LostInTechnology

What is Google Social Search?

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Arpit.

Google Social Search is an experimental search tool recently introduced by Google. This tools lets you search for relevant public web content from people in your social circle. For example, I searched for “Google Docs” and got the following results from the web contents published by my contacts.

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Make a Real Difference with SocialVibe

Posted on 02. Sep, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

SocialVibe is a new service that gives people with online influence, whether bloggers, website designers or the social network butterfly, an opportunity to use that influence to make a real difference.  All you have to do is sign up, pick a cause, choose a sponsor and place your badge.  Once this is complete, you start earning points towards donations towards the charity of your choosing and various sponsor perks.

I really like the idea behind SocialVibe, so I have applied a badge to my Facebook profile.  I’m going to walk you through that process to show you how easy it is to set up this service.

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Invites to Brightkite

Posted on 29. May, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Brightkite is a new social network that gives its users a more local experience. It does this by allowing you to make Twitter-like updates that are location based. By making updates location based, you can find out what other people are doing in areas around you or across the globe.

Brightkite is currently in private beta, but LostInTechnology has 15 invites to give out. Send an email to kyle.judkins@lostintechnology.com with the subject line of brightkite invite, and you will receive one shortly after I receive the email.

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What is Twitter?

Posted on 06. May, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Twitter is…hard to describe, but if I had to, I would describe it as text messaging with strangers. The makers of Twitter, however, have a much better description of their service.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Now that you have an idea of what Twitter is, I’m going to show you the basics of using the site.

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ShareThis Makes Sharing Easy

Posted on 25. Apr, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Recently, I changed my bookmarking and sharing options at the bottom of each post to use the ShareThis plugin. I did this, because I wanted to give my posts a cleaner look. In order to be clean, you must remove the clutter of a bunch of bookmarking links.

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ITOG Makes Your Opinion Everything

Posted on 22. Feb, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

I am not one to get too excited about social networking sites, but ITOG comes at social networking from a different angle. They are a self-proclaimed social opinion site. You may ask yourself, “What is a social opinion site?” Well, if you look at their tag line, a social opinion site makes “Your Opinion is Everything.”

The site is focused around letting its users rate all kinds of things from movies to restaurants. These ratings allow the users to find people with interests similar to theirs and engage in discussions about the topics they like. You can also directly compare your ratings to your friends’ and finally prove to your friend that you have better tastes than they do by looking at their rankings.

The possibilities for this site are endless, as the user continues to gain more and more power with each new feature added. I am told that eventually the user will be able to rate almost everything on the site. Once this is the case, your opinion will be more than everything to the site. Let me know what you guys think about the site!

Visit the site here ITOG.

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