October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
Desktop
Facebox App Puts Facebook On Your Mac Menu Bar
If you're like me then you hate to have unnecessary tabs open in your Web browser. I don't like clutter, so Facebox is an app I could easily warm up to. Facebox is an app that gives you limited access to Facebook features directly from your Mac's menu bar. I love to streamline, and this does the trick. Once you install the app, you will have limited access to the... Read more » Spotify Throttles The Number Of Hours Users Can Listen To Free Music
Attention all Spotify users! You have until the end of the month to get all the free listening you can on Spotify because starting May 1, the ondemand music service is severely limiting how much free music users can listen to each month. Spotify's new and upcoming rules will strongly encourage free account users to consider upgrading to its premium service. Well, it... Read more »
Seesmic Desktop 2 Adds Support For Enterprise Social Software Yammer
Social networking client Seesmic has added another service to its arsenal with the integration of Yammer into Seesmic Desktop 2. Users of Yammer, which is used for private communication between employees of a company in a secure social network, will now be able to communicate using the service while being able to access Facebook and Twitter within the same... Read more » Discover New Facebook Games, See What Friends Are Playing With New Suggestion Module
Facebook is helping you share your gaming activities with your friends with the addition of a new sidebar on your home page, according to Inside Facebook. The new suggestion box will appear near the "People You May Know" box on the right side of the page prompting you to "Discover New Games." This new feature will give you regular game suggestions based upon what... Read more »
Digital Music Provider Spotify Reaches 1M Subscribers
European music provider Spotify announced today that they had reached 1 million paying subscribers after almost two years in business. This is good news for a company that has yet to crack into the U.S. where it would have to compete with other music streaming websites. Spotify is a Sweden-based streaming music service currently available only in Europe. With a... Read more » Viewdle App Puts Real-Time Facial Recognition on Your Camera Phone
There's a new app coming out for your phone that will make that awkward moment where you can't remember someone's name obsolete - well, mostly. Viewdle will tag friends from your social network page IN REAL TIME as you look through the viewfinder of your camera phone. The Palo Alto-based company is breaking new ground in face recognition technology. They are the... Read more »
Seesmic Desktop Adds eBay to Social Media Suite
Bargain hunters might find it a little easier to hunt down great deals on eBay, after the auction site became the latest addition to Seesmic's desktop client. The eBay plugin will allow you to login to your eBay account, search for auctions, placed bids and share the items to any social networks of your choice with a simple click. To download the plugin, visit... Read more » Tweetdeck’s Deck.ly Feature Off to Big Start
Sometimes, there are things you want to say on Twitter that just don't find into 140 characters. Where some people might wish to break up their diatribe into a succession of tweets and run the risk of disjointed prose (hello, Kevin Smith!), others might prefer to keep their lengthy messages in one concise location. While sites such as TwitLonger have been providing... Read more » 
