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You & Your Life & Self Online: Profiles, Searches, Info

We've all done it: egosurfing. Betting that the practice of Googling yourself is only so rewarding, a start-up called MyLife launched this week to carve out a niche in people-based search. The result of a merger between Reunion.com and Wink Technologies, myLife scours profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and other public sources to pull up information on folks, filtering by name, email address, company, school, location or specialty. Various tools help users refine searches, suggest contacts and alert users when others…
February 26, 2009
Development

Tell it @ StoryZ — The Latest in Social Networking Platforms

Here's a new communication service that has figured out both a business model and a multiplatform strategy right out of the gate! StoryZ is a viral user generated content site that allows users to communicate with friends using text, video and photos to enhance their messages.  "Sure you can be a twit," claims StoryZ.  Is the tweeting age becoming yesterday's social net fad?  The brand  launches with Facebook integrations and theiPhone. Embeddable widgets and other mobile integrations including Blackberry and Android are on…
February 25, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Fun with WordPress’s NextGEN Gallery

Yesterday night as I was leaving the office at 7pm, the guy who mans the front booth of the parking garage commented that I was "working late again". Well, when I'm not working late, I have been known to rock as one fourth of The Modlins, from time to time. Now, Stoph (drummer of the Modlins)'s wife Renny is a photographer, and wanted a website to showcase her photography. Hence, Renny Rhanor Photography a la RennyPhotography.com. And to answer Travis's…
February 24, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

To Chirp or Not — A Look at the Hottest Social Networking Trend & Y Peeps Luv2Tweet

Hollywood Tweeting Twitter traffic spiked dramatically during the Oscar telecast as users chimed with their two cents about who won or wore what. Stars like Ashton Kutcher kept  fans abreast of the party scene with comments and photos using the TwitPic mobile photo app that allows users to post pics directly from their phones. Glam.com also figured out a cool way to integrate Twitter feeds on the show with video clips on the GlamTV console. The interface allows users to enter tweets on the…
February 24, 2009