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New Browser with Social Built In

If you use facebook and/or twiiter YOU NEED TO READ OR WATCH THIS. 26 mins for both videos. It's worth it.

It was on the way a year ago, the next evolution to interacting socially through your browser. Enter RockMelt.
RockMelt builds in support for social networks and news/information sites in the form of left and right margin toolbars that alert users any time there's new content to consume. At this beta launch, support for Facebook and Twitter is built in, and you'll even have to log in using your Facebook credentials to start using the browser. This also means anywhere you run RockMelt, your settings and alert statuses will be synced via the cloud.
Full Article Here

A brief Video Demo



And a short (23 mins) interview with the creators:
 

How will this change your life, our Internet lives, our social lives….it works through the cloud!
meaning..your social web is now on the go..everywhere you choose.

 

Ping.fm Do I need that too? Why?

Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!
Is adding Ping to your arsenal of Online Social Media tools really needed? I mean you still have to log into each one of your social sites (or use a third party addon, or a mobile addon) to reply to the great newest bit of information you are sharing, right?  Yes, that does seem to be the case with Ping.fm

So why bother signing up if you have to open up all your social apps in new windows and tabs? For one really good reason, if for no other reason that this. You can login to your ping account and post a link back to your new product, service, special your running, event your holding, picture you just uploaded of you and your favorite celebrity, etc. and it hits all your other online accounts that you have connected to it. Bamb! One post and out to over 40 different sites*!  *if you have an account at all 40 sites they currently offer.

Ping does just what the name sounds like it does. For those in the know, pings in blogging are: an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. Source

So when you ping make sure you are doing so in way that requires little to no replys via the onslaught of social media outlets of which you are a memeber. Think of it as simply Link Dropping

Happy Pinging

Widgets.com Gets Developed!

So After long last the “Domain King” Rick Schwartz has gotten around to lauching Widgets.com
Looks like it has a nice selection of widgets. Yep, for those that don’t know Widgets are no longer metaphors used in business jargon. They are real live digtial applications that interact with your tech gear, from laptop to desktop, from cell phone to portable gaming/music systems.

Or you can see there is a whole page dedicated to
What is a Widget on the site

A widget is an interactive application that can be installed on web pages, desktop platforms, and mobile devices that accept this type of content. Technically speaking, a web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any HTML-based web page by an end user. Most widgets have a media-rich graphical interface that becomes visible once the code is successfully installed on a web page.

Companies and advertisers create widgets as a marketing vehicle in order to distribute their content to the places that users spend a majority of their time online. Because widgets can be easily grabbed and shared, they have the potential to go viral. People recognize the utility and fun of widgets, and actively endorse them by installing them on profile pages as a way to express themselves to the world. Users install widgets on their pages because they find the content useful, entertaining or cool.

Widgets typically fall into two categories: Social or Utility. Social widgets, typically placed on social networks, blogs and personal pages possess a “one-to-many” opportunity for exposure while Utility widgets are typically utilitarian in function and provide users with features like news, weather, calendars, and notepads.

I admit I have followed the whole life of this prime quality name, but it looks like Venture partnership.