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Scoutle: The Automated Social Networking Site for Bloggers and Website Owners

Scoutle is a social networking site which targets website owners, bloggers and other social networking site users. One might ask what this particular social networking site has to offer. There are already numerous social sites out there aimed to connect bloggers together not including niche social sites where other bloggers use to promote their websites on. With so many out there the only thing missing is a social networking site for social networks.

So what makes Scoutle unique? What Scoutle does is automatically do the networking for you. They described Automated Social Networking as networking without doing anything, without knowing each other and without the need of communication. All of this is done by web crawlers called Scouts. A scout contains information about the website which is created by the owner. After a Scout is created, and embed code will be given to the owner to be placed in his (her) blog or website. As far as finding networks that suites your blog depending on your given category and the value of your blog, that is all you need to do. The scout will crawl or as they say “walk the internet” to meet other scouts. The meeting will take place on a “stage.” The stage is the widget placed in your blog where other scouts meet and say hi to each other. The number of meetings that your scout makes with other scouts affects the way your site is rated in Scoutle.

Behind the names of Scouts you see the amount of points that Scout has. This actually is a rating. The higher your points, the higher your website is rated. A high rating will be given to Scouts (websites) with high traffic and lots of connections. Connections are made when two site owners agrees to approve each other’s connection requests. A higher rating will give your profile more visibility in your category.

Scoutle is a new and interesting way to promote and get visitors for your blogs. You get to meet other bloggers without actually meeting them, weird but interesting.

Tags: Blog, scoutle, social network, social network service, website

Spot what your Favorite Celebrities are Into

Coolspotters is a social networking site launched to public beta a few days ago which focuses on finding and cataloging stuff that celebrities use. The service will appeal most to celebrity fans who wants to check out what their favorite stars are using. They can also contribute to the community by creating their own “spots”. A “spot” is the term used by Coolspotters when a certain product is associated with a celebrity. Spots can be anything that is discovered in movies, magazines, TV, snap shots, paparazzi shots, etc.

We all see great stuff being worn and used by our favorite celebrities – in magazines, TV, in movies – but there’s never been an easy way to find out exactly what the great stuff is! So, we built one.

You don’t have to join Coolspotters to enjoy their service. If you just want to browse around and check out “spots”, registration is not needed. Serious spotters however will be required to create an account in order to contribute and enjoy other features.

Tags: celebrities, celebrity gadgets, coolspotters, Entertainment, Movie, people, social network service

Xobni: Email Organizer for Outlook Users

Xobni (Inbox spelled backwards) is a Microsoft Outlook plugin that helps you manage and organize your emails by utilizing existing Outlook features and creating an email-based social network within your email client. Bill Gates quoted Xobni as “The next generation of social networking.” The plugin features; quick e-mail searches, quick attachment discovery, automatic extraction of phone numbers, automatic schedule creator and email conversation threading. Check out the video demo below for a more detailed explanation on how Xobni works.

This is a new and interesting way of managing your emails if you are using Outlook (the most popular email client in the world). The plugin is currently available for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 and they are planning on releasing Xobni in other email clients and platforms. This is a great idea for Xobni to create an application/plugin to make Outlook users’ life a little easier. Think of the time that one can save by using this plugin. This will allow the users to be more productive and have easier time managing information in their emails.

Tags: e-mail client, email, microsoft outlook, outlook, outlook 2003, outlook 2007, social network service, Windows, xobni

Insoshi Introduces an Open Source Social Networking Platform

Insoshi is an open source social networking platform pretty much like a WordPress for social networks. This is great for developers who want to start an independent social networking site. The platform was built on another open source web framework called RubyonRails which is is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications optimized for the programmer to be more productive.  So if you decide to use Inoshi or develop for Insoshi, you must have some knowledge in using RubyonRails or willing to learn the framework.

This is great news for developers, organizations and individuals who are planning or have some great ideas for a social networking site. With so many out there right now, we can expect them to grow in a much faster rate. It will also be easier for existing services, websites and even blogs to go social networking now. The beauty of open source is that you can do anything you want with it and the development opportunities are endless.

Tip: There are lots of open source platforms out there for different types of sites. You can check out opensourcecms for the list.

Tags: insoshi, programming, ruby on rails, social network service, web application, wordpress