What if you have a place from where you can control all of your Social Networks settings? Sounds good, eh? Blisscontrol is the one stop where you can change settings for most of the popular social networks.
It is a simple site where at left you can select the setting for e.g. Profile Picture, Username, Password change etc, you want to change and on the right you can select the social network for which you want to change the settings.
Its a wonderful idea. Definitely worth a try.
Beyond all the regular faces on the social networking scene that we’ve all grown far too familiar with, there is a whole of slew of entrepreneurial and uncommon social networks that are worth mentioning. Each of these has something new, different, and valuable to offer the world of social networking. Here are ten uncommon social networks sites other than Facebook and Twitter you should know something about.
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s is a social networking site that focuses on connecting people with similar hopes, dreams, and goals. Users must list their top life’s goals or hopes, and they are then connected to other users with similar hopes and goals in order to find plenty of common ground.
Academia.edu is a social networking site directed at researchers and academics who wish to collaborate with other professionals in their fields of expertise. A massive amount of academic fields are represented, and Academia.edu is known to users as the Facebook for geniuses.
Audimated is a social networking site for lovers of music. Both musicians themselves and their fans are welcomed with open arms into Audimated, which sees itself as a platform of promotion for independent artists. The rights to all creative content made public via Audimated are kept by the artists themselves.
Buzznet is a gossipy, trendy social networking and celebrity news site. Combining social networking with paparazzi feeds and a wealth of celebrity information, Buzznet unites fans from all corners of the globe. There are special corners for music aficionados, fashion addicts, and pop culture junkies.
Geni is a networking site that focuses on creating genealogies and family trees. If you’re interested in your family’s roots and where you came from, Geni can help you sort out your past. Its plan is to eventually create a family tree that represents the entire population of the world.
MouthShut is a site that combines social networking elements with consumer review services. Users can join MouthShut either to simply be influenced by other movers and shakers or to become a reviewer themselves and influence others.
MyYearbook is a simple social networking site that incorporates Flash-based games, instant messaging, media sharing, virtual currency, and a real time information feed to bring users together. With integration with Facebook, this social network is a must for college goers and Gen-Y.
Raptr is a social networking site for gamers. Featuring instant messaging, user-created game reviews, game/achievements tracking, game statistics signatures, and a gaming accomplishments feed, Raptr is known by its users for being on the cutting-edge of the gaming industry. Users describe it as a place where bragging rights are established and where gaming giants rise and fall.
SocialVibe is one of the Internet’s largest marketing-focused social networks. Although it began as a place where users could collaborate with advertisers to raise funds for charities, it soon grew into a massive arena where advertisers could connect with consumers on a personal level in ways that both the consumers and the advertisers were most comfortable with.
Zooppa is a social networking and crowd-sourcing site that brings together creative talent from all around the world. Ads or creative productions are solicited by companies and then compiled and submitted for review by users. Cash prizes along with plenty of recognition are given to the best entries. Advertising formats include radio, video, and print as well as concepts and banners.
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In daily life we need to remember a huge number of things in almost every aspect from credit card number to house insurance number, from kids’ baby sitter’s detail to passcode of the alarm system. You buy an electronic product, you have to remember its details for e.g, manufacturer, serial number, purchase date, warranty expire date etc. You have a party scheduled, now you need to worry about the food items, guest list and if more than one person are hosting or collaborating then share the status with them. You have 22 characters long wi-f- password, your kids’, wife’s or friends’ allergies.
The list grows endless. As human mind has its limits in remembering things (unless you have something like a Beautiful Mind of course), it seems technology advancements are hell bent on solving the issues faced in keeping the details of your “personal data”. Personal is one such new product, in public beta, that tries to help you keeping the track of your personal details in a way that can ease your life big times. [Read more…]
Few months back we saw that Microsoft accidentally published its own version of Social Networking site Socl.com. They took down the site in few days but it seems they are back with their project renamed from Tulalip to socl (pronounced as social).
Socl is in fact not a new social networking site that wants to compete with Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus. Instead it is more like where users can collect interesting stuffs from web at one place and share it with their friends. [Read more…]
Last week Google CEO Larry Page overtook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the top followed person on Google Plus. This week saw another change as Pop Star Britney Spears toppled Mark for the second position. It seems like now Britney is heading for the top spot lagging behind Larry by around 40,000 followers. The statistics can be found on socialstatistics.com [Read more…]
For those early adopters, here is a new social networking platform to try: MyCube. Started by a Singapore based and led by a strong team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned operational managers with experience from Netscape, RealNetworks, Yahoo, eBay, Let’s Buy It and Icon Medialab, MyCube claims to be word’s first Social Exchange site. What it means is that it lets user own the digital content and share it (either with friends of common or with public with common interest).
It is very focused on user’s privacy and doesn’t share the information in public without user’s consent. User connects with people who are most relevant to him. It has Interests feature (similar to Sparks in Google Plus, actually Google copied the idea from MyCube) where user can select the area of interests and feeds from sponsored agency (like a news magazine) or from other users (if they share it publicly) can be viewed on its home page thus bringing the most relevant information. Here is how my profile looks like:
The idea of social exchange is focused on giving user the control of his/her digital life i.e. it lets user own the data he shares. Unknown to most, the majority of social networks own the content you upload to them, and thus own the right to monetize it. According to a study in a year 360 Billion User Generated Content (Pictures, Videos, Links etc) are uploaded on Facebook in a year and Facebook makes $1.86 Billion out of it. So, Facebook makes money out of users’ content.
In MyCube, user owns the information it updates and shares. MyCube has its own virtual currency called Cubes (1 cube = 0.0.1 Singapore Dollars) which can be used in trading the information. It is ideal for people who have expertise in some field. They can share their work with others (MyCube lets you allow to whom you want to share the information with and in which category).
In a nut shell, MyCube has the following features:
If you want to join MyCube you can request an invite by entering your email id or by using the invite code “friend” or “tk500” in http://beta.mycube.com/. First 50,000 users will get 1000 cubes. So, what are you waiting for? Hurry Up!
Questions, suggestions and feedback are most welcomed.
Few days back Microsoft “accidently” published a secret project named “Tulalip” which by it’s looks seems to be somekind of social networking site. FYI the word Tulalip is referred to a group of Native American peoples from western Washington state in the United States. Strange enough, Tulalip gives Facebook and Twitter log-in option and the tagline suggests it to be incorporated with Bing search (sounds like Google +1?). Here take a look at the pic:
The Tulalip project WAS accessible on socl.com, but now the website reads this:
Thanks for stopping by.
Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web.
We didn’t mean to, honest.
With the buzz generated by Google+ it is quite likely that Microsoft too wants a pie (bigger than what it has in Facebook :P) out of the Social Networking. Do express your views on the latest war on social networking and in the near future which one has the potential to take over the cyber world.