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If you're active on several social networks and run your own blog as well, chances are you're posting a lot of the same content in several different places. To make life a little easier for you, you could simply start to post everything from one place - Google+ - and automatically post that content to several different networks and sites. Of course, a word of warning is in order. The key to any social network is just that - it's social.
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Similar to its iOS counterpart, the Notification Center (which can be accessed using the right-most icon in your menu bar, or by using a hotkey) is designed to keep track of the multitude of information broadcasted by the assorted applications installed on your computer. Apart from the expected—news about incoming emails, calendar events, and the like—you can also use the Notification Center to interact with Facebook and Twitter.
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One of the coolest features of iOS 5 is the deep integration of Twitter. It is everywhere in the iPhone and iPad. You can quickly tweet a photo or video just as easily as you can click on an app or send a text message. Apple embraced Twitter as an important part of their devices, and the devices are better because of it. Texting and making calls are great, but sharing with the world through Twitter is the future.
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One thing that I've noticed when I talk to friends that initially start using Facebook is that "nobody comments on my wall." Sometimes, I'll even try to help them out by letting them show me their Facebook wall and trying to help them understand what they're doing wrong, and why people may not feel encouraged to comment on their status updates. Sometimes, it's just a matter of reciprocating.
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You may not have heard of the term Vaguebooking, but I can guarantee you will have seen at least one example of it in action. Certainly if you're active on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any one of the numerous other social networks open to us all. In fact, you probably see it on a daily basis. If you have those kinds of virtual friends. There was a time when people kept diaries in order to express their innermost thoughts and feelings.
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With social networking services threatening to eat up all of our time, finding a solution that can help to manage all of your vital announcements and updates without overwhelming your time (and perhaps your state of mind) seems to be increasingly important. Over the past couple of years the free TwitterFeed service has been developed to allow users the ability to automatically update Twitter, Statusnet, Hellotxt, Facebook, and LinkedIn
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Did you get your fancy new iPhone 4S yet? I sure did. If you or someone you know recently got one, you've undoubtedly been playing around with the voice command system, otherwise known as Siri. Siri can do some pretty incredible things, like find the highest rated Chinese restaurant near you or set your alarm for 6:45am, but do you know what Siri can't do?
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On one of my last articles, 5 Things You Need To Stop Posting On Facebook, I received a comment from a certain Smumdax that basically begged the question, "Well. What should we post on Facebook?"So dear MakeUseOf readers, I don't want to only focus on what you need to stop posting on Facebook. As a matter of fact, I believe that there are more things that should be shared than shouldn't be!
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Facebook and Twitter are coming together at long last. Well not really, but at least Facebook is going to add the ability to post your status updates directly to Twitter. Users have been able to post from Twitter to Facebook for some time now, but not the other way around. This, along with Facebook's new subscription option seems like Facebook is obviously trying to stay ahead of Google+
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Facebook Chat has become an important tool for keeping in touch with friends. In fact, I would go so far as to say that in comparison to the other features on Facebook (news feed, photo albums, etc.) I think Facebook Chat is vastly underrated. But you know what you and I - and most of the people we know - have in common?
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While most people are busy comparing Google+ with Facebook, and trying to figure out which one they should choose and use, there are those who have built tools to combine all of these social networks together and have the best of all worlds. One of these tools is G++, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox which will help you put your Facebook and Twitter stream into your Google+ interface.
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Once a new social media network is launched, we start looking for ways to cross-link our social media profiles to share our updates everywhere. Until you decide which social media network to stick with (or in case you make up your mind to get involved in all three), here are the three Google Chrome extensions to mix your major social media networks.
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At MakeUseOf, we’ve already covered several ways you can schedule Twitter updates, so that even if you’re not at your computer, you can continue to send information, links and thoughts to your followers. The same can be done using your Facebook account, and in many cases actually using the same applications or websites.
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If you’re active on both Facebook and Twitter it can be a hassle updating both social networks at the same time. There are several apps that make it easy to automatically post your latest tweets to your Facebook wall. While clearly not as popular, there are also some options on how to post your Facebook [...]
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Facebook is not only a great way to reconnect and stay in touch with friends, relatives, and interesting people. It is also a rich source for entertainment. And I don’t mean the mindless games and psycho tests. While it seems that most of us lead a rather eventless lives, there are people out there who [...]
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