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Easily View FriendFeed Links in StumbleRead

StumbleRead is a link browser for your FriendFeed links. Normally, when using Friendfeed, you have to click the link and open a new tab in order to read or browse the content on a particular feed. With StumbleRead, you can browse all the FriendFeed feeds on the sidebar, and view those feeds on the same page.

What I like about the service is that its features are not only restricted to stumbling a feed. You can also make your comments and bookmark a particular feed from the StumbleRead sidebar. You can choose to StumbleRead your FriendFeed friends or StumbleRead everyone’s feed. You can also use its sharing tool to quickly add what you have stumbled to your FriendFeed account and share it with your friends.

The service is quite simple and pretty useful if you are a heavy FriendFeed user. If you are thinking of starting a FriendFeed account, you might want to check out StumbleRead and see if it will work out for you. You do not need to register for a new account in order to use the service. You just need to hand them out your FriendFeed nickname and FriendFeed remote key.

FriendFeed Machine for FriendFeed Management

FriendFeed Machine is a service that helps you manage your Friendfeed account. You can view your friends’ feeds separately. This will allow you to properly distinguish where a particular feed came from. It also lets you view how many comments a feed got from other users. You can also filter the feeds by the service from which they came from. Just click the logo of the service (e.g Twitter) and you can see all the tweets made by that user.

I also noticed the absence of links to the feeds in FriendFeed Machine. To some, this might cause inconvenience because of its inability to direct you to the links that you might find interesting. If they place links in there then they’ll become a FriendFeed aggregator of some sort. It will take away its purpose of being a friendly FriendFeed webapp. It would be nice though if they could just integrate their features to FriendFeed itself. That will surely increase FriendFeed’s management features.

Cleaner FriendFeed

Cleaner FriendFeed offers the name that it suggests, a cleaner Friendfeed. It changes FriendFeed’s layout by removing the logo and changing the fonts, spacing and highlights. You can also tweak it to fit your taste. Cleaner FriendFeed is available in Stylish(a Firefox Plugin) or you can use the GreaseMonkey Script.

Lets be friends in FriendFeed.

Tags: friendfeed, friendfeed machine, social network, social networking site, stumbleread, web app

UrTurn Pays You to Social Network

There are already a number of web services out there who are willing to pay its users for using their site. Some of them I have already covered here. There is a new player in town, the only difference is that it pays you to use different social networks. UrTurn is a social media company that offers Rewards based on your interaction in your network. They developed a reward system where you can earn points for your activity in your social network. Currently, they are supporting Facebook and MySpace along with other social networks will be added in their list sometime in the future.

How it Works (FaceBook):

The system works like most Facebook applications. Just install the UrTurn application in your FaceBook account and start inviting friends to use UrTurn. By doing this, you are already earning reward points in your UrTurn account. If you already have an account, which is more likely, you will earn points by doing what you’re already been doing ever since you joined FaceBook. Earn points by inviting friends, adding photos, blogging and doing status updates. Once you have accumulated reward points, you can trade those points for cash in the UrTurn marketplace or save it up to redeem UrTurn reward items which currently include iPhones, iPods and Visa Gift Cards. The reward points per activity are shown in the image below.

This is an interesting service which will be most appealing to heavy users of social networking sites (as of now FaceBook users). If you are a FaceBook user and wants to earn some buck for using it, check out UrTurn and start inviting your friends and earn some rewards, and if they don’t give in, you can always SuperPoke them to death.

Tags: Facebook, get paid, social media, social network, urturn

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