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How Aardvark Works

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Using an unique technology Aardvark created such social platform where user can ask & answer question. You can ask and get answer from your friends, your contacts, from your networks too and as well forward you question — the entire application will pop-up on your Instant Messenger (IM), it can maintained from websites or Instant Messenger. Asking question, getting respond, forwarding another thanks including some cheers. And Aardvark promising you will get your answer within few minutes. Consider it — a community of experts, select or give your expertise information, when some asked a question if that relevant with your profession — you can give the reply instantly.  Lastly, Google Inc. acquired this Aardvark company with 50 million dollar.

Features

  1. Community of experts, free to ask question and get respond within few minutes from experts.
  2. Using Google Mail account, anyone can register — ask question, give answer from Instant Messenger like Gtalk, Yahoo IM.
  3. Send request to your known person or friend who might give you the answer.
  4. Share your answer / question on social networks like Facebook.

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Vark.com showing the process, how does Vark works

Start typing your question and get respond within few minutes.

How Wibiya Works

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Generating free Web Toolbar for your websites, blogs site. You can add several applications and customize the applications and integrates several social networks & functionality within the toolbar. It helps to engage your reader, boost traffic on your websites. Visitors can engage in conversation, get notification, social bookmarking, become member of your websites, become fan of your website on facebook, follow you on twitter and so on things. Also, it reports about weekly engagement, graphical analysis which gives clear idea how your websites visitors accessing your websites and using social networks . Without installing any script or code, anyone can use this web applications.

Features

  • Free & paid service available.
  • It boost your Blog/Website with Rich & Interactive Features
  • Integrate Twitter & Facebook — visitors can be your fan and reader can tweet and share the pages.
  • Generate more page views using web applications such as Latest Posts, Real Time Users and more
  • Promote your content using great 3D galleries, games, live broadcasting and other fantastic web toolbar applications
  • Track your traffic growth, sources and trends with easy to use analytic
  • Communicate with your readers — Broadcast messages, notifications and alerts in real time
  • Discover a growing variety of web applications that will enhance your reader’s experience
  • Enjoy a full tracking and management system for each web application.
  • Add and remove web toolbar applications with one simple click
  • It supports Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, Joomla, Drupal, Ning and static web platforms too.

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How Yoono Works

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More then 5 million times download Yoono. Yoono comes with one mission to connect your friends and family from all around the social networks. No matter in which networks you belong, maintain multiple social networks (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Youtube, Flickr, Forusquare, FriendFeed), make response, chat with Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, engage in conversation, share photos & videos, make comments. It has desktop and web based applications & smart phone (iPhone) applications for Windows Os, Mac and Linux system. Entire service is free and they covering several features.

Features

  • Multiple social networks integrated and manageable from single desktop or web based applications.
  • Status updates to social networking, Yoono has Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn networks.
  • Photos to video hosting and sharing, Yoono has Flickr & Twitter.
  • For instant communication, integrated Live IM, Yahoo IM, Google Talk.
  • Column-wise your all networks and track updates in real-time
  • Get notification to your networks to desktop.

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Yoono’s mission is to help you stay connected to your friends and family, discover cool new stuff, and allow you to easily share and discuss your discoveries with the people you care about. We’ve been around since spring 2006 but honestly we feel like we’re just getting started! We have a management team with experience from companies such as Netscape, AOL, eBay, and Yahoo!, a world class development team and a refrigerator that sometimes has cold beverages. Yoono is funded by AGF Private Equity, one of France’s leading venture capital investors.  — Official says

How Google Latitude Works

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Google Latitude — more then 9 million people activity using the service from smart-phones. The service giving real-time location or information about your friends location world wide. Google Latitude it’s connecting your friend, family, colleague and both can see each others location in real-time and it measure, show how far away your friends from you . It has web based version (the location can be drag and drop manually), using mobile application, it automatically track location of yours. With full privacy control, you can share your real-time location.

Official says — Latitude’s focus has always been on one goal: make it simple to stay in touch with friends and family by sharing where you are with each other. Simple setup. Simple sharing without fumbling for your phone. Now, you can use Latitude on your iPhone just like the more than 9 million people actively using it from Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile smartphones. Use the app to:

  • See where your friends are
  • Share your location continuously with whomever you choose
  • Contact friends by phone, text message, or email
  • Control your location and privacy

Features

  • Gmail account is required to register and that’s for free.
  • Web based access and mobile application available to access on Latitude.
  • It’s supporting Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad 3G.
  • Real-time location update and measure how far way with the time duration
  • It’s showing photos of your friends, instantly both can see their movements and status where checked in or out.
  • It has Gtalk status updating commands, including widgets “Google Public Location Badge”, user can include to website to blog site.
  • It’s giving alerts/notification about your nearest friends location (beta).
  • Its storing your past location, frequent visited location, user can manage using Google Maps.
  • Full privacy control about visibility.

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  1. Official Google Latitude site
  2. Introducing the Google Latitude app for iPhone
  3. Where Is Google Hiding Those 9 Million Active Latitude Users?

How Google Friend Connect Works

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Google Friend Connect seamlessly making social community  in your website or blog site and grow the community, communicate with each others. Without any programming skills, small script integration will enable complete community functionality to your website or blog — so members can communicate over the social community, share comments and subscribe news and so on.

Features

  • Members gadgets — which enable to users to join your site, create profile, find others and invite friends to join.
  • Socaial Bar — The position of the bar can be top or bottom and user can leave comments, check the recent activities on the sites
  • Comments — Leaving comments or opinions and including Youtube video, the comments can be enabled everywhere.
  • Rating and Review — User can rate and review any pages and that helps to improve it.
  • Interests Poll — Publisher (you) can ask relevant question to your website visitors and arrange Poll and take the feedback from your visitors.
  • Featured contents, newsletter gadgets and tons of gadgets available in gallery pages.
  • By showing relevant ads from Google Adsense, web publishers can make money too.

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  1. Official Website of Google Friend Connect

For Home Projects Works:Foursquare is Most In-Demand Social Network

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From marketing to software development, work-from-home projects are on the rise as businesses downsize and more people look for work online. Over the past few years, work from home projects relating to social networks and social media have become an increasingly important part of this market. And the latest report on the state of the work from home job market released by DoNanza, the world’s leading work from home job search engine, shows that this market has diversified to include not only projects for Facebook, but also the up-and-coming new location-based social network Foursquare as well. read more

8hands Social Desktop Client In Public Beta Version

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8hands an growing startup company which brings social networks inside your desktop. You can enjoy facebook, myspace, youtube, flickr and all of your blog’s activities from your desktop. All updates will be available in real time. You don’t need to check every services one by one. Automatically and constantly you will get updates of any changes of your friends, notifications or any new events.

Even, you can enjoy 8hands moobile version when you’re out of computer. Anywhere — if you have internet connection and 8hands apps, you can enjoy your all networks.

Jessica Dolcourt says, “The concept isn’t especially groundbreaking, and 8hands’ free beta download doesn’t earn any friends with a roughly 5-minute installation, a reboot, and another 5-minute process to initially organize your content. However, those who don’t mind a minor one-time wait will be able to keeps tabs on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace buddies, newly uploaded Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and favorite RSS feeds without opening a new browser tab.”

In short view, you will get notifications of new comments, messages, friend requests, videos, feeds and more – in real time! Also,

•  IM and share online content with your friends: Just drag and drop your YouTube videos, Flickr pics and more into our easy to use chat window.
•  Receive summaries and statistics on your social networking activities.
•  Easily access your community locations from a single entry point.
•  Use “best friends” algorithm, for more accurate matches in your friends tab
•  Use Post back options in features like private message, wall to wall, friend request
•  Get Image display on incoming events

8hands social-network manager enters public beta [via cnet]

CitySearch Integrated Facebook Connect And Get Local Events Info

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Citysearch providing up-to-date information about any local areas and already have more then 75,000 different cities information imputed. Whenever, you’re taking decision to visit any city, you can search about the city on citysearch and get knowledgea about the businnesss, resturents, hotels and retails informations.

Citysearch intregated facebook connect, without signup as a new user, you can use facebook connect and as well as mobile features available. With your facebook account you can get scope to write reviews and also track what’s your other friends on that site. On the beat version you can see the full map navigations which is much more friendly to get right directions.

Mashable says, “Citysearch is getting a much needed makeover in order to compete with
up-and-coming competition from the likes of Yelp, who has long offered user
reviews of very local locations. The Facebook Connect integration is also
interesting, and offers Citysearch an opportunity to get lots of viral traction
on the social network.”

[via mashable & techcrunch]

What’s Your Rank Or Grade As Twitter User?

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Grader.com which is measuring your twitter ranks based your followers, networks of followers, your updates and profiles. Also when you search your user name – you don’t need to login or open an account. It will analyzing and in one page it will show your overall ranks, followers numbers, following numbers and your updates and small profile with web urls and also should see the twitter tag clouds – relevent on your posted shouts.


Like as Grader, Twitterank.com another one web based service which giving you some points based on your twitter username. But, you need to login to your accounts. Every twenty minutes it’s updates the top reated 50 ranks. Easy to see your ranks and share with your friends at the first test drive. Tell your friends about your ranks and everyone really liking and feeling to see the higher grades or start comparing with others. Enjoy