I have a friend who runs a cafe locally and I checked out the online reviews for the place the other day. They varied from ultra-complimentary (probably written by themselves) to ultra-critical (probably written by people from rival cafes.) To be quite honest, it didn't tell me much about the place. The whole concept of reviews needs to be thrown back on the people that matter most - customers - and Sooligan is a social review site with a difference. It takes it's 'reviews' from the comments on the pages of social media to give you a much broader overview ... Read more
If somebody had asked you to get involved with an online social network called Facebook all those years ago do you think you would have taken it any further? If you did, of course, you would probably be sitting pretty right now. So if a new social network was about to start up that has something new to offer and offered you the chance to get involved during the pre-organizational stage, would you be interested? You'd be crazy not to look at it. GlobAllShare claims to be the future of social networking. It also offers the chance for early subscribers ... Read more
***A Very Special Offer for Small Business from FeedMyApp and Bitrix24*** We would like to offer ten of our readers the chance to win a very special startup license from Bitrix24. A startup license is pretty much the equivalent of Bitrix' Professional Plan and worth up to US$2400. It includes everything from Social Communications, Tasks & Projects, Calendars, Files & Documents, CRM, Bitrix24Drive, Extranet, Time Management, Meetings, Reports and your Own Domain Name. The only criteria is that the startup license has a limit of up to 12 users so this offer is perfect for a small business. ... Read more
When you are the guy who has volunteered to collect the money for a group or team event it's not always a pleasant thing. There's always one or two that lag behind the rest when its time to pay up but you're the one who comes across as the bad guy. It's not fair. Well now you can use an app to 'spread the blame' so that the request comes from the ones who have already coughed up their dough as well as the guy collecting the money. is a simple set of social accountability tools that uses peer pressure ... Read more
When we reviewed the first release of this excellent business intranet application last year you might remember us singing it's praises from many rooftops. Essentially, it's a social network just like the Facebook that we all know, love(?) and are familiar with - but the difference here is that Bitrix24 is built for a work environment. Now the developers have upgraded the app specifically for iOS. Now you can easily log in to your totally safe and secure business social intranetwork whenever you want and from wherever you can get an Internet connection. Bitrix24 creates a unified work space for ... Read more
Gablit is a new entertainment and recommendation, social search engine, born out of London a few years back, when three entrepreneurial types realized one night when they had lost their mobile phone, that trying to find the best entertainment available was turning into a full time job. They decided to develop this classy, informative, localized entertainment guide that encourages entertainers to promote their event and gives the audience a place to find out everything that is going on around them or wherever they are planning on visiting. Gablit solves a problem that people often find themselves having to deal ... Read more
A social network for the deceased? Ten years ago it would never even be considered but in the 21st Century it seems like a brilliant idea. I don't know whether it has been the popularity of tv shows like "Who Do Yo Think You Are?" or the rise in genealogy sites like Ancestry but the interest in giving due homage to the deceased has increased beyond belief. A brief obituary in the local newspaper isn't enough these days. Light an ICandle is a social remembrance application and gives you a place to create a digital afterlife for the dearly departed. ... Read more
More and more businesses these days are adopting the idea of an internal business social collaboration network to aide communication in the workplace. For a start, most people are pretty familiar with the social network concept and use it on a regular basis so the learning factor is minimal. But secondly, it allows your workers to communicate in individual teams as well as across the whole business and negates the need for endless emails and time spent in meetings. Communifire is a new enterprise social collaboration application that makes for superb real-time communication between your staff while still retaining control ... Read more
Anyone who uses the Internet regularly will know the tricky situations that they can get themselves into when texting. Basically, its not easy to get your emotions and true feelings across at times without your messages being misconstrued. Dubbler is a new free social app for smartphone that deals with that problem by letting you express what you are feeling in an audio kind of way. Here, instead of using text as your communication medium, you can record and share up to 60 seconds of audio, tweak it with the various voice filters and share it with your social networking ... Read more
It's not easy to get across the passion that you have for a subject by a form of resume. It's not particularly easy, if it comes to that, to get that enthusiasm over to the people by creating a Facebook page or using any of the other social networking outlets. Maybe you have spread yourself right across all your networks. Your cool photos could be on Instagram, you might have some interesting articles and stories on your blog and then there is the stuff on your Facebook page. Enthuse.me is a new networking and promotion application where you can create ... Read more