Friday, December 2, 2011

Identi.ca


identi.ca is a micro-blogging service. It is based on an open-source social networking platform built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification.

It is similar to Twitter in many respects, but offers some additional features.
Some of the additional functionality you will find when using identi.ca are XMPP support, tag clouds and it also supports the FOAF standard which allows you to feed notices from identi.ca into a Twitter account or other services.

identi.ca offers this as a free service.

you can see my identi.ca feed here Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions, Inc.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tumblr

 


Tumblr is a social networking site and microblogging platform. Users can post images, text, videos, links, quotes and audio.
Tumblr uses thier tumblelog which is a short form of blogging.
Users can follow other tumblr users.
Tumblr ranks 10th among social networks wtih 6.8 million weekly visits.
Tumblr was founded in 2007 by David Karp and Marco Arment.
Tumblr is owned by Tumblr, Inc. and is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions

Yasni

 


Yasni is a German based people search engine. It is operated by yasni GmbH.
It is an aggregation site that compiles search results from various sources.
Yasni was founded by Steffen Ruhl in 2007.
In addition to the people search, you can also receive newly found search results via email and you can place a missing person ad.
You can add links, texts, business cards and images to your profile.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions

PeoplePond

 


PeoplePond is a social media networking site.
This site allows you to create a professional online profile.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions

MyLife

 


MyLife is a free people search engine.
You can locate old friends, classmates or colleagues.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions

Spoke

 


Spoke is a professional social networking site that offers business to business contact information.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions

KGBPeople

 


KGBPeople is a free search engine to locate people. KGB People is a privately held company based in New York.
KGB recently acquired Whoozy.

Allen Lowder
Custom Software Solutions