FaceChipz.com has all the features of a real social network – but with one big difference: kids can only communicate with others they’ve physically exchanged FaceChipz tokens with – no strangers allowed! No one can arbitrarily contact them. No one can search for them. It’s the social network they collect, but doesn’t collect them…. Read More…
Some neighborhoods don’t have free recycling pickup services but now, with the Ecycler site, there is no excuse not to recycle. The Ecycler site fulfills everyone’s green aspirations by connecting people who need a recycling service with those who want to do the recycling…. Read More…
Twitter is phenomenal when it comes to sharing information publicly. However, there are times when you just want to share “intimately” with a group of specific, selected users. That is exactly what Twitalbums will enable you to do. This service will let you share files of any type with others, and create albums where you can not only upload your photographs, but also music by way of shared streaming playlists and video libraries…. Read More…
Toolmeet works with a Facebook account and Firefox (3.5.x) to increase social networking awareness. Toolmeet is a Firefox based toolbar that keeps you abreast of who’s on the same website and give an opportunity to surf together. With Toolmeet, you can find out who is visiting a website and where your Facebook friends are going while on the internet, and then offering you the opportunity to visit the same site…. Read More…
Christmas Tweets is a fun new way to experience social media, through a beautiful interface and world-wide filter. Christmas Tweets takes twitter feeds from around the world to see what Christmas means to people. With an incredible yuletide Twitter “visualiser”, Christmas Tweets categorizes what people are feeling in regards to Christmas as happy spirit, commercialism, credit problems or religion. Christmas can either be a time of celebration, shopping, despair for the purchasing of gifts or religion; Christmas Tweets reads Twitter feeds to decipher the meaning behind tweets and shows the world what the general consensus is about Christmas…. Read More…
If you love food, you can’t really go wrong with a site like this one. Named Culinary Culture, it is a spot where food is brought into the limelight – recipes are shared, culinary events are discussed, and top eateries are recommended…. Read More…
Twitter is fascinating from the point of view of the actual content that is featured there – it is a true, deep mirror of the real world. You will find people tweeting about this, that and the other at a mere glance. However, as interesting as that is from the point of view of interactivity, not everybody is really keen on this, that and the other. We might be keen on this. We might be keen on that. We might feel attracted to the other. But I know no single person who would like to dig into everything at once, and it comes as no surprise at all that there are solutions like Tweetwally available. Basically, Tweetwally is tool whereby you can create a Twitter wall that includes only information that appertains to you. This is accomplished by sort of filtering the content by way of hashtags, keywords and usernames…. Read More…
We’ve already seen the Twitter model applied to organizational employees via Yammer, which encourages coworkers to share and collaborate by frequently answering—in 140 characters or less—the question, “What are you working on?” Now Canadian startup Sprouter invites entrepreneurs to do the same thing as an opening for discussion, support and collaboration…. Read More…
Few would dispute the benefits of eating locally grown food, both for the environment and for human health. Access is the challenge, which is why we’ve seen such goods sold in vending machines, delivered by bicycle and packed in five-dollar bags for commuters. The latest spotting? Local Dirt, a Wisconsin-based site that connects buyers and sellers of locally grown food nationwide…. Read More…