{March 27, 2009} Updates on Blogs and Social Networks
With the Photo Bucket integration, now you can access all your photos without leaving Live Journal
“What’s In a Name?” section located on the home page at Live Journal is pretty cool. Ever thought you have the very worst username? Find recently discarded usernames here for your Journal
With 19.2 million journals and communities created since 1999, there is always something new at Live Journal
Everyone seems to be going Facebook crazy and they either like the updated “real time” streams or they do not
Publishing your own updates has gotten super simple with this new Facebook. Prompting in applications for instance as you send “virtual gifts” to your friends to then publish this message in not only your profile and home pages, but also your friends
What this new streaming actually does is electrify the Google meter over at Facebook. With so many streams of so much of what’s going on, constantly publishing, it is very like merging Twitter, Facebook, Internet Gaming, with linkage and feeds from Blogs, Digg, the whole “All Roads Lead to Rome” theory … well, now, All Roads Lead to and From Facebook which then energizes the Google Ratings because of the amount of visible traffic (posting, publishing, sending of application invites, news, blog posts, feeds, etc.) Facebook has “Lit Up” the Internet sky when they switched on this newness
Vox’s built in editor allows you to easily combine words, images, video and audio all in one little box to create brilliant posts every time. While the newness on Vox primarily is the tweaking of the old, they have quite the expert handle on it all with interactivity galore. While Blogger and WordPress are standard Blog Platform sites, Vox takes this Blog Platform to a Social Network level. Interactivity, friending, groups, Vox Hunt Challenges, Team Vox News, and Questions of the Day to prompt you out of any writers block that you may have. Keeping up with the Vox Team is as easy as visiting the Team.Vox.com site
Straight from Buzz.Blogger.com comes news of the Plinky prompts to alleviate the craziness of Bloggers Block or more commonly refered to as writers block
February brought a Live Journal import tool, threaded comments, and launched Buddy Press, a set of WordPress MU (multi-user) plugins that transforms a MU install into a social network platform. For newspapers, magazines, Universities, Blog Networks, and such
Post to a later date of course is a feature at WordPress with statistics right now on your personal log in home page
The trends tab on Twitter gives you a heads up on what’s hot
The recent Twitter limits set alleviates robots and whales from going metal or overboard
Meez users that have not yet checked out the new Carnival Gear arer missing out! Very cool new stuff though I haven’t had the heart to delete my leprechaun from St. Patrick’s Day
Read Parts 1 and 2 at BlogsandSocialNetworks.com and BlogsandSocialNetworks.info for even more Blogs and Social Networks Updates
Updates on My Yearbook and MySpace coming soon at Blogs and Social Networks on Blogger
Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us
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