Best Movies Of All Time" lists.

Galaxy Zoo
Lets any astronomer, amateur or pro, help classify one million different galaxies that were photographed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.


Brand Tags
Shows you a company logo and asks you to write the first word that comes to mind.


via [thesocialpath.com]

Labels: collaboration, crowdsourcing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

As we posted in the past about Interesting Open Source Social Networking Application, we want to complement the list with a new one so called Dolphin - Smart Community Builder. The product id brtought to you by Bonnex and has a free edition with backlink credits.

keyfeatures are

• Online Dating
• Social Network
• audio/video communication(video chat)
• Music Player, WhiteBoard, Shoutbox....
  

Labels: community, networking, open_source, social_software, web_apps