Social Media Websites
NutShellMail Simplifies Your Online Social Life By Delivering You All In One Email Alerts
I remember when my friends and I used only Orkut for social networking. Now many users have migrated over to other networks or use more than one social networking site. Of these multiple-networking-site users, most people have an account on Facebook and Twitter. These networks are very different from each other; simultaneously managing a Facebook and Twitter account by checking our notifications on each is quite time consuming and adversely affects our productivity.
Particularly people whose work requires heavy usage of their computers (like me) find it difficult to manage all their social networks in the minimum possible time. Thankfully services like NutshellMail are there to makes things easier for us.
NutshellMail is a free website and one of many website that aim to merge our social media accounts. In addition to Twitter and Facebook, the site supports LinkedIn and MySpace.
To start using NutshellMail we first need to create an account using the link located at the top right of the site’s homepage. Alternatively we can connect with our Facebook / Twitter accounts to sign in.
While setting up our NutshellMail account and adding our networks to it, we can specify which kind of updates do we want to see.
The feature of NutshellMail that appealed to me most was its support of multiple accounts of the same service. For Twitter users this will be very beneficial; users can add two Twitter accounts to their NutshellMail account and get the feeds from both. Updates from our secondary accounts can be forwarded to our primary account of a particular supported service*. This way all we need to do is check the notifications of our primary accounts. (*For Twitter, delivery times of messages and the type of messages to be forwarded can be customized.)
In conclusion, NutshellMail is a wonderful service that makes it easier to manage our social media accounts even if we have more than one account per service. Click here to visit the site and start using it.
Aggregating and Sharing Web Links Made Easy With BagTheWeb
We can find content online on any subject; the internet has everything we are looking for. The information is usually distributed over a number of sources.
Suppose we want to view all of Coldplay’s videos; there is no single URL that will have all the videos; we will need to visit multiple URLs. To share the videos, we will need to share all those URLs. The same can be applied to any other thing we are looking for – we will need to visit multiple URLs.
After finding the URLs we are looking for, what if there was a way to store them in a ‘bag’ and label the bag accordingly? Say we store all those video URLs in a virtual bag and label the bag “Coldplay’s Videos.” The next time we need to view or share those videos, all we need to do is share the bag instead of the individual URLs.
BagTheWeb does exactly that.
BagTheWeb is a free to use website that lets users create virtual bags and store URLs in it. More than simply storing the address of the webpages we add, the site lets our bag actually use those URLs. In the abovementioned example, our videos bag will actually be an online video playlist. Depending on the nature of the URLs we add, we can aggregate online profiles, share expertise, recommend stuff, build a trip guide, promote a cause, prepare a discussion, organize a meeting, capture an event, or connect a community.
We start BagTheWeb by creating a free account.
Setting up our profile is optional. We can leave the profile details fields empty and skip to creating our bag.
After adding URLs to our bag and choosing how those URLs will be used, we can publish the bag to be findable to any internet user. We can also share our bags on our social networking accounts.
BagTheWeb is a wonderful idea and a unique way to share online content. I predict this site will become very popular very soon.
Click here to visit BagTheWeb.
MashPedia The Real-time Encyclopedia Searches Many Online Sources In One Go
The sources in most online encyclopedias are static. Take Wikipedia for example. User submitted articles on Wikipedia have fixed sources for their articles. A change in the source therefore can present a problem for that particular article.
Suppose there was an encyclopedia with the latest sources accompanying its article on a subject. Not only will that be a great help to the encyclopedia’s user, but it would make the article more reliable as well.
Realizing the usefulness of such a search engine / encyclopedia and how beneficial it can be to internet users, Mashpedia was created.
Mashpedia is a free to use online encyclopedia that updates and gathers the results of our query in real time. The advantage of this is that we get new / different results each time we execute a search, even if our keywords are the same.
In addition to news and trending topics, the site has a simple search bar located at its homepage.
Entering our keyword in the search bar and starting our search quickly shows us gathered results from a variety of sources including social media sites and video hosting sites, in addition to standard search engine results.
In the above image, I executed a search for ‘electrons’ and came up with the Mashpedia article on it. The pane on the right details the properties of an electron whereas the pane on the left show us YouTube and social media sources for the keyword ‘electrons’; these sources are updated in real time and will be different the next time we search for ‘electrons.’
As we scroll down the page, we find other related sources from numerous other social networking sites and informative websites.
News results regarding our query are also shown.
The absolute end of the page lets us leave a comment on the article.
Mashpedia presents the results of our query by gathering them in real time from many sources. This unique concept of an online encyclopedia will surely benefit many internet users.
Click here to visit Mashpedia.
FBlike: An Easy Way To Find What Your Facebook Friends Like and Discover New Trends
People join Facebook with the intention to stay in touch with family and friends, and perhaps meet some new interesting people. But they are soon spending time discovering new online content shared by their friends. Soon they learn to share as well. Later they log in to their accounts simply to entertain themselves by reading whatever is popular and being shared on Facebook.
While that works well for many people, it is not quite perfectly effective. The content we see is only what our contacts are sharing and not what Facebook accountholders are promoting / sharing as a whole. To find out that shared content, users should visit Fblike.
Fblike is a free to use website that lists the Facebook feeds of many popular sites. Facebook accountholders can view what their friends are sharing on these sites. But you do not need to have a Facebook account to view the content available on Fblike.
The homepage of the site has the most popular Facebook feeds of some of the most popular sites such as YouTube, CNN, ESPN, and IMDb.
A categories bar lets us browse the site and posts according to our tastes.
To find posts more specific to our tastes, we can use the search box located on top of the site.
Buttons in the top right of the website enable us to share Fblike with our friends on Facebook and other social media sites.
Fblike is a great quick way to find humorous, interesting, and latest articles on Facebook which are being shared not only by our Facebook contacts but by the Facebook community as a whole. A site all Facebook users should bookmark, Fblike is a great idea. Click here to visit the site.
KartMe Is A Great Way To Organize And Share Your Favorite Online Content With Other People
We see social media sites popping up everywhere today. Beginning from Orkut, I now have accounts on more online social networks than I can count. The essentials of all social media are the same: stay in touch with your contacts and share interesting stuff you find online. Some social media sites are for content-specific sharing. For instance a forum that allows only health-related discussions or a social media site that promotes video games and is for video game enthusiasts. These sites provide great interfaces for sharing the material they support.
Recently however I have found a social media site that has come up with an intelligent way for users to share a variety of material. I am referring to KartMe.
KartMe is a wonderful social media site that lets users sign up for an account and create containers. These containers are called Karts and can store 3 types of things: web addresses, products, and places.
These Karts are a great way to share our favorite content with other people. The Karts let us create a heading for a number of shares and keep adding material to that heading. Let me give an example. Suppose you want to share with your friends how to bake a chocolate cake. You can create a Kart titled “My Guide on how to Bake a Chocolate Cake;” then add your blog entry’s URL to the Kart followed by the product links of everything used in the cake and the locations of the stores those products can be purchased from. In no time you will have a little library of chocolate-cake guide for everybody to see.
These Karts can be helpful to anyone who is looking for a great product about anything or a great restaurant or location. This is precisely why the homepage of the site has various Karts organized in categories which are easy to browse.
In my opinion KartMe is more than just a social media site – it will soon become your go-to place for anything you want to buy or any place you want to visit.
A New Way To Gather And Organize Your Online Content With Weblist.me
Today I have got a great tool for bloggers and social-media enthusiasts. This tool is Weblist and it can help share online content more conveniently. Normally when we share multiple links related to the same subject we create a list post and type in details about each link. But with Weblist, the entire process changes and becomes easier.
To illustrate how Weblist exactly works, let us suppose I have to make a list related to iTunes. I get the URL of Wikipedia’s iTunes entry and the URL of the download location of iTunes on FileHippo. I paste these URLs in Weblist. If we already have a list of URLs present in a text file, we can copy the addresses from there, click on the “Paste Multiple URLs” button which and paste the addresses in the window that appears. The window will look like this:
Then I click on the Image icon and add an icon depicting iTunes. This image will be hosted on Imgur and the URL will be added to our list).
Slide Show files and documents files are hosted by CrocoDoc and files of other formats are hosted by RapidShare.
Then I think of a name for my list. I choose “My list on iTunes.” I add a brief description of the list and add some tags.
The almost-final step is to classify my list as a Thumbnail list, a Voting list, or an Open Voting list. I decide to go with Thumbnail list.
Here is what my Weblist homepage looks like after filling out the fields:
Finally, I click on the “Create List” button and obtain my list’s address.
The short URL can be given out to other people for sharing. We also get a URL which we can visit to later edit our list. This can be very helpful in case of making additions to our list.
I visit the URL for my list and this is what the resultant webpage looks like:
Notice that starting from the left, the first thumbnail is of Wikipedia, the second that of FileHippo, and the last of Imgur. In other words, the thumbnails are in the order I typed them in.
Try out Weblist, play around with the Voting types of lists, and use the comments to let us know what you think.
Share Flickr, Picasa, Gmail & Facebook Photos All In One Place With Showzey
As a professional blogger having accounts on multiple social media sites is very beneficial for me. But for average computer users the multiple social media accounts pose a significant management problem; more specifically, photo management.
Our photographs and images are scattered across all our social media accounts. Suppose we want to share one picture from a network A on network B. To do this we normally log in to account A, save the picture, then upload it on account B.
Thankfully with Showzey, that lengthy process no longer needs to be employed.
Showzey is a free website that lets us gather and catalog photos from Gmail, Picasa, Facebook, and Flickr. We can then organize these photos and proceed to share them on Facebook or email them.
The function of the site is best understood by trying it out. Click on the “Get Started” button on Showzey’s homepage:
You will be prompted to select the services you wish to use with Showzey.
Then you will proceed to connect your respective service accounts with Showzey.
With each account you connect, you will asked for a confirmation from that particular service. In case of Flickr, this is the message you will receive:
Simply allow Showzey to access all your accounts. No need to worry about Showzey’s security; the site respects its users’ privacy and the privacy terms can be read here.
Once your accounts have been connected, you will be able to view your Showzey dashboard.
This dashboard is where users will truly experience the convenience presented by Showzey. Just like Showzey obtains photos from all our social media accounts, we can upload a photo on Showzey to be uploaded on all our social media accounts – a remarkably time saving feature.
Within Showzey our pictures are shown to all our Showzey friends; similarly we can see the pictures of our Showzey friends no matter what platform they have hosted their photos on.
Showzey is an interesting idea which curious internet users should definitely explore. Try it out and use the comments to let us know what you think.
First Generation Of Google Buzz Tips, Tricks And Resources
Google Buzz is Google’s latest product for sharing updates, photos, videos, and more. Many people are saying that Google Buzz will start healthy competition in the micro-blogging industry where Facebook and Twitter was enjoying as leaders. Do not forget to follow us on Google Buzz to get updates with all the latest happening at Smashing Apps.
Google Buzz is a new way to publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. It has an option to see thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites. Today, we are listing down few stuffs from the first generation of Google Buzz Tips, Tricks And Resources.
Let’s start with a video to find how Google Buzz works
Chrome Buzz
Buzz It For Firefox
Buzz It! will make a buzz status update via Gmail with the link and title of the webpage you are viewing. It will also shorten URLs with Bit.ly, allowing the user to monitor their link statistics.
Five Tips to Thrive on Google Buzz
With Google Buzz, users have found their inboxes converted instantaneously into a social hub. Google’s bold move has turned the web into a whirlwind of blog posts appraising or criticizing the service. Here are some of the ways you can maximize the use of Buzz if you want to give it a try.
4 Google Buzz Hacks for Users, Developers, and Haters
ReadWriteWeb came across a few tips and tricks worth sharing with you.
12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz
AEXT proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz.
Google Buzz API
Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin
Google didn’t release any official button yet but Clickonf5 has released a WordPress plugin to add a button on a post/page. Once your visitor will click on this button, they will be taken to a page where they can add some note on your post’s link and title and share that on their Buzz. This way your post/page’s reach will increase by huge amount.
Google Buzz Icons
Unmatchedstyle released free set of 16, 32, 64 and 128 pixel versions, a photoshop file of all the icons and the buzz bee as an eps. You can use them however you want.
Google Buzz Social Icons for Bloggers and Designers
10 high resolution Google Buzz Icons of different Style and Sizes are included in this set.
Don’t Like Google Buzz Or If It’s Not For You? Then…
If you do not like Google Buzz or it’s really not for you so there is a way that you can keep it out of your Gmail inbox. You would need to go down on the inbox page and there is an option that say “turn off buzz ”
You are welcome to share more tips, tricks, hacks and any type of resources for Google Buzz that will be helpful and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter , follow us on Google Buzz and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
7 Twitter Tools That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful
As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down 7 Twitter Apps That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
You are welcome if you want to share more twitter tools that we have missed here and you think our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds.
With tweetalarm, you will get alerted when someone tweets about your company, your product or anything that interests you.
Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Now, whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box, then they simply click to tweet.
Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.
If you want to know that when and why someone stops following you on twitter then Qwitter is a best tool for you. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.
FutureTweets is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. You can send it at a specific time in the future or send a recurring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. With the help of this toop you’ll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again. Just schedule a nice Tweet on their birthday.
How To Create Your Own Community Website For Free
BoonEx Community Software Experts provides free, open-source and downloadable community-building software for websites. BoonEx delivers quality software, which enables you to build any kind of website: COMMUNITY, DATING, or SOCIAL NETWORKING. BoonEx has been working on software development for more than 5 years and endeavors to develop high quality software implementing the latest internet technologies.
The BoonEx flagship product is Dolphin Smart Community Builder providing the basic platform for a website. This is written in PHP, HTML, CSS, AJAX using a MySQL database, and other modern technologies such as RSS, JQuery etc. Dolphin is predominantly a Community and Social Network oriented software, but, thanks to innovative builders, the site administrator is able to easily customize or modify the site pages, remove/rename fields etc. to make a site for dating – or any other kind of site. Dolphin couldn’t be called community software without Flash Apps integrated into Dolphin. Flash Apss are the following FLASH and PHP based applications: Audio/Video Chat, Audio/Video Instant Messenger, Video Recorder, Video and Music Players, Web Presence, Desktop Application, Shoutbox and Whiteboard which presents a site that is modern and full of features to communicate and have fun with. To complete your Community site, BoonEx also developed and integrated the Interactive Forum Script into Dolphin which supplements your site with the addition of a discussion place by providing groups and a forum.
Dolphin is offered for free, but still it’s required to be registered.
Steps to build your own website.
- Navigate to BoonEx Unity, and register there to acquire a free license and also to be able to monitor licenses and have access to upgrades
- Download the software
- Secure a hosting provider whose servers match BoonEx software technical requirements
- Install the software manually, if your hosting company doesn’t use the one-click Dolphin auto-installer
Your site can be as unique as you wish. Look at how customizable and modifiable Dolphin is:
BoonEx is driven by its Unite People mission and despite the world’s current economic crisis, BoonEx is working hard right now to bring you a revolutionary, new Dolphin version.
