The way we access our social networks has changed very subtly over the last year and that's partly down to the legacy of Steve Jobs. With the onslaught of mobiles and tablets being gobbled up by our avid populace rather than the more sedentary home computer there is now more of a tendency to access networks whilst on the move. It is not always convenient to access your networks while jogging or commuting to work or when driving, if it comes to that. Hubbub is a new kind of social network that relies on sound. It allows you to record, ... Read more
When I mentioned to my daughter that I was reviewing this messaging and networking application and that it featured Snooki and The Situation from MTV's Jersey Shore tv show it was met with rapturous approval. That is the kind of adulation that surrounds these tv celebrities as they serve up their very own slice of life and often censored wherever they go. Let's face it, Snooki is almost American royalty these days. Now they have joined forces with a bunch of other celebs for this new free app from US company VoxBox Inc to provide a unique and completely customized ... Read more
While Facebook and Twitter continue to fly the flags for the most popular social networks after hours it's Linkedin that is proving to be the big gun during working hours - and it is only going to get bigger. Just in case you have been living under a rock for the last few years, Linkedin is THE professional social network that serves as your personal assistant during working hours. Linkedin for iPad is a totally free and newly designed member of the Linkedin family that follows on from iPhone, Android and Mobile Web versions and takes full advantage of iPad's ... Read more
The excellently named Empathyo is a free social networking application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that enables you to share your events in the real world with your online friends in your favorite social network. Rather than phoning everyone up to tell them your plans for the day or week or sending out mail outs, you can just set up your details in Empathyo and share the details with social networking and Facebook friends. Equally, you can see what the rest of your friends are up to and meet up with them easily. Empathyo is a free social ... Read more
Google+ has tended to be the forgotten brother when it has come to designing pretty covers for your online pages. While Facebook's Timeline has been festooned with great cover making apps like Picscatter, Cover Photo Maker for Facebook and New FB Cover but I'm finding it very hard to find any apps for tarting up your Google+ cover page. So thank goodness for Google Plus Cover Photo Maker - a free design engine for Google where you can make your cover page one notch up from the rest. CoverPhotoEditor.com is a powerful, responsive and very quick and easy to ... Read more
One of the saddest things that has happened over the last few years has been the demise of the music store. Gone are the days when you could Wander down to the local record bar, have a chat to the guy behind the counter about his latest faves, listen to a few tunes and walk out with some great music. These days you have to do a lot more work to find some good new music. Sworly is a social music and video share application that could well be a way of making your music searching a little easier by ... Read more
With so many of our friends and relatives spread across the world these days we are all constantly looking for the cheapest way to keep in contact with them - wherever they are. Forfone is a free voip and phone communication application for iPhone and Android that enables users to make free phone calls and send free text messages to other forfone users wherever they may be in the world. Even if they aren't a forfone user they also provide a low cost and affordable service to any landline or mobile in the world. With forfone you can make ... Read more
Assuming you have a job posting to offer it makes sense to get the position out to as many of the right people that you possibly can. Zip Recruiter is a business tool to ensure that the job you have to offer reaches out to those people via twenty five of the top job boards and social networks. What's more, it does it faster, easier and cheaper than ever before and does it all from one single submission. ZipRecruiter is an innovative web-based platform that makes job posting faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. ZipRecruiter distributes your job ... Read more
If you are looking for a job analytics application to make sure you have access to the best talent available out there it would be hard to go past Simplicant. This excellent array of employment tools is a next generation cloud based app that gives you a fast and cost effective way of finding the right people available via a social recruitment program that includes full applicant tracking and interview management as well as detailed analytics to back it up. Simplicant is a next-generation software as a service recruiting platform that helps companies attract, manage and recruit the right ... Read more
So, you've designed your website and are ready to go live and you think that its looking pretty good - but how do you know if it's what your viewers want? If it were a movie it would be put in front of various focus groups to get feedback on whether it looks and works well. Tesdor takes the place of the focus group by offering any number of tests on your website to give you the amount of feedback that you think you need. Tesdor is a safe and secure web design research and review application that's used ... Read more