E-Commerce Stop Trolling Craigslist & eBay, Try Easy E-Commerce at Woya I am not a shopper. I am a buyer. I need something; I locate it; I buy it. By some accounts, this makes me a total gender traitor. On the other hand, it makes me a prime target for any startup willing to do the shopping for me. Take consumer electronics site Woya, for example. When faced with the daunting task of buying a new laptop without the… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Facebook Waste Company Time with Less Risk of Getting Caught: FaceoffIM FaceoffIM is a chat client developed specifically for Facebook Chat users to stay connected to their online friends without a web browser and Facebook's suspiciously social interface. According to developer James Morrissey, "It's aimed primarily toward those who may work in an office (or even people at school) and want to keep Facebook chat… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Lifestreaming AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed's Much Hotter Sister There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, "shares," "likes," and other content from all around the web. A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass. But none of them are as drop-dead good-looking - or as… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Features Identify: A Firefox Add-on For Researching People There's a lot of information about many of us spread around the web and though privacy is important to discuss - there's also another side of that coin. It can be very useful to tie together info from disparate sources about a particular individual. Today I saw a tool for finding those various profile pages that really impressed me. About this… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
How-To Groups: Turn Information Overload Into an Asset This post originally ran under the title Groups: The Secret Weapon of the Social Web. Since it's a holiday in the US and things are slow today, we thought readers might appreciate seeing this post again. Today might be a good day for you to take some time to create some key groups for yourself. Social interaction online is not very… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments