If you are a regular Twitter user you'll know how difficult it is to actually follow and make a meaningful conversation sometimes. There is such a plethora of comments coming from everyone around the world that it would be nice to be able to isolate your friends and concentration them alone. Threadir is a Twitter tool that helps you keep track of your friends' conversations so you can actually have what seems like a one to one discourse. Twitter is an incredibly rich source of conversation material but few clients can actually manage conversations well. If you use Twitter ... Read more
It's easy enough to set up a competition or a vote on your Twitter account. it's not quite so easy to gather up and analyze your data and return tweets to judge the results. Interactwive is a contest and game tool for Twitter that gets you creating in seconds and analyzing the results as soon as they start to come in. If you want to run a competition or a vote on Twitter but Interactwive gets you set up to go in seconds. It’s your contest, and you can set it up how you want. Just input the specifications ... Read more
To keep up with the current music scene you really have to know what's going on overseas as much as you do domestically. What's big in the US, UK and on the iTunes music charts is probably going to be the next big thing where you are too. MPlayr is an innovative music streamer that let's you hear exactly what is big in music all around the world. And it's completely free. MPlayr is an internationally available music share streaming tool for popular music charts that you can easily share with your social networking sites. You can listen to ... Read more
It would be nice if you could take your office wherever you went and were able to interact, communicate and collaborate wherever you could get Internet access, wouldn't it? CompanyConcert is a project management collaboration tool for teams of all sizes that will work for you whether you are in the office, at home or even commuting. CompanyConcert is a one stop virtual office for web-based communication and collaboration for teams of all sizes. Whether you’re in the office, at home or commuting, CompanyConcert is available wherever you have internet access. It allows you to communicate in real-time via ... Read more
I know some people that pick their Facebook friends from their friends own friends lists ( phew that was a lot of friends.) They do it because they figure that if they are friends of friends they must be pretty cool and have vaguely similar interests to themselves. Friendscanner is a free social chat tool for Facebook that kind of does the same thing. The main difference here though, is that it is based on analysis rather than assumption. It can connect you with people with similar interests to yourself based on Facebook profiles. Friendscanner connects you to like-minded ... Read more
If you manually update your tweets on specific holidays and special events over the year you will know what a pain it is. You feel such a fool when you forget one. eggtweeter is a Twitter tool that is truly an egg-timer for your tweets. If you have to send a time sensitive tweet or want to set up your greeting tweet for all the national holidays for the year - you can do it with eggtweeter. eggtweeter is a scheduled tweet web app that currently is in a free open beta. It enables you to set up all ... Read more
Well it used to be called Pingvine but it's now known as PowerShell from PowerFM but that's beside the point. We'll call it Pingvine for convenience sake. It's a free service that takes an RSS feed from your website or blog and posts it on your Twitter account easily and error free. PingVine is a free Twitter and RSS tool that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. It does this with a simple drag and drop technique and manages to reduce any errors (human ... Read more
Now here's a social networking tool that takes the spirit of the community quite seriously. LocalHero is an iPhone tool that connects you with friends and local people who have the skills you may need to help you out in a crisis. Or maybe you are just looking for people around you who have similar interests to you. LocalHero can put you together with them too. We live such busy lives these days that you can often overlook a friend who has a special skill. Maybe one is a wallpaperer...one might own a horse. Maybe you need someone to ... Read more
Wow! When someone said "get a room" I didn't know this is what they meant. IMeet Video Conferencing isn't a dingy room in a backstreet hotel though. It's a penthouse apartment at The Ritz. iMeet is a low bandwidth video conferencing for business which isn't free but is so far ahead of the opposition it's well worth the US$39 for what it serves up. Basically, you get your own meeting room online. Just talk through your computer from anywhere in the world or connect to any phone or mobile device at no extra charge. Invite guests – up to ... Read more
There's a lot of Facebook users who only really log on to play the games and have a chat with their friends. Socialcyte is a gaming social networking and chat tool that goes a bit further than that. Many people who play online games form pretty good relationships with some of their protagonists no matter where they are in the world. Here you can take that to another level by interacting with them while you are beating the socks off them. The website is in it's early days at present but it's aim is to allow users to chat ... Read more