August 18, 2009
With the news that Friendfeed was being sold to Facebook for an undisclosed sum, people have started flocking over to Google Reader, which shows you how fickle the internet can be. One minute they are all in Friendfeed professing their love for it and the next they are moving over to Google Reader just because [...]
August 2, 2009
Gmail offers more than just email – you can add gadgets to your Gmail screen to add more functionality or just for plain fun. Before we get started, you must activate Gmail Gadgets by navigating to Settings then Labs and enabling “Add any gadget by URL.” Now navigate to Settings > Gadgets to add new [...]
July 24, 2009
Friendfeed lets you aggregate your online profiles and view the aggregate feed of your friends. For somebody who is not a heavy user of social networks it might all seem a bit overwhelming. While Friendfeed does have many features and options, when you get to a good start and invest a little time to figure [...]
April 9, 2009
I love Gmail. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I think Gmail is absolutely the best email client out there, bar none. I’ve tried most of them, frankly more than I’m proud of, but I I always came back to Gmail. Especially once Gmail started to get serious about gadgets and Labs features, [...]
March 29, 2009
Have you ever wanted to delete an account only to find that no matter how hard you look, you can’t find the option to do that anywhere? Me too. Isn’t it funny how it only takes a few seconds to create an account on these sites but it often takes forever to find out how [...]
March 19, 2009
Social media conversations are everywhere. Even most “die-hard” web 1.0 addicts (who once considered social networking insane) have engaged into social media by now. People share thoughts, exchange opinions and reviews every single second. It is really hard to keep track of those conversations and sometimes you just need to. Would you like to know [...]
February 16, 2009
I am a big fan of Friendfeed and I have all my RSS feeds running through the site. But I am noticing that some people are starting to use the site a little differently these days. Some sites such as SocialWhoIs are using Friendfeed as one big database of skills and knowledge, waiting to be searched [...]
January 30, 2009
For a long while, I was a big TweetDeck fan but then for some strange reason it started crashing constantly. That and along with the fact it was a huge screen hogger started to make me look once again at TWhirl, my former Tweet darling. But any hesitations about going back to my ex were [...]
November 19, 2008
It seems that the world and his dog now have a Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku or Plurk account. Some of us see these services as an extension of our mobile phone or our blog, some as a way to get into internet communications. Whatever you like to call it, microblogging has propelled itself into the internet [...]
November 11, 2008
These days just about everyone around the internet knows about lifestreaming and may even have one of their own. This is due to the great growth and expansion of services like FriendFeed and Socialthing! Previously, MakeUseOf covered the top 5 lifestreaming services. One thing about most lifestreaming services is that they can’t be self-hosted. You might be [...]
