Sociosophy

Solvr

Jen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:50:31 +0000

Everyone’s got problems. And the truth to problems is that it is always easier to solve someone else’s than your own. Enter Solvr. You post a problem, and other users help you work it out. It’s not a public service, so you’re not exactly airing your dirty laundry for all to see; the URL to [...]

Layar

Jen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:54:37 +0000

Layar is the baby of mobile innovation company SPRXmobile. The “world’s first mobile Augemented Reality browser” allows users to actually see what they are searching for, from jobs in the area they’re standing in to the closest ATM. Layar was originally launched for the Dutch market and works on mobile phones hooked up with a camera [...]

Springo

Jen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:11:56 +0000

Okay, I dig this one. Springo is a shortcutting tool as well as a crap-cutting tool. It’s like a search engine for…searches. Springo takes the (Internet) age-old problem of website overload and makes it better by singling out the most relevant sites for your searches and presenting them at-a-glance instead of the old click-and-load. From [...]

Social Follow

Jen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:23:27 +0000

Social following, in its definition according to socialfollow.com, kind of sounds like social stalking…but it’s actually pretty cool. If you have a plethora of social accounts, as most folks these days do, you can add a “Follow Me” button to a website, blog or social site that allows easy access to your other accounts, such as Facebook, MySpace, [...]

StumbleUpon – Su.pr

nrek — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:04:27 +0000

The extending market of URL shortening is growing with Twitter’s user base. Recenlty the whole Digg thing with their bar and all that noise is pretty neat, Adjix (which I loath) and even Facebook are doing their own thing now… So why not include StumbleUpon into this bucket of “we want your traffic, your traffic [...]

Hobnox

nrek — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:36:05 +0000

Germany-based Hobnox is a niche-market social network site that includes some incrediby unique features that I’ve never seen before, and honestly, I’m glad I hadn’t until I saw them here. Hobnox is a music, film & culture centric site, it’s members should at least be interested in, or want to take part in any one [...]

My Name is E

nrek — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:32:41 +0000

Amazing what a little mobile compliance will do to a seemingly simple service. My Name is E is an online “this is what I log into” business card creator, of sorts. The site itself is built pretty slick, giving you a bunch of great options and services to select. You can upload a custom background image, [...]

Yauba

nrek — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:40:55 +0000

Ok, this is just sweet. I’m a HUGE fan of “now”, in fact, I like “now” so much that I have a hard time paying attention to the last post I wrote 10 minutes ago. Yauba is an advocate of now with the first (that I’ve seen) effective, flawless, REAL TIME search engine. It leverages [...]

Smeepe

nrek — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:22:50 +0000

I have a small, probably absurd, but reasonable prediction. It is possible for a search engine to know too much; and by too much, I mean, “The Google”. I use it every day for everything, but when it comes to finding local businesses? I usually go to Google Maps first, but lately it’s been Yelp, because [...]

buyitsellit

nrek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:40:12 +0000

Ah, the world of the Internets and making money in it. Commerce has been the life and death of many companies on the web for the past decade, easily. The first dot com bubble was so big and awesome that geeks got to work while sitting on love sacks, listening to live sax, coding in [...]