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Wibiya Integrates Social Media to Blogs

Wibiya is a blogging tool that lets you integrate social media services to your blog in the form of a toolbar that appears on the bottom of any browser. The beta service offers a fixed set of tools (for now) such as creating a blog community via Facebook connect, Twitter alert integration, Flickr gallery viewer and some basic blogging tools such as random post browser, blog search, RSS subscription and recent post previews. More applications and features will be added through time which includes integrating widgets and applications of your choice.

Wibiya can easily be installed on different blogging platforms. WordPress users can enjoy the service by just installing a plugin. Blogger users can easily add a widget to their blogs while TypePad and other blog platform users can install Wibiya via HTML code.

The toolbar is customizable to a certain extent. You can choose different color schemes that will complement your blog theme. You can also remove applications or tools that you don’t want to appear on your Wibiya toolbar.

This is a great tool for bloggers who are looking for ways to integrate their site(s) with different social media services. It also helps avoid the cluttering of sidebars in case you want to integrate different social media sites through widgets. The toolbar is unobtrusive. It sits nicely on the bottom of the browser and visitors can easily hide it if she/he wishes to. The service also allows you to post site-wide live notifications for your readers/visitors which will nicely serve different purposes such as event announcements, contests or updates.

Tags: Blogging Tool, Plugin, social media, Social Media Integration, Wibiya

Zajet: Social Media Mashup

Zajet is a social media site that allows you to share everything without any limits. You can share short updates like in Twitter, extra long posts like on blogs, photos, ebooks, links, and virtually anything you can share on the web.

People can stay hyper-connected to their friends and always know what they’re sharing. People can share/browse slides, animations, art, books, articles, source codes, documents, doings, emotions, etc. easily.

It’s like having all the best of the features of popular social media sites rolled into one. The service promises more features in the future. A simple design combined with great features is always something to watch out for in an online service.

Tags: articles, Digg, ebooks, links books, social media, twitter, Updates, zajet

Flock: Browser Integration with Social Media

Flock is a browser made especially for social media sites and users. If you are a social media geek, then you will most probably find Flock very exciting to use. It has a lot of features integrated into it that enhances your social media experience. If you’re using plugins and third party applications to keep track of your favorite social networking site, social news site, email and others, you can use Flock to easily maneuver them all on the sidebar.

Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them.

The browser is built on Mozilla Firefox’s technology that’s why Firefox users will get a familiar feeling when using it. It also supports most Firefox plugins. There’s not much difference in the browsing experience compared to Firefox, except for the real time tracking of your favorite social networking site on the sidebar and a few visual tweaks. It is what makes the browser a must try for social media users.

Tags: browser, Firefox, Flock, social media, Social Networking

GeekChart: Share Your Social Media Activity Through a Pie Chart

GeekChart is a tool that you can use to share your online activity through a pie chart. It surveys your social network activities. The service currently supports the most popular social media sites out there. You can display your activity survey on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, you blog, Digg, Stumleupon, Delicious, and Last.Fm (Facebook is coming soon). If you don’t see your favorite social networking site on the list, you can make a suggestion for the inclusion.

Creating the chart is very easy. Just enter your social networks’ usernames and you can instantly create your chart. The chart will display the last 30 days of your activity on the social websites that you have entered. It may not immediately provide you with an accurate computation because some of the sites only provide very recent usage, but once your data accumulates, you can expect to view a more accurate reflection of your activity.

GeekChart can be used to share your social network activity with friends. You can embed it on your blog to give them an idea on what site you are most active in. You can also use the chart to monitor your own social media usage. You can find out if you are spending too much time on a particular service. If you feel that you’re giving way too much contribution to a particular site, you can immediately track your statistics and become more active on others.

Tags: Geek Chart, pie chart, social media, Social Networking Sites

Streamy: A New Social Media Streaming Site Launches

Streamy is a brand new social networking site with a lot of mix. It mainly functions as a social media aggregator. You can stream various social networks on your Streamy account. This includes Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Digg and Facebook.

You can also use Streamy as a RSS reader, a real-time news reader and real-time search engine. Customization is very easy to perform. You can add columns to your Streamy page in just a click and drag them to optimize the readability based on your screen size. There is also a recommendation engine that hands out blog recommendations based on your Streamy behavior.

Watch the Streamy video.

If you’re a user of the social media networks mentioned above, you’ll definitely find Streamy a worthy tool to manage them. You can even use it as your homepage instead of opening several tabs and logging in to view updates and post comments. It’s a service with a simple design that packs powerful features. A place where several social media tools are all rolled into one. Watch out for more features to be launched in the coming weeks.

Tags: aggregator, news reader, RSS Reader, social media, social network, Streamy

WhosTalkin: Find Out Whos Talking About Who and Where

WhosTalkin is a social media search engine/tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that you most care about. You can search for any topic or person. It can be you or your company brand or a favorite celebrity or even your blog. Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most.

Our search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. We take this data and display it to you through our carefully designed interface that harnesses the power of AJAX to give you a seamlessly well organized user experience.

With social media sites popping out everywhere, it’s getting harder and harder to browse around those sites just to get a scoop of what you are into. WhosTalkin is a great tool for getting updated on a particular topic posted on Social Medias without actually going through each site and doing a search. It’s also a great way to find out who’s talking about your site or blog. You can get updated through RSS. You can also save the search result in the form of

Further development of WhosTalkin includes being able to be updated on a particular search word through RSS, being able to save the search result and other tools such as WordPress plugin, Firefox Toolbar and iGoogle Gadget.

Tags: search tool, search-engine, social media, whostalkin