BeenUp2 -- Twitter with photos and video

clipped from www.socaltech.com BeenUp2 (www.beenup2.com)is a web site which is combining photos with social updates, much like a cross between Flickr and Twitter. The site allows users to upload a stream of photos and comments, and interact with friends and contacts with comments and other social networking features. clipped from www.beenup2.com clipped from www.beenup2.com Sending Photos There are 3 easy ways to get your photos on BeenUp2.com Send via e-mail from your mobile phone Send via e-mail from your computer Upload through our photo uploader clipped from www.beenup2.com Mapping Want to see where you went in a day? Add locations to your photos through our Photo Manager. Or tell us where you are on-the-go. Check out our Place Lesson to learn how! clipped from www.beenup2.com Friends Find old friends, make new ones! clipped from www.beenup2.com Commenting Comments can be made in the white box to the right of photos, though leaving a comment on a photo isn't what it used to be. Comments become chit-chat and chit-chat becomes conversation. clipped from www.beenup2.com Timeline clipped from www.beenup2.com Other Fun Stuff! BeenUp2 Groups Listening2 / Reading Trips

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New Social Features in iGoogle

The Google personalized homepage iGoogle is now available in a preview version with new features, including social network functionality based upon Google's OpenSocial library.

clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com Google Operating System clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com Google's New Social Network: iGoogle Following orkut's model, iGoogle opened a sandbox for developers who write OpenSocial gadgets. The sandbox is probably a test for the next iteration of iGoogle: the personalized homepage turned into a social network. "The integration of OpenSocial with gadgets gives you an opportunity to enhance your content for users by incorporating social features. For example, a books gadget could display what a user's friends are reading, allow users to request to borrow books from friends' libraries, and show users books that their friends recently rated. As users share content with their friends, your gadget will naturally build a broad audience for distributing content and driving traffic," explains the new developer site for iGoogle gadgets. clipped from google-code-updates.blogspot.com Watch as Jake walks us through the sandbox and shows how to build a basic gadget.

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Vivaty 3-D chat rooms and social environments

Vivaty wants to offer a smaller but easier to access version of multiplayer platforms like Second Life.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Vivaty, a start-up based in Menlo Park, Calif., is creating 3-D virtual chat rooms that people can add to the Web pages and social networking profiles on the sites where they spend most of their Internet time. Vivaty turns a flat profile page into a three-dimensional live chat room. Users choose characters to represent themselves from a list of preternaturally handsome avatars — a requirement for any such service — and proceed to one of a dozen environments, like a gothic urban warehouse or seaside villa. clipped from www.vivaty.com Home FAQ About Contact Signup Blog clipped from www.vivaty.com Grab your photos and videos - any image from the web - and you're in. Hang out, chat with friends, watch videos, listen to music, and more. Jump from scene to scene with anyone you invite, your Facebook friends are just clicks away. It's all in the browser, no waiting for big downloads to install. You'll be saying "your place or mine?" in no time.

via: KurzweilAI.net
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Diigo a Web Research and Social Networking Tool

Diigo is a Social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages. It allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. The just launched version 3.0 has a completely new user interface and code base, hundreds of new features and tightly integrated social networking and knowledge-sharing.

clipped from www.diigo.com Highlight and Share the Web! Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community clipped from www.diigo.com Press Release Diigo Launches V3: A Marriage between Rich Web Research Tools and Social Networking Reno, Nevada, March 20, 2008 -- Diigo, http://www.diigo.com, today announced the launch of Diigo 3.0, a next generation social bookmarking and annotation service that enables users to increase research productivity, readily exchange information, and connect with others who share their interests and concerns. This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability and power as a research tool, the new Diigo tightly integrates social networking with knowledge-sharing, making Diigo a pioneer in what may be called "social information networking."

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About Diigo

If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

A Personal Research Tool

Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity.

A Collaborative Research Platform

Diigo enables effective collaborative research. You can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues.

A Social Content Site

With every Diigo user tagging and annotating pages online, the Diigo community has collectively created a wonderful repository of quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in.

A Knowledge-Sharing Community

Since you are what you annotate - bookmarks, tags, annotations are a great expression of one's interests and expertise - Diigo provides new ways to connect and keep in touch with friends, and to learn both from your friends and about your friends with little extra effort.

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Blippr -- browse rate and share commercial products

Blippr lets users browse and rate a wide variety of commercial products and allows - just like Twitter - review messages up to 160 characters.

clipped from www.blippr.com blippr will change the way you discover, recommend, and organize media with your friends. clipped from www.blippr.com The bigger your network, the more likely you'll find tons of great new recommendations from the people you trust. Sidebars are another way blippr supplies you with the quick and helpful information you need without getting in the way of what people are saying or which titles your friends recommend. clipped from www.blippr.com recommend media to your social network clipped from www.blippr.com custom lists allow you to organize your own media

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