Google Latitude, which was introduced earlier this week and is expected to be rolled out (at least in the US) on Android via the RC33 upgrade (this is not cupcake!) from February 5th to 15th, might be a game changer in mobile, geo-aware social networking. Google describes Latitude as…
…a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as [...]
just watched the first episode of ‘The Social Web TV’ (discovered via Marc Canter, People Aggregator). hosted by David Recordon (sixapar), John McCrea & Joseph Smarr (both Plaxo), the show decodes the tech-lingo/buzzwords on current concepts of interoperability among social web-apps. the first episode features the ongoing facebook<>google-embargo, gnip, identi.ca etc. nice one!
when Andy Pealting sold BuddyPress to Automattic (makers of WordPress) a month ago, buddypress.org went into maintenance-mode. now that Andy had a chance to bundle the code into a handy SVN-repository, the site is back up again, giving every developer the chance to toy with BuddyPress. But what’s BuddyPressm you might ask?
BuddyPress will transform a [...]
Mozilla Labs released some details on their upcoming project The Coop. Coop aims on integrating social networking features and easy sharing of web-content right into the browser (something Mozilla-based Flock has been promising for a while, but at least in terms of social networking not delivered fully yet). more details can be found on the [...]
supposed Myspace-killer virb.com had its public launch a week or so ago. for those who haven’t checked it out: virb claims to be “Myspace done right” (that’s not the official tagline of course, rather the meme that’s been spreading). “done right” in a techno-elitist way the majority of Myspace-users would never care about. somehow hardcore [...]
in case you’re not reading this with your favorite RSS-reader, you might have noticed the ‘Recent Readers’ widget – courtesy of MyBlogLog – I recently have added to the sidebar of this blog. MyBlogLog is a social network for blog-readers & -authors, giving a face to the largely anonymous crowd of the blogosphere. besides tracking [...]