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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 Diigo Works

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Diigo most popular web based tools for research, collaborative research and community of knowledge sharing and social bookmarking service. It’s focused on research and collaborative research and to improving research experiences — you can instantly high light any sentence in websites, make your own notes, share with friends, family colleagues. Diigo giving chances to user tagging and annotating pages online instantly. Diigo help to find most popular e-learning components from the web. For social bookmarking service, user can enable tags, make as ‘read it later, add to list and share with social networks like twitter.

Features

  • Diigo is popular for research and collaborative research with friends and colleagues.
  • It is personal research tools, which helps to highlight any sentences and make notes to anywhere.
  • Diigo enables effective collaborative research. You can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues
  • Diigo giving chances to user tagging and annotating pages online instantly. For social bookmarking service, user can enable tags, make as ‘read it later, add to list and share with social networks like twitter
  • Diigo is community based platform and including Diigo is Green, its intention to off or reduce he print.
  • Social Bookmarking 2.0 — for social bookmarking service of web 2.0, most useful tools.

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Diigo V4: Collaborate~ Create a Group Knowledge Repository from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

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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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  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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How Ping.fm Works

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Updating all of your social networks and blogs from single place–updating social status, blog posting, sharing information to Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Myspace, Plurk, Jaiku, Bebo, YouAre, Posterous, FriendFeed, Linkedin, Delicious, Multiply, WordPress.com and so on. Ping.fm integrated most popular social services and registered user can publish their status to entire networks or can be specified the networks in publishing time.

User can make posting using Gtalk, Jabber, Skype messenger, send your messages from your instant messenger, Ping.fm will post for you instantly to all of your networks. Around 33 social networks they integrated and you will have full control over your websites. The service is free and you have to connect your social networks with Ping.fm and that’s it.

Features

  • Post to multiple social networks at once, seamlessly.
  • Create groups services into three categories – status updates, blogs, and micro-blogs – and updates can be sent to each group separately and instantly.
  • More then 33 social networks, blogs, micro-blogs are integrated and post to anywhere with single enter.
  • Third parties applications, like Seesmic, Gtalk, Skype, Jabber can be used and allowed to posting from Instant Messenger (IM)

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How Disqus Works

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Disqus aiming to create community and discussion platform in your websites worldwide and with so many powerful tools. It helps to engage more audience to your website, your site can be small blog or large networks. Basically, they integrate commenting features which works in realtime, social integration (like facebook, twitter, Yahoo, OpenId) and so on. With the tons of features, they supporting WordPress, Tumblr, Drupla, Blogger and so on networks and as well they have mobile access, full customization, profile management with unique vanity URls and user getting rates from networks. Entire things are SEO friendly, supporting international languages, comments black-white listing, user friendly moderation tools, mobile applications, link sharing, community streams, activity steams and profile streams.

Features

  • Real-time comment system–Comments become more like live discussions with realtime posting and updating.
  • Social integration–lets giving more user access to your visitors
  • The community box widgets in your website.
  • Community profiles of each users and in details information
  • In the comments page, liking and sharing options enabled.
  • Social integration with Twitter, Facebook, OpenID available.
  • Interactive anti-spam technology, which will protect your community or website from spams.
  • Mobile apps available for the iPhone, Android, and webOS phones. Manage your communities while you’re on the go with these freely available apps.
  • Translated in over 40 languages and supporting international languages and fully customizable and contribute to reach your languages.
  • Search engine friendly commenting system.
  • Export/Import and sync your comments with Disqus.
  • Profile management, Tweets and reactions tracking, activity steam, social stream tracking features integrated.

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How Orkut Works

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With the 100 million active users worldwide, Orkut is one of the large social networking website which is owned by Google Inc. Using Gmail email account, user can find friends, business networking, dating and invite new friends, share status, photos, videos and scraps to others profile. Each user have their own unique profile in detail and other can make comments, communicate and discuss over the community in different category (badges, communication, dating, finance, music, news, sports, politics and so on). Any of friend is online means, in Orkut, that will show in right hand button corner side (live chat) and users can change the theme or color of user interface. From events management, applications , messaging, privacy settings all are under this Orkut social networks. However, the growth of Orkut falls down, because of competitor of Facebook & Myspace.

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  • 100 million active users worldwide
  • Gmail email accounts giving access.
  • Easier to communicate with friends, family, partners, business networking and dating.
  • Community growing, discussion full featured
  • Applications integration brings more rich things under accounts
  • Live Chat, messaging and so on
  • Privacy settings and much more.

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How FriendFeed Works

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Home Page of FriendFeed, where they showing how to use and user can take access on FriendFeed with Facebook, Twitter and Google account.

Hundreds of social networking website existing in web and user start to using Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and different services. But, it is really tough to track any friends or family members activities in different social platforms. If a user most of the time spending on facebook or using regularly on twitter and sometimes using Myspace — how will you keep track?

FriendFeed – a web-based service which is helping user to track friends, family, co-workers activities in different web platform and all things updated in real-time. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter — anywhere if any changes found or if any of your friends update status you instantly notify within a second under your account.

FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends.You get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared—from photos to interesting links and videos to messages just for you. And your friends get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you’ve shared. – Explains FriendFeed

Both private and public account feature is available — if you like to share everything and even your friends activities publicly — in real-time when anything changed FriendFeed will update that too. As well, you can choose private options — no one will know what’s going on under your accounts, except you.

Features Of FriendFeed

Free Signup: A user can signup for free on FriendFeed and if any user wants, they can use Facebook, Twitter, Google account to accessing on FriendFeed. Initially, the user will get a public unique url, the web identity and share-able vanity url. Also, at the first any user can choose public or private account.

Manage Profile: Inside FriendFeed, you can show your profile and to make change click on “edit profile” and the pop-up box will help you to organize your profiles, photos,language, email address, password, theme for your pages and so on.

Add/Edit: Add/Edit mainly help you to add your friends blog address, feed, twitter account and so on. When any changes found to the RSS feed or websites — the latest changes will be updated under your accounts.

Upload Photo, Files: Inside FriendFeed, any user can upload photos, files just one click way. Locate the file and automatically it will show the file uploading indicator and start to upload and show the percentage have uploaded.

Comments/Share/ Edit: For each of the posts or updates — FriendFeed enabling comments, sharing options and editing. You can make comments to others account and as well other people can make comments and share their options. Also, user can edit the contents. Social sharing integrated with each posts or updates and quick links will help to publish on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Reddit and Digg.

Information Source Visibility: Under each of post or updates, FeedFeed showing the source of information — if any user would like directly they can visit and the see information or contents. If any information taken from Twiiter, they will show the twitter status link and if information from Weblogs, they will show the website url.

FriendFeed Bot: Friend has IM Bot. By using the bot, from your Gtalk, Yahoo! Messenger you send or share message onto FriendFeed. If any of your friends subscribed you — instantly will be notified, same way you will notified about your friends updates.

Real-Time Notification: To get real-time notification about your friends, family and co-workers, FriendFeed is for you and it will notifying you less than a second.

CC To Twitter: FriendFeed has integration with Twitter, whenever user trying to send messages inside FriendFeed, side by side just after the text box user can Tick Mark for CC Twitter. A carbon copy will send to user’s twitter account.

Flickr Photos, Videos: If any of your friends uploading photos in Flickr account or sharing any Video to their blog — from dashboard user can see the Thumb Flickr Photos and Video too.

10 Native Language: FriendFeed has English, German, Spanish, Persian, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish and simplified Chinese and still the team working on it and from any page you can change the language from drop-down menu — which is available in footer area.

Get Notifications: One of the coolest functions of FriendFeed. In Notification Setup page, you can control the entire notifications for your account. Even you can fully step the functions — if it’s annoying too much. You can be notified via email, IM and Desktop Notifier.

FriendFeed Tools, Widgets: By using FriendFeed widgets you can get real-time updates of your friends, share your status, show the most recent few feeds and as well show a FriendFeed Badge to your website — where it will show the bio, your subscribed feeds, comments.

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