The Social Web
Learned today:
- Identi.ca/killstead, signed up with microblogging site identi.ca; uses CreativeCommons, Laconica (free software twitter like), OpenID
- Twhirl, a desktop client for twitter, friendfeed and identi.ca (and seismic)
Seesmic, - SocialThing! At socialthing.com, beta private invite, like friendfeed
Facebook opens Stream API, http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=225 - Xobni brings facebook stream to Outlook, using the API, http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2009/04/27/27venturebeat-xobni-brings-facebook-streams-into-outlook-106706.html
- AOL deploys socialthing across its properties
- Omegle.com allows you to chat with a stranger, “You can’t learn anything from someone exactly like you,” and The goal was to create a new kind of association: anonymous interaction with a stranger that complements existing social sites and helps people broaden their horizons.”
