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Imagine Twitter if nobody famous or newsworthy was on it and you couldn’t search for specific tweets or find like-minded individuals unless you were already friends with them on Facebook or Twitter. That is blip.me in a nutshell. Of course, it’s not as bad as all that. The app’s potential as a ... Full Article »
My social networking habits ebb and flow. Although I check Twitter and Facebook daily, LinkedIn only gets my attention sporadically and Tumblr? As of now, I haven’t visited in months. That’s why the visually-appealing Streamified caught my attention. Streamified, a universal app, lets you manag ... Full Article »
Last May, when Pinterest was still a relatively unknown entity, I reviewed the official app for iPhone, and expressed my disappointment with its shortcomings. Although there’s still no official app for iPad, alternatives are slowly launching by third parties. I took one of these options, iPad’s ... Full Article »
“People have wanted to leave their mark since the beginning of humanity. Now they are gong to be able to do that digitally using their smartphones” says Veysel Berk, the man behind WallitApp for iPhone. It’s a geo-social app with the most interesting use of augmented reality (AR) I’ve seen. ... Full Article »
Since the last time I reviewed Path, for iPhone and iPod Touch, the daily journaling service took some heat for how it collected data, unbeknownst to its users. I would’ve preferred to see this problem fixed first (according to The Verge, it’s coming), but Path is instead trying to satiate its p ... Full Article »
Friend or Foe, you sure are making enemies. It’s one thing to release an app for iPhone and iPod Touch that’s not good. It’s another to update your App Store description, sobbing over your bad reviews and claiming its due to lack of reading comprehension by all of your users. That’s right, ... Full Article »
Apps like Ban.jo freak me out, mostly because I like to pretend that parts of my life are still private. Part of me wants to tell you to stay away from Banjo, which is driven by sharing your current location and activity with anyone nearby. But the truth is, you’re probably already using Banjo (wh ... Full Article »
With big backing from company co-founder Paul Davison’s Benchmark Capital firm along with Michael Arrington's CrunchFund and others, Highlight by Math Camp Inc, is something new and super buzz-worthy in social networking. The app notifies users when friends are nearby – assuming, of course, they ... Full Article »
Umami, aside from being one of the five tastes (savory), also adds some flavor to your iPad while watching TV. The app serves as a second screen for social TV watchers. The idea is to interact with shows and friends on your tablet. That app has been around since last November, but it just had a majo ... Full Article »
Even if you haven’t heard of Storify, you’ve probably experienced the service during your day-to-day web surfing. Popular among journalists and social media pros, Storify makes it easy to quickly create a social news story, using content pulled from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr ... Full Article »
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